Last evening was the third consecutive in which my younger brother failed to arrive home early enough to find me still sitting up and available to operate our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box for some T.V.-viewing together.
However, I was hardly in the embrace of sustaining sleep ─ I experienced very little of it.
I had gotten to bed just after 9:00 p.m. Eventually, I was aware when my wife came into the bedroom for something after she had come home from working at her friend's Thai restaurant.
Any sleep I experienced was superficial ─ nothing deep.
My wife finally came to bed herself not too much ahead of midnight, and I was no longer doing aught but lying in wait for my younger brother to finally betake himself to his bedroom for the night. However, due to how late into the evening it was that he must have gotten home from wherever he had gone to drink, he was not rushing to finalize his day.
And so it was that I was to lay there in my bed quite restlessly for a full hour before at last I heard him come upstairs and shut himself into his bedroom for the night.
I was finally free to rise and put some work into the post I am developing at one of my six hosted websites.
Maybe a half hour later, my wife rose to use the bathroom, and then she went downstairs to fix herself a snack. When she ate, and then came back upstairs to return to bed, she never said anything to me as she passed by me here in the room where I keep my computer immediately adjacent to our bedroom.
It was likely around 4:30 a.m. before I returned to bed for whatever actual sleep I would manage before I officially began my morning.
As early as 8:00 a.m. I was already awake enough to be checking the time, but I managed one final short bout of sleep before getting myself up shortly after 9:00 a.m. By then, my brother was already downstairs watching T.V.
I came here to my computer and waited until nearly 10:00 a.m. before going downstairs to fix my day's first hot caffeinated beverage, and then I joined him in the living room and put our Android TV Box into action to locate an episode each of three of the T.V. series we follow.
By then, it was late into the noon hour, and my brother was ready for some further bed rest ere taking off for the afternoon.
My wife had risen around 11:00 a.m., but she was not to leave to head on in to work until at least the mid-afternoon. Meantime, I was unable to exercise to the degree that I otherwise would have; and of course, I could not seek an early afternoon nap, either.
The early morning had been quite overcast, but the day developed into one that was hot and sunny.
I was to do some backyard sunning for a duration of just over a half hour ─ this, beginning at 2:16 p.m. while I sat low in a deck- or lawn-chair and attired in just cutoffs, with my bared feet on the ground. My brother had just left before I changed into the cutoffs to go outside.
My wife was showering when I came into the house following my sunning; and soon after she had finished, she readied and undertook her long drive to work.
She had left us quite a lot of her delicious cooking ─ "us", of course, includes not just my brother and I, but also her two sons (aged 22 and 25).
I never did seek a nap until well past 4:00 p.m., but it was not of much duration ─ at most, I was abed for an hour. I fully expect that I will probably have to sit up this evening to watch some T.V. with my brother, and so not likely manage to get to bed until around 11:00 p.m.
I have some grocery shopping in mind for early tomorrow morning.
I was considering bringing up an associated topic, but it is already after 6:30 p.m. and I want to have a bath before my brother shows up. I am not expecting my wife home this evening ─ she typically spends her weekends somewhere in Vancouver.
I don't feel that I dare say anything more.
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