We are having quite the sunny afternoon for the most part. There was rain overnight, however, and an overcast morning. Huge clouds do still loom in the distance.
My wife showed up well ahead of 5 p.m., so I do not have time to write much.
I sat up until into the latter midnight hour last night, but I shall not be doing so tonight ─ I would like to rise at 3 a.m. and get myself out on a good walk of a little better than five miles. I cannot stand the busy day ─ I keep myself in self-imposed house arrest. Although, since I am being forced to do this by the loathing I feel of my overdeveloped and overpopulated environs, perhaps it is far truer to claim that I truly am under house arrest.
Of some morning viewing interest, my brother and I watched a 50-minute YouTube lecture by authour David Grann of his non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon. I see now that later this year a movie will be released bearing the same name, since it is supposedly based upon the book.
I am rather surprised that my brother and I have so little familiarity with the Osage people / nation, considering what we learned of them in that YouTube talk.
And considering the claim being made in this paragraph from the Wikipeida article on the Osage Nation, their obscurity to us is even more bewildering:
The 19th-century painter George Catlin described the Osage as "the tallest race of men in North America, either red or white skins; there being ... many of them six and a half, and others seven feet." The missionary Isaac McCoy described the Osage as an "uncommonly fierce, courageous, warlike nation" and said they were the "finest looking Indians I have ever seen in the West".
Is or was this actually true of the Osage?
The only other feature we were to watch was a very long (over 2½ hours) episode of Del Bigtree's The HighWire that was uploaded to Rumble on March 24: Episode 260: WINNERS, SINNERS, & THE DEATH OF A GENERATION.
My brother gave up on it with over 20 minutes to go, for it was nearly 12:45 p.m. and he wanted some bed rest ere heading off for the afternoon to 'socialize' somewhere. I took his withdrawal as my own cue to cut away from the production and soon sought my own nap.
He was gone when I later rose.
The only other item I am going to take the time to mention is that my income tax refund seems to have been direct deposited into my chequing account. It's not quite $970, but I hope my wife will leave it alone because we are going to need it for the three big upcoming annual billings related to home ownership: annual utilities; home insurance; and property taxes.
That last one is going to be truly brutal.
The tax refund showed up especially promptly, for I only NETFILEd our tax returns within (I believe) the past 10 days using the free GenuTax Multiyear Tax Software that I have downloaded into this computer.
Unfortunately, my wife owes the government ─ heavily. She also owes for the previous tax year. In total her debt is (I believe) around $3,300.
There are no miracles in my life.
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