Due to my younger brother not showing up last evening until at least 9:50 p.m., we were to only watch an episode each of two of the T.V. series that we follow in common: Chicago PD and Endeavour.
Of note concerning that latter series, I thought that we were about to witness the penultimate episode of the entire long series, for there was just one further episode listed. But I now see at Wikipedia that there will be one last season of three episodes. Likely, they will begin airing no sooner than September.
Anyway, with the episode finished and the midnight hour underway by 10 or 15 minutes, it supposedly became bedtime.
My brother sensibly retired, but I was to immerse myself into corruption and not get to bed until nearly 4 a.m. My wife, who had worked the full day at the Thai restaurant where she has part-time employment, never got home until around 3 a.m., but we have separate bedrooms and I doubt that she suspected that I was yet up.
Alas, morning arrived far too soon. I made a time check just after 8 a.m., and may have expended 15 - 20 minutes more vainly seeking some further sleep, but I then gave it up. My brother had emerged from his bedroom during my wakeful period and gone downstairs to have coffee and watch T.V., so around 8:50 a.m. I joined him.
When he very soon turned the T.V. over to me so that I could put our Android TV Box into action, I led us off with an hour-long Organic Consumers Association video that was uploaded to YouTube on June 16: Monsanto's War in Ukraine - Mitchel Cohen - The Secret Military History of Monsanto.
Our guest for the inaugural broadcast was Mitchel Cohen, editor of the book, The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides, and author of the article, “War Within the War: The Fight Over Land and Genetically Engineered Agriculture.”
That interview by Alexis Baden-Mayer of her guest Mitchel Cohen is the short version ─ the full 1:33:15 version can be found here at Rokfin.
Mitchel Cohen may be a wonderful investigative writer, but a good speech-maker he definitely is not. That was compounded by how weary I soon became from my inadequate sleep. But as my brother also commented, Mitchel wasn't revealing a whole lot that was newsworthy to us. We already know how corrupt the U.S. government and its agencies are; and how so many major corporations of today are virtually the same ones that helped Nazi Germany nearly win World War II.
The next video we watched was just over 1¼ hours (1:16:56) in duration, and was uploaded by Tessa Lena to Rumble on June 9 or 10: Klaus Schwab and the Origins of WEF: Tessa Lena Talks to Johnny Vedmore.
Article: https://tessa.substack.com/p/johnny-vedmore
Johnny Vedmore: https://johnnyvedmore.com https://unlimitedhangout.com/author/johnnyvedmoregmail-com/
Make Language Great Again https://makelanguagegreatagain.com
This is the second time within a week that my brother and I have seen Johnny Vedmore as someone's guest. He can be quite entertaining, and is never short for words. And since I now see that Tessa interviewed Johnny five or so days ago, I have now added that to our viewing list.
The final video we were to watch was a June 18 upload to Rumble by Pastor Michael Thiessen (Liberty Coalition Canada): Dr. Glenn Sunshine: Obey God, Defy Tyrants! - Protestant Resistance Theory.
On this episode of Open Mike, Mike discusses the rich history of Protestant Resistance Theory with Dr. Glenn Sunshine, founder of Every Square Inch Ministries (https://www.esquareinch.com/), professor emeritus of history at the Central Connecticut State University, Research Fellow of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, and a Senior Fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.
I do wish that I was not as drowsy as I was for this hour-long (1:02:00) interview, for I am very much interested in the conflict that many so-called Christians profess to have when it comes to defying the government and health authorities, for so many so-called Christians blindly accept that the Bible proclaims that we are required to be essentially obedient to "Caesar".
My brother did not quite make it through to the end of that final video, for he sought some bed rest ere heading off for the afternoon and early evening to engage his daily 'socializing'.
My wife had today off work, so I was able to have some conversation with her even though she did not rise until I was seeking a very short early afternoon nap, and she later left for the day during the latter afternoon.
I learned that she had attended a wake for an elderly (90 or so years old) Chinese chap she has known for some time now, and that contributed to her late night.
Anyway, when she left, she said that she did not know if she would be home again tonight, or if she would not show up until after she finished work tomorrow ─ another full workday for her.
So we shall see what befalls.
My final words relate to the weather today. It has been primarily overcast, but at times I have seen some blue sky and even sunshine. We had some rain last evening, and maybe some overnight ─ I am unsure. But none today as yet.
I will not be undertaking another overnight walk until early Friday, so I will be sitting up this evening awaiting my brother's homecoming so that we can catch some further T.V.
Perhaps I will also mention an interesting involvement that I had this afternoon with a jumping spider that I noticed quite high on a wall in my bedroom, possibly yesterday. I quite like these kinds of spiders. They don't tend to give me the creeps like the larger nesting varieties of spiders.
This one was a little larger than the type I am accustomed to, which are a sort of striped grey-and-white. This one was perhaps a very dark brown.
Anyway, I was seated here at my computer when I felt something substantial fall against my bared arm ─ it was a similar feeling one might have if a housefly bumped against one's arm.
It only took me a few seconds to have come into my mind that maybe it was the jumping spider ─ perhaps it had fallen from the ceiling.
So I looked carefully at the carpet, not wanting to accidentally step on the critter.
All I had at hand to capture it with was a small empty vitamin bottle ─ opaque and dark brown plastic with a green plastic lid.
So I got the bottle, and cautiously placed the cap to one side of the still spider, and the bottle mouth to the other. My intention was to shepherd the spider into the small dark bottle.
Well, the spider instead climbed into the underside of the plastic lid.
It wasn't displaying any alarm, so I decided to just take it as it was downstairs and to the backyard sundeck sliding glass door where I would release the little fellow or gal. I held the lid such that the spider was contained within it as if the lid was itself a small vessel.
I had just started down the stairs when the spider immediately climbed right out of the lid and onto my thumb, and then moved up to the back of my hand.
I didn't freak out, but I did wonder if there was a possibility that it could sense that it was standing on some large, living creature, and that it might panic and give me a nip ─ or just do so out of curiosity if it was at all hungry.
Neither event occurred ─ the spider was behaved, content enough to just sit atop the back of my hand as it assessed matters, I suppose.
So I got it to the sliding glass door, opened it and the outer screen door, and then placed my hand near to the removable cushioned cover of a deck chair that was immediately outside the doorway.
No problem. The spider took right to the cushion fabric, and that was where I left it.
I doubt that there was much in the way of prey here in my bedroom, so by now it was likely becoming a wee bit hungry. Outside, there are all manner of small things for the spider to come across and make a meal of.
My day's good deed!
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