Depravity took hold following publication of yesterday's post, and I was not to get to bed until reasonably near midnight. Of course both my younger brother and my wife were home well before then, but I had remained shut up here in my bedroom at my bedside computer.
There was no attempt to be made to be getting up at 1:30 a.m. for my planned five-mile+ walk, so I cancelled my cellphone alarm. I was deep into discouragement.
I reconciled that I would just sleep, and not bother myself with any walk whatsoever.
Just ahead of 4 a.m. after a realistic dream, I made a check of the time, and then assumed a new position in bed to facilitate further sleep. However, unease was to set in and probably less than 10 minutes after having changed positions, I decided to get up and see if I could at least salvage my allotted walk.
And so it was that at 4:27 a.m. I was away into a newly begun falling of wet snow that soon not only had the pavement covered with a waterlogged partial inch of slush that made fast walking unlikely due to the backward 'kick' that would come each time my mainly treadless boots attempted to lift off with each step, but my shaven head was suffering pronounced brain freeze that was about all I could endure.
I could have pulled up my plain fleece hood, but I prefer having my scalp exposed to the air.
Due to how late into the a.m. my walk was being engaged, I was not feeling very committed. And a mile or so at most from home, I began vacillating. My normal route seemed so oppressively tedious ─ it was unpalatably boring in its familiarness.
I came so near to either just calling off the walk, or substituting some shorter facsimile.
But I carried on, and chose to reverse my route. And after turning off 148th Street onto 100th Avenue which I then followed as far as 138th Street (Google Map), I undertook numerous short bouts of plodding jogging to help generate warmth (my lightly gloved hands had gotten wet and quite cold) and to reduce my exposure to the public.
It was 6:14 a.m. by the time I was again home. In the time I had been gone, my eldest stepson must have risen, readied, and left for his 12-hour 6 a.m. shift at Tree Island Steel, for his car was gone.
I remained up for an hour or so, finally getting full motivation to get back to bed when my younger brother made clear signs that he was getting up for the morning. By this time I was far too weary to try to remain up.
Better than two hours later following some needed sleep and another realistic dream, I decided to rise for the morning despite longing to spend more time luxuriating in my bed.
I had begun a Sabbath fast late in the afternoon yesterday, so there was scant incentive to be getting up to commence my day ─ I would not be able to have an invigorating and hunger-assuaging big hot mug of instant coffee with the works.
I joined my brother for some T.V. shortly before 9:30 a.m., and after some brief chatter, he invited me to put our Android TV Box into operation.
And so I led us off with a 59-second video added very early today to Rumble's AKStraightSpeaks channel: Science for Hire Documentary.
I was just going through my old videos and I came across "Science for Hire" a Gary Null production. I was very surprised and honored to be featured in his documentary and thought I'd share it again.
LINK :
https://rumble.com/v1nk6tu-science-for-hire-full-movie-a-gary-null-production.html
I had not read the description before playing the short clip ─ I realize now that as of last November 6 or 7, my brother and I already watched Anita's recommended documentary.
The next video I tuned in was all we were to have time for ─ even without bothering watching anything past the two-hour mark when the closing credits began rolling and then a religious sermon concluded the show. My brother had gone to his bedroom for bed rest at the start of the credits around 12:10 p.m., and I just let the video play on while I sat at the dining table and scanned through the Saturday morning edition of the Vancouver Sun that I subscribe to.
The main body of the video was excellent. I do not now know which source I used in tuning it in, so I will simply offer this one at Rumble's Great Awakening World - Truths & Secrets Revealed channel: COVIDLAND: THE SHOT Vaccines (EPISODE 3) Infowars Alex Jones Documentary.
My brother and I had previously watched the first two instalments of the documentary series.
My wife had risen quite late into the morning for her third consecutive partial day of work beginning in the latter afternoon at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time.
I wanted my usual early afternoon nap, but I did delay seeking it in order to make myself available to my wife. At one point she explained how to properly prepare some soup she had brought home in a container, with some cooked noodles in a plastic bag that she only wants me to add to the soup once it has already been heated (the noodles only need the warmth of the heated soup).
I of course explained that I was fasting, but I would be eating again after the onset of dark early this evening.
My nap was not to be delayed for too long, or I would be risking still being abed when my wife was to have to leave for work on her fairly long drive ─ she tends to leave around 3:15 p.m. And she will not likely be returning home tonight ─ she tends to spend her free weekend time somewhere in Vancouver.
So I was to my bed late into the noon hour, and was back up again fairly early after 2 p.m. My brother had meantime risen and left for the day to socialize.
By the way, our snow managed to cover the rooftops, but by the time I rose this morning after 9 a.m., it was all gone. We were even to have considerable sunshine breaks and lots of blue sky.
I of course never had any exercise early into my snowy walk. I never even travelled past the elementary school where I normally stop for that activity. Quite apart from not wanting to get my light gloves soaked so early into my walk by handling the wet equipment, I am also leery of stopping there as late into the a.m. as that because of the risk of having someone walking a loose large dog coincide with me.
I was too weak to exercise out in the backyard tool shed when my brother left around 10:10 a.m. to go and pick up his girlfriend Bev to drive her to work ─ I needed the boost that one of those mugs of instant coffee provide. And so that 20-minute or so opportunity was lost ─ I would only grow hungrier and weaker as the day passed.
So no exercise whatsoever this morning beyond the walk.
I am unsure how I will be spending my evening. Just pig out after dark and have a couple of beers while watching some T.V.?
Or instead of eating too heavily and drinking any beer, have a little to eat along with a big hot mug of strong instant coffee with the works, and then getting out on some walking errand that would thereafter allow me to sit up tonight watching shows with my brother and having some beer then?
Otherwise I will need to avoid him and retire relatively early with the plan of rising at 4 a.m. and later heading away to do some grocery shopping.
Isn't my life full and exciting?
NOT!
I passed away the last of the daylight by watching an episode of Chesapeake Shores ─ the premiere episode ("The Best Is Yet to Come") of season six.
I had been home alone because my youngest stepson had left into the latter half of the morning (I think that he may have a part-time job somewhere), but his older brother was to arrive home ─ from his 12-hour shift ─ just ahead of 6:30 p.m. while I was still watching my show.
After the episode was over, I fixed up my fast-breaking meal and ate that here at my computer, and now I am having a two-teaspoon mug of instant coffee. I am hoping that it will commit me to getting out on a walk even though it is now already after nearly 8:30 p.m.
It certainly will not facilitate having a good sleep if instead I find myself unwilling to get out, and thus must have a walk tomorrow after getting up at 4 a.m.
By the way, I will have my wife's soup for my first meal tomorrow ─ I did not wish to be burdening my system with a fluid-heavy soup if I am to be going out on a long walk.
I had better begin readying ─ I haven't even begun to do so. I am banking on the caffeine kicking in, for I really do feel like I could just have myself an early evening and get to bed in a while.
It is heading on to 10:10 p.m., and I never left home. My brother has been here for some while as I remain sequestered here in my bedroom.
I just didn't have it in me to get away.
Fortunately, the coffee does not seem to have stimulated me noticeably, so I anticipate being able to get to sleep. My cellphone alarm will be set for 4 a.m.
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