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I am an obscure great-great-grandson of Oscar Adolphe Barcelo & Eugenie Beaudry of MontrΓ©al.

And I am an equally obscure great-grandson of George Henry Leandre Barcelo & Sarah Anne Bird of Winnipeg (Manitoba) and Langdon (North Dakota).

Friday, 30 June 2023

From Nuisance to Wasp Food

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 Connersseason 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.

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Thursday, 29 June 2023

The Way We Were

 

Twitter: Joseph Boaz

Well, there was no five-mile walk this early a.m. after all ─ my younger brother surprised me last evening by showing up no later than 8:50 p.m. And he proved to not be excessively drunk.

I had watched a 23-minute women's MMA match on YouTube between American Fatima Kline and Russia's Natalia Kuziutina.

This was actually the second consecutive day in which I had watched a match featuring Fatima, for early evening on Tuesday I watched her fight Laura Gallardo. That first match was a 24-minute video (available on YouTube here),

In the earlier match (which took place on January 18 of 2023, and available at YouTube here), I found myself rooting for Mexico's Laura Gallardo because Fatima Kline was five inches taller than Laura, and as a result looked almost gangly by comparison ─ Laura, at only an inch over five feet, had a more appealing physique in my eyes.

The fight went the scheduled rounds, but Fatima was accorded the unanimous decision by all of the judges.

In the match against the Russian fighter which took place on March 15 of 2023, Fatima was only taller by three inches, so Natalia's physique lacked the same visual impact for me that was the case with Laura Gallardo. As well, since I was now familiar with much younger Fatima's prowess, I suppose that I was leaning in her favour.

This fight also went the distance, but once again, Fatima got the unanimous decision.

The young lady is unquestionably very skilful ─ it is most apparent by how she seems to have essentially dominated her two opponents.

With my brother home relatively early, I resigned myself to using our Android TV Box further, and sitting up late ─ and also having two cans of the strong (8% alcohol) malt that I keep in stock ─ it had been 11 days since my last drink.

The first show we watched was an episode of The Outpost. I had meant to tune in an episode of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, but for some irritating reason the app I use for that series ─ BeeTV ─ seems to have lost all record of watched episodes. That is, normally it marks the episodes that have already been watched, but a recent update seems to have removed all of those indicators, and the descriptions offered for the episodes were useless due to their brevity ─ I had no sure idea where we left off. And when I tried a likely episode just to check it out, it proved to be an earlier misfile.

The Outpost episode we watched was season one's episode six ("The Book of Names").

Next I wanted to tune in an episode of Black Lightning, but we also watch it on BeeTV, and this time I had no idea at all where we had left off. As a result, I opted to watch another of The Avengers' season two episodes where John Steed was an entirely different sort of character than he was to become in later seasons.

I also use BeeTV for this series, but fortunately the episodes are easily identified because of proper titling, so I immediately recognized that we were to be watching episode five ("Mission to Montreal"). Concerning that episode, I want to say that I was impressed with actress Patricia English who had the role of a troubled alcoholic actress. Initially her character was unpleasant, but I began to see through that and found her to be very attractive ─ and fit! She had typically slim arms, but I noticed that they were actually muscular and not just the usual trim arms so common to actresses of the time.

I would have loved to have seen if her legs were similarly well muscled.

We also watched an episode of Kevin Can F**k Himselfseason two's episode two ("The Way We Were").

And we topped off the night with an episode of Workin' Momsseason two's episode 12 ("If Women Had to Give Birth").

Thereafter I managed to sit up here at my computer until at least 2:30 a.m. before getting to bed (if I am recollecting correctly). Alas, my wife had sent me a Facebook Messenger text that I only noticed right after my brother had arrived home earlier, so I was forced to explain that I could not take the time then to chat by text. When I returned to Facebook before going to bed, she did not reply back.

She is presently in Thailand following an extended visit to Rome, and has been away since her early evening flight from YVR back on either January 23 or 24. We do not often have a Messenger exchange, and Thailand is 14 hours ahead of me in time, so I wish that I had not lost the opportunity.

Despite my late bedtime, I could not remain abed anywhere near 8 a.m.

After my brother later rose to watch T.V. and have coffee, I went downstairs within a few minutes of 9 a.m.'s approach, and we were soon watching videos. My initial attempt was a 1½-hour YouTube documentary uploaded yesterday to its ENDEVR channel: The Rise And Fall Of Nokia Mobile | ENDEVR Documentary.

However, we bailed after little more than 3½ minutes because there was far too much foreign language involved with subtitling that was just a little too small for our eyes ─ English was not commonly spoken at all. I am not that darned interested in Nokia's history. The producers need to do English voice-overs rather than force viewers to read subtitles.

So I then tuned in two videos added just today to Rumble's Action4Canada channel. The first was 22 minutes, being a Weekly Update: June 28th with Tanya Gaw.

The second video was nigh an hour: Tanya Gaw and Majed El Shafie: CHINESE POLICE STATIONS Foreign Surveillance and Influence!

Majed El Shafie, Founder of One Free World International (OFWI), joins Tanya to discuss the Chinese police stations in Canada and the Canadian government’s failure to take swift action. A coalition led by OFWI has been calling for the Canadian government to take immediate action and expel CCP police and deport their agents back to China. Tanya and Rev. Majed also discuss foreign interference, mass immigration and more.

Rev. Majed El Shafie bio
https://action4canada.com/empower-hour-majed-el-shafie-chinese-police-stations-in-canada-june-28-2023/

There was more description if you wish to refer to the video link to see it.

Majed El Shafie was definitely an interesting guest.

The next and last video we watched exceeded 1¼ hours (1:18:13), and had been added to Rumble's Vaccine Choice Canada channel two days ago: Shawn Buckley - Natural Health Industry Under Attack.

Shawn Buckley is a Canadian lawyer who specializes in natural health product law and constitutional law. He is the founder and president of the Natural Health Products Protection Association (NHPPA), an organization that advocates for the rights of Canadians to have access to natural health products.
In this interview Shawn discusses how Health Canada is moving forward with multiple initiatives that will assault the natural health industry and restrict consumer access to natural health products and practices.
If Canadians allow these changes to occur, it will be the end of the natural health product industry as we know it.

Read the Discussion Paper: https://nhppa.org/?p=22565

Shawn Buckley headed up the recent National Citizens Inquiry: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/

Shawn’s Announcement: “Bill C47 is Now Law” https://rumble.com/v2w5kk8-shawn-buckley-bill-c-47-announcement-from-june-23-2023.html

We have been seeing a lot of Shawn lately ─ he, too, is very interesting, as is his important cause.

