It is not unlikely that I failed to get into bed last evening until maybe a couple of minutes past 9:30 p.m., my cellphone alarm set for 1:30 a.m. to get me up to slowly begin readying for a five-mile+ walk.
And that alarm chime did indeed rally me, although I do not believe myself to have been asleep at the time.
I was to see that my eldest stepson was apparently sitting up downstairs at the dining table watching videos on a laptop, so it was going to be necessary for me to have to sneak away.
By the time I was set to leave, my fully clothed weight was around 187 pounds.
I was to find everything dripping wet out there, but the temperature was relatively mild, and there was no trace of rain falling from the overcast sky. Nevertheless, I considered not bothering to stop at the nearby elementary school playground for my usual half dozen sets of pull-ups and chin-ups because I did not feel up to contending with the wet equipment.
However, by the time I had walked the three or four blocks to that point, I decided to stop in. And once I had done that, I chose to see how well I would be able to wipe dry one of the metal jungle gym monkey bars.
And so it was that I did engage those movements ─ four and then two pull-ups in the first two sets; three and then two chin-ups in the second two sets; and a rather poor showing of two pull-ups in each of the final two sets performed between a pair of wet plastic-coated gymnastics-style rings.
I had given quite a bash to the two rings I would be using, intending to knock off most of the heavy drops of water on them. However, they were still wet, and my bare hands had an insecure grip. The very last of those pull-ups was so shabby due to my slipping grip that I had no hope of attempting to hold the less than ideal pull-up for the usual 20-count, so I did not even try to.
Lately I have been making it a point to descend to a hang and 'flare my lats' for one to two seconds before rallying into the next elevation, and those first four sets left me rather depleted by the time I came to attempt the rings ─ pulling up between the insecure rings is considerably more difficult than just doing pull-ups or chin-ups on a bar because one must also struggle to keep the rings fixed in place. They are suspended from at least a metre (yard) of swingable chain.
I concluded my exercising with the usual 11 slow full-range push-ups in a declined posture on a sloping cement ramp.
I was to lose quite a lot of time after I began ascending Quibble Creek Greenway from Fraser Highway (Google Map).
I had gotten a bit better than midway to that very short spur of the Greenway that joins to 138-A Street when through the woods that obscure that street, I noticed an extremely bright light moving all about.
That halted me in my tracks, for it was moving quite swiftly, and I was unsure that it was not somebody who might suddenly burst through the woods ─ it was all rather mysterious. One of my usual concerns along that unlit paved Greenway is that I might encounter someone walking their loose and aggressive dog.
I stood and watched as the intermittently hidden light moved approximately apace with the progress I had theretofore been making. And then it reached the spur, and came along there to the Greenway.
It was indeed someone bearing an exceedingly bright light; but in accompaniment were what obviously had to be two loose dogs casting about as loose energetic dogs do ─ one was decked in an array of red lights, the other in lights of blue or green.
Fortunately they all proceeded 'up' the Greenway in the direction I had meant to go, so I felt myself to have wasted enough time in this enterprise, for I was not about to trail along behind the three ─ the dogs might not be unaware me for too long. Or the chap could decide not to travel all the way to 100th Avenue as was my intention, and instead turn about and start coming back towards me.
Feeling myself with no other sound option, I turned about and came back to Fraser Highway, and from there hiked over in the direction of 140th Street as I would have done along 100th Avenue.
So between exercising at the elementary school, and the time I further lost at Quibble Creek Greenway, I fully anticipated that I might be as much as 10 minutes over a full two hours on this outing.
But I very much fooled myself ─ I must have maintained a very commendable pace. I had begun my trek at 2:24 a.m., and I was back home at 4:28 a.m.
Note that when I was maybe 1½ miles from home on the return, it began raining.
Nobody was still up once I was back home, happily.
I cannot now recall when it was that I returned to bed ─ might it have been after 5:30 a.m.? Possibly.
After some sleep I was to find myself awake ahead of 8 a.m., but I was exceedingly short of needed sleep. I believed myself to have likely heard my younger brother go downstairs to have coffee and watch T.V.
It was too early for me ─ he will not give up the T.V. until 9:10 a.m. or so because of his fixation on watching the false news programmes, and I have no taste for them.
Still, I was too keyed up to be able to allow myself to sink back into sleep because I might do so overlong; thus I largely just lay there in a general stupor until maybe 8:45 a.m. before finally getting up for the morning.
When I did join my brother for coffee and T.V. and he greenlighted me to put our Android TV Box into gear, I led us off with a 52-minute (52:06) video streamed yesterday to Rumble's Tammy Cuthbert Garcia channel: Raw Milk Conspiracy 🥛, Plastic Related Diseases ♳, & Sugar Side Effects 🍩.
