My 1:30 a.m. alarm roused me last night to begin readying for my five-mile+ walk. The house was in darkness.
An online check of the claimed temperature hereabouts was 1.7° Celsius (35.06° F.); and fully dressed for my walk, I weighed just over 190 pounds.
It was 1:58 a.m. by the time I was away into the chilly night under a clear enough sky and an essentially full moon.
When I got to the elementary school playground three or four blocks from here for a half dozen sets of token pull-ups and chin-ups, the sawdust on the ground was crunchy and glistening from frost, but the metal of the jungle gym monkey bars was practically dripping thickly with a heavy dew.
I used my jacket sleeves to wipe the worst of the wet off so as not saturate my gloves.
And of course, after the token half dozen sets I finished with 10 slow full-range push-ups in a declined position on a cement ramp.
I don't recall anything worth writing about concerning the rest of the walk; it was somewhere from 3:52 - 3:54 a.m. by the time I was back home, if I am remembering correctly.
Although I may have been back to bed ahead of 5:30 a.m., and never checked the time thereafter and rose until shortly ahead of 8:30 a.m., I found myself to be suffering a vague eyestrain-type headache in back of my right eye that was to assist in colouring my demeanour negatively.
Compounding that effect was guilt I felt for not noticing when my wife had risen and was showering in prelude to her long full day of work at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time.
Due to my negligence she was to have to leave on her long drive without any boiled water for her special coffee beverage. I usually try to have hot water ready for her, but this time instead of just turning on the stove element to heat the already very warm water in the kettle, I stupidly filled it with more cold water that she had no time to wait to boil.
I honestly felt awful for this.
The morning's T.V. with my brother ─ soon after 9 a.m. once I put our Android TV Box into action ─ began with a 20-minute addition on October 11 to Rumble's Maryann Gebauer channel: Dr. York Hsiang | Bonnie Henry In The Hot Seat November 20.
According to VGH vascular surgeon and UBC professor York Hsiang, Dr. Bonnie Henry will be required at a November judicial review to produce scientific evidence behind her draconian measures of preventing 8000 unvaccinated healthcare workers from employment in BC.
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Alas, I fear that our judges are cowardly, ignorant, or corrupt ─ the process will continue of betraying the people of this province in abject favour of those liars who hold the reins of power. The judges know who it is that appoints them and pays their salaries.
I next tried for my brother and I to watch a 1¼-hour (1:16:07) video that had been uploaded to YouTube on April 6, 2016: Divorce: Iranian Style (Global Documentary) | Real Stories.
Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate circumstances of Iranian women’s lives. Following Jamileh, whose husband beats her; Ziba, a 16-year-old trying to divorce her 38-year-old husband; and Maryam, who is desperately fighting to gain custody of her daughters, this deadpan chronicle showcases the strength, ingenuity, and guile with which they confront biased laws, a Kafaka-esque administrative system, and their husbands’ and families’ rage to gain divorces.
With the barest of commentary, acclaimed director Kim Longinotto turns her cameras on the court and lets it tell its own story. Dispelling images of Iran as a country of war, hostages, and “fatwas”, and Iranian women as passive victims of a terrible system, this film is a subtle, fascinating look at women’s lives in a country which is little known to most Americans.
Directed by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, author of Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law.
Unfortunately my brother's vision is even worse than mine and I was having to basically maintain a steady narration by trying to keep reading aloud the steady subtitling, for the documentary was almost exclusively in Iranian. We were close to half way through it when I asked him if he wanted to continue with it, and he declined.
It is unfortunate, as I said ─ it truly was interesting and entertaining.
So next I tuned in a 51-minute (51:37) September 5, 2022, addition to BitChute's Adaneth channel: Rome: Power & Glory | Cult of Order (Episode 5).
Episode 5: Rome fashioned a cultural template that resonates today in Western art, architecture, medicine and urban planning. As the Roman Empire grew, this pagan model blended with a host of beliefs reflecting the multi-cultural world it encompassed.
From this mix emerged Christianity, by its very nature at odds with the deeply rooted values of Roman Culture. Romans thought they had united the world. But after centuries of conquest and glory, resentment festered within. Repression and chaos replaced tolerance and order; and the gap between the wealthy and the poor had become unimaginably wide. Indeed ninety-five percent of the population struggled beneath the povety line. Cults of dessent emerged that threatened to devide the empire forever. "Cult of Order" aims to track the corruption of the values that made Rome 'great'; as exellence gave way to excess.
As soon as I tuned tn the next video, my brother disappeared to engage other activities, finally returning to make apparent that barely after 11:30 a.m., he was about to head out this sunny day.
Well, we will just have to replay the video from its start in the near future.
I should have taken the opportunity to have an early nap, but I opted for dissolution instead and thus squandered the first half of my afternoon.
As the afternoon advanced, my youngest stepson got all dressed up in his suit ─ reportedly he was headed off to his girlfriend's home. With his older brother in Thailand, that left me home alone.
Ever the recluse, I locked the front door and kept the lights off this Hallowe'en ─ even though I may have $40 worth of Hallowe'en goodies that I accumulated over the month.
I am too much the neurotic to celebrate the evening all on my own.
I have another early a.m. walk planned for which I will be rising at 1:30 a.m., so I will be putting my miserable lonely self to bed relatively early.
By the way, my brother confirmed that yesterday he booked a 1 p.m. ferry sailing for Saturday to go over to the Island to visit his old friend Frank H. It will be an overnight visit, and my brother's return ferry is around 5 p.m. Sunday.









