With my wife away and working from 4 p.m. yesterday, I took advantage early in the evening and had two cans of strong (8% alcohol) beer while thoroughly enjoying an episode of The Last Kingdom ─ it was quite a shocker, actually.
Initially I assumed that King Alfred's jealous 'pretender-to-the-throne' ne'er-do-well relative Æthelwold had stabbed to death both Brida and Ragnar in bed at the episode's conclusion (episode four of season three), but later I remembered that Ragnar had been lying with other women and that he was last seen parting from Brida to go and do just that (Brida is apparently barren, so she has reconciled herself to Ragnar seeking children with other women).
To be honest, I never dreamed that Ragnar was going to be dispatched so summarily and in such undignified fashion ─ especially by the usually cowardly Æthelwold.
So now it's got to be just a matter of time before he is taken out by Brida or else our hero Uhtred, Ragnar's foster brother. And I can hardly wait. I semi-liked Æthelwold, hoping to see more of some of the good side of him that I thought existed, but clearly he's a snake who needs being rid of.
Heck, Ragnar was one of my favourite characters.
I do so love that series!
I cannot recall now just when it was that I got to bed thereafter ─ 9:30 p.m.? Closer to 10 p.m.? I just cannot remember. But once I was to bed I was to manage some sleep, and I never checked the time again until 12:48 a.m. at which point I rose to get some work done here at my computer.
Not too much later, I was surprised by a phone call from my wife, asking that I have the front door unlocked because she did not seem to have her house key with her. One or both of my stepsons happened to still be up, but my wife knows my routine by now ─ I would be up for several hours, so I was the one to call.
And so the night proceeded.
Once she was home, I think she outlasted whichever of her sons was last up, but she was to bed well before I was. I remained up until around 5:15 a.m., if not a little later.
I was to sleep in a little longer than I expected to ─ it was something like 9:28 a.m. when I checked the time, and got myself up. I would be going downstairs toward 10 a.m. to join my brother at the T.V. and put our Android TV Box into action.
First on the agenda was Odessa Orlewicz's most recent video of yesterday ─ an hour and 11-minute episode that she and her husband Norbert titled April 13th- Variants caused by Vax as per UK doc; Chris Sky coming to Van; Raoul, special packages sent home with our kids, Norb does a great rant and more.
Norbert joined Odessa for perhaps the last half of the show so that they could explain why they seem to be pushing for the People's Party of Canada (PPC).
In my opinion, they did a superb job of explaining their position. Most definitely, they have not 'sold out'. I had already decided that I was probably going to vote for the PPC in any upcoming election, and now I am even more convicted. There is in fact no other national political party for whom I would vote ─ I realize now that they are all corrupt and deceitful.
I must say, I would love to see Chris Sky when he makes an appearance in these parts, but I refuse to use public transport and wear a face mask. And since I do not drive, that keeps me isolated out here in Surrey. I have yet to attend any of the "freedom rallies" as a consequence of my isolation ─ which happens to be geographical as well as social.
Anyway, my brother and I were to watch T.V. until nigh 1 p.m., and then he sought some bed rest before leaving well before mid-afternoon to catch a bus and rendezvous with one or more of his drinking buddies at a pub. My wife didn't emerge from our bedroom until after my brother had returned to his.
Today I had a backyard toolshed exercise session scheduled, so I went out to endure that. And then because this proved to be our third consecutive sunny day, I changed into cutoffs to begin just over 40 minutes of sunning in the backyard while wearing nothing else, lounging low in a lawn- or deckchair set out of a cement pad in the backyard.
That session commenced at 2:11 p.m. My brother had already gone ─ he left while I was exercising, for I could hear him and my wife talking.
What gorgeous sunning weather! For three days now I have have exposed my front to the Sun for just over 40 minutes each day, so I look very good ─ unless I reveal myself from the side or the back. I am Winter pale there!
Before long, I am going to have to start exposing the back of me to the Sun.
But I have said enough of my day, I think ─ I would like to watch some T.V. soon and enjoy a strong beer. My wife got her youngest son to give her a ride around 5:40 p.m. to the SkyTrain so that she could get herself in to Vancouver to do some painting that she had been enlisted to perform last Friday or Saturday; but unfortunately, the job did not pan out at that time.
I do not expect that she will be returning home tonight; and with my brother busing, I should have the free time to watch one of the shows that I follow ─ while having that welcome beer. And then I will have a needed bath before eventually seeking my usual latter evening bedtime to fortify me for the several overnight hours when I am wont to work here at my computer.
I never sought an afternoon nap today, so I think that I will likely sleep better than usual later this evening.
But that's enough said for today.
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