"USB drive is safely ejected"

I may have gotten to bed last evening by around 10:40 p.m., by that is now conjecture. My cellphone alarm was set for 3:30 a.m. to get me up for what would possibly be the ¾-mile round trip walk over to the nearby elementary school playground for some exercise there.

My sleep was fairly intermittent, but apart from rising once to use the toilet, I was generally comfortable enough in bed. My alarm was to jolt me alert.

Alas, I forgot to weigh myself while fully clothed, so I do not know what sort of weight I was dealing with during the pull-ups and chin-ups. I meant to weigh myself once I was back home, but again I forgot and had pretty much stripped right down before I too late remembered.

At least the house was in darkness. My youngest stepson ─ who was the likeliest to still have been up ─ apparently had to report in to 'the office' today and work from there.

I knew he had been off work for quite a long time, but a week or so ago he quite shocked me by saying that it had been a four-month lay-off.

My wife had come home last night at some point after I had gone to bed, and was apparently to have to put in another full day today at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time ─ her third consecutive full day.

But the school playground!

It was below freezing by anywhere from 1-3 degrees Celsius, but the sky was overcast. To my considerable surprise, the equipment was not only frost free, but the jungle gym monkey bars were only barely damp. After I took time to wipe them dry, they seemed completely so and offered a secure (if chilly) grip.

For repetition totals, I led off with three sets of pull-ups (4-2-2), then two sets of chin-ups (3-3), and two sets of pull-ups between a pair of gymnastics-style rings that were oddly dry (2-2).

Then back to the monkey bars for a set of pull-ups between two of the bars (two repetitions), after which I am quite confident that I held a loose hang for a minute because I gave it a 70-count; so even if I counted a little faster than one each second, I would hope that I was not so fast as to have failed to have lasted a minute.

Once that was over, it was over to the nearby cement ramp for 10 slow full-range decline push-ups.

So quite a reasonable session for this 75-year old, all in all.

My left foot's plantar fasciitis (or whatever else might be wrong with it) was not notably aggravated.

And I was back to bed a little before 6 a.m., remaining there until shortly past 8 a.m. By then my younger brother was already downstairs watching T.V.

As usual, I waited until just after 9 a.m. before joining him.

My wife was to have me wondering if maybe she did not have a full day of work today, for she never rose when she usually does around 9:30 a.m. Rather, it was at least 9:45 a.m. and maybe even nearer 9:50 a.m. before she emerged from her bedroom for a shower. Even so, she still did manage to get away fairly soon after 10 a.m. on her fairly long drive.

Upon getting the okay to put our Android TV Box into action, I led us off with a good 21-minute (21:40) video uploaded earlier today to YouTube's AnitaK channel: Carnage, Carbon, Carney & Chrystia.

The race to lead the Liberal Party is heating up! Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland are emerging as key contenders in this pivotal leadership showdown.

In this video, we explore the start of their campaigns, their positions on the controversial carbon tax, and how their policies might shape Canada’s future. Plus, we dive into their unique personal connection: Carney is the godfather to Freeland’s son. What does this bond mean in the context of a political rivalry?

Our second video was only six minutes, but I was negatively impressed by it. Published earlier today as well, it was at BitChute's Progressive Truth Seekers channel: Donald Trump Is The Empire UNMASKED.

I refuse to reproduce the long description for such a short video.

The third video we watched was listed as being nearly 1¼ hours (1:14:30), and had been published January 15 to Rumble's A Warrior Calls channel: Retired Marine Fights Alone as Marines, MP's & Sheriffs Cower Ignore Duty Protect and Serve.

All Marines, Military Police, Sheriffs, Police and People in USA Must Watch

Bobby Graves one of the greatest Americans simply educates in 1hr the massive evil

Marines, MP.s and Sheriff's Have Turned Their Backs on the People

The evidence is crystal clear... the BAR is the greatest enemy

Attorney Generals, Judges all levels and Lawyers and court clerks corrupt to core

My brother and I found this interview to be unexpectedly interesting. The full video description is far longer, but it is only Christopher James Pritchard's usual bombast.

We had already watched around 36 minutes of the last video for this morning. At nearly an hour (58:59), it had been published at BitChute's Adaneth channel July 21, 2019: Building the Ancient City | Rome (Episode 2).

Rome was the world's first ancient megacity. At a time when few towns could number more than 10,000 inhabitants, more than a million lived in Rome. But in a world without modern technology, how on earth did the Romans do it? How did they feed their burgeoning population, how did they house them, and how did they get them into town without buses or trains? How on earth did the Romans make their great city work?

In the final episode of the series, Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill takes us up ancient tower blocks, down ancient sewers, and above 2,000-year-old harbour basins still filled with water, to find out. He reveals how this city surpassed all those from the ancient world that had gone before. Last but not least, Professor Wallace-Hadrill uncovers the secret of Rome's success - the planning still captured on pieces of an 1,800-year-old marble map of the city, a map which shows that astonishingly, in many places, the street plan of Ancient Rome mirrors that of the city today in exact detail.

There were only two episodes to the series, it would seem. Both were good.

For maybe a couple of weeks I have wanted to comment on the flash or thumb drive that I often use to watch shows on T.V. that I have downloaded online for that purpose. I believe that it is a Lexar, but that likely is irrelevant.

What matters is that our Android TV Box refuses to recognize the USB stick apart from declaring something like "USB drive is safely ejected". I've about half a dozen different video players downloaded into our Android TV Box, so after exhausting whatever little workarounds I knew of, on a whim I began seeing if any of them could possibly recognize it, for even the File Manager saw nothing of the flash drive.

Imagine my enormous relief when one of the players actually not only recognized the drive, but also was able to 'see' ever video on it! I could at least play them which is all I really wanted.

So if you have been having a similar headache, in my case the solution was the MX Player ─ we have version 1.90.4.

Holy crap! I just checked to see what other players are downloaded into our Android TV Box ─ lots! These are all the failures unable to 'see' the flash drive:

• AMPlayer
• Bear Player
• BPlayer
• HB Player
• Lithium Video Player
• MoviePlayer
• NV Player
• Titan Player
• VLC

So good luck to you if you are in this fix! Maybe MX Player will prove to be your ticket out of this situation.

I shall not be going anywhere this evening ─ I had thought to maybe do some local grocery shopping. The reason I am remaining home is that this has been a bath day, and I took care of that lengthy chore just past 6 p.m.

My baths are a lengthy, tedious affair, for I normally have one every four days, and it involves a scalp and facial shave. Then I give the inside of the bathtub a bit of a cleaning.

So overall, I am locked up in the bathroom for close to an hour, and the bath itself is almost always a draining process that soon has me pretty much wiped out with no impetus to do anything but vegetate here at home.

I will be sitting up late to watch some shows with my brother once he is back from his daily social drinking, and I will hence be having at least a couple of cans of beer.

My next opportunity to be going anywhere will be Thursday evening. Tomorrow evening is out because I need to be prepared for a relatively early bedtime so that I can be getting up again at 3:30 a.m. Thursday for another visit to the elementary school playground for exercising.

I spent some time in the early evening watching The Flash while having a very small supper. The episode had some deeply touching elements ─ it was season eight's episode nine ("Phantoms"). Actresses Kayla Compton (as "Allegra") and Danielle Nicolet (Cecile) are both pretty darned hot ─ it would be awesome having their characters professing their depth of friendship that was tendered to character Chester in the episode.

Okay, my brother is home ─ time to go!