As I indicated yesterday just as I was about to publish that day's post, my brother had already arrived home from wherever he had been drinking. It may not have even been 7:30 p.m. as yet.
Well, I thought that maybe I would watch some "Great Reset" COVID-19 scamdemic / plandemic videos with him that I had recorded onto a flash drive for insertion into our Android TV Box. And so I came downstairs to the living room where I found him standing with the T.V. remote control, evidently lining up something to watch through NetFlix and my youngest stepson's account.
Then when he fired into a science fiction movie that only had something like 43 minutes remaining, I immediately gave up on him. He had to have been too drunk to have bothered with. I don't want to waste these eye-opening videos on someone too blighted with alcohol to even remember having watched them with me.
I returned upstairs here to my computer and involved myself with other things until after 9:30 p.m. before going to bed ─ which is to say, although I covered over with a blanket, I was fully clothed. I would be rising in the midnight hour to get more work done here at my computer when there would be no interruptions.
That came to pass, although I felt that I could have used a wee bit more sleep. Then shortly after 3 a.m., my wife showed up. However, she did not disturb me. Heck, she didn't even say anything to me. And then she finally went to bed after fixing herself a small meal first that she ate downstairs.
Had she not come home, I would have possibly retired earlier than I did. Instead, I got carried away with various tasks here at my computer, and before I could quite believe it, the time had surpassed 5:30 a.m.
This revelation seized me with alarm initially, for I do not easily get to sleep; and during the workweek, I usually start watching some T.V. around 10 a.m. with my brother because he is sober by then.
I understood the futility of aggravating myself over the time, and reigned in my disturbances, finally getting to bed perhaps as late as 5:45 a.m.
My actual morning was to begin shortly after 9 a.m. when I later was awake enough to care about the time. I rose, and as usual I came here to my computer until the appointed time at which I joined my brother downstairs.
A video I wanted to tune in with him was available at YouTube, so I accessed the commercial-free version (an 'app') on our Android TV Box ─ an interview conducted by Dr. Joseph Mercola titled COVID-19 and Physiological Health- Interview with Thomas J. Lewis Ph.D.
YouTube might well obliterate Dr. Mercola's account one day ─ or this and any others of his videos ─ so I want to link to the same video interview at BitChute.
Fortunately Dr. Lewis was surprisingly engaging, so I didn't hear my brother voice a complaint about the frequent scientific medical terminology. What I find may also be happening for him ─ viz., the more often I am exposed to this sort of vocabulary, the more I become at least acquainted with some of the terms. I may not understand them, but at least I do develop that familiarity and can ultimately come to have a sense of their significance.
Dr. Mercola's interviews have value. However, I often am annoyed how he interrupts a guest's revelations to break that guest's train of thought simply to ask something else and in so doing the viwer never gets to hear what it was the guest was attempting to say.
In one of the instances in this interview, Dr. Lewis was getting into the topic of how early onset cataracts are indicative of specific pathologies elsewhere in the body ─ in fact, the brain ─ that are signalling a shortened life span if something is not done to correct the cause of the dysfunction.
My 68-year-old brother was diagnosed with a developing cataract in one of his eyes a couple or so years ago; and for all I know, I may have one. So I wanted to hear more. But ultra-healthy Dr. Mercola dismissed this perceived divergence from what he wanted to talk about because it probably was irrelevant to himself.
He fobbed it off by saying something to the effect that maybe they can talk about it in a future interview.
Sure, these are Dr. Mercola's videos, but just because he may not be immediately interested in a guest's sidetracking does not mean that all of the audience to the interview feel similarly.
I repeat: I find these dismissive interruptions by Dr. Mercola to be most annoying.
Also, in just about every interview, Dr. Mercola spends time leaning to the side scratching one of his legs. He does this over and over. Sometimes it looks like he is spending most of the interview leaned over and scratching himself.
This is also annoying to me. What the heck's wrong with you, man? Maybe you should identify to your audience if you actually do have some issue so that we at least understand why you do this in so many of your videos? I could then feel sympathetic. Otherwise, it's distracting.
And as I said, annoying.
The video was just over an hour in duration. I considered playing the flash drive that I had wanted to go through last evening, but I decided instead to just get into some regular T.V. And as it happened, what I was to tune in was the series finale of 13 Reasons Why (or TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY).
We never binge-watched this series ─ I saw to that. We probably infrequently even watched an episode a week. As a consequence, it has likely taken us a couple of years to get all the way through the series ─ maybe even longer.
At times, it was remarkably good. In fact, really good! However, I despise the theatrical trick of having dead characters appear and have actual dialogues with other characters. It nearly ruins the authenticity of the episodes. The whole second season was spoiled because Hannah Baker's 'ghost' was as much a presence in each episode as was anyone else (apart from main character Clay Jensen, of course).
I suppose that we'll rather miss the characters now that we're forever done with the series after so much time being involved in it. I may well have to have us start watching Riverdale! I see that the actor (Ross Butler) who played big Zach Dempsey is a regular in Riverdale.
A series I watch on my own (i.e., without my brother) is Parenthood, so I am getting to see a lot of Miles Heizer, the actor who played Alex Standall in 13 Reasons Why. He's of course much younger in Parenthood.
There were a lot of very good actors in the 13 Reasons Why series ─ I thought that Devin Druid stood out as troubled Tyler Down. The scene where a group of jocks ─ led by bully Monty De La Cruz ─ brutally sodomized him with a mop or broom handle was incredibly realistic. And so was his eventual moment of confession to Clay Jensen about the incident.
There are just too many good actors in the series to nominate in this post ─ I am already out of time, for it is after 7 p.m.
And so to move on, I will say that we had considerable rain today. My wife never rose until midday, I suppose ─ maybe even the early afternoon. But she did not have to work today, so she has been home throughout. However, her sons have been mainly home too, so I have been able to make the time for this post.
Nevertheless, I must bring it to a close, so I shall do that now.
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