While awaiting my younger brother's arrival home in the latter evening yesterday, among other things I watched an episode of Batwoman ─ this time it was season two's episode nine ("Rule #1").
It can be quite annoying when my brother fails to show up until long past 10 p.m. ─ it very much cuts down on the exposure we are getting to the T.V. series that we follow in common via our Android TV Box.
All we were to watch were an episode of The Outpost ─ this time, season one's episode five ("Bones to Pick"); and then an old movie in the British series Edgar Wallace Mysteries.
I have slowly been getting us chronologically through the series, so last evening I tuned in July 1963's To Have and to Hold.
I get so fed up with my brother's drunken ramblings during so many of our shows, causing me to fail to comprehend key elements because of his besotted drivellings that drown out important conversations in the shows.
For example, I barely understood in The Outpost that General Calkussar may have actually allowed his own little girl to be murdered / executed years before in the stead of a princess whom he raised as that daughter, and who is thus regarded as Lady Gwynn Calkussar. If it was known that she was actually the princess, she would be killed.
She evidently full well knows her origin.
Or at least, that was what I thought I was managing to hear under my brother's blathering nonsense.
Then in To Have and to Hold, "Claudia", a woman supposedly murdered, and who a police detective had fallen in love with, is later discovered by him to be alive ─ it was actually her twin who had been murdered.
Well, she starts to explain her role in the subterfuge whereby her husband murdered her sister in their apartment, and then he headed away to another part of the country while Claudia gave him an alibi by contacting the police and claiming that some man from her past was stalking her ─ she wanted police to come and help her feel protected, or at least speak with her in person.
By initiating this contact with the police, she would of course be on record as being alive, and her husband would be on record as being out of town.
But then my brother's idle droning about some incident he experienced earlier in the day completely obfuscated how Claudia justified to her detective 'love interest', exactly why she went along with her husband's plan to delay discovery of 'her' death so that he would not be a suspect.
And why adopt the identity of her dead twin?
I gathered that by delaying the discovery of 'her' body ─ and by having on police record that she was alive, well, and entirely home alone during the time her husband was away ─ her husband would largely evade suspicion as being a prime suspect in her murder. However, I was entirely denied the explanation ─ if it was given ─ of what the purpose of her (Claudia's) death was, and why she was part of the scheme to kill her own sister and have it believed that it was actually she who was dead.
I understood nothing of this ─ my idiot brother would not shut up. Why was the twin killed? I still have no bloody idea! Basically, I watched the movie and was utterly robbed of this crucial information.
The time is coming when I am going to quit watching evening T.V. with my besotted brother. I am better off just letting him come home to sit alone in the darkened living room to drink by himself and pass out. I sure as hell get little benefit out of his drunken persona's company.
Should you be curious, my source for the movie was this link at OK.ru.
When I got together this morning with my sober brother for some T.V. via our Android TV Box, at 9 a.m. I led us off with this half hour upload of yesterday to Rumble's Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson channel: Laura-Lynn on The Power of One Desperate Housewife.
Prepare to laugh and be inspired!
Today we share Laura-Lynn’s teaching at The Great Canadian Awakening, on the story of Jael from the book of Judges.
Laura Lynn brings the light of God’s Truth to expose the lies being spread by the evil doers and their spheres of influence. “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places”. Ephesians 6:12
Then I tuned in a 1½-hour (1:29:07) upload of early today to Rumble's Sunfellow On COVID-19 channel: Former CBC Journalist Marianne Klowak Describes The Astonishing Decline Of Journalism In Canada.
Marianne Klowak, an esteemed expert witness and former CBC reporter, offers an invaluable perspective on the deterioration of journalistic standards within CBC following the announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With over 30 years of experience in the field, Marianne provides an insightful analysis of the profound changes that have taken place within CBC's journalistic practices. She sheds light on the factors that have contributed to the degradation of standards and raises important questions about the integrity and objectivity of news reporting.
In this thought-provoking discussion, Marianne delves into the impact of the pandemic on CBC's approach to journalism and highlights the need for a reevaluation of media practices. Her firsthand experiences and observations offer a unique insight into the evolving landscape of news reporting.
Please refer to the video link for a far fuller description.
The last item we watched was postponed around 12:30 p.m. with nigh 40 minutes to go ─ I had previously downloaded it onto a flash or thumb drive, so there will be no issue continuing precisely where we left off ─ perhaps tomorrow. I will not identify the video until it has been fully watched.
My brother had some bed rest before leaving for the day to socialize. I had not yet engaged a nap when he left; but when I did nap, it ran later into the afternoon than I liked.
As a result, I was not out to the backyard to sun until 2:54 p.m. Due to this late start, I only spent 1¼ hours doing so.
In the past two or three weeks, I have come to realize that my arms are thinning, yet I have sagging and wrinkled / dimpled skin betokening age-related muscle and collagen loss.
This led me this early afternoon to engage a session of BFR (blood flow restriction) exercising ─ specifically four sets of curls with a fairly light dumbbell. I probably have not used the elasticized bands in probably over a year. Clearly, just relying upon pull-ups and chin-ups has been a big fail. Heck, I even have grown weaker and unable to achieve repetition totals that were possible some months back.
Even after I spent about 15 minutes doing the curls with the bands on my upper arms, I kept them on while I did some other simpler exercising for the benefit of my knees, as well as my calves and maybe my thighs. So overall, the bands may have been on my arms for a half hour.
I still have some of the pump that I experienced, so I am going to see about incorporating some BFR exercising on a daily basis in a bid to flesh out my arms once more.
I had not noticed my sagging skin and emaciated-looking arms because I have been wearing fleece tops and sweaters until relatively recently. With the warm weather here, I have begun dressing down and thus became aware of my deterioration.
I had considered getting out into the latter evening for a walk and some shopping, but I have undergone a considerable decline and will instead get to bed relatively early this evening so that I can rise at 1:45 a.m. to ready for a five-mile walk.
My brother is on his own tonight.
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