My brother would be busing away in the early afternoon to rendezvous with at least one drinking buddy at a pub, so he headed to his bedroom for some rest. I had my day's first meal, and was shut up in my bedroom for a nap when he eventually emerged from his room and left.

I never sunned today. For one thing, I felt unpleasant following the nap, and the thought of baking out in the backyard seemed too stressful. But today was also a bath day, and that consumes an hour by the time all is finished with. I had some glimmer of hope that I might get out in the latter evening for a long walk and some grocery shopping, but I came to realize that I was just too off today.

I am not expecting that my brother will make it back by 9 p.m., so I will be having an early a.m. five-mile walk instead, rising at 1:45 a.m. to begin readying for it.

Consequently, I will do my best to be getting to bed as soon after 9 p.m. as seems reasonable.

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Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Theorizing

 

For the second consecutive evening yesterday, I did not get to bed until after 10 p.m. despite having my cellphone alarm set for 1:45 a.m. to get me up to ready for another five-mile walk ─ today was to be the 11th consecutive day in which I have had a five-mile walk, as well as having abstained from both any evening T.V. with my younger brother, or even a can of the strong (8% alcohol) malt that I keep in stock.

The last time I have gone this long without a beer I was in a hospital!

Regardless, I dutifully rose at 1:45 a.m. to my cellphone's chiming, and was pleased that the house was in darkness ─ neither of my stepsons was home. In fact, I had the impression that my eldest was working a 12-hour graveyard shift that is usually from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.

I got away on my walk later than I was happy with ─ it was 2:20 a.m. by the time I was outside the locked front door and treading down the driveway. At least I had taken time to weigh myself before leaving ─ I was about 195 pounds without my lightweight black denim jacket, for I correctly assessed that it was likely going to be too uncomfortable to be wearing it when early into my walk I stopped at an elementary school playground for the usual six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups.

As has also become quite usual, my performance saw me achieve four pull-ups in the first set, and two pull-ups or chin-ups in each of the remaining five sets; the final pull-up was of course held at fullest elevation for a 10-count.

Happily, I have absolutely nothing else of note to report about the walk, apart from again mostly jogging one lightly trafficked avenue because the only ill-lit sidewalk is a tortured mess of buckling and heaving from tree root damage that makes progress ridiculously slow and jarring at night.

It was 4:14 a.m. by the time I was back home and outside the locked front door.

And due to responding to E-mails, I was again not back to bed until nigh 6 a.m.

My morning commenced just shortly ahead of 9 a.m. when I rose and was soon enough downstairs for coffee and to watch some T.V. with my brother.

Upon his invitation to put our Android TV Box into action, I led us off with Odessa Orlewicz's 52-minute video from yesterday: Blame "Russia Russia Russia." Canadian Oil Suncor Was Just Cyber Attacked & WEF To "Rewrite The Bible To Make It Correct".

"Russia Russia Russia." Canadian Oil Company Just Cyber Attacked. Klaus Schwab Giggles WIth Glee? I show the report and videos. "Russia Russia Russia." Prepping Canadians to eat up the Russia narrative a long time ago in a Canadian official "report," but somehow Klaus Schwab knew about all of this 3.5 years ago while "...penetrating Trudeau & Canadian politicians." America was proven to have blown up the Nordstream 2 Pipeline but CBC forgot to mention that after it was revealed. Canadians were literally BLOCKED from that news on CBC and CBC continued to allude to their fake news that it was Russia. I show the report and videos. Also- The WEF wants to re-write the bible to "make it correct." What a shock. Not.

The second and final video we watched was almost 1¾ hours long (1:42:13), and had been livestreamed and added to Rumble's Man in America channel June 27: 5000% Increase in TRANS KIDS... It’s a Trans Epidemic — Dr. Miriam Grossman Interview.

Join me for an important discussion with Dr. Miriam Grossman, psychiatrist, author, and public speaker.

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I was not expecting the closing interview with Kirk Elliott, who had some very interesting investment advice. Now I do not feel so bad at not being able to afford the ridiculous prices being quoted for the buying of silver ─ forget buying any gold! I just wish that he had done similarly for gold as he did for sliver and quoted where to halt and not be rooked into paying anything beyond that price.

After the video, my brother went upstairs for some bed rest, while I fixed up my day's first meal and ate that. I was still involved here at my computer when he emerged from his bedroom and left for the day to socialize.

I needed a nap following my meal; and then ahead of 3 p.m. I began at least 1½ hours of sunning this Summer day.

It will surprise me if my brother shows up by 9 p.m. ─ his cut-off by my determination. I will be getting to bed within an hour thereafter in order to rise at 1:45 a.m. and have what would then be my 12th daily five-mile walk.

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Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Secret 10-Year Mission

 

Twitter: ZUBY

Even though I was not to bed last evening until just past 10 p.m. ─ and with my cellphone alarm set for 1:45 a.m. to get me up to ready for a five-mile walk ─ I had a long wait of it achieving any sleep.

Earlier I had killed some time watching a couple of women's MMA matches on YouTube. The first video was 14½ minutes, and featured a match that took place on September 23, 2016, between rather ripped American Jinh Yu Frey and Japan's Ayaka Hamasaki.

I was rooting for Jinh, but Ayaka seemed to be quite a vicious opponent, and I had my doubts for Jinh. Then a spectacular deep gash to the outside of one of Jinh's eyebrows caused the fight to be stopped in the second round, and the match was given to Ayaka.

I certainly could not decry the stoppage ─ that was one ugly gash!

This is the link to that fight.

The second video was a match between two fighters Wikipedia has no profile on ─ Lisa Kyriacau and Jacinta Austin ─ probably because they fight in an MMA organization exclusive to Australia and New Zealand.

In my first assessment of the two ladies, I thought that Lisa looked to be more powerful, but this did not actually prove to be the case ─ she got pushed around and punished. However, there was no quit in Lisa, and at times she was doing well. 

The fight went the distance ─ three five-minute rounds, and I could not argue against the judges' decision.

The link to that match is here.

As for my later walk, despite fractured sleep, I remained in bed until my 1:45 a.m. alarm chimed. The house was in darkness, so I had the privacy to ready and depart that I most appreciate.

It was 2:16 a.m. once I was outside the newly locked front door and on my way, having weighed in at 195 pounds while fully dressed for the walk.

