Those Old Shows

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 Maybe I spend too much time watching YouTube vids, but after dinner I like to go to our room and relax in the evenings watching those old shows.  I can take my mind off the events of the day and just get lost in a world I used to know.  Sometimes I'll doze off and just let YouTube choose my vids.  I'll wake up in the middle of something of which I have no idea what it is.  Then I'll just refresh the browser and start all over scrolling through offerings just to see if something interesting is there.

I set my alarm to take my meds at nine, and then I just settle in until it's time to pull back the covers and go to sleep.  If I'm not sleepy enough, I'll find something that will lull me to sleep and at some point during the night, I'll put my laptop away and go back to sleep.  But it seems YouTube knows when I'm ready for bed, because it seems the algorithm changes.  YouTube knows my viewing habits.  I watch news programs during the day, but at night it's totally different.

Recently I've been watching old college football games.  And if I fall asleep, I haven't missed anything and if I don't wake up at the end, YouTube just gives me another to watch until I put my computer away.  But it matters not about those old games.  They're history and I don't care.  There is one channel I like to watch in order to fall asleep and it's called Sleepcore.  It's usually so boring to watch that I will fall asleep, but it's all about stuff from mostly the 50's.    

I'll listen to music channels during the day when I need to get away from the day's events.  I like vids with lists of music from a certain year or decade, but it's almost always from the 60's or 70's.  There are genres and once in awhile I'll listen to classical music.  I might find a theme like coffee house jazz or maybe bar piano music.  I might find a graphics scene I like.  There for awhile I was into bedroom scenes on spaceships and listen to the soft hum of the ships' motors.  

But I feel down time at night before falling asleep is a must.  Anything I can do to relax is a must for me.  And although YouTube in and of itself has its own controversies, I use it a lot.  I'll listen to music as I browse the news or as I'm doing this morning, writing my post for this blog.  I'm most comfortable with YouTube.  But we have a Spotify account where I have a number of playlists with my own chosen songs.  But as I said yesterday, I need more social interaction and not be by myself so much, because I'm getting too comfortable being by myself.  

But I like to stay informed about the world.  But I'll work on getting out more.  My wife told me that we'll sign up at the gym this week.  I want to get started there.  I'll get exercise and be around more people.  This morning, however, I'm on the patio smoking my Sherlock Holmes pipe with Dave's Special Blend.  My coffee this morning is Blue Bottle Coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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