These past couple of days, Blogger (AdSense) has been fouling my account's balance with considerable abandon.
I hardly ever accumulate any AdSense earnings, so for some months my balance has been stuck at $54.54. However, yesterday I noticed that it had dropped to $39.39 with absolutely no explanation; and now today my balance reads $34.97.
Google disgusts me.
It was nice having my wife home last evening. She was clearly grateful that I was not censuring her for her transgressions as I have talked about in my previous two posts ─ I am not going to dig into it all over again.
With her home, I watched an early evening movie while my brother was away ─ 2012's The Good Witch's Charm (see more at IMDb). As I watched it, I slowly enjoyed the last three or so ounces of some spiced rum I had been keeping.
Darned if the movie didn't start to affect my emotions ─ pangs of nostalgia for people and intimate comforts perhaps forever gone, as well as teary wistfulness for the closeness and bonding that lacks in my marriage and my life and which are apparently destined to nevermore be.
Unlike in the T.V. series where 'Good Witch' Cassandra Nightingale gets married to a surgeon, in the movie she is married to the town Chief of Police and gave birth since the previous movie ─ she had no child of her own in the T.V. series.
I am enjoying these big differences in the same character's fictional life, and will keep watching the movies.
But yes, I felt deep pain at how lacking and void my life is.
Once my younger brother was home towards 10 p.m. from his daily 'socializing', I used our Android TV Box to tune in an episode of Imposters ─ episode seven ("Frog-Bikini-Eiffel Tower") of season one.
My brother normally enjoys the episodes, but last night he opted to pass our for most of the show.
He revived while I was trying to locate a source for our latest episode of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries: 1961's Attempt to Kill. We have watched the releases as listed at Wikipedia from the very first in the series.
We finished off our night's viewing with an episode of Resident Alien ─ episode seven ("The Green Glow") of season one. We love that series!
My wife had to work a full day today at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time, but she didn't retire until around the time that I did ─ it was after 1 a.m. (She and I have separate bedrooms.)
I suppose that she got up this morning around 9:45 a.m. for her shower and whatever else she does to get herself ready for her day and the quite long drive to the restaurant that opens at 11 a.m.
My brother and I were again watching T.V., but our morning's are reserved for a different fare than our evenings. I led us off with Odessa Orlewicz's video of yesterday: Interview With Steve Kirsch.
In 1980, Kirsch and Richard F. Lyon independently invented the first versions of the optical mouse. Kirsch has started several companies. In 1993, he founded the search engine Infoseek, which in 1999 was sold to the Walt Disney Co. He co-founded Frame Technology Corp., bought by Adobe in 1995. In 2002 he was CEO of Propel Software. In 2005 he founded Abaca, which made a spam filter. Sometime before March 2021, Kirsch started M10, which markets blockchains for banks, but the board asked him to step down in the summer of 2021 amid controversy generated by his statements on COVID treatments and vaccines. In May 2021, Kirsch posted an article online questioning COVID-19 vaccines affect on fertility. In October 2021, Kirsch founded Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (VSRF.) Kirsch and his wife, Michele, fund a charitable foundation, which by 2007 had given $75 million to different causes. In 2007, his personal fortune was estimated at $230 million, that same year he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and funded research into experimental treatments for it, eventually refocusing the family foundation on medical research.
The 1¼-hour (1:16:08) video is also supposed to be available at Odessa's Bitchute and her Rumble channels.
My brother and I only watched one further video ─ the two-hour (2:04:52) fifth episode at Rumble of Out of Babylon with David Straight.
These videos do not offer precise details, but they are tantalizing enough as to what is possible ─ maybe even here in Canada for Canadians.
Thereafter my brother and I each sought naps. He would be busing off in the early afternoon to rendezvous with at least one of his drinking buddies at a pub.
Today was again sunny, so at 2:06 p.m. I began just over an hour and 20 minutes of sunning in a par of cut-offs. The Sun is definitely declining, and soon there will not be much opportunity to do any sunning in our backyard ─ the Sun's transit will be too swift, even if there are any cloud-free days. Summer is definitely dying.
I have an early a.m. walk planned, so I may try to get to bed as soon after 9 p.m. as I feel able, for I am considering starting to get up at 2 a.m. for these walks. I find that rising at 2:30 a.m. and even managing to be away by 2:45 a.m. finds me coming back home whilst the earliest commuters are already starting to be abroad.
If I am able to be away by 2:15 a.m., then my walks of between 5¼ to maybe even six miles may see me avoiding the commuting early birds.
It is already well past 8 p.m., so I must cease blogging for today.
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