The night had a welcome cool tint to it, but there was no trace of dewy moisture on the equipment when I made a stop early into the walk at an elementary school playground for six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups.

I did remove my lightweight black denim jacket, so perhaps I was a pound or so lighter when I managed four repetitions in the first set, and two repetitions in each of the remaining five sets; and I held the elevation in my final pull-up for a 10-count.

A mile or a bit better into my walk, I essentially met up with a raccoon. I had just started up 138th Street with the intention of taking to 138-A Street (Google Map), when I saw the raccoon exiting from 138-A Street.

I was walking on the left side of 138th Street as you look at that map, for only on that side is a sidewalk. 

However, the raccoon did not appear particularly perturbed at seeing me, and proceeded down 138th Street in the lane on its side of the street, so we passed one another by with maybe 12 feet of distance separating us at very best.

I was almost at 138-A Street when this coincidence occurred, so I casually walked over to it and put the raccoon and I out of sight of one another. I have little doubt that the animal was proceeding to the dense woods that are a feature on both sides of Quibble Creek.

The next incident of interest that I was met with was while I was walking along 100th Avenue towards 148th Street where I would be turning right.

Approximately less than a power pole's distance ahead of me at maybe the 14600 block (Google Map), I first heard two cursing outbursts, and then a male figure appeared out of the shrubbery edging the Green Timbers Urban Forest.

The figure immediately crouched down onto the sidewalk and began vigorously scraping something on the concrete. He had not noticed me coming along the sidewalk on his side of the avenue, so I quickly crossed over to the opposite side.

I am unsure if he ever did see me. He kept scraping, sometimes muttering gruffly, and once or twice outbursting a curse.

Bear in mind that there is no obvious public trail there, and it was well after 3 a.m. This guy most likely was homeless and had a hidden camp in the forest. And from what I had witnessed, he might not even be of sound mind.

So what was he scraping so loudly ─ a knife edge, or a hatchet? I have no idea.

After I had passed by on the opposite side of the wide avenue and walked a comfortable distance along, I crossed back over. He was still crouched and scraping.

I looked again before I was quite at 148th Street, and he had disappeared back into the dark, thick forest.

There was one further incident that night.

I had decided to just casually jog along 96th Avenue after I turned onto it from 148th Street, because the only sidewalk is quite removed from the avenue and is not only ill lit, but every step is fraught with upheavals and depressions that are probably due to years of tree root activity. Truly, one can scarcely take a step along there without jolting and jarring due to the incessant irregularity of the footing that one is almost blindly taking.

Traffic is very infrequent along the avenue at that time of night, so I was able to jog most of the way to Green Timbers Way (Google Map) where I would be travelling next, only needing to get off the avenue possibly four times due to some vehicle coming from behind. The only sidewalk is on the 'top' side of the avenue as you look at that map, and there is a wide grass-and-treed median separating the avenue for purposes of creating a one-directional traffic flow (Google Map).

I was thus jogging along the 'top' lane of the avenue.

I was perhaps nearing the halfway point of that stretch of avenue when quite deep into the forest 'below' the avenue, I heard what sounded like a medium-sized dog barking rather excitedly a few different times.

There are no homes anywhere near this area ─ it is all forested parkland. It is of course possible that someone's dog had roamed into the forest, but coyote's inhabit the region. A medium-sized dog would not likely fare well on its own, by my estimation.

Still, if it was alone, might it have heard my plodding footsteps, and was reacting to the sounds ─ was some strange dog about to suddenly emerge from the forest in seeking me out?

Or was there some other homeless person(s) resident in those woods, and owning the dog? Perhaps the owner was playfully teasing with it.

I cannot know. I got to Green Timbers Way without any canine or human interception, and was soon well removed from the forest.

Events such as these two make being abroad at that time of night with a knife strapped to one's hip feel a smidgen inadequate for what might potentially befall.

It was 4:08 a.m. by the time I was home and outside the locked front door. But I did not immediately come into the house ─ I spent a full half hour watering garden plants in the front yard.

And due to E-mails and such thereafter, it was well past 6 a.m. before I was back into bed for some further hard won sleep

When finally I began my morning it was already after 9 a.m. by nigh 10 minutes. I rose, and was soon downstairs for coffee and to watch some morning T.V. with my brother.

At his invitation, I put our Android TV Box to work and tuned in a video in excess of an hour (1:09:33) that had been livestreamed on June 15 and was on Rumble's Stew Peters Network channel: Proof Canada Fires INTENTIONAL by Gov’t Arsonists! Plus mRNA & Baby Deformities Bombshell!

First DeAnna Lorraine is joined by Dr William Makis, who brings evidence that the Canada wildfires that have been roaring are 100% intentional and orchestrated by government Arsonists! He also drops new bombshells about disfigured babies, fetal heart attacks and more that are being hidden by VAERS.
Then DeAnna is joined by Dr. Dawn Michael who shares her story of her husband being targeted and murdered by Remdesivr, and what's been happening to her since she's been blowing the whistle.

The title was exaggerated ─ scant actual proof was presented. Still, it was an interesting show.

Then it was a 35-minute video added to Rumble's The Why Files back on November 17, 2022: Secret 10-Year Mission to an Alien Planet 40 Light Years Away | Project Serpo.

Project Serpo: The Secret 10-Year Mission to a Planet 40 Light Years Away

What if you were offered the opportunity to visit another planet?

You get to experience the culture of an alien race, explore a new world; see and use technology that's 5,000 years ahead of ours.

Would you do it?

Before you answer, there are a few catches. You'll be gone for at least ten years. And when you return to Earth, all evidence of your existence will be erased. You have to start a new life, with a new identity; forbidden to tell anyone about what you experienced.

Now would you do it?

In 1965, 12 astronauts were sent to an alien planet as part of a human-alien exchange program. 13 years later the astronauts returned home.

Well, most of them did.

The mission commander wrote a 3,000-page report of everything his team experienced. First alien contact, the 40-light-year trip to the alien world, and everything that happened on the planet.

This is the true story of Project Serpo.

An entertaining tale indeed!

I am sure those several jeeps and the dozen motorcycles came in so wonderfully handy on "Planet Serpo" ─ for naturally the massive unimaginable gallons of fuel were also brought along, as well as sufficient oil and all manner of mechanical parts to last a minimum of 10 years, right?

Yeah, right.

