Giving up My Early Evening to a Webinar

As a partial result of creating a post in my private blog this afternoon, I find myself limited now for time on this post.

But let's begin with last evening. The day was my younger brother's birthday, so I was not expecting him home at all early. Thus, when he showed up at 8:15 p.m., I was definitely surprised.

It turned out that due to how much drink he was being provided wherever it was that he was imbibing, he had to bow out early because it was having a toll.

That became obvious when he passed out just a few minutes ─ not even five ─ into the very first show I summoned up through our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box.

So I left him alone in the living room, and I even eventually turned off the T.V. He instead was left with the stereo softly playing for his company.

I was to bed fairly soon after 9:30 p.m.

I never know when my wife may show up after her long working day at her friend's Thai restaurant. This often impairs my ability to relax enough to easily find sleep.

At some point I became aware that she had come into the bedroom (I was wearing a blindfold and even a pair of earplugs). She left the bedside lamp on, and went back downstairs.

Perhaps I drifted in and out of some sleep. At any rate, I think that it may have been around 12:25 a.m. when I checked the time and decided to get up and start work on the day's content assignment at the new post I have underway at one of my six hosted websites.

My wife was downstairs talking extremely loudly to a family member in Thai ─ it was a long-distance call, of course. I don't know who placed the call, but there are now cellphone apps enough that such calls can be made for free.

My wife's youngest son was still up, and eventually I heard my wife bid him a good-night. Of course, when she came upstairs, she realized that I was no longer in bed ─ I keep my computer in a small room next to our bedroom.

And soon enough, to bed she went. She doesn't begin her day's work at the restaurant until 11:00 a.m., but my wife is as troubled a sleeper in her own way as am I.

It was lightly raining outside ─ a light rain that first began in the evening well before it was yet dark. I think that it probably lightly rained the night through and well into the morning.

My website work was to keep me from returning to bed until well after 5:00 a.m. And as usual by then, I had dispensed with my day's daily plank ─ I am presently doing a six-minute plank each day, but I try to extend the duration a further 15 seconds in order to feel comfortable about having managed to last the full six minutes.

This morning I felt that I could have lasted to 6½ minutes as easily as the six minutes and 15 seconds, but I saw no reason to. I expect that I will get there eventually (and soon enough).

I of course managed a little more sleep; and then just ahead of 9:00 a.m., I got up for the morning. My brother had not yet emerged from his bedroom, but he was showering.

Not 15 minutes after I had risen, my wife emerged from our bedroom and went downstairs, and was soon busily involved in preparing a dish to leave for the rest of us (since she would not be home to do so later).

Then as she did yesterday, she left on her drive for work shortly after 10:00 a.m. ─ in other words, at least a half hour earlier than has been her past norm. 

I had intended to sit with my brother in the living room and operate our Android TV Box (which he does not understand the use of); but just as he had yesterday morning, he had the sliding glass door to our backyard sundeck open, and the living room ceiling fan blowing down uncomfortably chill air.

I left him alone yesterday morning instead of spending the usual 2½ to three hours with him fetching up episodes of the T.V. series we follow, and I was prepared to do so again.

I refuse to be uncomfortable with the cool breeze from that fan any longer when the day is overcast or even raining like it was this morning. It's unfortunate that he's growing obese and cannot moderate his body temperature very easily, but I am not going to feel chilled for his benefit.

Well, this morning ─ just before I was about to return to bed ─ he actually enquired why I wasn't watching T.V. with him. So I  indicated why.

He expressed that the door could be closed, and the fan turned off. And I soon enough saw that he had then taken care of both of those measures.

So I relented and joined him, sparing him from having to bear the banal fare offered through the basic cable package we subscribe to.

We watched T.V. until approximately 1:00 p.m., and then he returned to his bedroom to rest up ─ he would be heading away for the afternoon to end up drinking somewhere yet again.

I soon sought a nap myself. And when I was finished, I found that he had already gone.

I found myself feeling threatened with the onset of a headache ─ perhaps from eyestrain and inadequate sleep. I had an exercise session scheduled for today out in the backyard toolshed, but I was in no condition to deal with it without having my day's second hot caffeinated beverage.

Ultimately, it was around 5:00 p.m. before I was outside and able to handle the exercising. I even saw a couple or so sunny breaks. Yet not an hour later, there was some further light rain.

I exercised rather well, incidentally. But I do not like putting it off so late into my day.

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I took a break from working on this post ─ I had tuned in to a 6:00 p.m. webinar that dealt with surviving in a pervasive catastrophe  (or disaster or crisis), and it ran until almost 8:00 p.m. This has exhausted any further blogging time for me today.

I was unsure all day that I would bother sitting in on that webinar, for I believe that it is supposed to be getting recorded and available for some limited period of time.

However, it proved to be quite absorbing from early on, so I got hooked.

Live and learn!