Siam Longings Unfulfilled: Still Planking!

I haven't too much to speak about.

We've been getting lots of cloudy weather, so I haven't been taking much Sun. Also, I have been getting to bed quite early in the evenings as a result of my younger brother passing out soon after he's home from wherever he's been drinking.

I won't brook his company once he lapses into unconsciousness when I'm trying to entertain us in the evening by using our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box to tune in episodes of the T.V. shows we follow.

I'm the only one who knows how to operate the thing, so after I abandon him and he subsequently revives, he has no choice but to settle for the weak entertainment he can find through the channels we receive through our basic cable package.

Since I haven't been sitting up late operating the Android TV Box, I have not been enjoying a can or two of beer, either. I try to drink only when I am enjoying some evening T.V., so I have had a several-day drought.

For me, getting to bed fairly early means that I will be up early in the a.m. ─ usually before 2:00 a.m. The impetus is the content assignment ahead of me for whatever post I have in production at one of my six hosted websites.

It is nothing for me to remain up for three or even four hours.

And when I am up very early like that, I will take a break to perform a plank. This early a.m. ─ just as was the case yesterday ─ my plank was just over 10 minutes in duration.

As I believe was mentioned in my previous post, through a fluke a few days back, I actually held out and planked for 11 minutes.

I do not keep checking my cellphone's stopwatch (I have erroneously been identifying the application I use as being the timer), for it becomes too aggravating watching the time slowly trickle by.

Instead, I slow-count to 500. Since 480 seconds are eight minutes, I know that once I reach a slow-count of 500, I am going to have exceeded eight minutes.

Thus, the slower I count, the better ─ I will have advanced even farther beyond the eight minutes.

And that was how I fluked out and actually was able to plank for 11 minutes ─ I think the stopwatch read something like 10 minutes and 40 seconds by the time I had logged back into my cellphone while maintaining the plank.

There was no way I was going to quit there! And so I held on until I hit the 11-minute mark.

But I haven't been able to count quite as slowly as that since then. Still, 10-minute planks are commendable enough, are they not?

I also mentioned in my previous post that our household had been without Internet service for over two full days ─ that put me far behind in my work on the website post that I am currently compiling material into.

However, both yesterday and today I have managed to supply the equivalent of 1½ days' worth of content, so I am now only one day behind as a result of that absence of Internet service.

My website posts typically take more than two weeks to finish.

It is nearing 7:00 p.m. as I type these words. Last Saturday evening, my brother showed up with his girlfriend Bev to watch some T.V. with us and have some drinks, and then spend the night.

Will the same thing happen this evening? I do not know. Nevertheless, I want to be done with this post, just in case.

It has been quite some while since I presented any of the photos that my wife took last year when she visited a sister of hers who has basically made Italy her home (the sisters are Thai).

Here are five of those photos ─ the first three are selfies by my wife. The setting is somewhere in Rome.

Unfortunately, her digital camera's date setting had not been adjusted for the holiday, and may not even have been adjusted to account for the time change we experienced locally earlier that year here in the Pacific Time Zone where we live.

Thus, the June 7 (2018) date recorded in the images' metadata is not accurate, and can only be used as an approximation of the date when the photos were taken.