Well, we had another sunny day, so after my brother left for the day to socialize, and I had eaten and had a short nap, around 2:38 p.m. I began a bit over 1½ hours of backyard sunning, if my calculations are accurate.

It is already nearly 8:30 p.m., so I must finish with this post. If my brother is not back by 9 p.m., it appears that in the a.m. I will be having my 11th consecutive day of five-mile walks.

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Monday, 26 June 2023

The Outlaw

 

While killing time last evening before getting to bed by possibly 9:45 p.m. so that I could rise four hours later to ready for an early a.m. five-mile walk, I watched a good women's MMA bout on YouTube that exceeded a half hour.

The bout originally took place on November 1, 2019, and was the main feature at Invicta FC 38. The two female warriors were Japan's Kanako Murata and American Emily Ducote.

This is the YouTube link.

If I was an MMA judge, I would not automatically award points to a fighter for bringing another fighter to the mat. I have too often seen fighters who could not cope with their opponent while standing use this ploy to salvage themselves ─ it really bothers me when the weaker fighter happens to have the skills to bring down the opponent, but does not have much skill at grappling and proves incapable of overcoming the opponent once he or she is down.

Kanako Murata was powerfully built and hyped as a championship grappler, whereas Emily Ducote had only wrestled in school. Yet even though Kanako constantly vied to bring Emily down to the mat ─ desperately, it seemed ─ it was always Kanako who ended up nearly getting submitted.

Sure, Kanako did considerable 'ground and pounding', and was marring up Emily Ducote, but Emily never gave the impression that she was going to be beaten into submission.

The match was for five rounds, and Emily started looking battered after just the first round. But by the fourth round, Kanako wasn't looking very good either.

I think that I would have given the edge to Emily over Kanako. There was just too much desperation in Kanako's constant attempts at pulling down Emily, and then not being able to overcome Emily once she did have her down. In fact, time and again Kanako had to extricate herself from various submission holds Emily applied on her.

I would have seen that it was pointless for Kanako trying to overcome Emily on the mat ─ the take-downs were solely to bring the fight to the mat in an effort to impress judges who often find this skill to be noteworthy.

I rarely do; and when the fighter constantly doing this clearly cannot best the opponent once that opponent is down, then I start seeing the take-downs in a negative light.

Frankly, even though Kanako could fight well while standing ─ she had powerful punches ─ she just didn't seem to like getting hit. No one does, of course. But time and again trying to bring the fight to the mat when the ability just did not seem present to best the opponent once down, definitely got to be annoying to me.

For that reason, I would have given Emily the edge.

Gosh, I had no intention of going on for so long about the fight ─ I only meant to mention it.

My younger brother had come home from his daily socializing before I climbed into bed, but I had long been here in my bedroom where I keep this computer and was in no danger of having to extricate myself from watching T.V. with him.

I did not sleep well. As I generally claim, I truly believe it possible that I was awake more often ─ longer overall ─ than I was asleep. At least when my cellphone alarm chimed at 1:45 a.m. to get me up, the house was in darkness ─ neither of my stepsons were up. I crave full privacy in readying and leaving on these walks ─ they are my affair alone.

It was 2:14 a.m. by the time I was outside the locked front door and on my way, having weighed about 195 pounds fully clothed. So when early into my walk I stopped at an elementary school playground to tackle six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups, I knew how much weight I was dealing with.

Four pull-ups in the first set, and two repetitions each in the other five sets. The first two sets are always overhand pull-ups, then two sets of underhand chin-ups.

The final two sets are pull-ups performed either on a pair of gymnastics-style rings if they are available and delinquents have not wrapped the chains out of reach over the high support bar; or else I will use two bars of an elevated horizontal ladder (a monkey bar or jungle gym) to pull myself up between.

Last night it was the ladder; and I held the very last pull-up for a 10-count.

There was some suspicious character loitering about on the street outside of the school, so I exercised in my jacket and did my best to remain aware. Oddly, when I was cutting through the school property on my way home maybe 1½ hours or more later, there was a similar character loitering in the dark of the school grounds.

As well, about a mile into my walk, I inadvertently was to coincide with some guy (possibly South Asian) coming my way along the same sidewalk ─ he was doing some sloppy jogging until he likely noticed me ahead. His jacket was open, and his shirt untidy from the struggles of his jogging.

As we were about to pass by one another, he suddenly gave me a wide berth and stared openly and directly at me as if he had only just seen me, which was so darned peculiar ─ especially since he was taller and probably heavier than I am.

Maybe he was drunk?

All else of note was having to walk out onto a traffic-barren avenue in order to avoid a skunk that was just off the sidewalk I was following ─ it was rooting about in the grass.

I believe that I was back outside the locked front door by 4:07 a.m., so I made quite good time without any sustained jogging.

I remained up longer than intended ─ it was almost 6 a.m. before I returned to bed.

My morning began shortly after 8 a.m., if I am recalling aright.

When my brother and I began watching T.V. together mid-morning and he invited me to put our Android TV Box into action, I led us off with Odessa Orlewicz's short (22 minutes) video of yesterday: Civil War Started This Weekend (Violence) Between Parents & Antifa -Multiple Videos Shown In Multiple Countries.

Watch these videos I will share...C!ivil War Has Just Started In Canada, England, America, France. Parents vs "Antifa'". Everyone has felt that this would happen and this weekend it did. Violence has started. Mass amounts of parents protesting all over the "free" nations about gender !deology and child body parts experimental mutilation so "ANTIFA" has been sent in. As well some of the masked "antifa" have been arrested for ped0philia. Fake "Naz!s" to make parents look bad caught as actually being feds and more. Also Canadian Muslims put out warning against Trudeau on twitter about SOG! gr00ming at school.

Frankly, the episode was quite poor. Odessa does not seem to have any idea how to enlarge the target videos that she plays, so the relatively tiny things are more bother than they are of interest.

The next video I played exceeded an hour (1:09:52), and was the latest addition from two days ago to Rumble's Open Mike with Michael Thiessen channel: Dr. Gregory Chan: A Canadian Physician Tracks the Alarming Side-Effects of the Jab.

On this episode of Open Mike, Dr. Thiessen is joined by Dr. Gregory Chan, a Canadian Family Physician, to discuss the dangers of the COVID jab and unscientific groupthink in the medical profession.

