Upon finishing a bath early last evening, I was to find my younger brother already home from wherever he had been drinking. It was already well past 8:30 p.m.; if not for the bath, I might well have avoided having to sit up with him in operation of our Android TV Box to watch episodes of some of the T.V. series we follow.
There were two cases of beer sitting on the coffee table in the living room that had not been there earlier. I suspected that their origin was a result of my two stepsons' efforts at expressing their appreciation in recognition of Father's Day, but I waited for one of them to say something.
When the first episode I had tuned in had concluded, I ventured to my brother that I knew nothing of the provenance of the beer, to which he stated that my youngest stepson had placed the cases there.
My wife had arrived home by this time from working at her friend's Thai restaurant, so while she busied herself in the kitchen, I cleared up the mystery of the beer with her sons.
As the eldest said, the beer was for both my brother and I, and to "pick our poison" ─ the two cases were each of a different brand.
Since I do not drink anywhere near as much as does my brother, I let him have the 15-pack, and I took the 12-pack for myself.
He had been drifting into unconsciousness during that first T.V. episode, but he resisted falling into a full slumber. Still, it vastly annoyed me, and I kept watching for him to fade right out so that I could abandon him and get to bed.
As I said, it was not to occur.
And over the evening, I had myself a can of strong (8% alcohol) beer, and two cans of a weaker (5.5% alcohol) percentage.
I left him at 11:30 p.m. and sought my bed, feeling in decent condition. But overnight, a hangover of sorts did set in. And when this morning I noticed the time to be well past 7:00 a.m., I rose even though I was not feeling particularly hale to get to work on the post I am constructing at one of my six hosted websites.
My wife did not have to work today, so she has been home apart from a couple of outings to run errands. I have thus been unable to have a proper needed nap; and since the day's scheduled exercising would be fairly extended and performed in our bedroom, I have had to suspend it. I will not have had any activity today, alas.
I took three candid photos of her while she was in the backyard quite early this afternoon doing some gardening. Actually, only one photo captures her at work ─ the other two were shots of her on two different occasions enjoying a break in the sunshine:
She was alerted when I took that last photo because I had done so from the open sundeck door ─ she heard my iPhone 5's distinctive sound when I took the photo, so I was only able to get that single shot. The other two photos were taken through windows.
I could have done some sunning today, even though we did have quite a lot of cloud cover at times. However, I was just too ill-slept to feel up to contending with the day's heat at those times when the Sun was prevalent.
I want to mention one more thing ere signing off with this post ─ a movie that I tuned in at 10:00 a.m. for my brother and I to watch.
The movie was a very poor production from 2011 titled Scream of the Banshee. The production was bad, the sound was bad, and even some of the acting was pretty bad.
Where the sound was concerned, even though I had the volume loud enough, so often I was unable to understand any of the dialogue. Somehow despite the adequate volume, everyone's words were often too indistinct. People might as well have been humming loudly for all the sense I could make of conversation.
As well, the accompanying music throughout the movie did not naturally suit the film. Usually when a movie is watched, the accompanying mood music isn't even noticed; but here, it was absolutely incongruous.
But at least I enjoyed seeing Lauren Holly. I didn't know who the actress was until I later researched the movie, although she did have some familiarity; and initially, she only looked marginally attractive. It wasn't until she had left the research facility and I got to see her in her casual wear at home that I realized that the actress was distinctly comely (to put it nicely).
But it was an awful movie.
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