No sunshine today ─ lots of rain, though.
It took a lot of time, but last evening I finally got the tax returns for my wife and I completed and filed via the free GenuTax software that I downloaded maybe three years ago. One only has to update it each year to have the latest schedules and such, as well as the programming specific to the new tax year.
Now all I have to do is hope that I put in all of the required information that I had on hand, and selected the correct options.
I think that it was well past 8 p.m. ─ maybe even nearer 9 p.m. ─ before I submitted the two returns. But provided that all is well, my wife will get a refund for the first time in three years. However, the refund will probably go directly to her income tax debt for those couple of past years.
If my own return is accurate, then my refund is sufficiently large that I am feeling somewhat confident now that I will be able to cope with the three upcoming large annual home-related billings that loom ─ the first of which (annual utilities) is due April 3.
The largest of the upcoming nightmare billings will be in three months for annual property taxes.
Believe me, seeing that substantial refund figure last evening assuaged all of my stress, and I actually felt energized thereafter and did not need to rest as I awaited my younger brother's homecoming from his daily socializing.
When he did show up in the neighbourhood of 9:30 p.m., he was stupid drunk. The first show I tuned in for us to watch was an episode of The Flash, and he was passed out not five minutes after sitting down.
He was still out early into the next show I located a source for ─ a February 1963 black & white movie in the old British Edgar Wallace Mysteries series: On the Run.
I located a source for the movie (not quite an hour in length) at this link at OK.ru.
It was a quaintly enjoyable feature; but as with so many of these sub-hour movies on Edgar Wallace Mysteries, they end before any budding romances get to play out to the viewer's satisfaction. We never get to know if a relationship was maintained and endured, usually after the misunderstood villain (who is a decent guy) goes into ─ or even back into ─ police custody.
That can be frustrating.
My brother only missed some of the beginning, but his wits were so reduced I have no idea what he got out of the show ─ nor the next one that I tuned in, the second part of a 2006 Christmas special (a T.V. movie) of Doc Martin titled "On the Edge".
I had been able to locate a source for the first half of that T.V. movie the previous evening, but there was no second half offered.
I finally found it available as episode 10 of season two at this link at H2Movies.to. But what a bugger dealing with annoying commercial pop-ups!
My brother and I were to watch nothing else last night.
This morning when we got together for some further T.V., I again put our Android TV Box t work and led us off with yesterday's addition to Rumble's A Warrior Calls channel: The People Rise, We Will End This Evil.
It was over 1¼ hours in duration, and as is usually the case, it was an array of various subject matter that would take too long to try and detail.
We were to also watch a number of short older videos from last year on Rumble's The Why Files channel, including a much longer one that was 22 minutes in duration: The evidence we are living in a Simulation is everywhere. All you have to do is look.
PROOF THAT EVERYTHING - IS A SIMULATION (Including God)
Is this reality? Well, we're experiencing ... something right now so maybe the better question is: *what* is reality?
Could everything we see, everything we experience, everything that exists in our entire universe -- be artificial?
Supporters of Simulation Theory believe that not only is it *possible* that we're living in a simulation; it's likely.
And the more we look for evidence, the more we find.
Philip K Dick believed deja vu was the simulation adjusting to new code. Many people experience The Mandela Effect, a or "false memory" shared by a large number of people.
But the biggest clues of Simulation Theory come from science. Specifically: quantum mechanics. The only way the Double-Slit Experiment makes sense is if we live in a program. Quantum Entanglement also defies logic. Only our program would have the ability to defy the laws of physics - and the concept of time.
Let's find out why.
I did not comprehend much of this one ─ it was far too speculative for my liking, and too much of it was so hurried over that sufficient explanation was not provided.
We even had time to watch another 2018 YouTube vlog at the excellent Swedish homesteading channel Talasbuan.
And I think that essentially covers our morning entertainment. I never sought my backyard tool shed exercising until after my brother sought his bed rest before he left for the day to again socialize, beginning with games of pool at a pub with one of his drinking buddies ("Ross", I believe).
Now for some Rome, Italy, photos. My wife has been visiting a sister of hers who lives there ─ gosh, it was the evening of January 23 that my wife's flight left YVR.
She uploaded these first two to her Facebook account at 12:40 p.m. yesterday ─ Pacific Time Zone; in Rome, it would have been 8:40 p.m. in the evening. I have no idea who the very lovely woman is with my wife in the second photo:
And I see that I have no time for others ─ my evening is already upon me, and I do not wish to become involved with my brother, for I want to get to bed fairly early so that I can rise at 2 a.m. for one of my night walks of a minimum of five miles.
There were a couple of video clips as well, so I will try to post them all tomorrow if I am still around to blog.
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