Since it was past 9 p.m. last evening when I left here on my walk, it was too late to include any sort of shopping, so I limited myself to just the five-mile+ trek I had taken that early a.m.
But it was to prove quite interesting.
About 1½ miles into it as I was walking up 140th Street and had almost reached 100th Avenue (Google Map) where I would be turning right, I coincided with a chap coming from that same intersection. Due to darkness and the blinding vehicular lights, I had no idea I knew who it was until we had almost passed one another and he suddenly expressed my name in surprise.
It was Charles ("Stickman"). He had a pole with him that he had been sandpapering smooth, but I had not even been able to notice that beforehand due to those infernal blinding lights.
But even if it had been daytime and he didn't have a pole I might not have recognized him, for he was fairly brightly dressed and had almost a brush cut instead of his formerly rather long hair. He was also bareheaded, whereas normally he wears a hood or something like a toque.
This was to be the most rational conversation yet that I have had with him, for normally he ventures off into the bizarre of topics that make absolutely no sense to me.
Fortunately, he was tired, and one of his large toes was paining him, so we did not converse for too long. But while we were engaged a young woman had been coming from behind along my route who was sporting exceptional bared legs in her short skirt. As she passed us and advanced to the near intersection, I was almost agog at how fabulous her calves were, even though I could only enjoy the view for a short glimpse due to those blinding headlights.
I would have loved to have been free of Charles just then to follow immediately along behind this magnificent lass. We did break soon thereafter, but she was gone from sight by then.
So I made my right turn along 100th Avenue, and did a little jogging to make up time. I also needed a pee because I had drunk a can of Cariboo Malt (8% alcohol) shortly before leaving home. So when I reached the parking lot just beyond Green Timbers Access Road (Google Map), I went to the far end of the darkened lot and got my relief.
The lot is relatively narrow, but stretches alongside 100th Avenue as may be evident on that Google Map. This is a screen capture of the end of the lot where I went in the dark for my relief, unseen by the passing traffic ─ the image was taken from the perspective of being in the midst of 100th Avenue and looking at the parking lot's far end:
I was just finishing up when to my astonishment coming along the sidewalk and already well along past Green Timbers Access Road was what I am certain was the same young woman I had so admired earlier.
But how did she get to that point so quickly without me noticing her beforehand ─ especially since I had done some jogging?
Hurriedly I composed myself and resumed my walk without looking back at her, not wishing to cause her a fright ─ our side of 100th Avenue has nothing but forest. It might be alarming to her that somebody just seemed to appear out of the dark, but at least I was not walking her way.
However, I slowed my pace just in case the woman was inclined to catch up, yet I walked nearly the next half mile to 148th Street (Google Map) ─ where I would be making another right turn ─ before looking back, but I could not detect that she was even in sight; again, my visibility was limited because of the brilliance of oncoming traffic.
So I wondered if she might have been a hooker? Maybe she had gotten let off from a vehicle near where I was having my pee; and then as she walked well behind me she scored another 'client'?
Who knows.
By the way, just a short time prior to looking back for her, ahead of me on my side of 100th Avenue I noticed a coyote wisely wait for a break in traffic, and then it trotted across to the opposite side and disappeared into the forest.
I was to have one further interesting experience that night. I had just followed Fraser Highway to King George Boulevard and was only a very short ways along 98th Avenue (Google Map) when I noticed ─ sitting on a fence at shoulder height and not more than seven feet from me ─ a large owl facing directly at me.
It was probably a barred owl.
Sometimes at night I will hear what is surely the screech of a night bird. I have no idea what a nighthawk sounds like, nor a screech owl. But I have read that barn owls have a distinctive screech ─ in fact, that barn owls Wikipedia article in the right column has a 13-second audio of one's screech, and damned if this does not sound exactly like the screech I have sometimes heard.
Unfortunately, I did not notice if 'my' owl had a whiter face than the rest of itself.
