I intended to catch a nap early last evening, but sleep just would not arrive. And so it was that I ended sitting up well into the midnight operating our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box so that my brother and I could watch episodes of the T.V. series we follow.
We finished up with one series, but the final episode was truncated and I could not find any other source for it. The series was The Wrong Mans.
The only source I could locate for the episode was at Dailymotion ─ I have a Dailymotion 'app' downloaded into our Android TV Box. But why in blazes wouldn't the uploader have supplied the entire episode? This negligence can be quite infuriating.
The episode ended right after a Russian was explaining to one of the two main characters why he was going to kill him; and when the Brit defensively attempted to argue his way out of the mix-up, the Russian then sarcastically asks if the Brit is trying to claim that he (the Russian, yclept Dimitri) has "the wrong mans"?
And so the title of the series.
Apparently there was quite a lot yet to the episode, but my brother and I will never get to see it.
It was around 1:00 a.m. when I was into my bed, wondering if it was going to be possible for me to rise early enough to get away and do some grocery shopping ─ I am becoming extremely annoyed with having to sit up late with my progressively drunken younger brother night after night operating our Android TV Box because he is unable to.
I think from this time forth I am going to have to let him know up front that I no longer intend to do this. I'll watch whatever episode we have on until we reach or surpass 10:00 p.m., but that's going to be it for me each evening. No more of these midnight hour ordeals that often don't see me making it to bed until 1:00 a.m. or later. There's no way that I can rise extremely early in the a.m. and achieve anything.
I managed to get up this morning at 4:30 a.m., and didn't feel too poorly rested. But by 6:00 a.m. as I was readying for my outing to shop about a mile from here, I lost my determination. Part of the reason for that was that I really did not require anything. Sunday just happens to be the quietest early morning of the week, and so I hated to waste it.
I don't drive, so I either walk or remain home.
Nevertheless, I did get out for a short walk that probably exceeded a mile as a round trip.
Once I was back home, I put in some work on the post I am developing at one of my six hosted websites; and then maybe around 8:30 a.m., I returned to bed.
I was probably up again by 10:00 a.m. or soon after.
I attempted a nap in the early afternoon, but my mind proved too active.
The day has been a blend of Sun and cloud, but there has been a relentless, unpleasantly chilly breeze that made sitting outside too unpalatable for my tastes. However, I think things are due to warm up in the workweek.
My brother went off in his van in the early afternoon for a couple or so hours, but he was back by 4:44 p.m. and soon had the T.V. on and his first can of beer cracked open and poured into a beer mug.
It is now better than two hours later since his homecoming, and I am sure he's since then had a few beers. I am torn as to what I ought to do. I would like to have a good nap, but that would spoil the hope of getting into an easy sleep if I retired reasonably soon after 10:00 p.m.
Maybe I will just lie down for awhile, resting my burning eyes. And then when I do join my brother, I will let him know that I will only be sitting up to watch a couple of our shows, and maybe a sitcom.
Before I take my leave, though, I want to post this old photo from 1963 that depicts my older maternal half-sister Phyllis that I came across today on the website of the City of Vancouver Archives:
I also located something under five seconds of her in a 3½-minute silent parade video that was also filmed in 1963 ─ she's the blonde featured approximately between 1:03 to 1:08 of the video: 1963 Salmon Queen Festival Parade.
You have to be alert to recognize and focus enough to catch her very short appearance.
Okay, it's already after 7:30 p.m. ─ I must stop.
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