On Thursday, my wife invited me to go out with her and her two sons when the three had a meal together early Friday evening in celebration of the youngest lad's upcoming 22nd birthday that will arrive during the coming week.
Normally I only learn of these family meal outings of theirs on the same day that they occur ─ I need more notice than that. Apart from not much liking eating out, I tend not to have a large appetite; and so it is that if I have already had a midday or early afternoon meal, I will not have a desire for a feed later on at a restaurant. As a result, I almost always decline and do not go with them.
I had thought that the three had plans to have the meal at the Thai restaurant where my wife works ─ it is quite a distance from where we live. However, it was only once we had actually parked in nearby downtown Whalley that I realized that their plans had changed ─ we were going to be eating at Sushi King George (Google map), a restaurant I had not been to before.
Happily, the spread of diverse fare that the three ordered to share amongst the four of us spared me from being forced to overeat ─ the obligation to overeat is something else that I do not like about eating out. And I was even bought a 16-ounce Sapporo beer, since my eldest stepson was going to have one.
I had brought my Canon PowerShot SD880 IS digital camera ─ the following four photos shot right around 8:00 p.m. were taken at our table in the restaurant.
This is the birthday boy and his mother:
Now here is a shot of the older 25-year-old lad joining them:
I was not to be left out, so these two photos of the older lad and me were also taken:
More photos were taken after the meal while we were standing outside of the restaurant just after 8:30 p.m. ─ this time, my iPhone 5 was used, and the birthday boy was the photographer:
Other photos were taken, but these are the only ones taken with my camera devices.
When we got back home, my younger brother was here from wherever he had been drinking, so I soon enough dutifully started operating our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box to fetch up episodes of some of the T.V. series we follow.
To my annoyance, during the very first episode (of the series Iron Fist), several times he fell into unconsciousness. I intended to cancel the episode and turn off the Android TV Box, thereby leaving him with basic cable for his entertainment; but every time I began dropping the volume as the first step toward that end, he would revive.
It was damned frustrating.
And ultimately, these lapses of his into unconsciousness were sufficient to afford him a 'second wind' ─ and my opportunity was lost, for he then remained conscious for the entire evening.
My wife had sought a nap just before I began watching T.V. with my brother; and then before too very long, she came downstairs and fussed about in the kitchen for a time. Finally, perhaps around 10:00 p.m., she headed for the front door with a good-bye to my brother and I, and was gone for the weekend ─ she essentially spends her weekends somewhere in Vancouver (such is my sorry marriage).
At least I was spared any snarky observations voiced by my brother.
Over the evening, I was to have two cans of the strong (8% alcohol) beer that I keep in supply, and my brother and I watched T.V. until deep into the midnight hour before calling it a night.
I knew that I would not be rising early in the a.m., so I took a 3-mg tablet of melatonin to try and gain the best possible sleep. It was a vain gesture, for long before 5:00 a.m. I was starting my usual fractured sleep, and not much after 7:30 a.m. I decided to end the futility and get myself up.
Unfortunately, I felt like I had a hangover. As a result, I never did get in any exercise today. I had a nap late into the morning; and then around 2:00 p.m. I went out to the backyard tool shed to have some exercise there.
Alas, I just did not have the heart, and I returned into the house feeling...broken and disappointed with myself.
My brother had sought some bed rest just ahead of me late in the morning, but he was gone when I got back up ─ even though I was not in bed for as long as 1½ hours.
I hope he spends the evening with his girlfriend Bev and ends up sleeping overnight at her home ─ I have had my fill of these recent successive late nights of watching T.V. with him. I want to be able to rise early in the a.m. tomorrow and engage a decent pre-dawn walk.
I am starting to feel some despondence as I type these words at 4:00 p.m. ─ I think that I might as well seek another nap and allow my recent meal a chance to settle. I would like to get out in the early evening and do some local grocery shopping, but I don't have the vigour feeling as I do now.
I would also like to have some rye whisky and tune in a Christmas movie, but I dare not do so in my present state ─ I know that I would probably 'burn out' and not get away to do that shopping.
I can likely escape these blues if I have a nap and gain some overall mental / physical restoration, for I am feeling lacking ─ even just a good rest ought to serve. It bloody sucks being a lonely 70-year-old living a pointless existence.
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