My poor wife had to work both yesterday and today at her friend's Thai restaurant ─ full days ─ so she headed off on the goodly drive in plenty of time to make her usual 11 a.m. start both days.
I had been in bed last evening when she arrived home, for I seek to try and nap away as much of the latter evening as I am able in order to fortify me for the several overnight hours in which I sit here at work on my computer.
And so it was that when I heard my wife bidding my younger brother "Sweet dreams!" as he headed to his bedroom for the night, that was my cue to check the time and rise at something like 12:18 a.m.
My wife and her eldest son both remained up quite some while, but I outlasted them both ─ as already said, she was to have to work today, and the 26-year-old lad had his afternoon shift today yet ahead of him.
My return to bed was probably around 5:30 a.m. at latest. My major accomplishment was finally publishing the post I have been working on since mid-May at my website Thai-Iceland.com: Thailand Hard Drive Flooding.
As is usual with my website posts, this one contains well over 30,000 words. However, I know that its audience will be limited, even though I try to include a diversity of referential material that often has nothing whatsoever to do with the post title.
My day was to begin around 8:30 a.m., and my wife rose within a half hour. My brother, of course, was already up.
I waited until around 10 a.m. before joining him for our usual latter morning T.V. together when I put our Android TV Box into action.
Apart from re-watching a fabulously hot Kristen Wiig skit for my brother's sake (Weekend Update: Rebecca Larue the Flirting Expert - SNL), we were to watch "A Modern Farewell", the Modern Family special heralding the long-running series' farewell episode.
And then I followed that up with the first episode of season four of Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father. I had already inadvertently subjected us to the second episode earlier this week (there are only two very long episodes in this specific fourth season).
The second episode was far, far better.
This brought us to 12:30 p.m. at latest ─ maybe only 12:20 p.m.; yet my brother wanted to seek some rest already ere heading away for the afternoon to eventually resume his daily drinking somewhere.
I found myself especially lacking today. After my brother left and I was home alone, I had to nap instead of dealing with a few backyard toolshed exercises and then the sunning session I had planned on for today.
Unfortunately, I did not nap well ─ part of the problem was a bad conscience. I finally had to resign myself to a cancellation of the exercising when I realized that it was after 3:30 p.m. and I was running out of sunshine in the backyard.
So at 3:55 p.m. I sat out there in a pair of swimming trunks and spent just over 40 minutes sunning my front. After that, I had my day's first meal ─ a very small affair. I did not wish to risk weighing myself down with any burdensome feed that might necessitate more time lying in my darned bed.
I was fortunate that a delivery for my wife did not arrive until around 5:45 p.m. We had arranged for it to be left without collection of a signature. As I was at work on this post, I heard the doorbell ring twice in quick succession, and I came down to check, finding the package just sitting outside the door.
Had the delivery occurred while I was sunning, I would never have known, and it might have been in jeopardy. It is a large and heavy package, though, so no one would be picking it up and bearing it very far ─ they would need transportation.
I am going to cut off here as 7 p.m. approaches, for I want to run Spybot and CCleaner to rid my computer of quite a lot of 'junk', and Spybot takes some time to run its scan.
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