There was no post here yesterday because I simply did not feel up to it in the late afternoon and early evening. For the third consecutive sunny day, I had sat outside (this time beginning at 2:48 p.m.) in a lawn- or deckchair for just over 40 minutes, facing directly into the Sun, and attired in just a pair of shorts.
The original intention had been to lie on a narrow pad on the grass and thereby expose my back (which is still Winter-pale), but my wife was to have a package delivered at some point that day, so I felt I needed to sit so that I could have a view of the front screen door.
Towards that end, I had left the actual front door open. The delivery is supposed to be non-contact and through DHL, so it was very possible that the package would be left outside the door without me otherwise being aware.
I was home alone, and there was no one's vehicle parked outside to offer some discouragement of theft should some passerby be so inclined.
Despite the projected delivery claim that the package would be here by "end of day", it was never delivered at all.
So now I am confronted with the same predicament today if the package isn't here before I am left home alone come the early afternoon. My wife will have to leave here this morning to begin her bus commute to work if she has her usual 11 a.m. Friday start. My youngest stepson has already left for work as I type these words at 9:17 a.m.; and his older brother has an afternoon shift that commences at 2:30 p.m., so he will leave on his fairly long drive if the shift still stands.
And of course, my younger brother will be away before mid-afternoon to ultimately get back into his daily beer-drinking somewhere.
Since the day is once again cloud-free and gorgeously sunny, I will be out in the backyard once more to sun myself. But if the package has not arrived by then, I will be compelled to have a fourth consecutive day of it sunning just my front so that I can peer directly through the house from back to the open front door in order to keep vigilant for the arrival of that darned package.
With no vehicles parked here, having only the screen door ─ which is actually mostly glass ─ closed at the front is also an invitation to any potential intruders, so it is therefore imperative that I keep myself positioned in the backyard with a view directly through the house, and I will be unable to do that if I am lying down on the lawn to expose my back to the Sun.
The entrance into the house from the rear is elevated ─ I need to be seated in order to have that view.
So that is where I find myself once again.
And since I never really had anything else to blog about yesterday, skipping the activity did not feel like an untoward decision. I instead watched some early evening T.V. (an episode of Parenthood) while enjoying a beer.
I was probably to bed by 9:30 or 10 p.m. at the arrival home of my brother, and I managed a little napping before checking the time around 12:14 a.m. and rising again. My brother was by then newly shut up in his bedroom for the night. My wife was also home ─ she had shown up at some point while I was abed, but she refrained from disturbing me.
She knows my routine.
Alas, I was not to have time to put any planned work into the post I am developing at one of my two hosted websites. Instead, I became so deeply involved in research and then responses to two or three E-mails from my older maternal half-sister that I expended all of my available time for the website work. I was left with just time enough to work on a post in my private blog.
And eventually I was back to bed not much ahead of 5 a.m.
I might have managed more sleep this morning than I did, but smartly at 8 a.m. ─ just as happened yesterday ─ CIBC phoned. I never took the unwanted call, for they have been phoning a few times daily since first leaving a couple of automated calls on Wednesday on our landline answering machine.
The messages claimed that the call related to "an important banking matter" and was not any sort of promotion or related spiel, but their idea of what is important will most definitely not align with my own.
And to be calling at 8 a.m.? They can go to blazes! I will not ever be taking such calls. At the best of times I have no desire to be speaking with anyone at a bank; but I certainly do not choose to do so when I am not even seeking the conversation, but having it thrust upon me!
Okay, my wife has now risen ─ it is 9:40 a.m. This post will now undergo a hiatus until the late afternoon when I resume work on it.
The poor girl looked so frail as she left to seek her bus ─ it was deeply touching for me.
My brother and I spent the latter morning together watching T.V. via our Android TV Box. I led things off with a reasonably interesting 50-minute video recorded yesterday featuring the Liberty Coalition Canada: Coalition Canada End the Lockdown Caucus - Press Conference April 15th 2021.
Unfortunately for those of us who are exclusively Anglophone, a good segment of it was in French.
The four speakers from the group included Derek Sloan, Randy Hillier, Maxime Bernier, and Pastor Michael Thiessen. The untranslated French came during the post-speeches questions session which had a disproportionate amount of Francophones calling in.
My brother and I only watched shows until 12:30 p.m., then he supposedly sought some bed rest. However, in short order he emerged from his bedroom and soon enough left for the afternoon to ultimately resume his daily drinking somewhere.
It was indeed another spectacularly sunny day, and I got a somewhat earlier start on my afternoon sunning once my eldest stepson left for work. Beginning at 1:53 p.m., I was to put in at least 45 minutes seated out there in the backyard lawn, keeping watch through the open house for the delivery I spoke of earlier that has yet to come as I type these words at 6:15 p.m. Yet the DHL website still claims that the delivery is estimated to occur yesterday, even though this statement has been added:
Clearance processing complete at BRITISH COLUMBIA - CANADA : Friday, April 16, 2021 at 13:03
Note that the package is going to be very large and heavy, and was originally shipped from Bangkok, Thailand.
I know that the delivery might still happen today ─ we have had evening deliveries before.
My wife wants me to text her as soon as it shows up, for a wee portion of it relates to an order that a customer of hers is anxious to receive. (My wife has a sideline as an agent for Thailand's The iCon Group, producers of various health-related products.)
I want to watch some T.V. this early evening before my brother returns, and to also enjoy a beer (or maybe two) while doing so. Consequently, I am going to bring this post to a close.
I first want to make the observation that our sunny weather is projected to continue throughout the weekend and maybe include even Monday before a return of some clouds by Tuesday at latest; then by Thursday and even Friday, we are expected to have some rain.
At least with the coming of tomorrow, my eldest stepson won't have to go to work and I should finally be able to lie out in the backyard and finally expose the back of me to the Sun. After four days of exclusively sunning my front, I honestly look a little ridiculous.
And since I am shaven-headed, this lopsided colouring includes my scalp ─ it's Winter-pale at the rear and the back of my neck, but I am practically sunburned of face, forehead, and the frontal portion of my scalp.
I would like to have more equalized colouring before I next leave home to go and do any shopping.
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