I did not act as if I noticed the bird ─ I do not care to present myself as any kind of threat. Otherwise I could have attempted to record it with my cellphone. But to do so would require stopping and unbuttoning my denim jacket to gain the phone from an inside deep pocket, and then fumbling with the phone to get the camera function. Thus, I just kept walking.
However, a short distance ahead of me an Asian couple were disembarking their vehicle, and then coming in my direction. After I proceeded a ways, I looked back ─ sure enough, I could see the woman stopped at approximately where the bird was, but the man was not visible. Likely he was daring to approach the bird ─ maybe she was recording with her phone, I don't know.
But it bothered me. I wish that they had not detected it and ignorantly walked by it.
I found my brother home and watching T.V. once I was back here. Then while I was upstairs in my bedroom changing clothes, my wife arrived home following her latter day of work at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time.
After I joined my brother for some T.V. and he offered that I put our Android TV Box to work, I tuned in the premiere episode ("Electric Sheep") of The Orville's third season. My brother couldn't even recognize what we were watching for quite some time, for it has been at least a couple of years since we finished watching the second season.
After the episode was done, he requested "something short", but I had other plans ─ Yellowstone. My brother is a big fan, so he said naught ─ this time it was episode six ("All for Nothing") of season three.
Thereafter I just began playing random YouTube videos via the SmartTube app until my brother passed out, at which point I shut down the Android TV Box and left him with the T.V.'s basic programming.
I then took care of some things here at my bedside computer before getting to bed, but my brother did revive before I was done and he shut things down before coming upstairs to his own bedroom for the night.
It seems to me that I may not have made it to bed until around 3 a.m. Over the earlier night with my brother, I had drunk two further cans of Cariboo Malt and one of cider (6% alcohol).
I suppose my morning began around 8:30 a.m. My brother never emerged from his bedroom until something like 10 a.m., so I had full control of the T.V. by then.
When he joined me, I first played a 13-minute (12:53) video published earlier today at Rumble's The People's Voice channel: Docs Reveal Israel-Iran Conflict Planned 100 Years Ago To Spark World War 3.
The Israel-Iran conflict is an “inside job” by the globalist elite who are working to ensure the conflict will light the fuse to ignite a “holy war” that will spiral out of control into World War Three and lay the groundwork for the elite to usher in the “one world government” of the New World Order.
According to an insider, recent events in the middle east, including the Israel-Hamas war and now the conflict with Iran have been planned by the global elite and are now playing out to the letter – with the ultimate goal of shaping the world in their own image.
But there is just one problem for the globalist elite and their plans to enslave the human race. Their plans rely on the people of the world remaining ignorant – and we are not going to let that happen.
Then it was a 10¾-minute (10:46) video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's Redacted channel: HUGE win for Free Speech as Michigan declares historic 'First Amendment Day' on Sept. 6 | Redacted.
September 6 is now ‘First Amendment Day’ in Eastpointe, Michigan! The city agreed to establish this annual day in a settlement after the mayor shouted down residents in city council meetings. But first amendment lawyers are busier than ever! We go over why and call for First Amendment Day to be a federal holiday!
That was followed by an 8½-minute (8:39) video published yesterday to Rumble's ProgressiveTruthSeekers channel: Joe Biden Signs FRIGHTENING Bill Gates Funded, Global Health Security Strategy.
I am short on time to reproduce the rather lengthy video description, so please refer to the video link.
We were to also watch a video ... no, I have no further time. It is already after 9:30 p.m., and I want to get up by 1:30 or 2 a.m. for a five-mile+ walk tonight.
I will only report that my eldest stepson's new dryer was delivered early this afternoon just after I was seeking my nap ─ he and my wife were present to deal with it. My brother had already left for the day.
She had to work the latter part of today, so she left here soon enough after 3 p.m. ─ maybe 3:15 p.m.
The day was sunny, so finding myself home alone I donned just shorts and at 3:29 p.m. was out in the backyard to sit in the sunshine for ─ if my count is right ─ nothing less than an hour and 17 minutes.
Yet I barely have colour to show for it.
We are expected to have some rain tomorrow.