😈Dark Destiny👹

Yes, again. It was after 2 a.m. before the madness had gotten what it was pursuing; and it was intense. No way was I going to be setting my cellphone alarm for 6 a.m., but I did go for 7 a.m.

Just after 5 a.m. pain I have been experiencing for several days ─ either in my right temporomandibular joint, or else it is infection-produced pain in my right eustachian tube ─ had become so exacerbated that I felt compelled to rise and seek remedy.

Yesterday I had watched a YouTube video in which a doctor reported that people had claimed microwaving a thick slice of a red onion, and then wrapping it in a protective cloth (even a sock) and applying it against the affected ear for 10 or 15 minutes, achieved relief from the pain.

Comments substantiated this, and some even reported that regular yellow onion also worked.

We had an unopened red nylon mesh bag of those so-called small boiling or stewing onions, so I extracted one, cut it in half, and microwaved the half for 45 seconds.

It was darned hot. I had a bandana folded over twice that I inserted the onion into, and then returned to bed with that hot, moist compress snug against my ear.

Darned if it did not seem to be effective.

I think that I remained that way in bed until my 7 a.m. alarm chimed. My condition was enormously improved.

After rising and dressing and hobbling downstairs to boil water for a strong instant coffee to wash down an aspirin, I spend a long while trying to see if I could remedy whatever it is that is uninstalling apps in our old T95Q Android 9 TV Box, but there is no "Restore Play Protect" nor anything like it ─ not even in Google Play Store. People claim that one must click on the user icon in the upper right corner area of Play Store, but that area is entirely blank ─ there is no icon nor anything else there.

Since our TV Box is from Asia ─ I originally ordered it through AliExpress ─ it is not an 'official' device of Google or Android. It merely uses the Android system.

To aggravate matters, I had clicked on an update notification for the MX Player; and when I chose to have the update installed, the MX Player immediately joined the three previous missing apps similarly disappeared within the past two weeks.

I didn't try to install a new Amazon MX Player, for at present the videos I have on the USB stick we have inserted into the Android TV Box are being played with the Movie Player app ─ or whatever it is called. I cannot go downstairs and check because Bev has the T.V. tied up for the day. I never get to use the T.V. anymore after watching it in the latter morning with my younger brother. Once she gets up ─ usually deep into the noon hour ─ she just watches T.V. until she goes to bed at night.

Anyway, despite how crappy I felt, I did have the usual weak performance in exercising out in the backyard tool shed this lightly rainy day: a single repetition in all six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups. Those were of course followed by the squat exercises to develop, if possible, my damaged right knee and the quadriceps muscles.

I suppose it was around 8:30 a.m. when my younger brother emerged from his bedroom for the morning. I waited till nigh 9:15 a.m. before joining him, at which time he was ready to ask me to commence operation of our Android TV Box.

I first tuned in a four-minute (4:11) video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's AnitaK channel: Musqueam Title Over Your Land in Greater Vancouver. 

And then next was the much related 28-minute (28:55) video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's OneBC channel: Dallas Brodie on INSANE Liberal Musqueam deal and Eby covering it up!

OneBC leader Dallas Brodie and Wyatt Claypool sit down to discuss the INSANE agreement signed between the Mark Carney federal Liberals and the Musqueam band that gives puts BC's Lower Mainland under aboriginal title!

Changing pace, I then tuned in The Graham Norton Show ─ episode nine of season or series 33.

I followed that with the American Kath & Kim ─ episode five ("Dating") of the only season. I had it downloaded onto the aforementioned USB stick, my source being this Archive.org link where the entire series is available.

And then we put in a second sitting of an old movie that is going to require one further sitting to see the movie concluded, for we cut it short so that my brother could acquire further bed rest.

My wife has a full workday today at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time. She emerged from her bedroom no later than 9:20 a.m. to shower and such; and I think she was away on her fairly long drive ahead of 10 a.m., which is exceptionally early for her on both counts (i.e., rising for the morning, as well as departing).

After my early afternoon nap, I was to have some light exercising in her vacant bedroom just past 3 p.m.

At present it is 5:44 p.m. and I am going to break and have my day's second and final meal, and then start watching my usual three T.V. shows here on my bedside computer while enjoying some drink.

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My first show and can of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol) were done by 7:19 p.m. The show was The 100 ─ episode 12 ("Adjustment Protocol") of season six. The video quality was not superior, but my source was this MovieGo.st link.

It was quite exciting, this episode. However, nothing about it particularly touched me ─ not even the death of main character "Abby". I just didn't much care after witnessing all of the harm she has wreaked over the series.

My second show failed to match what I was expecting ─ a somewhat weak episode that ended by 8:15 p.m., as did my second can of beer.

The show was Titans ─ episode seven ("Bruce Wayne") of season two. My source was this second MovieGo.st link.

I despise this feeble tripe of having a phantom / imaginary character like was "Bruce Wayne" in this episode appearing all over the bloody place throughout the episode as the main character kept dreaming him up as if the imagination was really there.

I just hate this ─ it ruined the episode for me.

Still, it was a delight seeing actress Genevieve Angelson back as "Eve". I well remember how gobsmacked I was from that image of her in a tight and quite short red dress last episode ─ fabulously muscled calves on this girl!

My third and final show ─ accompanied by about 10 ounces of Sommet Rouge wine (12% alcohol) ─ completed by 9:44 p.m.

I had thought to reintroduce myself to the series The Path, which I had not watched since before the COVID scamdemic. But I kept no record of where I left off; and each season seemed potentially familiar (I used to drink considerably heavier back then) when I read of the episodes or sampled a couple or so.

I despise Cultists ─ that people actually need to follow another human being revolts me. So I was not amenable to trying the series out again and risk re-watching material I had already sat through. Best to just abandon the series.

I was on a similar track with Van Helsing. I cannot definitively assess where I left off. But at least the episodes were exciting. So I decided to commence my return to the series as of the dawning of season four's episode one ("Dark Destiny"). My source was a third MovieGo.st link this evening.

Yes, there seemed some vague recollection of the episode here and there, but nothing absolutely obvious. And as said, the episodes were très lively. I can handle this henceforth ─ I will continue from here.

Just ahead of 10:15 p.m. I was to realize that my wife had come home. My brother had done so (from wherever he has bused to social drink in the first half of the afternoon) between my second and third shows this evening.

It is presently 11:16 p.m., so I am going to quickly close up whatever needs doing so on this computer, restart it, and get to bed.