Show of Force

Perhaps it was between 8:40 - 8:50 p.m. while I was watching some T.V. yesterday that I noticed my younger brother arriving unexpectedly, so I had to shut everything down and hustle upstairs to my bedroom.

My wife had just begun a shower, so I was unable to let her know that I was going to bed to avoid my brother, for I was going to be getting up at 1:45 a.m. to start readying for a five+-mile walk. This left me feeling uneasy, leaving her to have to deal with him alone (both of her sons were absent).

Perhaps he was not ridiculously drunk ─ it did not sound like it a while later when she was to come downstairs and greet him as he watched T.V. in the living room.

A point arrived in the night when I suspected that I had heard a morning bird chirp ─ had my cellphone alarm failed me?

A quick check of the lower right corner of my computer initially made me think that it was past 7 a.m., but then I realized that I was looking at the date. The time just above it was 1:19 a.m.

I made to try for a little more sleep or at least some rest, but then it occurred to me that the time was better spent allowing me even more leisure to ready for my walk.

Bloody Hell, it was to be 2:19 a.m. before I was on my way ─ a full hour later! I am so adept at wasting time.

It was pleasantly cool outside, and there was extensive very thin cloud cover. I had weighed myself fully clothed, sans jacket, and did not quite seem to be at 191 pounds. So when early into my walk I stopped at an elementary school playground for six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups, I knew what sort of weight I was hauling on my 73-year-old frame.

I felt better rested than I usually do ─ perhaps that was why I finally added a single repetition above my usual performance total. I had the usual four and then two pull-ups in the first two sets; but I was able to manage three chin-ups in the third set, followed by two further chin-ups in the next set. And I closed with the usual two pull-ups in the two sets done with a pair of gymnastics-style rings, holding the very final pull-up at highest elevation for a 12-count.

I then did eight slow full-range push-ups in a declined position on a cement ramp.

As for the walk, there was nothing worth reporting, apart from hearing one or two distant barred owls. I did not push my pace, and was back home by 4:24 a.m.

My return to bed was around 5:30 a.m., and my true morning began somewhere around 8:15 - 8:20 a.m.

I was surprised that my wife got up soon after I had gone downstairs for coffee and to watch some T.V. with my brother. She asked me if I could possibly give her as much as $40 so that she could go and do some shopping at either T&T Asian Supermarket or Hennlong Market.

I had exactly $40 in cash upstairs, so I went to fetch it; but I remembered that I had possibly $300 that her youngest son had given me while she was overseas after he had sold some probable Room Coffee for her in absentia ─ she tries to make some extra money by selling some of The iCon Group's products.

So I grabbed a $50 bill from that stash, brought it to her, and reminded her what it was. Suddenly memory dawned ─ she remembered that there was something like $200, which is an underestimate.

She excitedly asked for it all, so I obliging fetched $200, secretly retaining at least a further $50. And off she went.

The poor girl was to blow well over half of the money at the market ─ purchases which I expect are intended for the household, so it was quite selfless of her.

Anyway, as for T.V., just after mid-morning when my brother invited me to put our Android TV Box into action, I opened with a 47-minute documentary uploaded to YouTube's Real Stories channel back on August 23, 2015: Brain Man: The Boy With The Incredible Brain | Real Stories Full-Length Documentary.

An extraordinary documentary on the brainpower of Daniel T, the young Englishman who could be the world’s greatest mental athlete. Daniel is not just a calculating wizard, but also a memory champion and super linguist.

He speaks nine languages. Daniel, the oldest of seven children, has been able to do amazing calculations after an epileptic fit when he was 3 years old. He was even able to remember over 22,000 numbers in a public display of his ability. But how does he do it? Leading scientists explore the extraordinary world of this real-life Rainman. Daniel’s psychological make-up is explored by Cambridge University autism expert Professor Simon Baron Cohen who delves into his childhood experiences in an effort to explain his remarkable abilities. In America Daniel meets other extraordinary people like himself, known as “savants” -- including Kim Peek, whose story was the basis of the movie “Rainman”. Brain scientists at the Salk Institute in San Diego, including Professor V S Ramachandra, are astounded at his skills and discover the key to Daniel’s ability is his visual imagery which his brain “sees” when he hears a number, this condition is known as synaesthesia. To show it’s not just numbers Daniel can remember -- he also learns one of the world’s hardest languages, Icelandic, in just one week -- and gets interviewed on Icelandic TV after only 7 days of learning to speak it.

The documentary was much better than I was expecting it might be ─ and the man's full name is Daniel Tammet. Or at least, that is how he is known ─ see Wikipedia for his birth name. I am glad that my brother and I were not to learn in the documentary that the guy is Gay.

Then came an hour-long (1:02:52) addition of yesterday to Rumble's Stew Peters Network channel: Uncensored: Pastor Artur Pawlowski - 10 Years Imprisonment for "ECO-Terrorism!" WARNING To All!

Pastor Arthur Pawlowski has been persecuted since the start of COVID for refusing to waiver on his religious freedoms, and those of his flock. After tremendous persecution including imprisonment, solitary confinement, kidnapping and attempted murder, Pastor Pawlowski is now facing 10 years in prison for the first "eco-terrorism" charge in history - and his story comes with a warning for all.

Support Pastor Pawlowski here: https://www.streetchurch.ca/

Next I believe that I tuned in an episode of Chicago Fire ─ this was season 10's episode 12 ("Show of Force").

That was followed by an 18-minute addition last December 1 to Rumble's The Why Files channel: Proof of Reincarnation | Dorothy Eady: Ancient Egyptian Priestess Reborn.

3-year old Dorothy was playing, then accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. She hit her head and was knocked unconscious. When her parents found her, she wasn't breathing.

They called a doctor who rushed over immediately. Dorothy's mother broke down when the doctor said there was nothing he could do. Her little girl was dead.

The doctor left and returned an hour later with Dorothy's death certificate and gently discussed arrangements for the little girl's body.

But during this conversation, shuffling was heard coming from Dorothy's room. They ran upstairs and there she was, playing in her room like nothing happened.

The doctor examined her again. There was no sign of injury.

He had no explanation. He said it appeared as if Dorothy had come back from the dead.

He didn't realize how right he was.

Definitely interesting stuff, but I do not subscribe to reincarnation.

We ended our viewing with a women's MMA match on YouTube.

My brother then sought some bed rest. I had some of my wife's cooking as my first meal of the day, and was to my bed in pursuit of a nap when my brother left afoot to rendezvous by bus at a pub with one or more of his drinking buddies.

The afternoon was sunny, so at 2:44 a.m. I commenced 86 minutes of sunning in the backyard. Meantime, my wife apparently left for somewhere, and is still away as I type these words after 7 p.m.

I must make a phone call during which I will be soliciting Sandy W. as a reference for my passport renewal ─ I shall need one other reference. My passport expires August 1.

I have another walk planned for the wee a.m., so I will need to have a supper and be to bed before my brother returns.