Self Diagnoses

Apart from a couple responses overnight to urinary urgency, I remained in bed until my 6 a.m. cellphone alarm. My bedtime had been 10:30 p.m. ─ a half hour after my wife had arrived home.

When I heard her come into the house last evening, I shut my bedroom door to cut myself off from her ─ I am always wary that she will seek to get money from me that I cannot afford her.

She had a full workday today where she works part-time at a Thai restaurant, but she did not emerge from her bedroom until just after 10 a.m. to shower and such, and was away on her rather long drive by 10:25 a.m. at latest. 

I believe that we had some rain overnight, as well as betimes today.

My backyard tool shed exercising this morning was again good for what I am able to accomplish anymore in my decrepit old age: two sets of pull-ups (3-1 reps), two sets of chin-ups (2-2 reps), and two sets of pull-ups (2-1 reps) between the sides of the child's slide ladder that I have spread across some rafters, and which is my only means of performing these exercises.

I held the dead hang of the very final pull-up for a 50-count, and then got at the squat exercises to develop my right leg.

As I discovered and reported yesterday, I now believe that my accident last March 1st subluxated my patella (knee cap), as well as resulting in cortical inhibition (arthrogenic muscle inhibition) of the lowermost quadriceps muscles, basically paralyzing them until they had begun to atrophy.

This is all self-diagnosing, for I know of no way to obtain a proper medical examination under Canada's healthcare system. And damned if I'm going to risk spending another 14 hours at a hospital emergency department awaiting some doctor's free time to see me like happened when I went to have myself assessed the day of my accident.

Anyway, this morning I was back into the house and upstairs here at my bedside computer before my younger brother emerged from his bedroom for the morning. I think that he may have done so before 8 a.m.

Whatever the case, I waited until a little past 9 a.m. before joining him, and soon enough got invited to put our T95X Android 9 TV Box to work.

I led us off with a very entertaining 33-minute (33:24) video uploaded earlier today to YouTube's AnitaK channel: When You Want to Divorce Your Country.

We also watched a 1½-minute (1:31) video published yesterday to Rumble's Real Truth Real News channel: ❤️ RIP Catherine O'Hara (1954-2026) ⭐ The Legendary Journey from Kevin's Mom to Moira Rose: Goodbye, Legend 🌹.

Catherine was quite attractive as a very young woman!

I followed that with Rescue: Special Ops ─ episode one ("Rescue in the Blue Mountains") of the first season. My source was a March 29, 2013, upload to YouTube's yeprealcool channel: Rescue Special Ops season 1 1x01 blue mountains.

I did not realize that Australia had such vast forested regions ─ it was a darned good episode once it got going.

I am unsure now of the sequence of the following four videos, so here they are as I am able to recall them.

First a 20-minute (20:44) video uploaded October 29, 2013, to YouTube's The Best Film Archives channel: Eskimo Hunters in Alaska - The Traditional Inuit Way of Life | 1949 Documentary on Native Americans.

This short documentary film (1949) shows us the traditional Inuit (aka. Eskimo) way of life in Northwestern Alaska.

The Eskimo are the indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the northern circumpolar region from eastern Siberia (Russia), across Alaska (United States), Canada, and Greenland.

The two main peoples known as "Eskimo" are: the Inuit of Canada, Northern Alaska (sub-group "Inupiat"), and Greenland, and the Yupik of eastern Siberia and Alaska. A third northern group, the Aleut, is closely related to the Eskimo. They share a relatively recent, common ("Paleo-Eskimo") ancestor, and a language group (Eskimo-Aleut).

Alaskans also use the term Alaska Native, which is inclusive of all Eskimo, Aleut and Native American people of Alaska. It does not apply to Inuit or Yupik people originating outside the state.

I was born in 1949, so I would be surprised if any of that Eskimo family were alive today.

Another video was eight minutes (8:36) and had been uploaded January 12, 2025, to YouTube's Ember channel: Wild as a Desert Rose : Car Camping and Canyon Hiking.

In this solo female van life vlog, join me for a relaxing morning in my van at my campsite. Then  come along for a beautiful desert canyon hike in Texas, along a river bordering Mexico! I find an amazing spot to park my minivan camper with a fantastic view of a bridge and the Rio Grande. It's a classic car camping adventure!

