Week of 13 May 2024

MGTOW is exploding in the western world. (*Men Going Their Own Way)
Level one MGTOWs chooses to get involved with women knowing the consequences.
Level two MGTOWs date women, but with no intention of ever marrying them.
Level three MGTOWs won’t go out on a date with women.
Level four MGTOWs avoid women altogether.
Ref:www.westernjournal.com/men-still-need-women-part-one-rise-mgtow-movement/

Monday

We both are still having trouble sleeping. She runs from being cold to sweating even with no covers on. I wake every 90 minutes or so having stopped breathing for 30 seconds to a minute. My mouth is usually very dry and so are my eyes for some reason. I just could not get a head of steam this morning, maybe it’s because I didn’t have breakfast. I am a little tired.

I read (And will re-read) an article published on the Western Journal about Trump’s MEGA platform. It talks about the late 1700’s Cato’s letters laying out where England was headed which is similar to our current path. MAGA’s Intellectual Roots: A Movement 300 Years in the Making (westernjournal.com)

I looked at the air filter on our De-Humidifier, it was severely clogged. (Which is unusual) It has been a while since I checked it, but I’ve never seen it that bad? The coils had also collected a large amount of debris. I took the de-humidifier apart and almost hurt my eye with flying debris. I don’t know what broke, but it hit my face just to the right side of my right eye. I tried a vacuum, but ended up using my hair brush to remove the wet debris. About an hour later the unit was up and running and smelling MUCH better with no mold smell at all.

My eyes didn’t like the ordeal, they were red and puffy. The assumption is the mold growing on the coils ended up getting into my eyes/nose.

We’ve watched all of the “Good Witch” movies, so we’ve moved back onto the “Wedding Veil” movies with Alison Sweeney her favorite Soap Actor.

  1. The Wedding Veil – Watched
  2. “Unveiled” – Watched
  3. “Legacy”
  4. “Journey”
  5. “Inspiration”
  6. “Expectations”

Tuesday

Another night of not sleeping very well, this time I think the cleaning of the de-humidifier was the major contributor. Checked the HAM radio for a little while and the guys were still having trouble hearing each other. Groceries were on tap for this morning, but I found out that no meals were planned. (Just staples) We were going to Zaxby’s, but the salads are not enough to carry us through 5:30. The current plan is to have heavier meals with fixed mealtimes for her braces. Breakfast needs to be pushed back towards 8 from 7, Lunch is also a little earlier at 12 Noon *Versus 13:30. Supper Soup should still be at 17:30. We might need to add a snack at 9PM to help her carry through the night. If that doesn’t work we’ll add Midrats The two days we have to modify those times are Sunday (Lunch at 13:00) and Wednesday’s Supper at 18:30. We are on Week 3 of the Invisalign braces and still figuring things out. They can’t be in when we’re eating or drinking anything but water. We are both used to munching a little between meals so it’s a HUGE change for us.

We went to Longhorns for lunch, I had salmon and she had crusted chicken. We can sort of afford an occasional trip to Longhorn, but it’s about $100 between the meal and tips. I took a nap when I got home, but awoke with my body suffering from lack of oxygen. I have revived the desire to wear a Oxygen sensor and use my cell phone as an alarm to wake me. I also have a recorder to record my breathing on my CPAP. I don’t know of a quick way of catching the central obstruction without a breathing monitor. (The O2 levels will drop AFTER my body has held my breath for about 45 seconds and my heart rate has increased trying to compensate for the depleting O2 supply in the bloodstream. Eventually the heart loses its ability to compensate, and the 02 levels fall sharply afterwards. (Even below 85%)

Supper is soup and crackers and a movie Hallmark channel The Wedding Veil, Expectations. My feet are a little swollen and the undersides are a little on the dark side. I need to start taking pictures and see if they are changing… ? It does feel like I am walking with socks on, even though I am not.

Wednesday

Listened to the WW Net, Uncle Paul is also listening. They don’t seem to have the issue reaching each other this morning. I had a dickens of a time getting to sleep last night. I had general pain everywhere… I took a bath and a couple Tylenol and finally got to sleep about four this morning. According to the O2 sensor, I slept pretty good after that. My tinnitus tells me that I did go low on oxygen, but it wasn’t on the graphs.

Thursday

Slept better last night, I didn’t get to sleep for several hours but I did manage to sleep soundly after 02:00. The O2 sensor did yield an improvement over earlier this week.

You probably cannot tell from the picture, but I am laying on a pillow that’s pushed up above my shoulder. The pillow is on a “Wedge” raising my head well above the bed plane. My head is held back from falling forward by that brown couch pillow. Keeping my head from falling forward is a HUGE factor in preventing my central obstructions while sleeping.

Friday

We’re still working on our Invisalign braces procedures, we have two days that need a different schedule. Gym days and Wednesdays shuffle the times we eat dramatically. We had to come up with a schedule that kept the braces in as long as possible.

Spread Weed and Feed on the back yard to roll back the tall weeds today. It’s going to rain for the next three days. No letters on the CF website today. Pulled a copy of the pictures on my phone onto the network NAS. We cleaned eight of my Wife’s masks and four tanks for our CPAP machines tonight.

We watched “Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Bone to Pick” which is the first film in a long series of movies on the Hallmark Channel.

Saturday

Listened to the WW Net while I glanced over the news. I made a couple of contacts on my radio before turning off my radio. Log of the World is still down, and it’s been a week! Breakfast was 2 hard boiled eggs and about six breakfast sausages. I need to get onto cleaning our CPAP stuff we are short of hoses. I cleaned four more tanks and one hose for my machine. We’re down to one remaining clean hose and four new ones. Pulled a backup copy of the wife’s pictures on her phone onto the NAS.

We worked on a schedule for Sundays, balancing eating with our gym/church schedule is becoming a challenge. She cannot go four hours without eating and they want us to keep the aligners in for 22 hours a day.

Drying the inside of the CPAP hoses using the dehumidifier!

We did four of the 20 hoses tonight. I’ll try and do another four hoses this week. Took another nap and we watched another Teagarden mystery before spending a minute planning our meals for next week.

I got my DMV plate renewal for the van. I’ll need to do emissions test soon since my birthday is early in July. I got lucky with the blue Focus, it ran good enough to pass emissions testing. (They didn’t even check the gas caps last time, that was the major failure.)

We watched “Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Bone to Pick” which is the first film in a long series of movies on the Hallmark Channel for the second time LOL.

Sunday

Had a bowl of cereal for breakfast this morning. We are trying a new schedule for Sundays with her Invisalign aligners.

We had to change the time of driving to church, we arrived too early.

We watched “Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery” which is the second film in a long series of movies on the Hallmark Channel.

We spent the evening working on planning our meals for next week. Once the meals are chosen, we build a grocery list for Tuesday’s run to Wally World.