Episode Resource: Dr. Chan's Testimony @ National Citizen's Inquiry: https://rumble.com/v2kwt5s-dr.-chans-experience-of-healthcare-during-covid-19-vaccine-rollout-day-1-re.html; National Citizen's Inquiry Channel: https://rumble.com/user/NationalCitizensInquiryCA

We finished up with the last portion of a movie I had recorded, and most of which we had watched maybe three days ago ─ 2013's Australian "historical drama" The Outlaw Michael Howe.

It was okay in that it was interesting enough, but it certainly was not great. Also, hardly any of the movie jibed with the account of the historical Michael Howe that Wikipedia offers.

I think that the movie concluded around 11:45 a.m., so my brother went upstairs to his bedroom for some bed rest before leaving for the day around 1:15 p.m. I soon thereafter sought what was to be a short nap.

The day was sunny, so before quite 2:40 p.m. I began a little over 1½ hours of sunning out in the backyard.

If my brother is not home by 9 p.m. this evening, I will be yet again having an early a.m. walk that will require me to be getting to bed fairly early. Last night's was the ninth consecutive day of five-mile walks ─ and because I have not been watching our evening shows with my inebriated brother, it has also been nine days since I have enjoyed a beer!

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Sunday, 25 June 2023

Back to Basics

 

It occurred to me since my previous post that I did have one further thing to write about concerning my early a.m. five-mile walk that day. There was a point when I was doing some slow jogging along 100th Avenue as I travelled the section from Green Timbers Access (Google Map) to 148th Street, and to my immediate right in the shrubbery I could hear more than one creature communicating with a sort of clacking, chirping sound.

It was somewhat unnerving.

I assumed it to be raccoons, but nevertheless I did glance behind me at least a couple of times after I had passed by the spot just in case something gave chase.

Anyway, since I was not going to rise this morning until 4 a.m., I never got to bed until after 10 p.m. My younger brother had not shown up from his daily socializing until nearly 10 p.m., so I shut myself up into my bedroom so as not to be involved with him.

My youngest stepson was home and in the kitchen; I heard my drunken brother and him bantering for a bit. Likely my brother made jocular query as to the 25-year-old's involvement with the lad's girlfriend, perhaps ribbing him as to whether the lad was about to imminently make things permanent.

I had the usual night of it, feeling as if I was having wakeful periods that were almost as long as my bouts of sleep. But when my 4 a.m. cellphone alarm chimed, I was okay to be getting up.

I fixed up a lovely mug of well-doctored hot instant coffee, and then was soon shut back up into my bedroom because my eldest stepson rose around 4:30 a.m., facing another 12-hour shift that would begin at 6 a.m.

I didn't want him to know that I was up ─ I want to keep him trained to lock the front door when he leaves for work on such day shifts.

But this robbed me of the chance to have some early exercising out in the backyard tool shed. By the time he left for work, I had no time. I needed to ready as fast as I could to get away on a five-mile walk by no later than 6 a.m. so that on the return leg of the walk, I could get some grocery shopping done at the Save-On-Foods about a mile from here. It opens at 7 a.m., but I don't like showing up until after 7:30 a.m. when I can be assured that a cashier is on duty.

I only managed to be on my way less than five minutes ahead of 6 a.m., but that was fine. However, I would be walking into the rising Sun for the first half of my walk, basically.

I had to withdraw $200 from one of my financial institution's ATMs because I only had something like $55 in cash on me, and I make it a point now of only paying cash when I do any shopping in person.

That walk ─ and the heavy loads in two carrying bags I had brought for my groceries ─ have been the only exercise I have gotten today. I sunned for 1¼ hours this afternoon; and also had a lengthy bath. Betwixt those and two blog posts, I am left with no exercise time.

Last evening I did watch an episode of one of the shows that I follow ─ Prodigal Son. It was season one's episode 10 ("Silent Night"). I was quite tickled to find a familiar guest star. The name Sean Pertwee meant nothing to me, but I almost immediately recognized him as having portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in the T.V. series Gotham. In Prodigal Son, he played a former disgraced cop, and I hoped that his character was going to become recurring; but they killed him off.

I also watched a women's MMA match on YouTube that just managed to exceed a half hour. It apparently took place on July 21, 2018, and featured a championship bout between Finland's Minna Grusander and American Jinh Yu Frey.

I had no idea who won that match, so I was expecting Minna would take the belt when it was over, for she had dominated four of the five rounds, always advancing and forcing Jinh to almost constantly back away from the indomitable toughie despite Jinh being essentially 'ripped' or 'cut'. Jinh looked so well-muscled.

Nothing Jinh did seemed to faze Minna, apart from the third round when Jinh took her down and pretty well dominated the action on the mat. Other than that round, I felt Minna had the others ─ and Jinh seemed wiped out in the fifth round, barely able to fight the enduring Minna.

Minna was robbed. Jinh did not deserve to be given the belt that night ─ and it was she to whom I was the most attracted, so clearly I am not playing any favourite by saying the fight should have been given to Minna.

Oh, Lord ─ it is after 8 p.m., and I must wrap up this post. I have an early (I will be rising at 1:45 a.m.) five-mile walk planned ─ it will be my ninth consecutive day of five-mile walks. But that is providing that my brother does not return home from his daily socializing by 9 p.m. I am expecting that he will not.

I only want to mention two videos that we watched this morning on T.V. via our Android TV Box.

The first was Odessa Orlewicz's latest from yesterday ─ it was only 16 minutes long, and 'sequeled' a video from the day before: PART 2! Share Widely! MORE Schools Caught Handing Out The Dirty Porn "Pee and Poo On Each Other Cards." This was NOT a "MISTAKE." 

PART 2! Must watch !! The schools teaching kids to sh!t and p!ss & suck sp00ge out of butt h0les has happened NUMEROUS TIMES at different schools before! Don't let mainstream news/NDP tell you it was a one time mistake!! I show you it ISN'T. SHARE WIDELY. Get AHEAD of the MSM BS narratives.

The video is also at Rumble here.

The second video was not too short of 1½ hours (1:20:03), and had been added to Rumble's Children's Health Defense Canada channel three days ago: Back To Basics Series: Glyphosate 101.

In PART 2 of our Back To Basics Series, we start from the very beginning for those of you new to all sorts of health related topics and make it as easy as possible to understand. In our current times of being bombarded by conflicting information, we want to bring you ways to simply understand the topics that drastically affect the health of you, and your families.
In Glyphosate 101 Amanda Forbes sits down with Howard Vlieger. Howard has been a 'student of the soil' since 1989. He has been a crop nutrition adviser and has founded two companies to help family farmers reduce their dependency on chemical-based farming and transition to biological and/or organic production. Howard now works and teaches as an independent crop nutrition advisor, helping both crop and livestock farmers all across the U.S.

