I am just about to return to bed ─ I ought to be there by 9:15 a.m., and I have been up since just after 5 a.m. in order to ensure that I would manage to get away to do some early shopping at the nearest Save-On-Foods outlet (Google Map) nigh 1½ miles from here.
I do not drive, so I have to walk. And because I detest being out in the busy public, I try to accomplish these ventures as early as possible on Sunday mornings.
It didn't help that I was up watching T.V. with my younger brother last night until almost midnight, and thus did not get to bed until a little after that hour.
Besides the shopping, I also had the monthly expenses reconciliation cheque (for $203 and change) from my brother to deposit at the outdoor ATM of the Coast Capital Savings headquarters (Google Map) on my hike to the store.
When I rose, I definitely needed the cup of hot black instant coffee that I went downstairs to prepare.
The coffee unquestionably helped. And although I did not take note of the time when I finally left on my hike, I hope that it was not too much after 7 a.m. It was still dark outside and heavily overcast; and there was a very vague mist, but it was not raining.
I got the deposit accomplished. I also shopped. However, I hardly bought anything ─ most of the items I wanted were not in stock. And by that, I mean that the shelves normally containing them were empty, or else sparsely populated.
This was so dramatic that I could only assume that the store was closing down.
When I took my few items to the only cashier on duty, I enquired about the fate of the store. And sure enough, the outlet was indeed closing; however, that was because a new outlet was opening up, apparently as of January 27 at the location shown on this Google Map. If you notice, it is going to almost be a neighbour to the Coast Capital Savings building I made my deposit at.
Coast Capital Savings is perhaps halfway to the Save-On-Foods outlet that I shopped at this morning. Thus, the new Save-On-Foods outlet is going to be a far more attractive option for shopping at, since it will be approximately half the distance away that the present outlet is.
All I have to do is wait until February before bothering to shop there.
I am going to have to get to bed earlier than I have been doing ever since I got home from the hospital ("COVID pneumonia") last October 28. I am not able to get in any walking because I cannot stand being out in the public ─ I have to do it very early in the morning before the day gets busy. And that requires me to be reasonably well slept beforehand.
The bit of walking I put in earlier today was somewhat strenuous, and that is a pathetic admission. But I have not walked that far since before Christmas, and that is inexcusable.
Well, I see that it is now almost 9:30 a.m. Perhaps I will just lie down and rest awhile, for my brother has already begun his morning. He will be reading the Sunday morning edition of The Province that I subscribe to ─ a relatively quick read; and then when he is done, we can watch a couple or so of interesting videos on T.V. via our Android TV Box.
And with that explained, here is where I shall take a break from this post.
And now here it is well into my evening. My brother will be returning home ─ possibly in an hour or so ─ after having left quite early this afternoon to hook up with his girlfriend Bev. I want meantime to try and catch some T.V. and have a supper.
The video of note that we watched in the latter morning was one that had been posted to Rumble on January 10: Reiner Füllmich & 50 lawyers: ”The vaccines are designed to kill and depopulate the planet”. Reiner certainly has some heavy things to say lately!
I am actually just back from a four-block hike to the nearby Shoppers Drug Mart (Google Map) where I blew $114.91 ─ and I was furious with myself after discovering once I was home that I bought two bottles of calcium citrate instead of magnesium citrate.
I don't take calcium supplements ─ most people do not require them. And because most people do not require supplementation, the calcium can accumulate in the wrong places ─ such as blood vessel walls.
So I shun anything containing the stuff.
Nor is it particularly inexpensive. But what is especially bloody galling is that I did the same damned thing a couple or so weeks ago!
Consequently, I now have enough calcium supplements to last me for the remainder of my life, for I have resigned myself to take just two capsules per week, and each of these bottles have 120 capsules.
That's over an 18-year supply at that rate ─ and I am 72 years old, so as said, I probably have a lifetime supply now.
Perhaps I should not have gone shopping after having had two or three ounces of dark rum. I drank the rum while watching the Christmas movie Journey to the Christmas Star.
It was quite a pleasant movie, and I especially liked the young Norwegian actress (Vilde Marie Zeiner) who played the lead character. Wikipedia does not have much to say about the actress, unfortunately, but she would apparently be 22 years old now.
Interestingly, Wikipedia lists actors who played the roles of both Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus, as well as Father Christmas ─ yet I have no recollection of there being any Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus in the film!
I had to watch the movie on my computer at YouTube (here) because I could not find any other working sources for the movie that were in English. I have the YouTube app downloaded into my Android TV Box, but for some reason the video only displays as a dark screen.
I must take my leave now ─ it is after 8 p.m.
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