Today on Naturally Inspired Radio taking back your power, helping businesses grow, giving people choices for real health solutions, Amos Miller amish farmer, raw milk, government shut down, nutrition, big pharma, big insurance, FDA, recycling scam, fat free scam, science is funded, sugar, new sugar substitutes, plastic related diseases, thyroid problems caused by plastics, making the main thing the main thing and so much more…
Alas, Tammy's podcast format has changed since I last tuned her in. And I do not much like it, although I said nothing to my brother. However, not halfway through, he finally said that he had been exposed to his fill of her programme, so I shut it down.
I will not be checking in on her show again.
One thing I decidedly did not appreciate was her serving as a disc jockey, playing loud Country songs for extended periods while just sitting there and saying nothing ─ just smiling at the camera. Sure, she is a darned attractive young woman, but I did not tune in to just stare at her. I want to spend my time informatively.
Even when she did say anything during these unwanted / unnecessary musical interludes, she could barely be heard over the volume of the music she was playing.
I can listen to Country music on my own ─ heck, I can even watch the recorded live performances if that is what I want. I do not need to have my time wasted by staring at Tammy playing her choices in Country music. That was not why I tuned in her show.
And that's too bad. As I said, I will not be back to sample her show.
So next I tuned in another stream recorded yesterday, but which well exceeded an hour (1:09:22), at Rumble's Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson channel: Canadian Wrong Think to be Legislated.
Today we will be looking into Trudeau’s proposed Online Harms Bill and what that might mean for online shows like ours and even the free speech of ordinary Canadians.
Our guest today is Nik Coleman from Coleman Television. Nik has worked in the Broadcast industry for over 40 years and will be here to talk about his new documentary, ‘People Like Us’ which looks at a group in Oklahoma who established a learning centre in Oklahoma providing free lifetime care for adults with learning disabilities.
Coleman Television: colemantelevision.com
After this video came two videos from YouTube's Talasbuan channel:
- Off Grid Life | The making of a log to a timberhouse Uploaded January 29, 2019 (25:31)
Episode thirty-one, in which we're preparing a log for the house
This is a very interesting video of a guy making a log with historical tools: • Virkesberedning - Rekonstruktionen av...
This is a vlog about our struggles and joys of living off the grid in the forests of Jämtland, Sweden.
- Off Grid Life | Hardships Uploaded March 2, 2019 (16:00)
Episode thirty-two, in which we're experiencing some hardships
And we finished up with an episode of Coupling ─ episode five ("Jane and the Truth Snake") of season or series two. I have to say that character Jane (played by actress Gina Bellman) and her loss of conversational control of her own sock puppet was hilarious! She has tended to be my least favourite of the three main female characters, but this sure helped elevate her.
My wife had risen early enough this morning that I thought perhaps she was going to have a full workday. And although she did head away at her usual morning time for one of her full days, she explained that she was off to the Thai temple in Burnaby.
She had not returned yet when my brother sought bed rest around noon, but she did get home while I was having my day's first meal during the noon hour.
And then she prevailed upon me to dredge up her T4s (Statements of Remuneration Paid) for Tax Years 2021, 2022, and 2023. This caught me entirely off guard, for I did not have any of them printed out, so I had to seek for them here with my computer.
Suffice to say that my brother was to later emerge from his bedroom and then head off on foot to catch the first of two buses for him to rendezvous with one or more drinking buddies of his at a neighbourhood pub he does not normally frequent except on these occasions.
I needed my nap, or my later day would be a loss. And so when my chance came ─ possibly around 1:40 p.m. ─ I said nothing to my wife and simply shut myself up in my bedroom and attempted to ease out of my guilt and relax into some sleep.
It was not particularly easy. And when finally I did managed a short nap and roused just past 3 p.m., a concern was realized ─ specifically, my wife had already left for her latter afternoon work start. This always makes me feel rather bad, not being available to see her off.
I want to get out this evening for some sort of walk so that I will not have to get to bed early and have a walk in the wee a.m. Since I only have five cans of beer on hand, I am determined to try and make the four-mile round trip hike to the nearest government liquor store to buy a dozen.
I could ride tomorrow morning with my brother when he goes to pick up his girlfriend Bev and drive her to work, but it would mean the loss of any morning exercising unless I scrapped all notions of an evening walk later today and got to bed early for another wee a.m. outing like I had last night.
But I would like to sit up late this evening to watch some T.V. with my brother and have some beer.
If I do not buy any myself this evening and have some other sort of evening walk, then my next opportunity to ride with my brother that would not see me sacrificing any morning exercising would not be until Tuesday ─ I cannot possibly extend five cans of beer that far.
It is already well past 6:30 p.m., and that liquor store closes at 9 p.m.
I am feeling some slight eyestrain, so I ought to rest my eyes, but I would want to be on my way by 8 p.m.
This is where I feel I must end today's post.










