My younger brother seems to be effectively alternating the evenings I am able to get to bed early, and it's becoming distinctly annoying to me. He foiled me last evening by arriving home from the bar considerably ahead of the 9:00 p.m. cutoff that I have for him (which he knows nothing about).
To better encourage his hold onto consciousness, I selected a movie for us to watch via our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box ─ the 2017 feature Kingsman: The Golden Circle. We had watched the prequel just ahead of the weekend, and found this more recent venture to be just as interesting ─ if utterly far-fetched.
It was a nice surprise to see familiar actor Pedro Pascal in the movie ─ we didn't know the actor's name, but we well recognized him from the T.V. series Narcos that we watched in its entirety. And I see that he also acted in Game of Thrones. However, my brother and I have not progressed far enough into the series yet to where his character is introduced.
The movie served its purpose, helping my brother weather that initial period after he first arrives home and is most likely to pass out ─ which he generally does if I only play episodes of any of the T.V. series we follow.
My wife arrived home very late in the evening following her long day working at her friend's Thai restaurant. She was still up after my brother called it a night well into the midnight hour. And when I went to bed just barely ahead of 1:00 a.m., she was downstairs at the dining table immersed into videos on her cellphone ─ she was probably involved in her Facebook account.
I considered alerting her when I was bed bound, but I decided not to interrupt her. It would have been our first converation since she had arrived home and exchanged general greetings with my brother and I.
I cannot now recall if I was still awake when finally she came to bed, but I think I may have been. I had left a bottle of melatonin tablets by her side of the bed for her to help herself to if she found her inaugural sampling of the hormone to be of any benefit the night previous.
I did my best to remain abed for as long as I felt myself able to sleep, but I was having too many extended periods of wakefulness before it was yet 8:00 a.m., so I rose to get to work and lay the foundation of a new post at one of my six hosted websites.
My brother rose within the next half hour.
My poor wife didn't rise until shortly after 10:00 a.m. And even after she showered, she still looked very poorly slept when she left us to tackle her drive to work and her 11:00 a.m. start there.
It had rained a lot overnight and into the morning, but eventually the day was to have some sunshine.
As usual, I sat with my brother from about 10:00 a.m. until late into the noon hour when he decided that it was time for him to seek some bed rest to fortify him for his afternoon departure to go drinking. I also sought a nap; but despite falling asleep, I was awake again not an hour after having gotten into bed. Nevertheless, it was very difficult to rally myself to emerge from it.
My brother was by then also up from his bed; and around 2:20 p.m. he set off to catch a bus. His plan today was to hook up with his friend Greg in Langley. What this should mean for me is that my brother will not be home by his mid-evening cutoff, and thus I will be able to get to bed early.
Maybe I will even manage to get out in the wee a.m. hours to have some exercise ─ a small walk to the elementary school not a half mile from here where I sometimes do some sets of pull-ups on the gymnastics-style rings in that school's playground.
Google Photos has again notified me of its creation of a collage from some photos that I have in one of my Google Photos albums. Just as was the case yesterday, the photos that were selected were from the excursion to Bali my wife treated five members of her Thailand family to during an early 2018 trip she had made to see her mother at the family home village.
My wife's two sons even rendezvoused with everyone over there in Bali.
This is the latest Bali collage:
As far as I can tell, the first image in both columns is the identical photo, but I have not before noticed Google Photos double up like that.
The setting in the background is Pura Tanah Lot (Tanah Lot Temple), and here are the original photos used in that collage:
My wife is the solitary figure lounging in the Sun ─ probably at poolside wherever it was that they were staying.
Her youngest son isn't in any of the photos, but that's her eldest son in the tank top. The middle-aged couple are my wife's sister and the sister's husband; and the young lass is the daughter-in-law of the couple.
I came across a YouTube video of the temple ─ you can locate the video here if the link remains valid, and if you have any interest. The video is under four minutes in duration, I believe.
I came across a YouTube video of the temple ─ you can locate the video here if the link remains valid, and if you have any interest. The video is under four minutes in duration, I believe.
I haven't aught else I feel like talking about, so I am going to shut down here.
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