Canadian Trucker Convoys Galore!

'Twill be a short post this relatively sunny day, albeit the morning was foggy for a fifth consecutive day.

My wife had to work the full day at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time (with an 11 a.m. start), so I was not impinged by her presence where my scant blogging time is concerned. There were a couple of other factors that were at play.

For one, I needed to seek my afternoon nap twice. The first time, I was hovering in slumberland when I became aware that the doorbell had sounded, so I rose in order to get downstairs to surreptitiously peek and see if by chance it was a package delivery (and not some undesired other nuisance visitor).

However, my younger brother was still home and had answered the door; and as I listened, I caught the gist that although there was indeed a package with this address, there was a charge of over $150 (or even over $160) due ... and no one specific was identified on the address as the recipient.

I recalled that my youngest stepson has in the past had a package delivered to him under the pseudonym of "Dream something-or-other".

Since my brother was unwilling to deal further with the delivery, he told the carrier that he was going to fetch me to cope with it, thereby washing his hands of any involvement.

So I had to accept delivery and pay for the darned thing.

And yes, it did turn out to be something that my youngest stepson had ordered. When he came home from work later in the afternoon, he said that he would transfer the owed money back into my chequing account.

He also said that there might be another package coming tomorrow from the same source that he thinks he did pay for.

But why the hell do these infernal interruptions always have to come when I am attempting a nap? It's either something like a delivery; or else it is a call or text from my wife.

In any case, my brother soon enough left for the afternoon, and I then sought a more complete nap because I felt too weary to deal with any of the duties still before me, including a session of exercising.

And so I lost more time lying in my bed ─ time that I otherwise would have been able to use in the final touch-up to the post I was wanting to publish today at my hosted website My Retirement Dream.  

Certainly I did work upon that post following my second nap, but it took awhile ─ and Thailand Aanbiedingen is the final result.

Make of that what you will, but I will at least explain that "aanbiedingen" is Dutch for "offers" or "deals".

When that was finally out of the way (I had originally begun the post back in September), I broke to have that mentioned session of exercising. And now I am making this short post.

Since the Freedom Convoy 2022 involving thousands of Canadian (and even American) truckers all bound for Ottawa to confront our corrupt Canadian government and its leader (idiot and cowardly Crime Minister Trudope) is making worldwide news, I am going to link to the Odessa Orlewicz video that my brother and I watched this morning ─ it was over 1¼ hours in duration: Jan 26 - Attention BC'ers! Convoy To Downtown Vancouver THIS Saturday!

This was Odessa's description:

I interview Mr. Stacy Midgley one of the truckers organizing the truckers convoy heading downtown Vancouver THIS SATURDAY Jan 29th  to take back BC. This is a last minute convoy for those truckers and residents that could not go to Ottawa. He is asking that ALL BC residents come to this and support them either as a part of the convoy or on the sides of the roads and bridges with signs and decorations or just YOU! I also interview Keith MacIntyre the leader of the BC Libertarian Party about the work he is doing with BC businesses to say NO MORE!!

Amen to all of that!

The video included three other guests: truckers Jason Bradbury and Jon Esselink, and a woman who only identified for some reason as "Theresa".  

That local or limited Fraser Valley convoy setting off tomorrow will apparently be doing so at 10 a.m. from Langley:

My older half-sister Phyllis and her adult daughter live in the Langley area, so this afternoon I E-mailed her the above notice in case she felt like at least witnessing that inauguration of the local convoy. I do not drive, so I won't be going.

Something else of deep interest concerning Saturday is that the leadership or organizers of the truckers involved in the national convoy have announced that they want Canadians to unite this Saturday and refuse to wear a face mask anywhere that one has been mandated.

I've just found out that there is also an Alberta provincial convoy geared up to go on this coming Saturday ─ check out this Facebook post: Alberta Convoy to Legislature.  

Yup! Things are getting plenty interesting here in Canada!