With my wife away last evening, around 10:45 p.m. I left my brother on his own to watch T.V. by himself, and I was into bed by 11:00 p.m.
And even though I was to get to sleep, I do believe that it was around 1:30 a.m. when I found myself awake and curious about the time. What sleep I had gotten felt bracing, so I rose to put work into the post I am slowly building at one of my six hosted websites.
Unfortunately, as often occurs, I first checked my E-mails and got involved with them for at least 1½ hours. And by the time I had completed what work I had targetted to get done on the website post, it was well past 6:00 a.m. before my return to bed.
And approximately two hours later, I was once more awake and checking the time. It seemed futile to try for more sleep, so I rose for the morning.
My brother never rose until maybe 9:45 a.m., and by 10:00 a.m. had the T.V. on again. I soon joined him in order to put our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box into operation to watch episodes of a few of the T.V. series we follow.
The day was sunny from the start, so it was my intention to get outside at some point during the noon hour to bask in the sunshine ─ I was not going to be my brother's slave to the T.V. after 1:00 p.m. just because he is unable to operate our Android TV Box.
As my good luck would have it, one of his drinking buddies phoned him at the conclusion of the third episode of one of our shows. By then it was into the second half of the noon hour, so I shut down the Android TV Box and left him with the news channel on T.V. as he merrily chatted away to whomever had phoned him.
It was 12:50 p.m. when I commenced a little over 40 minutes of sunning, slouched low into a lawn- or deckchair with my bared feet on the ground. Initially for the first 10 or 15 minutes, the Sun was behind some haze and the temperature was cooler than I cared. But once the haze had been transitted or burned off by the Sun, I was perfectly comfortable in my long-sleeved black shirt over a tee-shirt, and my blue denims.
My face actually has some rouging from that session.
Meantime, my brother was finally enjoying some bed rest to restore him for an afternoon drive to do whatever it is that he does for a couple or so hours each afternoon now that he cannot go to any bars ─ they're all closed by law as a result of the COVID-19 scare.
I also intended a nap, but my brother emerged from his bedroom before I had done so, and he wasted scant time after that before leaving.
I don't know how long I was abed ─ possibly 1½ hours.
My brother was back home by about 4:40 p.m., and he is likely here to remain for the day. I am typing these words at 4:57 p.m. He will anon have on the T.V., and be into his first beer of the day.
I have some exercise scheduled for today that I have yet to deal with, so I want to get at it in my bedroom before too long ─ I have no idea if my wife is going to show up yet today, so I want to be finished before she potentially arrives home.
I need privacy for my exercising.
As I understand it, tomorrow is supposed to be even warmer than today, so it ought to be the warmest day thus far this year. I will not be missing out on more sunning.
Is it too much to hope that I may even find it salubrious enough to wear cutoffs and maybe even be bare-torsoed?
How I yearn to be free of debt and able to live somewhere in which I can venture forth from my home anytime I want, and have the serenity of the natural world all around me ─ not this overpopulated and overdeveloped environment that holds me prisoner here where I helplessly exist in my part of north Surrey.
I have been in essential self-isolation for years, unable to resume the long treks my younger self used to be capable of engaging. Virtually endless busy city streets, and homes and buildings for as far as I could ever walk, keep me exiled within my own home.
Is there to be no deliverance from this? I do not drive, so here I remain.
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