It was not yet 9:35 p.m. last evening when I was into my bed, my cellphone alarm set for 1:30 a.m., but I was not to sleep all of those nearly four hours.
I resisted checking the time at one period of wakefulness; but when I was later into another, I became so suspicious that I must have failed to either hear the alarm or else improperly set it that I checked ... and it was still late into the midnight hour.
How is it that I sleep so damned poorly?
Thereafter I rested as best I could, and may even have brinked falling asleep a time or two, but finally I just decided to rise ─ it was 1:28 a.m. by then.
I took my time readying for my five-mile+ walk. And by the time I was dressed and set to go, my fully clothed weight was just about 191 pounds. That was disappointing, and explained why I believed my midsection to look especially thick early the evening prior.
By comparison, when I was stripped naked for an early evening bath Saturday, I weighed 176 pounds.
Anyway, it was 2:25 a.m. once I was outside and about to head away ... in an unexpected very light rain. The pavement was already wet from it. Perhaps it had been raining harder earlier, but at this point it was not doing so to have gotten me wet even had it rained throughout my walk.
But I knew that the elementary school playground equipment would all be wet where I had meant to exercise, so I scotched that notion. It was annoying; but I decided that I could always try a little exercising at my return. That is something I have been unable to do in my old age because I tend to be far too stiff at the conclusion of my walks.
My evening walk of Tuesday a week earlier that saw me packing home 20 pounds of canned beer now has my left leg lame. The musculature to the outside and rear of my shin is evidently inflamed, and after a time it becomes almost impossible to rise up onto my forefoot in taking steps.
And the tendon just below my right kneecap is sore ─ primarily to the outside of its connection to my patella.
Suffice to say, there was to be no hurrying on this walk ─ none whatsoever. I was not even going to rush to catch any traffic lights.
The light rain did basically cease. And so as I was returning home and cutting through the school grounds, I opted to stop at the playground. Even if it had still been raining I would have done so, and used my thin gloves if necessary. I just don't want to have them wet at the early start of a walk.
Since it was not raining, I used a bandana to wipe a metal bar dry enough to use my bare hands; and after limbering up and then removing my jacket, I very much surprised and delighted myself by hitting what have become my normal repetitions of late in the half dozen sets of pull-ups and chin-ups: 5-2-3-2-2-2.
And of course, I held the very final pull-up between a set of gymnastics-type rings for a 20-count, before performing 20 slow full-range decline push-ups.
At least all of this was encouraging, even if my damned lameness was not. I want to have an evening walk later today, so I am most uncertain how I will fare.
Note that it seems to have rained all day. Possibly not always particularly seriously, but my plan is to do some light grocery shopping ¾ of a mile or so from here on the outward leg of my five-mile+ walk and then carry those items all the rest of the trip. It would be nice to not have to contend with a drenching rain as well.
As for this a.m., it was 4:35 a.m. by the time I got back home ─ so, 10 minutes over two hours, which is a very poor pace; and I think that it was after 6 a.m. before I got back to bed.
I was probably up again something ahead of 8:30 a.m.
Despite the Canucks apparently breaking fans' hearts yet again by falling short last night in winning their very first Stanley Cup, my younger brother must not have gotten 'wasted' last night, for he was up well before 9 a.m.
I joined him around 9:10 a.m. and got the green light to put our Android TV Box to work, leading us off with this amusing two-minute video (for his benefit ─ I've seen it before): Very Funny DUI Test with a Very Talented Drunk.
Next was a six-minute (6:10) video published early today at the Substack of Dr. William Makis: VIDEO - Truth about Electric Vehicles - Slave labor in Cobalt mines in the Congo.
Trudeau’s 2035 gas-powered car ban never stopped to ask: Where will Canada get the materials to build all those batteries?
We have the answer: Slave labour in the Congo. Children are digging cobalt out of the ground by hand and our resources are staying in the ground.
That was followed by an 18-minute (18:04) video published May 17 at Rumble's The Canadian Independent channel: WATCH: Canadian fastball hall of famer left in wheel chair and in diapers after Pfizer C-19 shots.
Canadian fastball hall of famer Sam Forbes, once extremely healthy and active, is now in a wheelchair, wearing diapers, and nearly died in hospital after receiving his Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines.
Then it was an hour-long (1:08:02) video published yesterday at Rumble's Sarah Westall channel: Military and Intelligence Expert: Who is behind the 5th Gen Warfare w/ Dr. Kirshnan.
Professor of Intelligence and expert on 5th Generation warfare, Dr. Armin Kirshnan, joins the program to discuss who is behind the chaos and technocratic war we are living through. We discuss the end goals and how the deep state plays a part in the plan. We discuss how serious this situation is for all people on the planet and how awareness is key to solving the problem. The more people who are aware, the more people there will be working on the solution.
And we finished up with Inside No. 9 ─ episode two ("Mr King") of series or season seven.
As my brother said, it was extremely disturbing.
He was to have to leave in the noon hour to go and take his girlfriend Bev out on her errands, so we knocked off at 11:30 a.m.
My wife had yet another full workday today at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time, so she left here around 10:20 a.m. ─ a bit later than customary. She was as taciturn (as usual), so I entirely avoided her.
I had an early afternoon nap, but I have not felt especially hale for it ever since. I nearly have an eyestrain-type headache behind my left eye.
It is working towards 8 p.m. at present, and there seems no rain. Perhaps I will seek to venture forth on that walk ─ I would likely have time enough to shop whilst on the return leg of the walk instead of while outward bound.
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