My younger brother seems to have relapsed into driving after he has been out doing some drinking.
Last evening as I was watching some T.V. after having just finished eating my supper, I saw his vehicle about to back into the driveway ─ he had been away since before mid-afternoon.
It was no later than 8:10 p.m., and I made the immediate resolution that I was not going to become enmeshed with him, having to sit up later than I ever would have otherwise in operation of our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box that he has no skill managing.
I shut everything down and hightailed it upstairs for one final use of the toilet, and then I hustled into my bedroom to get to bed exceptionally early. He was on his own.
It took me awhile to find any sleep, but I was never uncomfortable in bed. I would nap, awaken, then nap anew. I may have eventually checked the time around 11:30 p.m., but my brother never quits the T.V. and his drinking until at least midnight.
I did check the time at midnight, but I decided to wait awhile longer before rising to put work into the post I hope to finally have finished in another four days' time.
When next I checked the time, it was after 12:30 a.m., so I rose to get to work. My brother had gone to bed.
I was to remain up for a full four hours.
Yet even so, after getting back to bed, sleep was not easily obtained. And even when it arrived, it was temporary ─ I kept dancing in and out of it.
I pretty much had to discipline myself to remain in bed until around 8:30 a.m. before I gave up and rose. In doing so, I did not emerge from my bedroom much before my brother did his.
Of course, he went directly downstairs to watch more T.V., but I never joined him until 10:00 a.m. at which time I had two shows I wanted us to see.
The first was the series finale of The OA. I knew that the series had been cancelled without a finish to the story, but I never indicated so to my brother and thus we were to watch every episode.
He never much liked the series, and it definitely had some ridiculous, senseless episodes.
But it mystifies me how a series can end like this one did without there ever being an eventual 'wind-up' episode bringing a closure to everything, even if the finish is not what had been originally intended for a longer series.
And come on! Brad Pitt was one of the series' producers! Why not have him act in the finale if that's what it was going to take to get the backing to produce it?
This sort of inconsideration of the fans is abominable. I, for one, wanted to see main bad-guy character ─ multiple-murderer "Hap" Percy ─ meet his miserable end. But there is never to be any such resolution.
I still haven't let on to my brother that the series is over with ─ he likely thinks another season is in production. But he'll soon enough forget about it, so I shall say nothing.
The next show I tuned in was the 2010 Australian movie Animal Kingdom upon which the successful U.S. T.V. series Animal Kingdom is based.
Unfortunately, I suppose, I only learned of the movie late this past week, whereas my brother and I are roughly midway through season two of the T.V. series.
We love the T.V. series, and are deeply interested in all of its characters. As a result, the movie seemed so very weak in comparison ─ something we were not able to stop from doing.
None of the movie characters came to matter to us ─ unlike the T.V. series where there is something to like in every one of them.
We're hoping that characters who met their ends in the movie are not going to be similarly done away with. In fact, we're hoping that the general storyline of the series is going to veer off entirely from the movie ─ as it already seems to have done.
One thing struck both my brother and I ─ how the actor playing the T.V. series character Andrew "Pope" Cody deports himself almost identically to how the movie actor moved, postured himself, and even held his head.
Even his habit of looking askance at someone or something is similar.
I had thought that this deportment of character "Pope" was just a peculiarity of the series actor (Shawn Hatosy) himself ─ I did not realize that the actor was entirely stylizing himself upon how the movie actor (Ben Mendelsohn) carried himself in portraying the character.
The T.V. series is so darned good that it made the original movie look like a poor knock-off. I wish that I had known of the movie before my brother and I got involved with the T.V. series ─ we would probably have valued the movie far more than we did in watching it today.
And speaking of today, it's been a mix of Sun and cloud ─ the cloud prevailing, I think. I never bothered trying to sit out in the backyard to benefit from what sunshine there has been, but I probably would have if I did not have to create this post and the other one that I've already published in my private blog.
Also, I was abed for something over an hour early this afternoon in search of another nap. My brother was gone for the afternoon by the time I rose.
I have some exercising scheduled that I would like to get at before my brother returns, and / or before my wife potentially shows up. Consequently, I am going to bring this post to an early closure and get it published.
However, I want to post two photos that I took yesterday at 4:41 p.m.:
Those sparse tulips are the best that are likely to be offered in that small stretch of garden alongside the sidewalk leading to our front door ─ I took a photo from each end of the strip of garden.
We can't seem to get anything to grow well in that patch of garden. And as you can probably tell, even the lawn has its issues.
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