Last evening I had the time to watch an episode of Nightflyers, so I tuned in episode eight ("Rebirth"). Only now in reading the Wikipedia description for the episode do I understand why the ship's captain was not essentially disintegrated in the decontamination process used to destroy the infecting spores.
Nothing that I had seen in the episode had led me to believe that he was now revealed as an android.
After the episode, I tuned in a women's MMA match on YouTube ─ the event took place on April 28, 2012. The video was a bit under 18½ minutes, but I felt it to be mis-titled: Jessica Penne DOMINATES Lisa Ellis to Earn Impressive TKO Victory.
Yes, Jessica Penne was awarded the match after the referee halted it in the third round due to an extremely bloodied Lisa Ellis refusing to surrender to Jessica's punishment, but Lisa had not been any kind of pushover ─ despite Jessica Penne clearly being the larger (i.e., brawnier) fighter.
If I remember right, Lisa was not even scheduled for the fight ─ she was afforded the opportunity when another fighter chose or had to back out. So she had not trained for it, if that is so.
Lisa ─ at 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) ─ was an inch shorter than Jessica; yet Lisa's legs were clearly much slimmer somehow that the longer legs of Jessica Penne. Jessica also seemed to have a longer upper body, so I have trouble understanding how the two women could have been of similar body weight.
Lisa very much impressed me with her valiant performance against her bigger opponent.
It was my intention to retire to my bedroom at the conclusion of the match because I was planning to be getting up at 1:45 a.m. to ready for a five-mile walk, having lost out on one yesterday.
Well, before the MMA match was done, I saw my younger brother cutting across the lawn in front of the living room window ─ early in the afternoon he had left afoot to bus away and rendezvous with one or two of his drinking buddies at a pub. It was not yet 8:45 p.m., and he was back.
I have 9 p.m. as the cutoff for my brother's arrival home, so he was sneaking in beneath that deadline. But what I was forgetting at that point was that the deadline was only to apply if I had not already given him this consideration the day previous. In other words, at best I will lose one day of walking should he come home before 9 p.m. and thereby have me sit up late with him to operate our Android TV Box and watch shows with him; but there is no excusing the loss of two days of walks.
That entirely slipped my mind until after he was into the house and I was trapped.
And he was especially drunk.
Then to cap it all off, he announced that he only had one can of beer left in his supply, so I was going to have to 'loan' him a couple of my precious strong (8% alcohol) malts. The thing here is that even if he remembers to repay me the loaned beers, he never resupplies me with beer of equal strength.
Believe me, I was absolutely furious as I dutifully went upstairs to my bedroom to fetch him a couple of cans of malt ─ but I was furious at God for allowing me to get trapped into this predicament. I was going to have to sit up late with the garrulous drunkard, lose out on a walk for a second day, and probably have to surrender even further malts because two cans were unlikely to suffice.
Oh, I was fuming!
But I held my tongue when I came back to my brother and gave him the two malts, and then I tuned in an episode of Supergirl.
My brother would not shut up, talking over the show's dialogue about karaoke at bars and how much he hates it. I refused to engage in the conversation, and he gradually became quiet ... because he was passing out.
I had overlooked this potential blessing!
However, he had just begun to snore when somebody texted him and pulled him conscious, and he then began texting for some minutes.
About halfway through the episode he was again solidly snoring, and had been for some while, so I took the chance and shut down the Android TV Box and turned off the T.V., and left him alone in the silent living room.
I was able to get to bed just past 10 p.m., and my early walk had been salvaged. Whether my two cans of malt were going to be adequate would depend on how long he remained unconscious, but he could always resort to his Scotch supply if he was desperate enough.
I apologized for my earlier upset at God.
Anyway, I rose to my cellphone's chime at 1:45 a.m., and although there was a kitchen light on, nobody was up. After I had readied, and was outside the newly locked front door and was on my way, it was no more than 2:13 a.m.
I never did weigh myself, but I am certain that fully clothed I was around 195 pounds. So that was approximately what I was working with when early into the walk I stopped at an elementary school playground for six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups. I opened with a set of four repetitions, and then had five sets of two repetitions each; and I held the very last pull-up at maximum elevation for a 10-count.
Thankfully there was nothing eventful about the walk worth reporting; and with some slow jogging along a very lightly trafficked avenue, I was back outside the locked front door by 4:07 a.m.
This time somebody was up ─ my eldest stepson had not been home earlier, but he now was. Nevertheless, I went directly upstairs to my bedroom and thus we never communicated.
It is possible that I did not return to bed until just after 6 a.m., and my morning began when I rose around 2¼ hours later.
Already the daylight hours are beginning to reduce ─ I noticed that sunset is now approximately 9:19 p.m., whereas a couple of days ago it was 9:20 or 9:21 a.m. hereabouts.
When my sober brother and I got together mid-morning to watch some videos via our Android TV Box, I led us off with yesterday's livestream to Rumble's A Warrior Calls channel: Liars Everywhere Exposed in the Light.
Its actual content might not even be 80 minutes if one skips the wasted usual footage leading off and then closing the video ─ how many times are we supposed to sit through those minutes of redundancy that are a feature of nearly every regular episode? The opening sequence is nearly five minutes!
Afterwards, I played the second half or so of a recorded nigh 45-minute video that we had left from maybe three days ago. I had recorded it from BitChute's Adaneth channel to which it had been added back on June 30, 2019: The Spy Who Brought Down Mary Queen of Scots.
A 2014 Channel 5 History Documentary narrated by Mark Bazeley.
With the aid of dramatised scenes and location-based interviews with leading historians, this documentary tells the riveting story of how, over an eight-week period in 1586, England's greatest spymaster used covert espionage techniques to foil a Catholic conspiracy to murder Queen Elizabeth I and engineered the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
With thanks to MVGroup: http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=The_Spy_Who_Brought_Down_Mary_Queen_of_Scots
It just boggles me how psychopathically cruel 'the Establishment' could be back then when it came to capital punishment.
We finished off the morning with an episode of The Conners ─ season four's episode 17 ("Big Negotiations and Broken Expectations").
Afterwards my brother bed-rested briefly, and then left for the day to socialize. I needed a nap following my day's first meal; and then ere 2:40 p.m. I was out in the backyard for nearly 1½ hours of sunning.
Occasionally I believe that I have managed to disable or even kill various annoying flies ─ I especially detest the very swift type with a metallic sheen that are apparently called the common green bottle fly.
I mention this because I have been curious of wasps that slowly cruise the lawn, for I suspect that they are seeking insect prey such as exposed spiders.
Well, today I think that a wasp discovered a disabled victim of mine. It certainly found something that it was soon tussling with, and I am quite sure that I did see that telltale metallic sheen. Eventually the wasp was able to life off with whatever it had and flew off.
I do not enjoy harming flies as a rule, but I become irritated by having the wretches persistently landing on me.
My Sabbath fast is imminent, so I must have something to eat before sunset and its commencement. It is most improbable that my brother will make it home early this evening, so I will be having another early a.m. walk that will require me to rise at 1:45 a.m. to ready for.
And so closes today's post.






















































