I was to have another early evening of things yesterday, for my younger brother never showed up from wherever he had been drinking until something like 8:42 or 8:43 p.m. ─ definitely past the unspoken 8:30 p.m. deadline that I have in place for him.
And so I was to bed before he had laid eyes upon me, free of having to sit up late in operation of our Android TV Box.
But finding sleep can become the struggle as I bide time until he ultimately retires for the night (upon the arrival of the midnight hour), and I can then rise to come here to my computer and attend to various affairs.
To illustrate how gruelling this can actually become, there came a point after I did manage some sleep and had roused from it, that I wondered if it was possible that perhaps the midnight hour had arrived?
Imagine my upset to discover that it was only something like 10:12 p.m. At best, I had been in bed 1½ hours, yet I still had another two hours to endure there in bed, for it is rare that my brother retires immediately at midnight ─ he generally sits up a while more as he finishes his final beer of the night.
There are even those times when he will sit up into the latter half of the midnight hour.
All I could do was seek to relax as deeply as I could on the chance that I might betimes slip back into some slumber.
When finally I was at last able to rise and come here to my computer (which I keep in a small room next to my bedroom), after dealing with E-mails I got to work laying the foundation of a new post at one of my six hosted websites. This is a lengthy process and can consume more than a day's allotted work time.
That was to prove the case in this instance. I finally returned to bed well past 5 a.m. without the foundation and research completed.
I should mention that it began raining overnight, and at times it seems to have rained quite intensely. As I type these words at 2:05 p.m., the rain has probably never broken. The Summer is indeed done, and Fall strongly upon us.
It is unfortunate that I was unable to avail myself of some time in the backyard last afternoon to bask in the sunshine then prevalent. It was very warm out there, and may well have been my last opportunity this year to sun my torso.
I am practically assured of another early evening today, for my brother left afoot not five minutes agone to catch a bus. He will be meeting up with one or two of his drinking buddies at a pub that is located such that its situation does not overwhelmingly favour any one of them insofar as each's home is concerned.
The point is that none of them wants to risk driving, but it is unfair to rendezvous near to anyone's home when anyone else must put himself out with a lengthy bus transit there and then back home again later that evening.
My brother will undoubtedly not arrive back home until after mid-evening.
I am going to take a break here now to have my day's first small meal, and then a needed nap.
'Tis now 5:44 p.m., and if the rain has stopped, it still seems dank and somewhat breezy out there. I have been hearing what seems like more sirens than is the daily usual over the course of this day.
I have a few photos to post, beginning with this collage that Google Photos created today to commemorate this day back in 2013:
The photos depict an orb-weaver spider and the web it had somehow constructed that was not only very high off the ground, but it was anchored to our house as well as to our immediate neighbour's.
The spider was quite large ─ there is no way that it could have drifted in a wind to make one of those attachments. And it would be preposterous to believe that the spider had actually walked from one house to the other while bearing a strand of web and then climbed the wall to make the attachment to the opposite house.
So how was this accomplished? I have no idea!
Anyway, here are the three original photos taken using some zoom:
There were a few further photos, by the way.
The spider's web was not there for more than a few more days. I expect that a crow or some other bird then flew through some part of the web and thereby destroyed it.
Since I have naught else to bother reporting thus far today, I am going to conclude this post. I have some exercise I must take care of, and my evening has already begun.
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