Despite my intention to rise early this a.m. in order to get away on the approximate three-mile rectangular hike that I have laid out, I never got to bed last night until well into the midnight hour. Initially I had set my cellphone alarm for 4 a.m., but when I realized just how late my bedtime was, I retreated it an hour ─ i.e., 5 a.m.
My wife was still not home at the time.
I got to sleep, and eventually was awake enough to hear the sounds of someone having entered the house, but I never checked the time. Her eldest son is working a 12-hours shift, and had left for work yesterday afternoon, so I figured that the noise could just as easily have been him arriving home.
Sleep resumed; and then when next I was awake enough to be curious on the time ─ for I am not all that comfortable about going on my walks if I am at risk of confronting the start of a busy workday hereabouts ─ I was surprised to see that it was something like 4:02 a.m.
So what the heck ─ why not just get up then if I was already awake, just as had been my original intention?
And so I did.
I had to put up with a fairly light rain, but I got my walk accomplished.
Early into it, I saw what was likely a panhandler hanging about a 7-Eleven. Then maybe three-quarters of a mile from home, I had a skunk cross the road just a very short distance ahead of me. Once I was to King George Boulevard and near to the SkyTrain, I first saw a security guard patrolling the King George Hub complex, and at least a couple of people already waiting for the SkyTrain gates to open ─ the SkyTrain used to start up from the King George Station (Google Map) at something like 5:06 a.m. back in 2010 when I last had to use it to get to work.
Almost opposite from the King George Station on the other side of the King George, there were a couple of guys in a bus shelter who had quite loud music playing; one of them had with him what was probably a mountain bike. So rather than pass by directly in front of them, I chose to take the sidewalk just in back of the shelter. I doubted that the pair were awaiting a bus, and were probably indigents.
From the King George I turned left onto Old Yale Road / 104th Avenue and meant to take a left at a paved walkway that takes one from the intersection of University Drive & Old Yale Road (Google Map), but approximately halfway there I heard a male voice yell very loudly from that area. Sometimes there are homeless people sheltering in that immediate vicinity.
Not wishing to confront any bad surprises, I took instead another paved walkway that was well before, and which allowed me to eventually access the walkway I had been after, but this time well beyond the area I wanted to avoid.
That walkway of course led me to 100th Avenue; and just a short distance from there at approximately the 13300 block (Google Map), there is a connecting stretch of brief roads and paved walkways that lead directly to A.H.P. Matthew Park ─ my next destination. If you zoom in on that Google Map that I linked to, you can see the various paved walkways linking to the very short stretches of roads.
Anyway, I had just begun walking down that first short stretch of road and was at the 99A Avenue cul-de-sac (Google Map) when I again encountered what I suspect was the same skunk crossing my trajectory once more. I had first encountered it approximately at 134th Street & 98A Avenue (Google Map), so conceivably, it may even have been a different skunk.
Upon arriving home, my eldest stepson was still not home, and that remained so until I finally returned to bed ─ possibly a little after 7 a.m.
I was not to rise again until something like 9:14 a.m., at which time I was to soon join my younger brother to watch some videos via our Android TV Box.
Anybody interested in watching some very recent videos featuring various of the truckers who had been involved in the Ottawa Freedom Convoy 2022 should check out The Truth Matters Part 1 (2½ hours) and The Truth Matters Part 2 (almost two hours).
The host is Kyle Cardinal, one of the primary Ottawa Freedom Convoy 2022 livestreamers.
I have not watched any of Part 1, but this morning my brother and I watched about 1½ hours of Part 2. As a few of the truckers reported on how spiritually affected and even forever changed they were by what they experienced in Ottawa, my eyes burned with shared emotion.
Once the corrupt cops brutally quashed the Ottawa trucker protest, I felt myself emptied ─ it was as if all burning hope had been drained from me. After all, if something as huge as Freedom Convoy 2022 was made to fall, then how can we ever peacefully defeat the tyrants wielding this sort of power over us?
It was a sickening feeling.
My aching thumb joints have had about enough keyboard pounding for today, so I want to bring this post to a close. Yesterday I had bowed out after declaring that I was going to work at filing the 2021 tax returns for my wife and I, but I discovered that I was still lacking a pair of Digital News Subscription Tax Credit receipts.
The digital news subscription tax credit is a non-refundable tax credit for amounts paid by individuals to a qualified Canadian journalism organization (QCJO) for qualifying subscription expenses after 2019 and before 2025.
I thought that I had them, but not so; and thus I had to contact (online) the Vancouver Sun and The Province to apply for them. Towards mid-afternoon today, they were E-mailed to me, and I then printed them out.
So perhaps I will give my eyes and my thumb joints a bit of a rest and then seek to get those two tax returns filed using the same free GenuTax Multiyear Tax Software that I downloaded and used to file last year.
By the way, I never did see my wife today. It was undoubtedly her whom I heard arriving home last night. She was probably supposed to work a full day today at the Thai restaurant where she has part-time employment. On such days she has an 11 a.m. start, but she never rose this morning.
I took my early afternoon nap and was abed from just before 1 p.m. until just after 2 p.m., but in that time she had evidently risen and left. She's going to be very tired once she gets home after mid-evening later today!
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