My overall alcohol intake last night were four cans of Cariboo Malt (8% alcohol), and I hope just one shot of Kraken Black Spiced Rum.
Even so, I actually considered going to bed following my evening walk as I waited for my younger brother to arrive home from his daily socializing. Then I noticed that it was only somewhere around 9:30 p.m. ─ not late at all on what was intended as a late night for me.
When he did show up, I was watching some titillation on YouTube via the SmartTube app that I have downloaded in our Android TV Box; specifically, it was an 11½-minute (11:27) showcase of an undeniably attractive young lady who clearly is unafraid to present her wonderful assets: School Girl Outfit Try-On & Review.
At the young hottie's conclusion I led us off with an episode of Riverdale ─ episode 11 ("Chapter Sixty-Eight: Quiz Show") of season four.
Next was an episode of The Outpost ─ season two's episode two ("This Is One Strange Town").
And as it was to happen, we finished with the very first two episodes of the Australian T.V. series Wanted ─ it was that good.
"Chelsea and Lola" introduced the viewer to the two main female characters, neither of whom knew each other, but were clearly inside the trunk (or boot) of a car as kidnap victims trying to work out what they could do to survive.
"Run Lola Run" was just as exciting, and brought my brother and I to maybe nearly midway through the midnight hour. Whatever time it was, it was unusually early for my brother to be announcing that he was calling it quits for the night.
This was wholly unexpected, and I had as yet some ways to go in order to finish my last beer. So I tuned in some early rock videos from the 1960s when rock music could actually still be sung along with ... and darned if I did not nearly convince myself to keep sitting up and opening another beer.
But I did not.
Nevertheless, it was likely after 1 a.m. before I also forsook the T.V. and came upstairs here to my bedside computer to take care of a few things before getting to bed.
Between my salty / spicy supper and the drinking, my later sleep was to be adversely affected. Just after 5 a.m. I gave up trying for more sleep and got up to use the bathroom and get some water to help deal with the thirst and my nearly feverish state.
I returned to bed, but sleep was never an easy matter afterwards. I probably got up for the morning around 8:15 a.m., preceding my brother.
I always sit here at my computer for quite some time, so he got access to the T.V. But when I joined him shortly after 9 a.m., he turned it over to me so that I could put our Android TV Box back into action.
First I tuned in Anita Krishna's 6½-minute (6:29) addition early today to her Rumble AKStraightSpeaks channel: UFC's Dana White and Sean Strickland Schools Reporters!
You know your country is in a sad state when UFC's guys have to remind our idiot press what free speech and values are all about!
Anita was in great form! I love the gal.
Then I tuned in a January 19 addition to Rumble's A Warrior Calls channel: Tribute Myles Goodwyn APRIL WINE / TIME TO ROUND THEM ALL UP.
The video was listed as running 44:09 in length, but my brother had me skip past the lengthy opening hard rock performance; and I always skip the closing Braveheart excerpt ─ I tired of watching it long, long ago.
Christopher seems to be getting too damned 'New Age' for my liking. I may yet find myself having to stop being as regular with his videos as has been the case.
A third video we watched was half an hour (29:38), and had been uploaded on July 27, 2019, to YouTube's Happen Films channel: Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary).
The incredible story of how degraded gorse-infested farmland has been regenerated back into beautiful New Zealand native forest over the course of 30 years.
Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”.
Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool.
Finally, I selected a January 13, 2013, 1¼-hour (1:14:57) upload to YouTube's The Best Film Archives channel: Nazi Leaders on Trial - Nuremberg 1945_Historical Documentary_WW2 Footages of War Crimes_Full Length.
US Army 1950 documentary film on the Nuremberg Trials.
This film was made as a historical document to record permanently and accurately the trial of the Nazi defendants at Nuremberg. It consists of footage from German films documenting Nazi personalities and activities interwoven with film shot during the trials - including testimony and statements from defendants, prosecuting attorneys, judges, and witnesses. It follows the story of the rise and fall of Nazism from the putsch in a Munich beer hall to the Nuremberg trials, and contains flashbacks of a variety of Nazi crimes against humanity.
The actual video description is far too lengthy to include here, so go and directly check it out.
Note that around 10:10 a.m. we broke from watching T.V. so that my brother could go and pick up his girlfriend Bev two miles distant and drive her to work. Since I was down to my last five cans of beer, I rode along so that he could stop at the government liquor store near her in order for me to replenish my supply with another four dozen cans (with tax and deposit, $81.05).
Anyway, after our morning videos, he sought some bed rest before leaving early in the afternoon to socialize. As yet I had not sought my needed nap, but I did so around 1:30 p.m. and was abed for something over 1½ hours ─ I could easily have extended my napping, but I still had two blog posts to create, plus a little exercising (very little).
My wife was to text me at 4:28 p.m. to report that she had succeeded in getting our monthly life insurance rates reduced. Mine had been around $210, and I dreaded that loss each month. It is now down to $108.81 ─ so maybe $101 less, which is definitely significant.
I am planning on an evening five-mile+ walk, provided my brother does not show up unexpectedly early. When we were out this morning, I marvelled at how reduced the snow now is, for we had been experiencing a very light rain by that point for just about two days straight, and temperatures have been well above freezing.
I had thought an evening walk might be out of the question due to the amount of uncleared sidewalks I would face. At least in the wee a.m., I can take to the streets due to the sparse traffic, but that is impossible in the evening.
And now that obstacle to my travel no longer seems present.
I took a break from this post to watch an Alicia Witt movie I have been hesitant to put time into because I knew that it was going to be hoakey, and I was of the impression that Alicia's role was minor.
Well, the movie was certainly hoakey enough, but fortunately Alicia's character figured far larger than I had been led to believe. I have long had a crush on the woman.
The movie was 2013's Wiener Dog Nationals, and I watched it on T.V. quite easily via our Android TV Box because the movie is presently available at this link on YouTube.
I had felt that I might have to take at least two sittings to get through the movie, but I was wrong ─ I managed it all in one sitting, and did get some enjoyment from it. Naturally, my attraction for Alicia certainly contributed.
However, I probably ought to have taken bed rest instead, for I resisted having anything to drink ─ and I even had my supper. Mid-evening is not all that far off, so it is rather late now to be resting up.
I have no idea if the light rain of this latter morning has continued, but that is not the deterrent. My weariness is. I may not even go ─ I feel that I must rest first.
I will report on the outcome in tomorrow's post.
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