Spoonful of Ashes

With the usual impaired sleep during the latter hours of my night, when my 6 a.m. alarm chimed, at first in a dream state I believed myself to be getting a phone call.

After being up, towards 7:15 a.m. I decided to use my nebulizer and inhale hydrogen peroxide for 15 minutes because I am still massively overproducing mucous following my last respiratory infection, yet now both eustachian tubes seem unduly sensitive ─ the right one especially.

Whether coincidentally or not, my right nostril tends to have some caked bloody mucous over the past several days ─ not much, but it is very present. I have no idea what I might be snorting backwards and swallowing over the course of a day.

I normally snort inwardly to clear collections of mucous, but I am wondering now if maybe doing so has drawn infected matter into these two tubes. Anytime now when I do such an inward snort, it has an unpleasant very sensitive impact on my ears ─ no doubt, the eustachian tube. I am not trying to draw the mucous anywhere but into my throat ─ I never before noticed that this action was also involving those two tubes.

Man, it sucks to be getting older and older! Everything declines.

After the hydrogen peroxide treatment, I then went forth to the backyard tool shed for the usual exercises, managing only a single repetition in all six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups; then it was the squat work to challenge my damaged right knee and quadriceps muscles.

If I cannot win a major lottery to afford all the diverse help I need, then I see no way out of this dead end in my life.

I am only having one meal today, and it is scheduled for no earlier than 6 p.m. Thus, I was back upstairs after my exercising, spending time here at my bedside computer when my younger brother emerged from his bedroom for the morning.

I waited until just past 9 a.m. before joining him for some morning T.V. However, he was so annoying slow in inviting me to begin operating our old T95Q Android 9 TV Box that I almost returned back upstairs instead of just wasting my time watching the useless mainstream news and the lengthy commercial breaks.

But he finally did the right thing, so I was able to tune in a 41-minute (41:16) video published yesterday to Rumble's Libertytalkcanada channel: Canada Public Health Officials Humiliated In Court With Pie On Face. Must See Interview!

Lawsuit Update- Toronto Public Health Humiliated With Pie On Their Face! They Could Not Provide ANY Scientific Evidence In Court As To Why They Shut Adamson BBQ Or ANY Businesses Down. They Also Could Not Refute Multiple Scientific Experts That Brought Evidence Against Them. Interview With Jody Ledgerwood & WHY This Adamson BBQ Case Is So Important.

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After that I tuned in Reacher. Now, according to my last mention of the series back on Boxing Day (December 26), I had written that my brother and I had watched the first two episodes of the series in one sitting, so episode three ("Spoonful") was supposedly next.

But it seemed to both of us as we watched episode three that snippets of scenes were somehow familiar, even though the episode did seem otherwise unfamiliar.

So when the episode was over, I tuned in episode four ("In a Tree"), and the same impression overcame us. I don't know just what my brother felt was familiar ─ we did not compare. But for me, there were various key scenes.

Why, though? This is the first time that I have written of the series since mentioning the two of us watching the first two episodes.

All I can speculate is that maybe around New Year's Eve or Day while we were drinking, we watched the third and fourth episodes, and thus were too drunk to recall much of them. It would also explain why I never wrote of watching them.

Oh, well.

My brother returned to his bedroom after that fourth episode; and right around noon I was back into my bed for a nap, remaining there until around 1:40 p.m.

My brother left on foot around 2:06 p.m. to catch a bus and go social drinking.

My wife had a full workday today at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time, so she emerged from her bedroom around 9:45 a.m. to shower and such, and left us on her rather long drive 30-40 minutes later.

Either late yesterday afternoon or early in the evening while my wife was downstairs, I was considering offering her use of the four-litre box of Sommet Rouge wine (12% alcohol) that she had 'borrowed' several days ago and opened. I said 'borrowed' because a day or two later she did return it.

But before I made her the offer, I slipped into her bedroom to see if it was barren of alcohol ... but it was not. Her two sons and friends of hers advance-celebrated two or three evenings ago her coming Sunday birthday, and it seems that she acquired four bottles of wine on that occasion. She was already into one of them, so I did not need to be concerned for her ─ when I watch my shows here on my bedside computer, I close the door so I can have the volume to my taste and also not be disturbed from my immersion into whatever I have tuned in.

By the way, when I was lightly exercising in her vacant bedroom mid-afternoon today, I noticed that it had been ─ and maybe still was ─ lightly raining outside. Consequently, our snow drought not experienced since 43 years ago is continuing. This is definitely most remarkable!

Right now it is 5:05 p.m., and I am about to break from work on this post so I can watch a show and enjoy a can of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol) before having my day's only meal. I want to report that I have just stripped down in the bathroom for a naked weigh-in, and I do believe that I was just under 180 pounds. I think that is the lowest register I have seen thus far this year of 2026.

Anyway, I shall return in the latter evening to conclude this post.

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My first show and beer completed around ... I want to say, 6:21 p.m. The show was Harlots ─ episode six of season two. My source was this OK.ru link.

It was pretty darned good! I even felt some eye-tearing late into the episode. All I will say is that I have new respect for the matron "Wells" woman ─ I was truly expecting that she was going to crumble to "Lord Fallon" and ensure that the stabbed woman died and thus could not identify him as her assailant.

But will she truly get hanged for confessing to a killing that one of her daughters had done, thereby protecting the daughter from the threat "Lord Fallon" had made that he would spill the beans about the daughter being the killer?

My second show ended at 7:56 p.m. It was The 100 ─ episode 11 ("Ashes to Ashes") of season six. My source was this 1Movies.bz link.

It was interesting enough, I suppose; but nothing reached out and affected me emotionally. I did find it to be unexpected that "Echo" summarily knifed ─ twice ─ and thus killed the 'Prime' who had been helping her and then betrayed her due to his vacillation at betraying his family and people.

Due to having a soupy meal before the episode, my second can of beer was not going down particularly easily, and I had only drunk a bit over half of it by the show's conclusion.

My third show finished by 9:04 p.m., and I was delighted upon checking my viewing list that the Titans was to be that show ─ this time, episode six ("Conner") of season two. My source was this TVSeries.video link.

What a gorgeous set of calves guest actress Genevieve Angelson (as Dr. Eve Watson) was displaying in her opening scenes wearing a tight red dress! Wow!

This episode was quite intriguing, and well worth the wait to discover the fate of Robin falling helplessly from a highrise since the closing of the previous episode. From the look of things, "Conner" is going to be inducted into the Titans once the team figures out how to save him from the couple or so kryptonite bullets he was shot with.

I am solidly looking forward to the next episode when its turn rolls 'round.

I had poured myself a glass of maybe 10 ounces of Sommet Rouge to enjoy once I finished that second beer, but the beer lasted so darned long that I only drank maybe an ounce of wine by the time the episode was done.

Well, to remedy that, I chose to watch a sitcom ─ it has been a while. I wasn't even solid on just which one I last watched, so I gambled that next up was Trollied ─ episode four ("Glen Beef's Beef") of the first season. My source was this M4dFree.cx link.

I don't know what it is about the "Julie" character as presented by actress Jane Horrocks, but if I was her co-worker and she fancied me and got outright physically forward with me, I'd be a gonner to her.

At present it is10:15 p.m., so I am going to publish this post and then spend the 15 or so minutes brushing my teeth before I start finishing up whatever I have left undone or needs closing on my computer, and then I shall get to bed.

The plan is to rise at 6 a.m. to do a little grocery shopping when the local store opens at 8 a.m. Much is going to depend upon what remains in my bank account, for a withdrawal will be required.

Well, my wife just got home!