My younger brother failed to arrive home by mid-evening yesterday from wherever it was that he was drinking, so I was in bed just ahead of 9:00 p.m. I managed at least a couple of 'naps' before becoming aware that my wife was in the bathroom following her long day working at her friend's Thai restaurant, and she had left the bedroom light on ─ evidently she had already been into the bedroom without me noticing.
I wear a blindfold and earplugs so that I am not as keenly aware of my environment ─ especially once I happen to be asleep. It helps me to remain that way.
A check of the time revealed that it was not yet midnight.
I heard my wife go downstairs, so I decided to make use of the bathroom, and in doing so was not noticed by my brother who was still downstairs with the T.V. on.
Then after I returned to bed to bide time, my brother conveniently sought his own bedroom, and it still was not quite midnight. Nevertheless, I rose and dressed, and then went downstairs to consort with my wife whom had not been home since late Friday morning when she left for work.
She tends to spend her weekends somewhere in Vancouver ─ such is my marriage.
I learned from her that her youngest son and his two friends are supposed to return from their Thailand holiday sometime on February 11 ─ their flight left Vancouver International Airport extremely early into the a.m. of January 11 to start them on their adventure.
I am curious if he will volunteer access to his horde of photos? It would most certainly be a boon to me, but I will not request it.
Anyway, after spending a fair while downstairs (my wife was cooking), I came upstairs here to my computer to start researching a new post I hope to get begun tomorrow at one of my six hosted websites.
Eventually my wife was ready to finally go to bed, and I was on my own after letting her know that I would be up for some time yet. As I recall, I do not believe I made my return to bed until a little after 4:30 a.m.
During that time, my wife once rose and came downstairs to have a snack, so I broke from my work and offered her a melatonin tablet ─ she has never before tried the hormone. I hope that it yielded at least a little benefit to her.
I did my best to get as much sleep as possible into the morning, but my wife was to rise ahead of me before it was yet 9:30 a.m., so I also rose. I wasn't feeling properly slept despite the time in bed ─ too much of it comprised the interludes between short bouts of sleep.
Normally my wife does not rise until around 10:00 a.m. to begin to ready for her 11:00 a.m. start at work, but apparently this morning she had to do some shopping on behalf of the restaurant at Henlong Market (Google map). I was upstairs, and I could hear her quite clearly where she was bustling about in the kitchen with her cellphone on speaker mode ─ it must have been overpowering for my brother in the living room where he was again watching T.V., but there is very little of interest on the telly at that time of day.
And at 10:00 a.m., my wife was on her way to Henlong. By then I had fixed up my day's first hot caffeinated beverage, and I joined my brother in the living room and was soon enough invited to put the Android 8.1 TV Box into action.
I already had something in mind ─ a documentary I have occasionally (fruitlessly) sought since first learning of it last Summer. I discovered yesterday that it was now available on YouTube.
So I used the YouTube 'app' that I have downloaded into our Android TV Box, and my brother and I watched the feature Artifishal.
My brother is never too fussy when I fetch up a documentary for us to watch, but he did so uncomplainingly. And then when it was done, I tuned in an episode each of two of the T.V. series we follow.
That brought us to the end of the noon hour, and he was ready for some further bed rest before he headed off to start drinking again in the latter afternoon.
We had a fair amount of sunshine today, and the notion occurred to me that had there not been so much cloud floating about, it almost might have been worthwhile to have sat out in the backyard to soak up some of that daylight. The sunshine would have been warm enough for that, but anytime large cloud overtook the sky it would have been too unpleasant to be just sitting out there.
However, the temperatures have been very mild the past week or so, and already plants like tulips and daffodils are pushing a couple or more inches above the ground.
Now speaking of warm climes, Google Photos notified me today of its latest collage. Five photos were used in the collage, and were taken from the Google Photos album where I have the photos filed that were taken two years ago when my wife treated five of her Thailand family members to a holiday in Bali. As well, my wife's two sons both travelled there to hook up with everyone. The lads had not reunited with any of their Thai relatives since 2009.
This is the collage:
From research I have done, the location seems to be the Uluwatu area of Bali.
I have the five original photos, so here those are, beginning with the three in the left column. The first photo features my wife seated with her youngest son, while the older lad has my wife's sister ─ i .e., his aunt ─ draped onto him:
All four of them are in the next two photos, along with my wife's brother-in-law (husband of my wife's sister), and the daughter-in-law of the same sister and her husband. The photographer was my wife's nephew, so he was unable to be posing with his young wife:
However, this is him up close in the next photo, along with his wife and his two cousins (my wife's sons):
And finally, that impressive stretch of cliff with that walkway all along its edge:
Before I close this post and publish it, I just want to declare how much I am enjoying the Windows 10 free upgrade that I took advantage of yesterday, finally and reluctantly giving up Windows 7.
My old computer thus far has not been showing any complications with having this newer and 'heavier' operating system downloaded into it to share space with wherever my Windows 7 now lies buried and inaccessible to me.
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