My wife only worked the first half of her day yesterday, but she did not return home until early in the evening.
When my younger brother was not yet home by 10:00 p.m. from wherever it was that he was drinking, I opted to go to bed and avoid him. My wife was made privy to my choice.
Donning a blindfold, I left the bedside lamp light on, for I knew that my wife would be in and out of the room.
I heard my brother come home some while later, for sleep proved very difficult.
Eventually I did drift into and out of sleep. I think that I checked the time around midnight.
Then around 1:00 a.m. after checking the time again, I decided to get up and get to work on the post I had every intention of finally publishing at one of my six hosted websites ─ I had been working on the post for over 15 days.
My youngest stepson was still up, but things downstairs seemed oddly quiet. Occasionally I would hear someone in the kitchen, but never did I hear conversation. I began wondering if maybe my wife had fallen asleep on the living room chesterfield, or maybe even in her youngest son's bed.
Eventually the truth came out ─ I heard her arriving home and unlocking the front door. She had been out...and left me in bed with the annoying bedside light on all the while.
It must have been at least 2:00 a.m. by this time.
I believe that she fixed herself something to eat, occasionally having some words with her son (the eldest lad had retired hours before, since he rises around 6:00 a.m. to ready for his workday).
Then she came upstairs to begin readying for bed, passing right by the small room where I keep my computer ─ a small room immediately next to our bedroom ─ without saying a word to me.
And so she retired.
It was 5:30 a.m. before I finally returned to bed.
But in that while I got the post published at my website Amatsu Okiya: Geisha Neck Ⅱ. I also performed a six-minute plank.
Evidently I am making six-minute planks my daily target now ─ a jump from my daily 5½-minute planks that has been rather prematurely adopted, for the added duration is abominably difficult to bear.
Without any doubt, I will not be increasing my daily planks beyond six minutes for a long while into the future.
Upon returning to bed, sleep was extremely difficult to find, but at least I was comfortable back in bed. What sleep I was to get was intermittent; and it was just after 9:00 a.m. when I checked the time and rose for the morning.
My brother was downstairs watching T.V., but I did not venture downstairs to join him until after 9:50 a.m.
My wife normally rises around 10:00 a.m. to begin readying for work ─ she has an 11:00 a.m. start at her friend's Thai restaurant, and a fair drive to get there. However, she was still shut up in the bedroom at that point in time (i.e., 10:00 a.m.).
I went upstairs to rouse her, and was met with nearly incomprehensibly mumbled communication ─ the gist seemed to be that she wanted some further time in bed.
I returned downstairs; and then at 10:11 a.m., I again went upstairs to rouse her.
That seemed to do the trick.
She soon enough rose and prepared herself; and then shortly after 10:30 a.m. was on her way.
I watched some shows with my brother ─ I have to operate our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box, for he doesn't understand how. We watched an episode each of The Graham Norton Show; The Expanse; Deadwood; and The IT Crowd.
With the noon-hour at an end, my brother resorted to his bedroom to rest up ere taking off for the afternoon and ultimately further drinking.
I went out to the backyard toolshed for the day's scheduled exercising out there.
Afterward, I was not yet quite hungry enough for my day's first meal, so I bided time enough that my brother finished resting and took his leave ere I had eaten.
When finally I did eat, I then had to seek my own bedrest.
The first half of the day was overcast, but the afternoon became quite sunny. Did I not have a pair of blog posts to create, I could likely have done some sunning out in the backyard.
I want to bring this post to a close, for my evening has already begun. First, though, I want to reproduce the contents of an E-amil that I forwarded early this a.m. to over 30 people in my address book.
I headed the E-mail with U.K. Deems a Music Commercial to Be Too Scary.
A music streaming service called Spotify found its commercial banned in the U.K. last December 2018 ─ banned from both T.V. and even YouTube.The U.K.'s Standards Advertising Authority judged that the ad was “unduly distressing” and should not be viewed by children...but even some adults have trouble viewing it.The ad features Camila Cabello’s hit “Havana.”Can you handle it?
I expected at least one recipient would have responded, but not a soul did.
I conclude with a few further photos that my wife took in June of last year when she was in Rome visiting a sister of hers who has made that country her second home.
The digital camera's date setting was never adjusted for the trip, so the camera's metadata record of June 7 (2018) as the date the photos were taken can only be a very good approximation:
I must stop here for today.
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