Due to my disposition when I composed yesterday's blog post, I neglected to mention having watched a rather good movie late that morning with my younger brother via our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box.
The movie was 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes.
It was undeniably interesting, although I had to wonder if the original film had subtitles to explain what was being communicated through the ape's sign language, for there was so much of it. Hardly any apes could articulate actual words ─ evidently it was a very rare ability.
Also, in the sequence toward the conclusion when the huge tribe of apes that the movie was concerned with were in a P.O.W.-like prison, and were finally about to effect an escape, I had to express to my brother that it was practically like watching a foreign (that is, non-English) movie about a World War II P.O.W. escape from a German stalag.
Without subtitles to explain what the apes' signage meant throughout, I might as well have been watching a Polish or Russian or Finnish movie about such an escape ─ all I could do was follow the action, not having any understanding whatsoever of what was being communicated.
If the original movie did not have such subtitling, then I consider that a flaw of omission.
What annoys me about the majority of sources for foreign movies and T.V. shows that are located through streaming 'apps' is that those sources almost always fail to include the original productions' subtitles.
Sure, our Android TV Box has a facility allowing us to choose to watch a movie or T.V. show with subtitling added, but all too often the subtitles are dreadfully out of sync. My brother and I have experienced instances of this that were off by a minute or more, and that makes watching the movie far too unpleasant. We usually just shut it down and find something else to watch.
Also, Netflix Canada has ridiculously poor-quality subtitles, by my estimation. The print is far too small, and no effort is made to have the print in a colour suited to contrast with the feature's background. For example, Lilyhammer. Not only are the subtitles pathetically tiny; but the T.V. series mostly involves scenes outdoors in snow which renders the pathetically tiny subtitles virtually invisible.
Why such shoddy craftsmanship for Netflix's viewers?
Anyway, as I said at the start of this post, yesterday found me in a poor mood, so it was good to be able to have an early evening of things ─ I was probably to bed by 9:20 p.m. at latest, for my younger brother was not yet home from wherever he had gone to drink.
We've been benefitting from a string of quite sunny days, but as yet I have not deigned to try sitting outside in our backyard to attempt to gain some colouring to my face and shaven head. I got today's scheduled backyard shed exercising out of the way before my brother emerged from his bedroom this morning, for I had an eye toward making today my first attempt at such sunning.
Alas, when I went out back early in the afternoon, it was just too chilly without a coat or at least a good jacket, and all I had my torso covered with were a long-sleeved shirt over a tee-shirt.
Had I worn a coat or good jacket, I might have given it a shot. However, I had also intended to sit out there barefooted in order to enjoy some earthing (grounding), and the chilly breeze that kept kicking up made the thought too untenable or uncomfortable for me to actually care to practice.
So I have not yet had that first day of any exposure to the Sun.
You might argue that I could simply go for a walk, but I cannot do that for no reason ─ i.e. without the need to discharge an errand. I only have traffic-heavy streets and miles and miles of homes and other buildings all around me that keep me a virtual prisoner of my own home. There is no such thing as walking for pleasure or recreation ─ there is naught but stress out there for me.
I do not drive, so this 'house arrest' of mine is complete.
I have never felt comfortable in the public.
Well, my wife arrived home this afternoon no later than 3:17 p.m. after leaving us around 7:30 p.m. two days before, so it appears that she will be home for some while.
She normally spends her weekends somewhere in Vancouver (such is my sorry marriage), and only comes here to sleep during the week because we live so very much closer to the restaurant that employs her. However, she became part-time a couple or more weeks ago due to ongoing pain in one of her arms; and now that COVID-19 panicking has forced the restaurant to close its door to all but customers who have made reservations, the restaurant needs her even less.
I've been able to work on this post because she has been outside vacuuming and otherwise cleaning her car.
When she first arrived home, I was early into work involving trying to get my six hosted websites and this blog recognized (verified) by the Google Search Console, but that is proving complex enough without my wife intruding for one reason or another while I work.
As a result, I abandoned the project and decided that I had best create a post for today while I was able. And since it is now 4:43 p.m., I dare not spend more time with it ─ my wife will soon enough be back into the house, and I won't have the liberty to focus here any longer.
By the way ─ Sporing has arrived! I wasn't expecting it for maybe a couple of more days.
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