Despite the intentions expressed toward the end of yesterday's post, I never got an early evening nap. My wife showed up, and was to be home for the night.
As a result of having to sit up with my brother to operate our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box, he and I were to watch the final two episodes of the final (third) season of Fortitude.
It was certainly a very arresting series, but I am so damned sick of the useless endings that so many series seem to have ─ that is, too much is left unfinished or unexplained.
One unexplained detail that I considered to be very crucial involved this simple statement from Wikipedia's description of the episode:
The police arrive at the cabin to find Natalie vomiting the larvae into Dan’s body, but are able to prevent her from being shot by Petra.
For anyone who is unfamiliar with the series, Natalie was no longer entirely human, and would become progressively less and less so until she would perform psychopathic homicidal acts.
Petra was a policewoman, and had made the attempt to blow Natalie away when the police burst in on Natalie holding a meat cleaver and sitting astride former police chief Dan while she was puking out larvae into his cleaved-open stomach.
Dan himself was the sort of infected monster that Natalie would become in time if she survived the infection.
So the police burst onto this gross scene, and at the sudden interruption, infected Natalie rose and basically ran off as far as I could tell.
And that was that ─ there was no explanation of what was to befall.
But at least evil Dan seemed to have finally met his finish ─ there was considerable gratification in that. And it was likely why my brother didn't bitch over the finale's open ends.
My brother and I watched T.V. into the midnight hour; and when I was set to go to bed, my wife appropriated four cans of my strong (8% alcohol) beer and said that she was going to remain up for awhile yet.
I remember when she finally came to bed, so I was awake then. I could smell the beer as she breathed. And today, I saw three of the empties mixed in with those of my brother and I.
If the poor thing actually drank all four of the beers, it would be equivalent to drinking a little more than six cans of beer with an alcoholic strength of 5%.
That would adversely affect me ─ I try to draw the line at two cans of the strong beer over any one sitting.
Anyway, I slept fairly well overnight until around 4:30 a.m., and then thereafter my sleep was difficult. In fact, I even felt unwell ─ as if I was experiencing hangover symptoms, yet I had only consumed one can of beer.
I think that I was finally up for the morning ahead of 8:00 a.m., but the work I had hoped to get done for the new post that I laid the foundation of yesterday at one of my six hosted websites, never got begun. Instead, I became preoccupied with a problem at a different website that Google Search Console had E-mailed me about.
My brother rose an hour or so after I did; and at 10:00 a.m. I joined him downstairs to use our Android TV Box to locate a source for a movie that we then watched ─ 2017's Blade Runner 2049.
The movie was more than 2½ hours commercial-free, and since I never actually started it until well past 10:00 a.m. due to watching some news, it was 1:00 p.m. by the time it was all over with.
I had no desire to keep watching more T.V. with my brother, so while he took a bathroom break, I shut down the Android TV Box and left the T.V. on the news channel.
My wife was up by this time, and involved in some cooking. Regardless, without a word to anyone, I returned to my bed fully clothed and sought a needed nap.
I felt better afterwards. And by then, my brother was gone ─ without his van. That leads me to believe that he went off to likely do some drinking, so I am expecting to finally be able to get to bed early for a change ─ I have sat up late on too many successive evenings, thanks to my brother staying home due to COVID-19 shutdowns of the bars he frequents.
Returning to that movie, however, I want to say that even though it was quite interesting, it was difficult to follow. And as my brother also complained, it was too darkly filmed, making it difficult to see what was on the screen. Maybe all would have been well on a movie theatre screen, but that tends not to be so for a T.V. screen during the late morning.
Sure, it was overcast and lightly raining outside, but our T.V. is located immediately adjacent to the living room window.
My final complaint is for the very loud mood music and sound effects ─ this is, alas, an accepted feature of movies, isn't it?
I suppose that I should also say that I thought the ending was ridiculously and anticlimactically disappointing. Apart from the central character dying from his injuries, nothing else was final. There was no true ending.
Hey, it's already after 7:30 p.m., so I must get this post over with and published if I have any hope of getting to bed early this evening.
My wife apparently had to work at the Thai restaurant that employs her ─ she must have had to start at 4:30 p.m. when the place reopens following its daily 3:00 p.m. closure.
Since due to COVID-19 legislated restrictions on public gatherings, the restaurant's limited business now relies upon mostly take out and delivery orders, and consequently my wife does not work much at all now. The restaurant does accept customers, but they have to make reservations so that the restaurant can control how many people are inside.
Or maybe even that feature is no longer 'on the table' ─ it's difficult to keep track of just how far-reaching the constant new governmental health mandates are these days.
Anyway, no one I know has yet fallen ill with the virus. I hope that is so for you as well.
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