Before my 3 a.m. alarm chimed, I had been considering for some while to check the time, but that small act's effort can contribute to wakefulness. I was awake when 3 a.m. arrived, but I could have risen earlier had I made the time check.
When I finally left on the ¾-mile round trip hobble to the elementary school playground for some exercise there, I saw that my wife's car was parked in the driveway, so she had come home after I had gone to bed last night.
The night was chilly ─ quite likely under 45º F. (7º C.), and the sky seemed clear of cloud. If this continues, there will soon enough be frost.
And although the air seemed moist, I was to find the playground equipment reasonably dry of condensation. Some of the metal had developed little more than a fogging, I suppose.
Just before I got to the school, incidentally, as I was slowly hobbling along, on one of two thick pedestal-like ornate end pieces of a length of wall serving as someone's front yard fence, my notice was caught by a shape heretofore not familiar to me.
As I passed, I turned my head and realized that maybe not even 10 feet away was what seemed a very large ─ it seemed over a foot tall ─ owl facing directly at me. It also looked very substantial or bulky.
I never changed my pace nor acted like I had seen the bird, for I did not want it to feel unnecessarily uneasy about my presence. It had clearly witnessed my approach for some distance, so I was no sudden surprise. I just wanted it to continue feeling calm as I kept on my way.
It was gone when I was hobbling back home a little later.
At the playground, I exercised in my fairly heavy dark denim jacket. Dressed exactly as I figured that I would be while exercising, I had weighed in at around 187 pounds before leaving home.
I had no intention of overstressing myself, so I just had a minimum of measured repetitions in the pull-ups and chin-ups to keep my body familiar with the movements.
So with two sets each of pull-ups, chin-ups, and pull-ups between a pair of half-rings, my totals were three in the first set and just two in all of the others.
I always have a 30-count between sets. And then with one further 30-count, I endured an 80-count dead hang.
A couple or so minutes later I was at a nearby metal ramp and putting in 10 slow full-range decline push-ups before readying and making the hobble back to home.
At least for the past couple of weeks during some of my night visits to that school, I can hear voices at an open-sided picnic table shelter at a nearby park where during the daytime there are often elder Sikh men who congregate ─ the Sikhs have been doing so for at least two decades.
But the people at night must be some carousing homeless types.
Anyway, that was my outing; and I probably made it back to bed shortly ahead of 6 a.m. after spending time here at my bedside computer.
My morning began sometime after 8 a.m. ─ I cannot recall. But it was just ahead of hearing my younger brother stirring in his bedroom and then emerging to go downstairs for instant coffee and T.V. news shows.
I waited until after 9 a.m. before joining him. And then invited to put our Android TV Box to work, I led off with a nine-minute (9:12) video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's AnitaK channel: I Kissed a Girl and I Liked It! Justin and Katy Perry, he’s straight??
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau smooching kissing on a yacht.
Next came a 44-minute (44:45) video streamed yesterday to YouTube's Krayden's Right with David Krayden channel: Country on a Collision Course | Stand on Guard.
Just how long does Canada have as a country? Six months? A year? This week marks the tenth anniversary of the election of Justin Trudeau and how far have we sunk in that decade?
Is Canada on the brink? After 10 years of Trudeau’s and Carney's leadership, our country faces a political annihilation. From crushing censorship bills to globalist policies that undermine Canadian sovereignty, we’ve seen the erosion of our freedoms, property rights, and trust in leadership. This episode dives into the damage Trudeau has caused, including the chaos surrounding the Freedom Convoy trial, the collapse of responsible governance, and the alarming overreach of government agencies like the CFIA.
Join me, David Krayden, as I expose the real consequences of the last decade, from political violence to the suppression of independent journalism. Why are Canadians turning to social media for truth? Why does the government fear dissent? And how did Canada lose its way under the guise of progress?
Thereafter, I tuned in Supernatural ─ episode 10 ("Wayward Sisters") of season 13.
And we finished by watching some more of the 1947 black & white Western that we have now had to suspend a third time so that my brother can get his bed rest to shore him up to head off in the early afternoon to catch a bus and go and engage his all-consuming social drinking.
