Another Christmas Movie

Yet again I was not to require my 1:30 a.m. cellphone alarm to get me up last night for a five-mile+ hike. I recall once being surprisingly awake but I managed to return to sleep without checking the time because I could tell others were still up.

Then I hit another wakeful period; and even though others were still up, I checked the time and found it to only be 12:12 a.m. That was too early to be rising, so I lay at rest as best I could. When by 12:50 a.m. I was still as awake as ever, I chose to rise.

I remained behind my closed bedroom door as I slowly began readying for my outing, and within 10 minutes heard my younger brother come upstairs to his bedroom for the night. However, my youngest stepson was to anon choose to take occupancy of the bathroom and eventually shower.

I was never sure just who all were home, but I later concluded that neither his mother nor older brother were here.

My usual online temperature check for hereabouts yielded the claim of 3.5° Celsius (38.3° F.); by the time I was set to leave on my walk, fully dressed I just managed to top 190 pounds.

It was 1:54 a.m. once I was on my way ─ I actually had to cut across the lawn to avoid being seen by what I later learned was my eldest stepson backing into the open car port. (I had thought that it was his mother.)

Evidently it had rained earlier, but the sky only had broken cloud.

When I got to the elementary school playground three or four blocks from here for a half dozen sets of pull-ups and chin-ups, the equipment was wet, but I opted to exercise bare-handed anyway.

To my delight, I managed five pull-ups in the first set, and then two in the next; sets three and four saw me manage three and then two chin-ups; and my final two sets resulted in just two pull-ups each between a pair of gymnastics-style rings, with the final pull-up held for better than a 15-count.

I finished with 11 slow full-range push-ups in a declined position on a cement ramp.

There was nothing eventful about the remainder of the walk that I can recall, apart from at least twice having to cross streets to avoid apparent night people. I am not out there to meet people, make friends, nor to give away my money.

I was to do an amount of slow 'old man' jogging when opportunity presented, but I still felt that I was making poor time. I was not far wrong ─ it was 3:50 a.m. by the time I was back home.

And my wife's car was now in the driveway.

I believe that I made it back to bed just ahead of 5 a.m., and never rose until ... gosh, I suppose that it was somewhere between 8:30 - 9 a.m. My brother was apparently still reading the Saturday morning edition of the Vancouver Sun that I subscribe to, so the T.V. was not yet on.

I remained here at my computer (which I keep bedside) until after I heard him begin watching T.V., and joined him around 9:45 a.m. However, he adhered to the news pap and slop that he had tuned in until 10 a.m., at which point he began readying to go and pick up his girlfriend Bev to drive her to work.

While he was readying, I put our Android TV Box to work and tuned in Odessa Orlewicz's most recent video from Thursday, a rather poor 40-minute (39:32) solo titled GOOGLE's AI Recommending Death Of Conservatives As A Solution. A MUST SEE.

This story is going viral on Twitter. Robbie Starbuck, a Cuban conservative podcaster in the US shows us what the insane left wing programmers of google have taught their AI to recommend as a solution for thought and free speech crimes... Death for the betterment of humanity. Google's AI also lied about events and podcasts that Robbie had never even attended and friendships with KKK and others that he did not know. Robbie did this experiment after many conservatives started to complain about the horrific biases trained into google's AI. All of humanity needs to rise up against what these tech giants are doing. A call is being put out for everyone to slam google operators/CEO's etc on twitter with complaints exposing this. The WEF says AI will soon be making political decisions instead of politicians...and this is how google is training them!

https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1734698790081188067 and complain to https://twitter.com/sundarpichai GOOGLE's CEO.

Granted, I had become very hungry and was deep into the lassitude born of my fast's caffeine abstinence, both of which robbed me of concentration ─ I felt like returning to bed; but I have never heard of Robbie Starbuck nor this version of Google AI, so it all meant practically nothing to me. To be honest, Odessa's solo videos tend to suck; her videos are best when she has someone to interview.

Of course my brother left early into the video, so I paused it until his return, but I was too fatigued to make use of his absence for some activity.

After he was back and we had let Odessa's video play through, I tuned in one other, but my brother bowed out for some more bed rest at maybe 11:40 a.m. with less than 15 minutes to go, so I cancelled out of it and will report on it once we finish watching it.

I will just say that I was not caught up with it, either.

Anyway, since my wife had still not emerged from her bedroom, I was back to bed ahead of noon in order to avoid becoming enlisted in some errand of hers.

And I was never to see her! She had to work in the latter afternoon at the Thai restaurant that employs her part-time (the restaurant reopens at 4:30 p.m. following a daily 1½-hour closure beginning at 3 p.m.), and so she was gone by the time I called an end to my unusual nap time around 3:30 p.m. ─ and I was still drained despite probably exceeding another 3½ hours in bed.

I was to get far too involved in a lengthy E-mail response to an Edmonton paternal cousin of mine; by the time I was done and free to being on the first of two blog posts, my afternoon was excessively advanced.

I worked well past dark when I could have broken my fast, but I did not make that break until possibly just after 6 p.m. when I went downstairs and used the CINEMA HD app that is downloaded into our Android TV Box to locate a source for the 2017 Christmas movie A Bramble House Christmas.

Now that's the kind of Christmas movie I love!

Judging by lead actress Autumn Reeser's lengthy credits, I have undoubtedly see her before; and she does seem vaguely familiar. But that is all I can say from memory. Nonetheless, I have done a bit of research and now see that I most recently watched her a little more than two years ago in the 2012 movie Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

She was absolutely adorable in A Bramble House Christmas, as was the youngster (Liam Hughes) playing her movie son. Supposedly the young actor was born on December 11, 2005, so he had to be 11 years old in the movie. I don't know how old his character "Scout" was supposed to be, but I'm pretty sure that I knew Santa wasn't real long, long before I was 11.

But as I said, it was a wonderful movie ─ heck, I even grew to like lead male actor David Haydn-Jones' portrayal of his character. How is it that this very familiar actor does not have a Wikipedia biography?

Should anyone wish to watch the movie, it is available plentifully enough online, provided your browser has an effective ad blocker. Three sources to try are MoviesJoy, or UpMovies (various sources offered there), or M4uHD Movies.

I not only had a supper during the movie, but two cans of Cariboo Malt (8% alcohol). I am nearly tempted to have something stronger, but I will not.

It is after 10 p.m., so I am going to 'hit the hay' soon and must be done with this post. I will not be getting up until 4 a.m., for Sunday mornings tend to be when I get out very early to do some grocery shopping.

That's it for today.