Since my younger brother was home last evening somewhat ahead of 8:00 p.m., I was to sit up until 11:00 p.m. operating our Android TV Box, locating sources of episodes for three of the T.V. series we follow.
The final of those episodes was for Ripper Street ─ and specifically, season four's episode five titled "Men of Iron, Men of Smoke".
I only mention this because I love seeing actors familiar from other T.V. series, and this particular episode included one such portraying a character who was in charge of a foundry and its football club.
The Wikipedia article I linked to concerning the episode did not identify the name of the character, let alone the actor portraying him; so I researched and found both cited at IMDB.com's article on the episode here.
The character was Felix Hackman.
My brother and I had just a day or two ago watched the season finale of Game of Thrones' season five ─ an episode titled "Mother's Mercy". In it, a recurring character named Alliser Thorne of the Night's Watch arranged with a few of his brethren to assassinate young Jon Snow by stabbing him to death.
Well, to me, the actor portraying Felix Hackman in that Ripper Street episode looked hauntingly similar to Alliser Thorne in Game of Thrones.
And so at the episode's conclusion, I came here to my computer to research it, and lo! Actor Owen Teale did indeed have both roles.
I would like to think that I will henceforth retain some familiarity with the actor's name, but I can only hope ─ I certainly will not expect it of myself.
Anyway, I was no sooner settled into my bed last night shortly after 11:00 p.m. when my wife intruded into the bedroom ─ she had just arrived home after working at her friend's Thai restaurant. I was already disturbed because one of my two stepsons was using those plastic dryer balls in the dryer located downstairs directly beneath my bed.
Why those brainless morons do things like this so late in the evening defies me ─ I almost take it as a personal affront.
And now my wife was home.
As I lay with earplugs and bandana blindfold in place, it seemed like she was in and out of the bedroom as many as 20 times before she finally came to bed herself around two hours later.
I forget now just when I rose thereafter, but it might have been around 2:00 a.m.; and I remained up until past 5:00 a.m. in order to put work into the post I am developing at one of my six hosted websites.
Some fragmented sleep was to follow, and I rose for the morning around 9:00 a.m. ─ my brother was just finishing a shower.
After the very sunny afternoon we had yesterday, I anticipated a sunny day today ─ but not so. The day has been mostly overcast ─ often quite heavily. We have even had some very light rain during the mid and latter afternoon, but some sunny breaks by early evening.
My wife never left for work until around 3:00 p.m., but I did keep the day's scheduled tool shed exercising earlier in the afternoon. As I was so involved, my wife even came outside for an exercise session of her own, incorporating a set of elastic cords into whatever she was doing ─ I didn't want to inhibit her by paying too much attention. I just offered her some encouragement as I returned into the house.
For the same concern of inhibiting her, I resisted trying to take any candid photos of her in action, badly though I wanted to.
My brother was in his bedroom during that time, restoring himself for his afternoon away to engage some drinking once again. He left well before my wife.
I sought a nap after she was gone, but I am unsure if I actually sank into sleep. I just needed to allow my eyes sufficient rest to handle the wear required to post both here and in my private blog.
Google Photos created a collage today of some photos apparently taken seven years ago ─ or around June 26, 2013:
That is the exercise girl herself ─ my wife. And that is also our backyard.
You may notice that she has a cast on an arm. Reportedly, she fell while cavorting in a Vancouver nightclub ─ I was certainly not present.
I was not privy to just how serious the mishap was, but I don't suppose casts like the one she is displaying are applied for anything but a fracture, are they?
Here are the three original photos:
It is nearing 7:00 p.m., and I wish to have my evening clear for a potential early bedtime if my brother is not home by 8;30 p.m., so I want to be done with today's post.
I have a goodly walk planned in the morning for some grocery shopping, so a decent night's sleep is definitely in order.
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