Last evening was my fifth consecutive evening without one of my cans of strong (8% alcohol) beer that I keep in supply.
I only have one of my beers while watching some late-evening T.V.
Saturday evening was by my choice not to have a beer, but the other four evenings ─ last evening included, of course ─ were because my younger brother managed to drink himself insensible, and I will not sit in the same room with that or any passed-out drunkard.
He had made himself even more odious by reacting malevolently when he came into the house from wherever he had been drinking and learned just what series it was that I had on T.V.
He has done this before ─ dictate that I am not to be watching shows he does not like, unless I do so in the afternoon after he has left to go off and engage his drinking.
Pompous, arrogant, besotted wretch.
He had generated such fury within me that I have come damned near to unleashing the most serious violence upon his sneering, distorted countenance.
An irreparable rift is coming ─ I will not have that malignant presence in my life, yet my younger brother seems determined that the foul sot he becomes is a persona he strives to bring to life as soon as he can every afternoon.
Anyway, after he sat down in his favourite living room chair and passed out after a few minutes, I cancelled out of the show I had on, and turned the T.V. over to the news channel we receive through our basic cable package ─ I had been watching my show via our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box, something my shallow-brained younger brother cannot fathom the operation of.
I came upstairs here to my computer to pass some time, for it was not yet 9:00 p.m. ─ a mite too early to be getting to bed.
I was to eventually get around to signing in to my Facebook account to see if my wife had posted any new photos in her account ─ she is presently over in Thailand visiting her mother. And upon doing so, I found that she had apparently attempted a video chat with me an hour or more earlier.
I apologized via a text, and explained that I had been downstairs watching T.V. And I further stated that I was about to go to bed, early though it was ─ I was to be in bed shortly before 10:00 p.m.
Over in Thailand, it would have been noon tomorrow by then.
Earlier yesterday she posted four video clips that she took. I downloaded them, thinking to use them to upload at YouTube. However, the quality was abominable.
The detailing was blurred and bleeding and indistinct ─ often everything would visually melt. For instance, she was walking through a wooded setting and trying to capture leaves and fruits and blooms, but the effort was an utter waste ─ everything was so atrociously dissolved.
And not only that ─ often the video would just stop recording, even though the timer was still running up. She had videos of four or five or even nine minutes that had just such dead spots that could last as much as a minute or more at a stretch before the video and sound would kick-start again ─ yet the video timer had kept running as if video and sound were being recorded.
I have never seen anything like that before.
What is so baffling is that she is using an iPhone X ─ Apple ought to be ashamed.
When or if she and I do get to video chat, I will have to remember to try and explain to her that what video she is posting to Facebook is nearly useless to those of us who might want to watch it.
My night was a typical one. I had shut down my computer before going to bed, so late into the midnight hour when I first found myself awake, I rose just to turn it on and log back into it in order for it to be ready for later use.
By 2:21 a.m. after another short stretch of sleep, I was back up and soon at work discharging the day's content assignment for the post I am constructing at one of my six hosted websites.
My youngest stepson was still up, and did not get to bed for a couple or so hours thereafter.
My own return to bed was just ahead of 6:00 a.m. ─ I wanted to get back to bed before my eldest stepson rose around that hour to begin readying for his workday.
I succeeded, but I needn't have fretted about it ─ he never bothered getting up and going to work today. In fact, he never bothered showing his face from his sleeping area until around noon.
We had some rain overnight, but none after daybreak. The Sun began to display by midday, and over the afternoon predominated.
My younger brother went out late in the morning to get a haircut, so I took the opportunity to go out to the backyard tool-shed for an exercise session.
After he was back, he soon enough sought some bedrest ere his usual ritual of taking off for the afternoon to eventually hook up with whomever he was going to be drinking with.
I had myself a breakfast before I sought my own afternoon nap.
And that essentially encapsulates my day thus far as I type these words at 5:32 p.m.
I could add that I managed to sit out in the backyard in a lawn- or deck-chair for just over 40 minutes to face into the Sun while I slouched low.
I was barefooted, but I wore jeans and a doubled tee-shirt ─ i.e., I had a sleeveless top pulled over the tee-shirt.
There was a steady enough breeze that would have been too cool to bear if I had been in cut-offs and topless.
That sunning session commenced at 3:45 p.m.
The meal I earlier ate did not contain as much animal-sourced protein as I wanted ─ all I had in that context was a good chunk of old cheddar cheese.
And I don't believe that my evening meal is going to be any better (I tend to just eat twice a day).
Bodybuilders aside, research is supposedly bearing out that older people actually require more complete protein than they did when they were younger adults.
I'm 69 years old, so I cannot but reckon that this should also apply to me. Thus, today will be a fail.
How people are supposed to get optimal amounts of complete protein while meantime reducing their meat intake as is commonly recommended ─ or by even becoming vegetarians ─ is really quite bewildering.
This article makes so very much sense to me:
DrMicozzi.com
And so do these next two articles that talk of the adequate protein predicament faced by older adults:
JacksDailyDose.com
KHN.org
And lastly, let us not overlook those essential animal fatty acids ─ especially those found in marine fish oils:
LifeSpa.com
I suppose one 'off' day where protein intake is involved isn't much to be concerned about ─ I will just have to be more assiduous regarding tomorrow.
I want to close this post with further photos that were taken last year on February 25 ─ the day a niece of my wife got married.
I suspect that the photos were taken in the city of Udon Thani.
I am only able to identify who the bride and groom are ─ they are central in the first three of these four photos. I don't recognize anyone else ─ I have not been to Thailand since I married my wife there in 2005:
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