Howard works with scientists and researchers around the world to develop effective solutions, based on the latest science, for the real-life problems farmers are experiencing because of GMO crops and glyphosate. Howard is a co-author and the primary coordinator of a first of its kind scientific study: the feeding of GMO grain and non-GMO grain to hogs for their lifetime as a meat animal. Howard is an internationally recognized speaker on the topic of GMOs.

Good stuff!

Okay, I have to duck out here!

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Saturday, 24 June 2023

The Schools Today!

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First off, in glossing over what I left out after abruptly closing out of yesterday's post, I believe that I managed just over 1½ hours of afternoon backyard sunning. It was probably a good thing, for today was primarily overcast.

My brother was not home that evening by 9 p.m., so I got to go to bed reasonably soon thereafter, with my cellphone alarm set for 1:45 a.m. to get me up to ready for what was to be my seventh consecutive day of five-mile walks.

I am a little curious why my brother had not mentioned any of this ─ why he has not asked me in the morning when he is sober if I am no longer going to be watching evening T.V. with him, using our Android TV Box to tune in shows that we watch in common.

Possibly his state of evening inebriation is such that he actually has no true sense of just how long it has been since I was present in his evening.

As for last night, I found myself awake enough that I checked the time at 1:28 a.m. and decided to get up then. I remained in my closed bedroom, but my youngest stepson was still up and soon decided to come upstairs to shower.

I dallied in readying, checking my two main E-mail accounts, and then spending time with my Facebook account and whatever else I directed my attention towards.

I think that it was at least 2:06 a.m. when I officially started to ready for the outing, thinking that I would easily manage to be away by or even before my targeted 2:15 a.m.

Well, I was almost disgusted with myself to have exited the house and locked the front door and seeing it to be 2:20 a.m. Not only was this exceptionally late, but I had been up for the better part of an hour.

I was to find that there was a bit of a cool breeze ─ perhaps this was behind why I was to find the equipment all dry early into my walk when I stopped at an elementary school playground for six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups.

I decided to exercise with my light black denim jacket on, and managed the usual four pull-ups in the first set, and two in the second; plus two chin-ups in each of sets three and four. And because the gymnastics-style rings were available (that is, delinquents had not wrapped the chains around the very high support bar to make them unusable), I even managed to do two sets of two pull-ups using two of the rings, although the last of those pull-ups required considerable kicking and heaving to make anything like a full elevation ─ which I forced myself to hold for a 10-count.

I had not weighed myself while fully clothed before leaving home, but later after I was back, I was easily 195 pounds despite a fair amount of slow jogging over my walk. It was 4:11 a.m. once I was back outside the locked front door.

Note that for the first time since Wednesday when the boots I wore resulted in an extremely painful middle toe on both of my feet, I wore the same boots last night and did not have any such issue. I had conjectured that maybe the doubling up of my socks was at fault ─ in effect, making the inner room of my boots more restricted. And that seems to have been the cause.

I have been wearing two pairs of socks in my footwear since possibly as far back as the late 1960s! It feels almost unreal to not be continuing with the practice. I had always believed that doubling my socks would result in extra cushioning ─ and perhaps it does. But now in my old age with somewhat swollen feet, the extra padding is virtually rendering my boots a probable size smaller where their inside accommodation is concerned.

Good to know.

I cannot recall anything eventful about the walk beyond what I have here written.

I was back to bed just ahead of 5:10 a.m., which is much earlier than is usually the case. I suppose part of the reason was that my eldest stepson evidently had a 12-hour day shift he had to get up early for, and I did not want him thinking that I was up as well ─ I prefer he lock the front door when he leaves. I was already shut up in my bedroom, but he might gradually become aware (I think that he likely rose around 4:30 a.m., or soon enough after).

I now do not remember just when I next rose, but for all I know I may have logged in a further 3½ hours. And it was with a jolt that I remembered that I was into a Sabbath fast and would not be able to have any coffee ─ I was already feeling hunger and the lethargic onset of caffeine withdrawal.

My brother was already up and undoubtedly going through the Saturday morning edition of the Vancouver Sun that I subscribe to, so I remained upstairs in my bedroom (where I keep this computer) until I heard him turn on the T.V. at just about 9:30 a.m.

We were later to watch two of Odessa Orlewicz's videos, both recorded yesterday. Using our Android TV Box so that we could watch them on T.V., I first tuned in the shorter of the two at 21 minutes: Canadian Schools Teaching Kids To Sh!T And P!ss On Each Other & Drink Semen Out Of Butts Now!!

Look at this! New discovery...They did this exact thing in 2015 in BC! They were busted then too! https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/b-c-school-apologizes-after-vulgar-and-excessively-graphic-sex-ed-cards-handed-out-to-grade-8-and-9-students/wcm/4b3c58cb-400b-46bf-851a-19038ecd3810/amp/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ&fbclid=IwAR3sfqlzRU_W3BXFs4gj3PLHme5PB7imhB_gy3e500COCTgQK3OMkUOJfdc

Regina school/Planned Parenthood caught giving out cue cards/books teaching grade 9'ers how to "suck their own d!cks" and "poo on your partner" and more atrocities. This is the smoking gun and what FINALLY may be the cherry on top to WAKE PARENTS UP TO THE SICK SICK SICK animals running our schools.

https://twitter.com/xxclusionary/status/1672009840556756992 and http://librarypdf.catie.ca/ATI-20000s/26124.pdf

and: https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/education-minister-suspends-planned-parenthood-from-presenting-in-schools

The second video was not too shy of 1½ hours (1:24:37): ACTION STEP- Health Canada/Big Pharma Coming After Natural Supplements. Interview With Shawn Buckley Of NHPPA.ORG.

Big Pharma/ Health Canada Now Coming After Our Natural Health Products & Naturopathy!! This is really serious. They are not playing around anymore. They only want us using their chemicals and they want all of the $$$$$.  Urgent Interview with Shawn Buckley who is trying to save us through https://nhppa.org/ and all Canadians need to step up. Shawn has done all of the work for you with his documents and website/letters.

The videos are also available on Rumble (here and here).

