Siam Longings Unfulfilled: A Gloomy Friday Spent Indoors Here in Surrey, B.C.

My younger brother retained consciousness last evening, so I sat up late into the midnight hour operating our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box for our television entertainment.

My wife ─ who had worked the long day at her friend's Thai restaurant ─ was not yet home when I went to bed. I had consumed two of the strong (8% alcohol) cans of beer that I keep in stock, resisting the urge to drink more.

After getting to sleep, my next true awareness was of my wife coming to bed. By that time, I was beginning to suffer some dehydration and had entered into a bit of a hangover.

Once she was into bed and the bedside lamp turned off, I peeked from beneath my blindfold at the time: 4:25 a.m. I had no idea if she had come home quite some while earlier and was only just getting to bed; or if she had only recently gotten home after partying or whatever else she had been up to.

Such is my marriage.

It was no longer possible for me to return to sleep ─ the hangover sensation was too uncomfortable, and I needed water. I think that I waited until around 5:00 a.m. before getting up, trying to ensure that my wife had gotten to sleep. She would have to rise around 10:00 a.m. to ready herself for her drive to work and her 11:00 a.m. start at the restaurant.

I wanted to get to work setting up a new post at one of my six hosted websites, but my computer had lost power. The power cord does not connect securely to the modem ─ there is only one very limited position for the cord insert to maintain the power connection. Any jostling or jarring of the cord or the computer will breach that weak connection, and the power will fail.

Unfortunately, it always takes several tries to get the connection reestablished ─ in other words, my computer is subjected to several power surges and disconnects before I am finally able to get the power cord to settle in place and maintain the power flow into my computer.

I know that this is a damaging situation, but there is nothing else I can do.

I never had time to do any work on a new post, for I needed to be back in bed before my eldest stepson rose around 6:00 a.m. to ready himself for his drive to work. If he rose and was aware that I was up, he would be unlikely to lock the front door when he left.

However, he might take 45 minutes before he actually left for work, and I did not wish to be forced to keep sitting up that much longer. This is why I feel it necessary to get back to bed before he rises.

Nevertheless, there was one thing that I needed to do before going back to bed ─ my day's allotted six-minute plank.

As might be imagined, I was hardly enthusiastic about it, but I got it done. I even ran five or so seconds over the six-minute mark to ensure that I had comfortably endured the full six minutes.

After getting back to bed, I eventually found some further sleep. And then a little before 9:00 a.m. I rose for the morning.

I did go and alert my wife at 10:00 a.m., but she seemed to have apparently set her cellphone's alarm for 10:10 a.m., from what I could understand from her.

And so she remained in bed those further 10 or so minutes, but I am sure that I had ruined any decent extra sleep that she might have benefitted from.

When she had risen and freshened up, she definitely looked ill-slept when she left here. But I do not expect her back again until probably Sunday afternoon or evening ─ she tends to spend her weekends in Vancouver.

Such is my sorry marriage.

It's been an overcast day, and there had been some light rain either during the night or else early in the morning ─ or both. I heard a weather report on the radio that claimed showers were likely to be happening at some point both tomorrow and Sunday.

I'm already paling up due to a lack of any backyard sunning.

From just after 10:00 a.m. my younger brother and I watched some T.V. (via the Android TV Box) until just after 1:00 p.m., and then he sought some bedrest before taking off for the afternoon to end up drinking somewhere.

While he was resting up, I had some exercise with my 43½-pound dumbbell, and then I fixed up my day's first meal. I needed a nap after eating, but by then my brother had risen and gone.

Right now it is almost 6:30 p.m. ─ I would like to do some work on the foundation of that new website post so that I can start adding content into it tomorrow.

Therefore, I am going to bring this post to a close, but I will do so with some further photos that were taken in early June 2018 when my wife was in Rome to visit a sister of hers who has made that country her second home.

The metadata in these photos indicates that they were taken on June 7 (2018), but my wife's digital camera did not have its date setting adjusted for the trip. The setting may not even have been adjusted since our time change earlier in the year when our time sprang ahead an hour here in the Pacific Time Zone.

So June 7 of 2018 will be a best approximation of when she took these photos: