It never much mattered that I did not have enough of a balance remaining in my chequing account to allow me to do any kind of supplemental shopping to augment what I hoped to do early on Sunday morning, for I was not to have the opportunity to do any shopping today.
As I was seated here at my computer in the weest a.m. that day adding content into the post that I am developing at one of my two hosted websites, around 1:15 a.m. I heard sufficient commotion outside to cause me to believe that my wife had just arrived home ─ she had worked Friday at her friend's Thai restaurant.
Normally she does not come home on the weekend (such is our sorry marriage), but evidently being early into her three-month Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP) from driving has considerably altered her routine. And so it was that one of her co-workers had given her a ride home.
She was to remain home until early Saturday evening when she had her eldest son drive her to one of the SkyTrain stations here in Surrey. Of course, I never knew beforehand that she would be taking leave of us until she began readying, so I would not have had the requisite time to psyche myself up for any evening shopping expeditions if I had been desperate enough to have wanted to make any.
I do not drive, so I must walk if I feel I must go shopping.
She had been in quite a positive mood over the day, so it was actually nice having her around.
I had wanted to have a bath, so the opportunity was now advanced to me. And once that was accomplished, I felt desirous of a little drinking whilst enjoying an episode of The Last Kingdom that I tuned in via our Android TV Box.
My intention was to finish off a bottle of Cabernet Franc wine that my wife had basically rejected, have a small supper, and then indulge in a can of the strong (8% alcohol) beer that I try to keep myself stocked with.
Well, I was most of the way through the episode (and I had only drunk the wine) when I espied my younger brother arriving home around 8:40 p.m. from wherever he had been drinking. Often he will spend Saturday night with his girlfriend Bev and stay overnight at her home, but the two can become too drunk for one or both of them to withstand the other's company.
In a rush, I had to shut down everything and gather up my meal and come upstairs here to my computer to avoid becoming entangled with the drunkard that my brother can become. Fortunately, when he did enter into the house, he seemed to go directly to where my eldest stepson was in the lads' den area and a fairly lengthy exchange was carried out between them.
I was able to finish my meal, and by 9:15 p.m. I was to bed to nap away the remainder of the evening. My brother usually calls it a night by midnight or so, and this was to prove no different.
With my wife home today, I was unable to photograph myself wearing a couple of items I received this past Thursday as one of two orders I had apparently placed with AliExpress back on February 2nd.
I am absolutely delighted with the two garments that I received, and I do fully intend to promote both them and the seller.
However, when the other order ─ that was to a different seller and for somewhat more cost ─ failed to be part of that delivery, I investigated and saw that for some bizarre reason, the order was listed as having been cancelled on March 9 when it would have clearly been most of its way to me.
So this past Thursday I left a message to the seller enquiring what was afoot, but as yet that message is still listed as being "unread".
I will wait a full week.
AliExpress has directions whereby a customer can open a dispute and apply for a refund; but in my case, I am supposed to normally do so if the order has not arrived by May 26. Notwithstanding, in view of the fact that I can see that the order has been cancelled, then I see no justification for waiting that long if the seller is not going to respond to my enquiry after I wait that full week.
When the week has expired, I will indeed open the dispute, and I will be resolute in seeking restitution of either full cost or the goods that I ordered. AliExprress is not at fault ─ the seller is.
And thus it is my full intention to openly censure that seller within this blog if I do have to enlist AliExpress to give me the resolution that is rightfully mine.
One other thing I want to include in today's post is a comment that I made to a post that had been made at website Librti.com ─ a measured comment which I now realize that no one is likely to see and read because comments are not openly displayed in posts.
Instead, there is a small area at the bottom left where people can indicate their "Like" of the post (a "Like" icon of choice can be selected), and there are three "Likes" ─ two scowling 'smiley faces', and a tearful 'smiley face' (that one is mine) displayed as reactions for that post.
But where comments are concerned, the only indication that there is one is that my specific avatar is listed immediately beside the pair of scowling and tearful 'smiley faces' (which have the number "3" beside them to indicate that the two 'smiley face' icons represent three "Likes").
My avatar beside those is no larger than the 'smiley faces', and has a black 'speech bubble' partially overlying my avatar, along with the number "1" indicating that it is a comment. But people would need to understand that format, and know that by clicking the avatar, the comment would actually display.
Otherwise, it just looks like another strange reaction like the "Like" icons that someone has left.
And there have been so very many new posts since I made the comment that the specific post is now basically lost ─ buried below many scores of new comments.
So I want to reproduce my comment here, since I did put a fair amount of effort into it.
The post I had commented on contained this link to an article: Trinity Church in Kelowna has erected a huge heart at vaccination site - Kelowna News.
The only description that the poster made to accompany the article link was "WTF !!!"
So here was my comment:
If Kelowna's Trinity Church created that symbol as their approval of this special 'vaccination' site for the elderly, it shows how deep the indoctrination is. The same goes for the 61-year-old woman in the story who was practically overjoyed to be able to get a 'vaccination' along with her 86-year-old father whom she had brought there to get jabbed.
Incidentally, didn't this church story get published the same day that the court here in B.C. (in the person of B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson) dismissed the legal bid by some courageous churches to have Bonnie Henry's church lockdown orders overturned?
The judge gave some small 'lip service' to the petitioners, but as a Vancouver Sun article titled Dr. Henry 'thankful' as court ruling upholds public health orders reported, the judge referred to Bonnie Henry's lockdown orders and actions in that regard as being "reasonable and proportionate" and "carefully considered".
Heck, the judge even "declined" to quash a $2,300 violation ticket that Alain Beaudoin of Dawson Creek was issued last December for helping to organize a protest against the government's indisputable (to us) abuse of their powers.
Some of these stories we see are flabbergasting ─ people out there seem so abysmally and hopelessly dense.
My younger brother (who is 68) and I (who am 71) watched the video this morning that is behind the perplexing March 7 piece at Rebel News that was actually critical of our federal government for not having the 'vaccination' roll-out as streamlined as it is in the States ─ see Canadian “vaccine refugees” are fleeing to the U.S. for jabs.
Rebel News even wasted what are probably donation funds to send reporter Keean Beste down to Florida to interview some of the Canadians who have gone south just to be 'vaccinated':
"I came down to Florida to speak to Canadians in the Sunshine State who have already received the vaccine. I put out a call for sources and the response was overwhelming. Nurses, seniors and essential workers fled to either Arizona or Florida to get the jab, citing Trudeau’s incompetence."
Do we really want to be learning that even nurses and other essential workers here in Canada are that desperate to get this stuff into themselves?
This is a report that shouldn't have been made. The mainstream media are already exceptionally good at this sort of promotion ─ Rebel News shouldn't have been helping the 'other side' out by wasting time and resources with such a report. There are undoubtedly far better directions to head into.
It deeply discourages me to read about maturing adults taking their even more elderly parents out of the way to get them vaccinated; or Canadian nurses and "front line workers" who are so reportedly eager to get 'vaccinated' themselves that they book trips to the southern U.S. just for that purpose.
It also discourages me that judges can't even be bothered to educate themselves and will not relinquish what must be their own 'health' biases that are just as off-keel and uninformed as are the general public's ─ how can we win legal challenges with such judges incapable of not only seeing 'behind the curtain', but not even accepting that there even is a 'curtain' to see behind?
The legal challenge was dismissed, and the province's coffers got richer for the failed effort.
It just doesn't look like that tide is anywhere near turning in our favour.
I should have just made my own post, and not wasted my comment by having it buried with someone else's post as evidently did happen.
I now know better.
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