Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, but I never got my wife a card. Last Saturday I wrote here of my four-mile round trip hike to the government liquor store for beer and three bottles of wine ─ one bottle of which was explicitly for my wife as a Valentine's Day gift.
Well, just as she managed to do with three bottles of wine that I had bought her in mid-December that were intended as Christmas presents, she stumbled upon the hiding location. In the case of the Christmas wine, it was through sheer serendipity; in the case of her Valentine's Day bottle, she came across it a few days ago while doing some rearranging of the room I had the bottle hidden in ─ I was napping at the time, and thus was wholly unaware of her unexpected tidying in the concerned room.
So in resignation, I simply handed her the bottle that day along with the comment, "Happy Valentine's Day." And that was it. There will be nothing to show for tomorrow. It will just be another Sunday.
However, she does have her birthday coming up on Sunday of next weekend, so I will give that a shot.
Yesterday I had my usual latter evening time in bed once my younger brother showed up from wherever he had been drinking. I had just logged into Facebook ─ it was barely after 9 p.m. ─ when I heard him come into the house.
I avoid him evenings because he is too inebriated to bother trying to watch any T.V. with. Instead, I spend the last half of the evening trying to nap and waiting for him to go to his bedroom for the night, freeing me to rise and come here to my computer to get some work done for several hours.
I did manage to do some napping, but by just past 11 p.m. I was awake and no longer able to doze off. And as my luck would have it, he was disinclined to seek his bedroom ahead of midnight as he sometimes does. In fact, he never sought his bedroom until 12:22 a.m.
It was quite the wait I had to put in.
I don't recall exactly when it was that I returned to bed, but it was at least 4:30 a.m., by which time I noticed that the ground outside was starting to cover over with some snow.
Had I felt well slept by the time I checked the time just after 8 a.m. after some enjoyed sleep, I might have risen and readied myself for an early hike to that same government liquor store I spoke of earlier. It opens at 9:30 a.m. on regular (i.e., non-holiday) Saturdays.
I do not drive, so I have to walk.
Unfortunately, I felt far too lacking. I would have had lots of privacy in which to ready myself for that venture had I only known, for my brother never rose until after 10 a.m. ─ he must have gotten into 'the hard stuff' last evening before he finally went to bed.
My wife wasn't here. She tends not to come home until at least Sunday afternoons after leaving for work during the latter Friday mornings; sometimes she doesn't even show up until Monday evening, or even till Tuesday. Such is our sorry marriage.
It snowed all morning, and well into the afternoon.
At 10 a.m. I had intended for my brother and I to watch Odessa Orlewicz's latest livestreamed video at her YouTube account Liberty Talk With Odessa, but my brother was of course not even risen by that time. And when he did rise and go downstairs, he did what he almost always does Saturday mornings ─ he drinks coffee and spends time reading the Saturday morning edition of the Vancouver Sun that I subscribe to.
And so it was not until early into the noon hour that he invited me to tune something in via our Android TV Box ─ at the time, I was lounging on the chesterfield in the living room, listening to MegatonCafeRadio.com which I had tuned in via the Brave browser 'app' that I have downloaded into our Android TV Box.
And so it was that we finally watched the Odessa Orlewicz feature, this one specifically titled Bonnie Wants To Criminally Charge Christians And Satanism Is Now A Trend. It was livestreamed last evening.
When that was finally over, we watched a couple shorter COVID-19 'scamdemic / plandemic / casedemic' videos that I had previously downloaded into a USB flash drive and now have connected into a port on our Android TV Box so we can view them on T.V. as well.
My brother never did seek some bed rest before taking off to resume his drinking somewhere. However, I certainly had myself a nap, taking to bed just after 4 p.m. for an hour or so.
Then at 5:13 p.m., I took these five photos from the vantage of our living room window, looking out toward the cul-de-sac we live in:
Considering how long it had actually snowed, that really is not much of an accumulation. However, it is the heaviest snowfall that we have received this season, strangely enough. Our Fall / Winter season has been remarkably mild, apart from a few days of an 'Arctic front' that lingered hereabouts earlier this past week.
But I want to return to the Great Reset and this COVID-19 idiocy the various world governments have inflicted upon their citizens.
I am hardly a Facebook activist where my account is concerned, but I had to 'share' the following letter that 13 M.D.'s signed and sent to ridiculously dense Ontario premier Doug Ford:
As well, I posted the following in a different Facebook post:
If these guys (Liberty Coalition Canada) form a political party, I guess I'll be voting for them.
I have voted for the NDP ─ federally and provincially ─ exclusively for 50 years. But after what B.C.'s Premier John Horgan has allowed our Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry to get away with, I cannot see myself ever voting for the party again.
No political leader should be that dense, ill-informed, and utterly duped.
Okay, enough of that. It is presently 6:45 p.m., and I want to finally ready and make that four-mile hike to the government liquor store. As last Saturday, I will be seeking a dozen cans of the strong beer that I like to keep in stock, as well as three 750-ml bottles of wine, one of which will be designated as my wife's birthday present.
The other wines, incidentally, are actually for her, too. She just doesn't know that I've been stockpiling our little cabinet hidden away in the corner of the living room. I think that if I get the two I am seeking this evening, then that will bring the count to six bottles that she has no idea about.
One day she will curiously check the cabinet when she has absolutely nothing else on hand, and she'll be blown away by the diversity.
Thus, even though I have only been gifting her with one bottle for Valentine's Day and now her birthday, there are a number of others that she will one day discover.
Okay, I must start the slow process of readying myself for that trek.
I got it done!
It may have been slightly after 7:30 p.m. when I slipped out of here without either of my two stepsons noticing. It was maybe -1º C (30.2º F) when I set off, so it wasn't especially cold. The snow was still soggy, as was the wet melt ─ I encountered very little icing at all.
And as outlined, I bought a dozen cans of beer and three 750-ml bottles of different wines.
The liquor store I visited was the one at 108th Avenue & King George Boulevard (Google Map) in Whalley ─ a four-mile round trip, as I said earlier. The young fellow manning the till I cashed out at was most friendly ─ I have always found the staff there to be a truly good bunch.
Anyway, I was back home no later than 9:04 p.m., but my brother was already here. As a result, I will not be going back downstairs and will consequently have to do without any supper. I've had but one meal today. And because I intermittently fast, I will not allow myself to take in any calories until after 12:30 p.m in the noon hour tomorrow.
I'm still a little 'wired' from the hike, but I need to soon seek my latter evening nap so that I can put in some work here at this computer in the weest a.m. hours.
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