It was not much after 10:30 p.m. last evening when I went to bed, and I do not believe that I rose more than once overnight to use the toilet; yet when my 6 a.m. alarm chimed, I felt far from rejuvenated. Oh sure, I felt better than I would had I retired an hour later, but it was still rough.
I spent time messing around with our old T95Q Android 9 TV Box, but I think I am just going to have to accept that the features preventing apps from disappearing and also from being downloaded are just not present ─ the main feature I am referring to is Google Play Protect.
I bought our device through AliExpress a few years ago, so it is both somewhat older and also most likely a non-certified and/or bargain-brand TV box; and as such, the Play Store app that came with it is very likely not the official Google Play Store. I actually have two Play Store apps with slightly different icons, and at least one of them identifies itself as Google Play Store.
However, when I open them up, neither of them has a user icon in the upper right field ─ there is nothing there. So maybe even fake Play Store apps can also call themselves Google Play Store? If they're fake, why not? It's not as if Google could ever sue whomever created them.
I have wondered why apps I have searched for that Google Play Store is supposed to offer are sometimes not present.
Still, if all this is so, then why in the past two weeks have there been four apps that I 'updated' after an update was being offered, only to have the apps disappear when I tried to install the updates? As well, I no longer am able to download new apps ─ even apps like Aptoide TV, F-Droid, and Sideload Launcher - Android.
The apks may download, but they will not unpack and install. Tomorrow morning I will see if I can download and install Downloader App (by APTVnews).
One thing that burns me is that I only have an hour or so in the early morning to access my Android TV Box to try and figure things out. My younger brother sometimes rises ahead of 8 a.m. to watch T.V. and drink coffee. And then once his girlfriend Bev rises in the midday or early afternoon, she sits and watches the T.V. until she finally goes to bed at night.
I see something or two that I would go downstairs right now to check concerning the Android TV Box, but I cannot. All I have is that early window in the morning before anyone else gets up from bed.
Yet it is both my Android TV Box and my damned T.V.!
I am everyone's hostage, it feels like. And God will not assist me in the only way possible ─ I require financial liberty to ever get away from my dependency upon all.
After my brother rose this morning to watch T.V., I joined him fairly soon after 9 a.m. And upon receiving his invitation to commence operation of our Android TV Box, I led off with a two-minute (2:24) video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's Dallas Brodie channel: Dallas Brodie warns about property rights being under threat.
OneBC leader Dallas Brodie made a statement today in the Legislature warning about the deterioration of property rights in British Columbia.
I followed that with a 15-minute (15:40) video uploaded earlier today to YouTube's AnitaK channel: 'We were truly horrified" - Konstantin Kisin to Pierre on Triggernometry.
Our next video well exceeded an hour (1:10:10) and had been published two days ago to Rumble's "Coffee and a Mike" Show: Iran Wants the Shia Muslims to Turn this into a Religious War Across the Region- Martin Armstrong.
Martin Armstrong is an internationally recognized economist, former hedge fund manager, the founder of AE Global Solutions Inc, Socrates, and Armstrong Economics. He talks what the computer forecasts in Iran, neocons playing both sides, China/Russia’s role, rise in oil, dollar collapse and much more. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE LIKE AND SHARE THIS PODCAST!!!
When that was done, my brother pointed out that wind had blown off two of the timbers holding down the tarp covering our backyard tool shed's leaky roof. Everything was intact when I had gone out there earlier this morning for my usual pathetic single repetition in all six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups, along with the squat work to challenge my damaged right knee and quadriceps muscles.
So this nonsense had occurred since that time. I hate the wind! I had to close my bedroom window because of how damned uncomfortable my room had become.
So we had to go out back and get the two timbers back where they had been. As well, my brother had to use pieces of a paracord to tie down a stretch of the tarp where the wind had managed to snap all of the previous paracord ties.
When we came back into the house, we only had a little while to watch some more of an old movie ─ this was our third sitting, but we're still not done with it.
He then returned to his bedroom for further bed rest, and I was soon enough to bed for my usual needed nap this day of mixed Sun and cloud.
My brother was not to leave until it was 3 p.m. for his bus to take him off to engage his daily social drinking ─ he usually leaves before that. I often cannot fathom why this is so essential to him.
I'm at the point in my day where I am intent on taking a blogging break, for I have earlier lightly exercised in my wife's vacant bedroom, and had my second and final meal of the day.
It is presently 5:27 p.m., so I am going to brush my teeth and then watch the usual three T.V. shows here on my bedside computer while enjoying some drinks.
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A can of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol) and my first show were done by 6:47 p.m. The show was Profiler ─ episode two ("Ring of Fire") of the first season. My source was this 1Movies.bz link.
It was good ─ the video quality was poor, but the story okay. I just hope that I'm not going to have to sit through the entire series and then never have the "Jack of All Trades" killer ended.
I hate that lousy trick.
My second show and beer finished by 8:11 p.m. Had my computer not frozen to a noisy standstill early into the episode, requiring a forced shutdown and restart, I bet the episode would have ended before 8 p.m.
This is sometimes the price of having to watch my shows on my computer instead of my very own T.V. downstairs that Bev hogs all bloody day because she has less life than I do.
The show was FBI ─ episode 19 ("Blkpill") of season seven. This time my source was a Fmovies.co link.
Initially it was a little annoying that the episode was dealing with another madman who likes using fire as his murder weapon, but FBI has far better production expertise than the old Profiler series.
My final show ended at 9:24 p.m., as did around 10 ounces of Sommet Rouge wine (12% alcohol). The show was FBI: Most Wanted ─ episode 13 ("Powderfinger") of season five. My source was this M4uFree.cx link.
I tried three or four alternate sources before connecting with the correct episode. For some reason they had linked to what may have been an episode in the first season, but I do not care to research this ─ I cannot be bothered, nor have I the time. Just be warned.
The episode was actually the fifth season finale, I should say.
I enjoyed it a lot. And the marriage scene at the conclusion was touching. I just hope that they are not going to make an issue of Agent Hanna's relatively recent new beau, the 'Air Marshal', being shown taking a pretty stiff shot of hard booze before enjoying champagne or whatever it was with the others.
No one seemed to zero in on this, so I hope it had no significance. I watch so many of the older shows where cops not only would have a drink of the job, but even have a bottle of booze in their desk if they had one.
I prefer that era. I am fed up with the nanny state and self-righteous woke 𝒷𝓊𝓁𝓁𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓉 that is the state of today.
Now, a coincidental mention is warranted here. Specifically, had I not noticed in the opening credits of this episode of FBI: Most Wanted that there was a guest actress named Ally Walker in the episode cast, I honestly do not believe I would have recognized her as being the lead character in the Profiler series.
None of us tend to age very well, and poor Ally little resembles herself from over 27 years earlier. After all, she turned 64 back in August of 2025.
I say that now as a 76-year-old.
I am going to start working at shutting down browsers and their tabs, along with open apps, and see if I can get to bed by 10:30 p.m. Right now it is 10:11 p.m.
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