Although I succeeded in remaining in bed much longer than usual after I had retired quite early last evening ─ I am sure that it was well before 10 p.m. ─ I never slept for any length, and seemed awake as often as not. Perhaps I was awake more often than not.
The point arrived when I was about to try and find another short bout of sleep, when I decided to first check the time. It had been my hope to try and remain in bed until around 4 a.m. Well, it was 4:11 a.m.
It was time to rise. The plan was to get away around 7 a.m. on the 1½-mile hike to the nearest Save-On-Foods outlet (Google Map) in Whalley. I was to have time to make an essential post in my private blog, but I would have no time to work on the post underway at one of my two hosted websites ─ but I was reconciled to that.
After rising and working here on my computer, I was unhappy to find that despite my length of time in bed, my eyes were in poor shape; and I even began to decline with weariness and a desire to seek further sleep.
It would have been nice to have been able to return to bed for a time to at least rest my eyes, but I was not to find the time, even though I was not on my way until maybe around 7:15 a.m.
Everything outside was wet from rain, and it may even have been raining then, but so sparingly that it would never have been possible to wet my clothes even if I had been outdoors for the day.
The self-diagnosed plantar fasciitis of my left foot ─ a condition that developed three weekends ago ─ proved to continue to pose a threat for any extended walking. This was discouraging, for I had hoped to make another foray this afternoon, but now I do not care to exacerbate my situation. The walk would be even farther, and involve bearing home a heavier load than was the case this morning.
I do not drive, so I have to walk.
Unfortunately where my morning shopping was concerned, I was unable to find one of the main items I was after ─ a cloth face mask.
I just recently learned of supposed worldwide claims that people have discovered what must be microscopic worm-like objects 'infesting' various kinds of disposable face masks that have been tested 'straight out of the box'.
If true, people are inhaling these things.
That possibility was enough for me ─ I made the immediate decision not to wear another disposable face mask when I have to go into a store or mall.
Save-On-Foods' website claimed to offer several types of the washable / reusable face masks, but I looked around for some while without discovering where they were located. I finally asked a young female employee, and she enthusiastically told me that they were over on aisle 12, so off I hustled.
I had already been through that aisle, so I began a slow scan once more as I slowly walked its length. Then when I was at an end, that same employee appeared at the opposite end and called to me, using both of her raised arms to indicate the shelving towards the very limit of the aisle, and saying that she realized that they were easy to not notice.
So there I headed as she then disappeared.
Well, I arrived where I am sure she had been standing and indicating, but I could see no face masks whatsoever. I looked and looked for at least five minutes, and even began working my way somewhat towards where I had been, then returning to where I was sure she had been.
Nothing.
I became so irritated that I gave up. If the masks are indeed there, then they must be reduced to such a compacted degree that they are inserted into very tiny cylinders or wee boxes that are oblivious to anyone who doesn't know what to be looking for.
It was a bad experience.
Incidentally, my younger brother must have spent the night at the hone of his girlfriend Bev. However, I guess it wasn't an ideal choice, for he showed up this morning ere it was quite 6:25 a.m., and basically went directly to bed.
Bev is a smoker and has the recurring cough to prove it ─ day and night.
After I was back home from shopping, it was not too very long before I also sought further time in bed, althogh I did so around 9 a.m., but only had a short nap and was checking the time less than 1¼ hours later. However, I felt so physically downtrodden from my unaccustomed earlier venture that it took me several minutes to galvanise myself to rise. My body wanted me to remain abed and somehow keep sleeping.
My position on that is that if I need more sleep, then my stupid body and brain should quit waking me up short of what I truly need.
My brother was by this time up for the morning and watching T.V. downstairs, so after a short time I went to the kitchen to boil water for my day's second black and unsweetened instant coffee, and then I joined him just ahead of 10 a.m. At that hour I then tuned in Odessa Orlewicz's latest video from yesterday:
I hate linking to her videos at YouTube or her Facebook account because ─ just as she says in the video itself ─ her accounts are in jeopardy of being shut down and deleted. That would make my links here invalid.
Odessa keeps claiming that people need to join Librty.com to find all of her videos securely housed there, but that just is not true. The most recent one she has uploaded there is from three days ago, and there are others from before that that are not available at Librti.com. I am especially bummed that her interview of five days ago with Chris Sky is only lodged at Facebook.
How can we promote her outside of those two social media platforms if her videos are not located anywhere else?
I want to change topics.
Early last evening I watched an episode of The Last Kingdom while I enjoyed two cans of strong (8% alcohol) beer.
I specifically watched the eighth episode of season three and was relieved to finally see the homicidal psychopath Skade get dispatched. Her hold over Uhtred was just ridiculous, and demeaned the integrity of the show's realism.
I have wondered who the actress was who portrayed Skade ever since her first appearance, for she looks so very familiar to me. But I did not want to research her until Skade was finally killed off because I did not want to know anything about how nor when Skade's death was to take place.
So now that the character is out of the picture, I can research the actress ─ who apparently is a Norwegian who is fully named Thea Sofie Loch Næss.
It is clear that I could not possibly have ever seen her act before, so now I am left wondering why she did seem so familiar.
Wikipedia has no photos of her, but you can see some from The Last Kingdom at this Express.co.uk article titled Last Kingdom: Why did fans not like Thea Sofie Loch Naess as Skade?
I believe that I have said before that I need to start watching more foreign fare, provided that I can find it with large enough English subtitling. Now that I watch lots of material with my brother that I have downloaded onto USB flash drives which then allow us to see the videos on our T.V. via our Android TV Box, I just may start seeking such material out.
I am going to bring this post to a close, for I expect that there are to be no changes to my day. I have been entertaining the fantasy of getting out yet this day and doing that additional shopping that I spoke of earlier, but I know that I will not. The destination store is two miles from here, and it closes in 1½ hours. I would need to start psyching myself up for the hike, and that in itself would require a half hour or more.
Then I would feel some urgency to push myself to get to the store in time, and my foot would not appreciate that. Even here in the house while I am barefooted, I have to consciously rise up a little on the ball of the foot when I walk (just as I naturally do with my good right foot), for otherwise my inclination is to get about with what is basically a flat-footed walking style.
By the way, concerning that photo at the top of this post ─ I have no information at all concerning it. I found it at a Russian website that seemed to be talking about worldwide sex tourism, and was quite in awe of the young woman's nicely muscled legs. Nevertheless, it's a shame anyone has to feel compelled to take up this sort of hustling in order to make a decent living ─ if indeed that is what she was involved in.
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