My night was the norm of broken sleep, but at least I was always to sink back into more. There were a couple of toilet breaks, one that was around 3 a.m., it seems to me. I noticed that although my wife's bedroom door was closed (I had not heard her come home last night after her fruitless drunken phone calls and texts to transfer her $300), her bedroom light was on.
Since I had shut my cellphone off when I went to bed, not wishing any further communication from her, I had been unable to set my cellphone alarm. But I did so at 3 a.m., for I wanted to get up at 6 a.m. and be able to have some backyard tool shed exercise once it was light enough outside.
And that was to be.
I did well for what I can do out there: two sets of pull-ups (3-1), two sets of chin-ups (2-2), and two sets of pull-ups between the sides of the child's slide ladder that is all I have to exercise on (1-1). I held that final pull-up's dead hang for a 50-count.
And then I tackled the squat work to try and regain strength and use of my right leg's lower quadriceps muscles at my knee.
My younger brother was to emerge from his bedroom soon after I had returned to my bedroom and was seated here at my bedside computer. I reckon that it must have been nigh an hour before I was to join him downstairs around 9:10 a.m. for some morning T.V.
At his invitation to put our old T95X [it is actually T95Q] Android 9 TV Box to work, I started us off with a 27-minute video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's AnitaK channel: Davos Crash Out! The Great Reset Lutnick Style!
Next I tuned in the latest recorded live video that had been streamed yesterday at YouTube's Redacted channel, but after guest Dr. Olga Ravasi had her segment, a little more than a half hour into the video when 'Health Ranger' Mike Adams was being interviewed, the sound became seriously distorted.
We tried listening for a few minutes, then I tried another YouTube video to ensure that the sound issue was not due to our Android TV Box.
It was not.
So I found the same video on Rumble and advanced to Mike Adams, and discovered a similar sound issue. Why would they upload the same faulty video to both mediums?
The whole video was close to 1¾ hours, but we went no farther. I tuned us out.
We watched instead an 18-minute (18:14) video uploaded May 3, 2021, to YouTube's The Why Files channel: Comparing Earth technology with alien civilizations | The Kardashev Scale.
THE KARDASHEV SCALE. We have no idea what an alien civilization would look like. Humans are evolved primates. What if an alien species is reptilian? Or more like an insect? Or a hybrid of these? Or maybe something completely unique that we couldn't even imagine.
There is only one set of universal laws that every species must follow. Physics. Specifically energy.
One way to measure a civilization is by its energy consumption. This is done with the Kardashev Scale.
By using the Kardashev Scale, we can address some big questions about alien civilizations. Like: Fermi's Paradox. It's estimated that there are 40 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way that could support life. Certainly a few of these should have given rise to intelligent life. And if so, where is everyone?
A recent study done by researchers at JPL and CalTech states that when a civilization finally reaches a certain point on the Kardashev Scale, it destroys itself. Which is why we haven't discovered any evidence. They're gone.
And the Kardashev Scale addresses the most worrisome theory of all. If there are advanced civilizations in our universe, it's probably best if we don't make contact with them.
We never finished watching our last video because it was 1⅕ hours long, so we still have about 20 minutes of it to go next time.
My brother sought more bed rest. I knew that he was likely to be doing a beer run, so I had a fairly fast meal and was to bed ─ I think ─ just ahead of 12:30 p.m. for a nap.
I had felt good this morning ─ unusually good. So how is it that I was to be in bed for almost three hours during my nap time? And I rose no longer feeling too hale. I almost had an eyestrain-type headache in back of my left eye, and my eyes were burning as if from lack of sleep.
My brother had not only had his drive to the liquor store two miles away, but he had even left again on foot for his bus to go social drinking.
Had my wife not had today off work and instead had to work the latter part of today, she would have already gone; but she was home.
She did leave around 4:52 p.m. without a word of goodbye to me, though I heard her say a "Bye" to Bev who was of course 'busy' watching T.V. in the living room. I am not expecting to have my wife return until at least Friday afternoon.
Despite the great importance last night of getting $300 from me, she never mentioned a word about money today.
Anyway, what the heck happened that I hit such a physical decline after feeling so nearly vital this morning? I bloody hate being old and growing older! I had nothing in me for any afternoon exercise; but even after my wife left, had I been inclined for any, it was a bath day so I had to contend with that 50-or-so-minute chore.
Right now it is 7:36 p.m. and I want to watch a couple of shows while enjoying as many cans of Cariboo Malt (8% alcohol), so I am taking a pause here from blogging and will finish up this post late into the evening. (My brother was to return home at 7:42 p.m.)
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My first show was FBI: Most Wanted ─ episode nine ("The Return") of season five. My source was this TVSeries.video link.
The episode was certainly interesting enough, but I cared nothing for the guest characters, including the ninny art specialist who had been deceived into helping the murdering criminals. I want to be affected emotionally by what I watch, and this failed, apart from a touching marriage proposal scene at the end of the episode.
My second show was also very interesting, but this time I felt no emotion beyond that interest whatsoever. I want more from what I watch.
The show was Blood Ties ─ episode five ("The Devil You Know") of season two. And again, my source was a TVSeries.video link.
I wonder why Wikipedia has an old statement from 2010 that the series was under consideration for revival with a new title (Smoke and Mirrors)? Here we are 16 years later, and there is nothing further about progress on that possibility!
Something of even more interest to me is that the actor (Kyle Schmid) portraying vampire Henry Fitzroy is now 41 years old. His love interest played by hot and very fit actress Christina Cox is ... wait for it! ... now 53 years old!
Whatever.
I wanted a bit more drink and it was still a little early into the latter evening, so I poured myself a good shot of Lamb's Dark Navy Rum and tuned in an episode of Whitney ─ episode three ("Sex, Lies, and Alibis") of season two. My source was this MoviesBox.lol link, but be prepared ─ it will generate advertisement websites such as the gambling website Stake.
I wish I saw a safer option, but at least the episode played through without issue.
However, once again ─ nothing affected me beyond some interest in the show. My emotions this evening have been unaffected apart from that proposal scene I mentioned earlier.
I watch shows for that emotional response ─ and it's certainly why I waste cans of beer and shots of rum. The failure for response is a bummer.
As quite an aside, I noticed today that Joe Rogan interviewed Whitney Cummings recently. I would love to watch it, but the darned video is nearly 3½ hours (3:26:45) long! If you are curious, it was published January 10 to Rumble's The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast channel: Joe Rogan Experience #2436 - Whitney Cummings.
The girl's 43 now, and certainly cute.
I actually watched a half hour of the show since mentioning it, even while spending the 15 or so minutes it takes me to brush my teeth here in my bedroom. The show was quite fun. Maybe I will tune it in occasionally tomorrow and watch further segments.
Right now it is 11:36 p.m. and I have just returned from expectorating the coconut oil I was brushing my teeth with, and I saw my brother downstairs passed out in his usual comfort chair. I don't know if Bev went to bed, or is outside taking a smoke break.
But I had best call it quits for blogging and get this thing published.
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