I am struggling to remember what my brother and I watched yestermorn ─ at present I can only recall this addition of two days ago to Rumble's A Warrior Calls channel: Truth Will NOT Be Silenced. It was too eclectic to try offering a description to, and was less than an hour if you skip the useless intro and closure that Christopher James Pritchard wastes our (i.e., regular viewers) time with.

And now I do remember the second video we watched yesterday ─ it was not too much short of 1½ hours (1:20:19), and had been added two days ago to Rumble's Vaccine Safety Research Foundation channel: Full Episode #82: The Covid Chronicles: Update from the Frontlines.

Join us this Thursday for a special episode of VSRF LIVE, as renowned scientist Jessica Rose, PhD speaks with Steve Kirsch. Dr. Rose, armed with her extensive academic background in Applied Mathematics, Immunology, and Computational Biology, will discuss into the latest research surrounding Covid-19, vaccines, and the potential resurgence of the scientific process. s. Notably, her withdrawn peer-reviewed paper, co-authored by Dr. Peter McCullough, titled “A Report on Myocarditis Adverse Events in the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) in Association with COVID-19 Injectable Biological Products,” adds an intriguing dimension to her insights.

We generally enjoy interviews with Jessica ─ she can be such a hoot!

My brother sought a little bed rest before leaving for the day once we had watched the second of Odessa's videos, and he actually re-emerged and left for the day before I sought a nap ─ late in the noon hour, if I remember right!

Due to increasing hunger and caffeine-withdrawal lassitude, I may have managed to log 2½ hours in bed, if not more. There is scant incentive to rise just to endure this unpleasant state.

It would be different if I lived somewhere in which I could get outside to enjoy the day in total privacy, but that is not possible here in my part of north Surrey. This is why I have my walks at night when I do ─ I cannot bear the stress of so much daytime street traffic, and the overpopulation that is all around me.

Tomorrow I will be doing some early grocery shopping, so I will not be rising until 4 a.m. to give myself lots of time ─ and to enjoy a big mug of rich, hot coffee!

Of course, that will depend upon my brother failing to show up by mid-evening later troday. (I am not concerned that he will.)

Friday, 23 June 2023

πŸ’€☠πŸ’€☠πŸ’€☠ Please Help Me, I'm Falling ...

This business of getting to bed early enough in the evening to allow me anywhere from four to 4½ hours in bed before my cellphone alarm chimes at 1:45 a.m. to get me up to ready for a five-mile walk seems to be rather futile ─ I say that because I am too often awake well before my alarm sounds.

Last night I checked the time at 1:30 a.m. and decided to just get up ─ I had already checked the time around 15 minutes earlier. And it is not as if I get to sleep quickly after going to bed!

This sucks.

And despite rising so early, somehow it was still 2:20 a.m. before I was outside the locked front door and on my way ─ how bloody much time do I need to ready myself?

I now forget if I weighed myself fully clothed ─ sans jacket ─ before or after the walk, but I registered at something like 193 or 194 pounds. So that was the load I had to handle early into my walk when I stopped at an elementary school playground to tackle six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups.

I managed four pull-ups in the first set, then a set of two; next were two sets of two chin-ups apiece; and I finished with two sets of two pull-ups apiece performed between two bars. The gymnastics-style rings were again disabled by delinquents who had wrapped the chains around the very high support bar making them far beyond my reach to untangle.

I held the final pull-up ─ which required considerable kicking and heaving to reach full elevation ─ for a gruelling 10-count.

The night sky was cloud-free, and it was fairly cool out.

I had forgotten to bring a tin of sardines in case I encountered the black cat I wrote about yesterday, but we did not coincide. Even so, I did see what appeared to be a cat well ahead of me walking in the same direction along 100th Avenue in the same area where I have now three times met the black cat since early this year; but in the gloom, last night's cat did not appear to me to have been black. And it turned off from the sidewalk and disappeared into the undergrowth of the Green Timbers Urban Forest ─ so possibly it was not even a cat (I believe it was, though).

I cannot recall anything else worth mentioning about the walk, and I was back outside the locked front door of home by 4:17 a.m. despite losing a few minutes at the Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre (Google Map) where I finally made a check to see if I could pass by the building on its forested side ─ I could not.

Oh, I guess I could have bushwhacked through the dark brush and woods; but the area immediately beside the building was fenced off with a locked metal gate.

Now I know ─ I had long wondered.

I must close this post. I weakly took a break that I never should have, and now I must live it down.

I expect that I will be having to get up at 1:45 a.m. for what would then be my seventh consecutive day of five-mile walks, and it is already after 8:30 p.m. I must eat a little, for I am about to embark upon a Sabbath fast.

Why is it so often like this?

Thursday, 22 June 2023

Still a Risk

 

Although my younger brother arrived home less than 10 minutes past 9 p.m. last evening, I was upstairs here at my computer which I keep in my bedroom. I had already written him off as of 9 p.m., and I was inflexible in that judgment.

So I closed my bedroom door ─ he was on his own for T.V. entertainment and our basic cable package, for he does not understand how to operate our Android TV Box. I expect that I was to bed by 9:30 p.m. with my cellphone alarm set for 1:45 a.m. to get me up to ready for my five-mile walk ─ it was to be my fifth consecutive day of such a walk.

A wakeful point arrived in which I had been sweating with amazing profusion ─ I felt that if the light had been on, I would actually have been able to witness the fluid seeping from my body. I finally checked the time, and saw that the midnight hour was nearly done.

I felt that I could have risen, but I decided that it was likely wiser to just do my best to lapse as deeply as I could into further rest.

When I next was curious about the time, it was something like 1:38 a.m., so I chose to rise then and turn off the cellphone alarm.

My eldest stepson was still up, but he soon enough went to bed. I had remained upstairs in my bedroom with the door closed.

Somehow I managed to squander time such that by the time I had locked the front door and was on my way, it may have been as late as 2:20 a.m. The night was quite cool, and the sky cloud-free ─ it can be difficult to tell due to dreadful light pollution. Everything was dry.

When early into my walk I stopped at an elementary school playground for six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups, I had to remove my light black denim jacket with which to wipe dry a bar to exercise with. Had the metal not been heavily condensed with dew, I had intended to exercise with the jacket on.

With it off, I managed four pull-ups in the opening set, and then two repetitions in each of the remaining sets, the final two sets of which were pull-ups done between two bars ─ delinquents had managed to wrap the chains of the gymnastics-style rings that I had meant to use, around the very high support bar. The only way to untangle them all is with a pole.

The final of the pull-ups required me to do considerable kicking and heaving to achieve full elevation, but I held myself in that position for a gruelling 10-count.

