This is the third consecutive day in which cloud cover has prevailed, and sunning is impossible.
Despite what I wrote in yesterday's post ─ which was that I had no intention of sitting up until midnight with my brother, operating our Android TV Box to locate episodes of series we follow in common; I also said that I planned to set my cellphone alarm for 4 a.m. ─ I failed to be sufficiently vigilant in watching for his homecoming from wherever he had gone to 'socialize' early that afternoon.
He managed to get his van parked and came directly into the house ere I realized, catching me unawares where I was lounging in the living room.
Resigned to my fate, I first led us off with an episode of Chicago Fire, and then one of American Ninja Warrior. We finished things with an episode of The Conners. That latter was the experimental season four premiere episode.
Overall, I enjoyed two cans of the strong (8% alcohol) malt that I attempt to keep in supply.
And so it was probably at least 12:30 a.m. before I got to bed, with my cellphone alarm set for 4:30 a.m.
Most fortunately, I slept quite well, and the consequence of that was that I did not feel especially ill-slept when my alarm sounded. And although I did not get away ahead of 6 a.m. like I would have preferred, it was no later than 6:02 a.m.
My destination was the Real Canadian Superstore outlet (Google Map) here in Surrey, and which would be an approximate 5.625-mile round trip hike.
I suppose the only remarkable feature of the outing was having to walk past a fairly recently dead skunk on the Fraser Highway ─ I might estimate its precarious resting place to be around the 13900 block (Google Map). Its situation was on the opposite side of the highway during my trip to the supermarket; but on my trip back for home, I had to pass right by the unfortunate creature. Had both hands not been toting my purchases, I likely would have photographed it. At that point, the scant traffic was efficiently avoiding desecrating the corpse, unlike whatever was the original vehicle that slew the poor thing.
I was probably home again by 8:25 a.m., and maybe back to bed by 8:45 - 9 a.m. for a little further good sleep. I probably roused and got up again by 10:15 a.m., fully expecting that my brother likely already had the T.V. running. However, he proved to still be working his way through the Sunday morning edition of The Province that I subscribe to.
This was to enable me to be primed to turn on the T.V. once he was finished with the paper, giving me rights to immediately set our Android TV Box into play.
Initially I tuned in an hour-long (59:08) Organics Consumers July 5 upload to YouTube: Big Pharma Versus Your Vitamins: Interview with Gretchen DeBeau. Alas, I had to tune it out after maybe 25 minutes because my small-minded brother complained that it was boring. He constantly fails to fathom the larger implications until the portended realities are already upon us.
Next I tuned in a July 10 upload to Rumble by The Crowhouse (Max Igan) that was well over an hour long (1:11: 41): THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM.
In my view, Max needs to focus on what's actually happening, and not drift off into his metaphysical biases, which smacks of nonsense to me. This idea of a cyclical "Mud Flood" every 140 - 180 years that causes a "Great Reset" by eliminating most of the human race is ludicrous.
Does he have no ancestral continuity? He doesn't look like a 'spring chicken' born relatively recently who might be forgiven for believing such fantastic speculation, but those of us who are older have our own grandparents who were born in the 1800s and who never mentioned anything about worldwide 'mud floods' devastating everything and removing most of the population.
Their parents would have reported any such event, as would their grandparents. But there is nothing.
Get real.
The final video I tuned in was actually one I downloaded back in the Spring ─ the second episode ("An English Empire") of the three-episode documentary series The Plantagenets. We had watched the first episode back then, and now today I have downloaded the final episode onto a flash or thumb drive for some future date's viewing on T.V. through our Android TV Box. Thus far, episodes seem available on media platforms like Dailymotion and maybe Vimio.
My brother left quite early in the afternoon to engage his daily 'socializing', and will not be back until sometime this evening. Shortly after he left, I sought yet another needed nap, else I would have been unable to cope with working on this post ─ my eyes were burning.
And they still are. I never seem able to sleep to full restoration.
I have nothing planned for early tomorrow, so I will be able to sit up late this evening.
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