It may have been as much as 10:15 p.m. last evening before I went to bed ─ it was not too very long after my younger brother had gotten home from his daily socializing. When I heard him arrive, I shut myself up into my bedroom in order to avoid becoming involved with him, for I would not be watching T.V. ─ my cellphone alarm was set for 4 a.m. to rouse me for a later excursion afoot to do some grocery shopping.
I had earlier watched some T.V. on my own ─ a 2011 Alicia Witt movie titled The Flight of the Swan (also titled 10 Days to Destruction).
To be honest, it was heavily overacted ─ the unbridled emotional extremes were almost ludicrous. Men collapsing to the floor, sometimes unconscious ─ the torrents of outright wailing by male and feamle characters. Sometimes it barely made any sense.
It was utterly unrealistic.
I also did not appreciate the enormous gaps in time that were sometimes years long. I might complain too that the conversation was generally too low, whereas sound effects and thematic music and even songs were excessively loud.
I had scant sympathy for the central character. How he could go from being a virtuous rebel of a young man bravely standing up to torture and even an apparent firing squad, only to eventually become a sort of underling business tycoon for a shady conglomerate to which he devoted such energies that he early on lost his marriage and family life ─ along with his scruples and courage ─ was not anything I could identify with.
As for how the movie ended, all I could surmise was that he was going to lament in such extended emotional torment off in the night atop some rock face where I suspect he once made idyllic love with his wife (as played by Alicia Witt) when he was a young man, that perhaps he was going to bawl himself to death ─ it was that overdone.
The movie began terrifically; but it soon trailed off into sort of a fantasy tale that leapt spans in time until the emotional overacting took over. It became aught but soap opera.
If I gave it three stars out of five, it would only be due to my adoration of Alicia Witt, who was the main supporting character. She was absolutely beautiful.
I was unfamiliar with lead actor James D'arcy, but what I did find of considerable note was that his movie mother was played by Linda Gray while his ultimate corporate boss was played by Larry Hagman ─ Linda and Larry had central roles together in the long-running T.V. series Dallas years ago.
Bluntly, I do not recommend the movie ─ the histrionics are far too much.
By the way, I do not know why the alternate movie title was 10 Days to Destruction ─ the main character began self-destructing when he started to devote himself to his lucrative career at the expense of his loving wife and young kids, and that began at least a couple of decades before the movie's conclusion.
It was fortunate that I was awake when my cellphone alarm sounded, for I barely could hear it. I think that somehow the alarm tone has gotten switched off, and there is only vibrate. Writing about this has reminded me, and I have now switched both the alarm and the ringtone to Twinkle. And for the alarm, I cancelled the vibrate feature. I also jacked up the volume to maximum.
I happen to like Maria Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You", and the Twinkle sound is very similar to the opening melody of that hit song. I am perfectly fine with that!
Anyway, I gave myself plenty of time to prepare myself for my walk to do some shopping, although I did not leave home quite as early as I had meant to ─ it was within 10 minutes of 6 a.m.'s arrival that I left.
I wanted to leave earlier so that I could have a five-mile round trip walk, stopping at the nearest Save-On-Foods as I was returning ─ it is maybe a little under a mile from here. I had written in yesterday's post that I was considering hiking to a more remote chain store that would have given me a 5.625-mile round trip, but I decided that its sale items were not that essential.
I weighed myself just before leaving, and registered at about 200 pounds. I had also checked online the temperature hereabouts, and was a little surprised to find that we were supposedly a fraction of a degree below freezing. That was still the case by the time I was home again.
Early into my walk I stopped for six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups at a fairly nearby elementary school playground, and found the metal bars drenched with condensation. I was not keen on exercising with my bare hands, so I did not wipe the bars clear ─ I wore my gloves instead. And my performance was my usual number of repetitions there in recent weeks: three in the first set, and two in each of the remaining five sets.
Just doing the first three repetitions had my gloves so wet with the nearly icy condensation that it was distinctly uncomfortable.
I was also to stop at my financial institution's ATM to withdraw $70, for I only had $10 in my wallet.
It was dark when I left home, but day was breaking during my outward walk to such degree that I decided to scrap going all the way along 100th Avenue to 148th Street here in north Surrey, and instead turned into Green Timbers Access (Google Map).
There were already three vehicles parked in there ─ early birds wanting to hike the trails. I suspected that most people would be attracted to the lake, so I believe that I held to Skyline Trail (Google Map),following it to Cedar Trail where I turned right as you look at that map; and then when I came to the first (unidentified) trail, I followed it to 96th Avenue. If I remember properly, the unidentified trail was actually Hemlock Trail.
At 96th Avenue I then turned left and walked it to Green Timbers Way (Google Map), which I then followed until I was able to cut right past the Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre building (Google Map) which brought me almost to the intersection of Fraser Highway & 140th Street.
From there, I followed Fraser Highway to where I could access Save-On-Foods (Google Map) where I did my shopping and then came the near-mile or so home.
All in all, I must have walked a minimum of four miles ─ possibly even 4½ miles.
I gauged my shopping well, spending just under $73.
It was at least 8 a.m. by the time I was back home. I decided to not waste time sitting up, and got back into bed to get what rest I could before later joining my brother after he had risen and was watching T.V.
When he invited me to put our Android TV Box into action, I led us off with the addition of two days ago to Rumble's Vaccine Safety Research Foundation channel ─ this video was not too much under 1½ hours long (1:22:52), and proved to be much more interesting than I honestly expected: Full Episode #70: Live From Atlanta Covid Litigation Conference Preview & Ask the Lawyers.
Live from Atlanta, the entire VSRF Team will speak
with Covid Litigation Conference speakers & attorneys Robert Barnes, Tricia Lindsay, and Warner Mendenhall.
The video had actually been livestreamed three days ago.
Thereafter, we only had time for one further video ─ a one-hour livestream yesterday to Rumble's childrenshealthdefense channel: The Gain of Function Industry With Whitney Webb.
How far back can we trace gain-of-function research? Co-hosting today’s ‘Good Morning CHD’ are Whitney Webb and Jeremy Vedmore. Both investigative journalists, they have a wealth of knowledge on bioweapons to share with viewers. From the 19th century to the present day, to what extent has vaccination development as a means of profiting emotionally and physically harmed the global population? And what do the evil actors, behind this agenda, have planned for the future? Watch to find out.
For Reference Links + MORE content like this go to CHD.TV:
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/
I revised that given link to direct you straight to the various video references, for it otherwise would not have brought the visitor directly to the pertinent video.
My brother sought bed rest following the video, and I was having my early afternoon nap when he rose and left for the day.
We have had a fair amount of sunshine, but there is no shortage of cloud.
I was all set to use the free download I have of the GenuTax tax software to get the tax returns for my wife and I completed and filed, but I realized at the last moment that I had failed to acquire receipts for the two weekend edition newspapers that I subscribe to which qualify me for the Digital News Subscription Tax Credit.
I applied for the two receipts, but the claim was presented that it could take as long as three business days for them to be E-mailed to me.
There is much else I could report concerning my wife, but I am exhausted of time ─ my evening is advancing, and my brother could appear back home at any time. I plan to sit up this evening watching shows with him ... and having some beer.
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