I had not weighed myself before leaving home, but after my return I did do so in my clothes, sans the jacket, and might have been as low as 193 pounds.

As for the walk, twice I had to make a small detour to avoid other night people, none of whom were out there for health reasons like I happened to be. It is best not to have proximity to questionable night life such as they.

The highlight of my walk was encountering a black cat that I have twice before encountered along 100th Avenue and directly across from the property of Lena Shaw Elementary School. I had crossed 140th Street and was walking the mile to 148th Street along the 'bottom' side of 100th Avenue as you look at this Google Map ─ there is nothing but forest on that side of the avenue for the entire mile.

Last night the cat and I ─ travelling in opposite directions ─ passed by one another directly across from the school building itself. This was the farthest along thus far ─ the other two times were nearer to the termination of 141st Street.

And I had seen the cat for some distance until then as we both approached our coincidence, so I have no idea just where it had come from.

My suspicion is that 'home' for the cat is in the vicinity of the Foxglove Supported Housing and Shelter located on Foxglove Drive (Google Map), for each time I have met that cat, it was walking towards 140th Street.

I am growing quite fond of the bold animal, even though I have not tried to make friends with it and do not know if it would be so inclined, or bolt from me for trying. But last night it showed no fear as we gradually drew nearer and nearer to each other. The sidewalk is as wide as a country lane, so I walked the side nearest the avenue, for the cat was walking the side nearest the forest.

I had seen it stop in full alert as a car passed ─ the cat faced directly at the passing vehicle, looking rigid and tense. But when we passed one another, it barely displayed notice of me. It could have left the sidewalk and taken to the relative safety of a grassy shoulder, but it chose not to.

Could it be remembering me as being a non-threat? It seems like it was a couple of months ago that we last encountered one another in that area, and nearly as long before that when the first encounter occurred ─ I believe that there were still a few patches of snow on the ground back then, so it has been a while.

If the cat does hang out in the Green Timbers Way / Foxglove area, then it is covering a great distance. I only conjecture that it might be from that area because I did once see a black cat prowling in behind the Jim Pattison Outpatient Care building that is located thereabouts. But it may have been an entirely different beast.

The Green Timbers Urban Forest Park is home to coyotes, so the cat is running risks out there at night. Each time I have encountered it along 100th Avenue has been a little after 3 a.m. There are also barred owls, which might potentially prey upon a cat at night. (See Do Owls Eat Cats?)

A 2012 DailyMail.com article tells of just such an incident where the barred owl succeeded in subduing a cat.

Anyway, with my walk done, I was back home and outside the locked front door by something like 4:19 a.m.

Note: I am considering carrying a can of sardines just in case I meet up with the cat again, although I do hate to influence the cat to have no fear of people. There are definitely people that a cat should never extend its trust towards.

I now forget when it was that I got back to bed (5:19 a.m. maybe?), but my morning began just after 8:30 a.m.

When a little later I joined my brother, around 9:10 a.m. he invited me to put our Android TV Box to use, so I tuned in Odessa Orlewicz's latest effort from yesterday ─ it exceeded 1¼ hours (1:20:52): More Video Proof The Libs/NDP/Bloc WANT VACCINE MANDATES As An Option Again In Canada.

June 21, 2023- More Proof The NDP, Libs, & Bloc WANT FUTURE VACCINE MANDATES In Canada!!! Video Proof from the House Of Commons...
A Conservative MP Pressed the issue through Bill C-278 in The House Of Commons by forcing a vote on the issue. The Uni-Party has once again been exposed. 2 shots to go back to normal and give you your "freedom?" Think again. Everyone is considered "unvaccinated" no matter what you did to "get back to normal." Our country has been sold to big pharma Blackrock, & the central bankers. Will YOU say no to the mass corrupt!on? Or will you continue to let your children be guinea pigs for the rich tech sector?

I was annoyed with this episode ─ Odessa just cannot shut up and let a video that she is focusing upon in her episode play through. Perhaps the uninformed 'sheep' might need her incessant dissection, but those are not the people who have tuned her in. I almost shut down the episode, her interruptions were becoming so aggravating.

I get enough of that damned nonsense in the evenings from my drunken brother when trying to watch T.V. with him.

The second video was far, far more interesting. Uploaded just today to YouTube's DW Documentary channel, it was 1½ hours (1:32:04): Asbestos - still a risk to today | DW Documentary.

Asbestos doesn’t burn, repels moisture, can be mixed with cement and spun into textiles. Although asbestos has been largely banned in the EU since 2005, the carcinogenic material is still being made and sold.

For decades, the hazardous substance isolated the steel frameworks of high-rise buildings and was found in car tires, floors and hairdryers. Although industrialized nations have been aware of the asbestos risk for a long time, the dangers have not yet been eliminated.  Doctors are warning of a rise in cases of secondary illnesses associated with asbestos exposure. In the EU, a ban on the manufacture, sale and use of asbestos was introduced in 2005. Germany implemented the measure even earlier, in November 1993.

In Europe, asbestos abatement represents a huge challenge: experts say it will take 100 years and cost several billion Euros to get rid of the carcinogenic fibers once and for all. All the while, year after year Russia continues to extract 600,000 tons of the mineral in the world’s largest asbestos mine - for export.

In the shipyards of Bangladesh, laborers get sick breaking up European freighters and supertankers containing thousands of tons of asbestos; and there’s growing anger in South America towards European companies that continued to use asbestos long after the material was banned in Europe. Global research casts doubt on common perceptions about asbestos and shows that no one is completely safe from possible exposure, particularly as large-scale industry and multinationals appear to be intent upon doing business with asbestos for some time to come.

At the video's conclusion nigh 12:30 p.m., my brother headed on upstairs to his bedroom to rest up for his early afternoon disappearance for the day to again socialize. I fixed up and ate my day's first meal, and was to bed for a nap by the time he emerged from his bedroom and left.

A fully sunny day ─ the first in a week or so. I wanted to sun, but did not get out into the backyard for it until a little past 3 p.m. I am sure I managed over 1¼ hours, though.

As for the evening, it will depend upon whether my brother arrives home before 9 p.m. If he fails to, then I will have washed my hands of him and will not be involving myself with him and any T.V. thereafter. Instead, I will be getting to bed so that I can rise again at 1:45 a.m. to ready for a sixth day's five-mile walk.

I hope to be around to be reporting on this evening in a post tomorrow.

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