The third video that comes to mind was the least interesting. At 14 minutes (14:33), it had been uploaded February 27, 2016, to YouTube's Proper Gander channel: False History, Forbidden Archaeology - The Swastika Throughout History.

One of the world's oldest symbols, representing good fortune, peace, and light.  The swastika is a very old symbol with use widespread throughout the world. Sometimes referred to as a “Gammadion” “Hakenkreuz” or a “Flyfot,” it traditionally had been a sign of good fortune and well being The word “swastika” is derived from the Sanskrit “su” meaning “well” and “asti” meaning “being.”

A long line of swastikas from around the world are featured (keep watching, it is worth it).  But mainstream science would have us believe that all of these civilizations developed independently from one another.

Countless anomalies are found around the earth which don't fit the mainstream version of history.  They indicate our ancestors lived lives vastly different from what we have been led to believe are facts.

Many suspect that today's dating of historical events may have some errors... on a tall scale.  But history is written by the victors.  History as we know it today was designed and finalized during the 1600s, largely by Joseph Scaliger.

Born in Agen, southern France, into the family of an Italian scholar and physician, Joseph Justus Scaliger studied in Bordeaux and Paris before taking a position as companion to the young French nobleman Louis Chasteigner de la Roche-Posay. With generous resources for travel and study at his disposal, he began work on editions of classical authors and his reputation as an acute textual critic grew. Before Scaliger settled in Leiden in 1593, the pair had travelled together through Italy, England, and Scotland, and — following the massacre of St Bartholomew in 1572 — Scaliger had fled to and resided in Geneva for two years.

During his lifetime, Scaliger was regarded as one of the greatest scholars of his age and throughout his substantial surviving correspondence both the extraordinary range and the spectacular ambition of his interests are documented meticulously.

Scaliger’s surviving correspondence amounts to 1,669 letters, written between 1561 and 1609. About two-thirds of the letters are in Latin, many with substantial Greek and Hebrew components, and almost all of the remainder is written in French.

The fourth and final video was The Life of Riley ─ episode one ("Tonsils") of the only season featuring Jackie Gleason. I had the episode downloaded and thus I am now unclear, but it may be that my source was this Archive.org link ─ I no longer remember.

Hey, my evening is well on, so I want to halt blogging for a while so I can watch some shows here on my bedside computer while doing some drinking.

But I want to mention that after some light exercising around 3:15 p.m. in my wife's vacant bedroom, I stripped down naked for a weigh-in, and registered 180 pounds. I was 181 pounds the previous two bath days (January 25 and 29) when I had stripped down. Today, though, I did not have a meal until shortly after 6 p.m., so that may have accounted for the diminishment of a pound.

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My first show was Harlots ─ episode four of the second season. My source was this OK.ru link.

I was delightfully caught off guard by the bountifully full thighs that were displayed by actress Eloise Smyth as the "Lucy Wells" character in this episode.

And so went a can of Cariboo Strong malt (7% alcohol).

My second show was The 100 ─ episode nine ("What You Take With You") of season six. My source was this 1Movies.bz link.

The episode was interesting enough, but I was never in the least emotionally caught up in it. In fact, I despised the "Abby" character for conning some dupe into sacrificing his well-built body and life so that her lover "Kane" could live on in the younger man's body.

Basically, I guess, the episode was below what I expected. I didn't even care when "Kane" had himself killed by ejecting into space. I felt nothing. His act was a wasted gesture where I am concerned ─ it should have been her (or both of them together).

And so went a second can of beer. I think the show ended just ahead of 10 p.m.

I have little time to waste if I am to be abed by midnight, but my third show was a sitcom that earlier I was unsure I would be able to squeeze in ─ I badly wanted the glass tumbler (c. eight ounces) of Sommet Rouge wine (12% alcohol) that I would be drinking during it, so I had to tune it in.

'Twas Entourage ─ episode five ("The Script and the Sherpa") of season one. My source was this TVSeries.video link.

I don't much like the main characters, but I certainly do enjoy all of the gorgeous babes in this series. That's what keeps me invested.

Holy crap! I just discovered that a heavily-bearded pot-raising 'guru' was played by Val Kilmer! No clue at all ─ I wondered if the guy might be anyone known to me.

I have to quit blogging, for I want to rise at 6 a.m. tomorrow to do some grocery shopping after the store a half mile off opens at 8 a.m.