The darned movie isn't much over 1½ hours ─ this is getting ridiculous! It should not require a fourth sitting to see it all.
My wife had a full workday today, it seems. However, she didn't emerge from her bedroom until ... well, I forget now, but it was much later than usual. And she was away at least as late as 10:35 a.m. on her rather long drive. That's a half hour later than is her norm.
I was to have a very filling first meal of my day after my brother returned to his bedroom, and I still had not sought my needed early afternoon nap by the time he had emerged again. As yesterday, I may not have gotten back to bed until 1:30 p.m., and I feel that I could have napped longer than I did, had I tried.
The afternoon was nice enough that I could have sat out in some backyard sunshine, but the inclination is no longer there ─ not when I have two onerous blog posts to get through.
At present I am quite distracted because I am running a Windows 10 update troubleshooter to see if I can overcome having eight updates (important security and quality fixes) pending download that never progress beyond 0%. Windows 10 support ends today, but I was one of those who was never offered a one-year extension. However, there is apparently a way to get that invitation operational, but it requires all Windows 10 essential updates to have been downloaded.
I am referring to a nine-minute (9:44) video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's Ask Your Computer Guy channel: Can't Enroll In Windows 10 extended support? Try This Easy Fix! The host does not offer any solutions on how to force stalled updates, though.
For that I am trying this March 10, 2023, five-minute (5:08) video that was uploaded to YouTube's LifeOS Mastery channel: Fix Windows 11/10 Update Stuck at 0% or Any % Permanently.
But this looks like it could take up my evening, so I am going to hold off on continuing. I ran the Windows update troubleshooter ─ and that seemed to run for a half hour ─ and then I restarted my computer. But I see that I've got the eight updates still registering a status of "Downloading - 0%".
Since I have no idea if anything will come of them now that I have run the troubleshooter and restarted my computer, I am going to give this the rest of the evening and I shall get on with other matters. I can continue with the video's second and third suggestions later. Tomorrow, even.
Right now it is 7:27 p.m. and in the latter afternoon I had some light exercising in my wife's vacant bedroom, and I have just recently eaten a fairly light second and last meal of my day.
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Doom Patrol ─ episode 11 ("Frances Patrol") of the first season ─ was my first segment of excellent entertainment allowing me justification to have a Cariboo Malt (8% alcohol). My source was this MovieGo.sh link.
The writers of the series missed a huge emotional avenue if they do not follow up by having metal-man Cliff's daughter Clara sense where her father's suddenly-appeared gold watch came from after having been lost in the giant alligator that ate her stepfather. That possibility started to hit me as soon as she found the watch that Cliff had left for her in the bar when he retreated without her knowing.
I suppose the episode ended by 8:45 p.m. at latest, and it is possible that my brother was back home and seated out of sight at the dining table ... or else passed out in the dark in the living room in his usual comfort chair. I couldn't tell where Bev was.
My brother was definitely home and animated when my second show finished barely past 9:50 p.m. ─ he and Bev were rather boisterous due to some trivia game show they were watching.
My next show, though, was Friday Night Lights ─ the second episode ("Eyes Wide Open") of the first season.
It's a darned good series! I badly wanted to watch the game about to be played at the episode's conclusion, however. Now I've got to wait until finding out how the backup quarterback performed.
My source was this GOOJARA.to link.
Next I wasted a bloody lot of time continuing with that three-step tutorial to get my Windows 10 downloads completed, but none of the three steps did it. The third one involved cutting a collection of files in a specific folder on my PC's C drive and pasting them into a new one on my desktop. Well, two of the seven files would not copy because supposedly they were open somewhere, even though there was no opening of them on my part anywhere that I could tell.
Even after I restarted my computer and tried to initiate the Windows 10 downloads, nothing had changed.
This is bloody sick ─ why the Hell can't things work out!
I am going to quit and get to bed. At present it is 11:43 p.m., but I won't be setting my alarm for any earlier than 7 a.m. tomorrow.
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