I got to bed quite early last evening ─ I do not recall exactly when, but for some reason 9:24 p.m. has just popped into my mind. My younger brother had not yet arrived home from wherever he had bused to do his drinking.
I did not easily fall asleep. Still, perhaps I did for a short time before becoming aware that my wife had come home and entered our bedroom, turning on the bedside table lamp at her side of the bed.
I wear earplugs and a bandana blindfold.
When she exited the bedroom and shut the door, she left the light on, but that wasn't a bother for me.
Perhaps some further sleep visited me. Whatever the case, I was awake when my wife finally came to bed ─ whether it was nearly 11:30 p.m. or 12:30 a.m. now eludes me, but it was one or the other.
I was to lapse into some more sleep. And then when it was nearing 2:00 a.m. and I was again awake, I decided to rise and get to work on the post I wanted to finally complete and publish at Lawless Spirit, one of my six hosted websites.
It was to take a fair amount of work, but I got the task completed: Holistic Careers Salary Ⅱ.
I was not to return to bed until well beyond 5:00 a.m.
I drifted in and out of sleep, but remained in bed until around 8:30 a.m., by which time my brother was newly downstairs and involved with his weekly laundering. He had not yet turned on the T.V., but was soon to do so.
I remained upstairs here at my computer until the approach of 10:00 a.m., and then I went downstairs to prepare a mugful of my day's first hot caffeinated beverage. Then I joined my brother at the T.V.
For two or three days this week, I have unsuccessfully tried to locate a working source for a specific 2014 movie through the various 'apps' that I have downloaded into our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box. But in the early a.m., I gave the Kodi 'apps' a try ─ specifically, one called Marauder.
This proved unexpectedly fruitful ─ Marauder located perhaps at least nine source links.
Granted, I think that I had to try a third link before I met with success, but the movie was to play flawlessly: Lost River.
I confess that I had to read the Wikipedia article to understand how the movie finished ─ nothing was clear to me.
For example, I had no idea that the fool character Face died in Rat's house (Rat was played by actress Saoirse Ronan) after he set it ablaze for his brutal leader Bully. Until reading that article just now, I had been wondering all this time what had become of Face because I could only see Bully dying all by himself near the movie's conclusion ─ Face was not there.
I thought Face was called Face because Bully had cut off Face's lips as punishment for not catching the young character Bones (played by Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.D. 'Fitz' actor Iain de Caestecker) when he was supposed to have.
Wikipedia also says that Bones succeeds in getting villainous Bully to crash his car that fateful night by throwing a dinosaur statue's head at Bully's windshield ─ I had no idea that was what he had thrown. In fact, I did not even know he had the dinosaur head ─ I was entirely unable to understand what the underwater sequence involved. It was too visually unclear to make sense of.
Wikipedia correctly says that Bully dies because he drowns after being "stuck head first in the lake". That is true, but he was lying atop a car hood at the time, with his feet up at the windshield. Only his head was immersed into the lake, and he was kicking his legs while his pants burned.
So obviously his feet were not pinned. I don't understand, then, why it was that he was helpless and could not just elevate his head from the lake.
Bones' mother was played by beautiful actress Christina Hendricks whom I have become very familiar with through the T.V. series Good Girls. I also remember her from the second Bad Santa movie.
Quite curiously to me, I believe that it was just yesterday that my brother and I watched the movie Animal Kingdom. A U.S. T.V. series is based upon that movie. In the movie, one of the characters ─ Pope ─ was played by actor Ben Mendelsohn, whom I was utterly unfamiliar with.
And now here I see the same guy again in Lost River, playing Christina Hendricks' boss.
By the way, the scene where she seems to have stabbed him in the side of the head or the ear was also something I was unclear about until I read the Wikipedia article. I did see her make the strike; but as she ran away, he seemed to just be standing there. I never saw him fall to the ground to "bleed out" as described by Wikipedia.
Yes, I figured he probably was to die if he had indeed been stabbed, but that was just not apparent enough.
Thanks to Wikipedia's clarifications on those final scenes, I will rate the movie more highly than I otherwise would have. I'll give it a 60% rating.
My wife rose late this morning; and not too long after 3:00 p.m., she left to go to work at her friend's Thai restaurant. That freed me up to have a needed nap.
My brother was already having his; and when I later rose from mine, he was gone for the afternoon. It would be nice to get to bed early again this evening.
However, my youngest stepson surprised me by coming home quite late this afternoon and passing over to me the mortgage renewal paperwork that I had E-mailed to him last evening so that he could print it all out where he works ─ our printer is useless.
I had not expected that he would be printing out the documents until sometime this evening, and that I would not have them until late tonight.
The bank agent wants me to E-mail back to her as soon as possible the pages requiring signatures from my wife and I, but I invented a story as to why I likely would not be able to do this until as late as Monday evening or early a.m. Tuesday.
Normally, my wife spends her weekends somewhere in Vancouver (such is my sorry marriage), and does not come home after she finishes work on her Fridays when she happens to work that day.
But with that mortgage renewal paperwork now in our possession, my youngest stepson said that he would text her to let her know she ought to make a point of getting the paperwork signed, so maybe she will be showing up after all.
And the bank agent can have the signed documents far sooner than she ever expected.
I want to mention today's exercise session ─ it was scheduled for out in the backyard toolshed. I got at it after my brother had sought his bed rest around 1:30 p.m.
To my great pleasure, I found myself feeling unusually strong and able out there. I cannot recall when last I felt that good.
When I returned into the house, my wife had quite a large protein-rich luncheon awaiting me.
Then of course after she left for work awhile later, my meal helped me to enjoy a most deep nap.
The day has been wholly overcast, so no time in the Sun has been possible.
It seems that for a second consecutive weekend, I shall be unable to go shopping. Canada Revenue Agency has still not gotten around to processing the tax returns for my wife and I that I delivered to them on March 8.
I have never had to wait this damned long for a refund.
It seems that for a second consecutive weekend, I shall be unable to go shopping. Canada Revenue Agency has still not gotten around to processing the tax returns for my wife and I that I delivered to them on March 8.
I have never had to wait this damned long for a refund.
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