After publishing yesterday's late evening post, I took a couple of cans of strong (8% alcohol) beer and went downstairs to join my younger brother for awhile watching T.V. By then, it must have been around 11:30 p.m.
At midnight, he was only interested in getting upstairs to his bedroom, so I remained to drink both of my beers, and then to brush my teeth ─ a process involving coconut oil that can take me 15 - 20 minutes, and sometimes more. I often spend a few minutes 'oil pulling' with the coconut oil before I go outside and expectorate it into the lawn.
I don't spew the oil onto the same spot in the lawn, for it would soon start to kill the grass if it was thus concentrated to one small area.
And of late, we have been getting lots of rain ─ yesterday was exceptionally wet and blustery, in fact.
Anyway, did I then sensibly go to bed?
No. I came here to my computer and vilely sat up until after 5 a.m. lost to my endorphin addiction. As I type these words at 10:50 a.m. (I got up around 9:30 a.m.), I have a few times heard some light rain pattering on the carport roof just outside this room's window.
My brother is downstairs watching T.V., for he rose at some point ahead of me. He won't be expecting me to employ our Android TV Box today to watch any movies or T.V. shows or anything else with him via the device. As I wrote yesterday, when I sought to put it to use that day, I discovered that it kept freezing early into the loading process.
It is unusable. I have tired numerous times to get the Box to recover itself, but it just will not progress beyond the colourful logo screen displaying a large "T9". As a result, quite early last afternoon I ordered a new Android TV Box from Amazon Canada which was "guaranteed" to arrive no later than January 8.
Last evening, my brother suggested that we give our old Box and good thumping ─ perhaps doing so would jar some sense into it, temporarily getting it to properly load once more.
As yet that potential remedy has not been applied, but I don't see any harm in giving it a shot. the Box is otherwise a loss anyway, so it's not as if we might damage it.
I have yet to have a coffee, so I am going to take a break from blogging until later in the day. I'm going to need some further sleep before too very long.
What a shame to have ruined the day as I did by foolishly staying up until nigh dawn immersed in the dishonourable.
That bit of rain I heard in the earlier morning not only ceased, but we even had some sunny breaks today. But it was unpleasantly chilly out there.
I am now into the end of my afternoon as 6:00 p.m. approaches.
Late this morning, my brother sought some additional bed rest at 11 a.m., so about 15 minutes later I did similar in my own bedroom. I was probably down for as much as 1½ hours, and rose to find that my brother had already left for the afternoon.
By the way, I received an E-mail from Amazon Canada at 11:07 a.m. ─ my Android TV Box's "guaranteed" delivery date is now the 7th, so they have reckoned to get it to me a day sooner than first projected.
I did try giving our defective device a number of fairly solid taps mid-afternoon by banging it on our dining table a dozen or so times. However, the treatment improved nothing. When I set it back up, it once more froze at the T9 logo screen as it was loading.
I am feeling some anxiety once more, having endured the day without any alcohol thus far. What I am considering is locating myself a Christmas movie here on my computer and watching that while enjoying some drinks. I'll turn off the light here in the room, and gain some deeper immersion into the movie when only the computer screen is aglow.
It can be almost cosy. However, I won't have the benefit of the Christmas lights that are now ablaze in the living room, and which will soon be activated outside as well.
If I do indeed locate a Christmas movie and get into those drinks, I will not duplicate last evening. Instead, I will seek to get to bed early. Who knows? I might even manage to get out in the very early morning to do some shopping, but that is only a remote eventuality ─ I hate the busy workweek and do not like going anywhere during it.
I spent much of the afternoon working on the post I have had in progress for a month or more at one of my two hosted websites.
And I am pleased with myself to be able to declare that over the holiday period despite the occasionally heavy drinking, I have not let an entire day pass without some challenging physical exercise. Nor have I consistently overeaten; by and large, I am holding to some semblance of my programme of intermittent fasting.
To be honest, when I strip off my shirt, I actually look remarkably fit and muscular.
Even at the age of 71.
Okay, I'm going to stop this post here and get it published. That hankering for a Christmas movie and the accompanied drinking are now strong.
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