With my wife home all day yesterday, I had no time nor inclination to blog. I never even took advantage of considerable afternoon sunshine to sit out in the backyard to soak up some sunshine.
My last post neglected to mention that my younger brother and I had watched (not necessarily that day) the series finale of the British comedy series White Gold.
Good riddance ─ there was nothing uplifting at all about the series. Why would anyone think that making a character like the treacherous, greedy, and disloyal Vincent Swan the lead role would lead to a long-running series?
None of the characters had anything like nobility, except perhaps "Carol, the secretary at Cachet Windows", who seemed to be the only person capable of looking beyond herself.
I realize that having a cad or even a cadette (as rather deftly played in the T.V. series Fleabag) as the lead character in a series can sometimes pay off, but I couldn't do aught but despise Vincent Swan. He was a snake and did not warrant promotion.
But enough of that series. Let me speak of today.
My wife had to work the full day at the Thai restaurant where she works part-time, so she had to leave here around 10 a.m. to catch a bus ─ her three-month driving suspension is still in effect.
I was about to commence watching two hours of T.V. with my younger brother via out Android TV Box; specifically, I had two of Odessa Orlewicz's latest videos in mind.
The first was just over 1¼ hours long and featured a guest whom I only learned of a couple of days ago at most. The video, however ─ as is the second one as well ─ has not yet been added to Odessa's website Librti.com, so I am only going to be able to link to its present location on YouTube where I know it will not likely be available for long due to YouTube censorship: Liberty Talk May 20th- I Interview Tyler Nicholson A Canadian Hero Going To Court To Keep YOU Free.
I am feeling moved to make a donation to Tyler's impending court case.
I have to confess that when I first saw this chap if it was indeed two days ago, I did not at first find myself responding favourably to him, but he gradually won me over. I initially thought that he was probably absolutely brim-full of himself and probably arrogant. After all, he did look and sound like actor Jason Momoa, albeit without all of Jason's brawn.
In the comments to the video, someone remarked, "Please quit interrupting..."
I also had to quell some upset at Odessa for that same recurrent fault as my brother and I watched the video.
The second video was just over a half hour in duration: Liberty Talk Episode - EXPLOSIVE Document From UK Website Accidenatally Shown!!
I feel that it is better that Odessa stop using her cellphone as part of her programme ─ the audio is never adequate. She should not have bothered with an interview until she had a means of better communication with her guest.
My brother may have gotten an education from the interview, but I did not. I read Dr. Joseph Mercola's latest articles every singe day, and thus the frightening details of what will ultimately constitute the vaccine passport were basically old terrain for me.
My brother has no understanding of how to use a computer, so such articles are inaccessible to him. I often forget just how much he may not actually be aware of.
For whatever reason, he wanted to head away for the afternoon especially early today, so he knocked off with the T.V.-watching at noon in order to have a brief rest in his bedroom. He probably left here by around 1 p.m.
The afternoon became sufficiently sunny that I could have taken some Sun in the backyard, but instead I deliberately directed my feet toward dissolution instead. That, and an extended texting engagement with Doug, my cousin in Edmonton; and then a reply to an E-mail from a former co-worker at Revenue Canada from the early 1990s who I learned is now presently in New Zealand, all wiped out my time.
And once I had my day's first meal in the second half of the afternoon, I needed to lie down and then slipped into a bit of a nap.
I had actually first E-mailed that former co-worker ─ Dan ─ yesterday. I wanted to let him know that I had discovered that another former co-worker of ours had died back in 2016: Bob Phaneuf. I had come across Bob's obituary while seeking some information on him in a bid to reconnect.
Bob's birth date was just over a year and four months after my own, so I was slightly his elder. I don't know Dan's age, but he is considerably younger than I am.
I want to wrap up this post because it is already 8 p.m. However, I would like to report a recent genealogical discovery that I made in relation to my great grandfather, who came from a huge family of siblings.
It seems that two of his sisters were aboard the French ocean liner SS La Bourgogne that sank in July 1898. The two ladies ─ hailing from Montreal ─ had left aboard the ship in New York, bound for a Franciscan monastery or some such where they were intending to go into lifelong service to the Lord as nuns.
As the description just below states, only one woman and absolutely no children survived that sinking.
The death toll told its own story. Of 506 passengers on board La Bourgogne only 70 were rescued, as compared with 103 members of the crew out of a total of 220. Only three of the La Bourgogne’s eighteen officers survived, indicating that they at least had remained faithful to their responsibilities. Most telling of all is that only one woman survived and none of the children on board. Later reports, which may or may not have been true, indicated that crew members had stabbed passengers in the water, or had beaten them away with oars, to avoid the lifeboats being swamped. Public indignation was so high that La Bourgogne’s surviving crew members needed police protection when they landed at New York to save them from being lynched.
Okay, that's it for today.
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