T.V. with My Brother

My walk in yesterday's latter evening was basically my usual five-mile+ route, the sole difference being that along 148th Street I avoided turning onto and walking 96th Avenue; instead I turned down Cedar Trail (Google Map) which I followed to Willow Trail, thus coming out onto 96th Avenue quite nearby Green Timbers Way which I then turned onto.

The trail walk was a minimum of a half mile in darkness, for I never once used a flashlight. By then it must have been well after 10:30 p.m. The trail is wide ─ basically like an unpaved lane; but walking in the dark forest like that involves marshalling a lot of alertness, even though it is unlikely I would be encountering any malevolent lunatic lurking along there.

Still, there are those who do prowl the forest at night, for whatever reason. And there are always coyotes.

I got back home to find my wife had shown up and was busy in the kitchen; my besotted brother was in front of the living room T.V.

He seemed conscious when I first got home, but after I changed clothes in my bedroom and came downstairs with a couple of cans of Cariboo Malt that I would be drinking while watching some T.V., he had passed out.

And so it was that I assumed control of the T.V. and put our Android TV Box to work, tuning in The Plot Against America ─ this time it was "Part 4". The episode may have been better than half over before my brother revived. I responded as little as it was possible to do to anything he muttered thereafter.

Dense as he tends to be when this drunk, he wandered off and missed the ending of the episode as well as the start of the next show I tuned in ─ Noughts + Crosses.

Specifically, it was season or series one's episode five. When my brother returned and sat down, realizing that it was a different show, he drunkenly growled, "What's this?"

I ignored him. If he was unable anon to recognize the characters after having previously sat through the first four episodes, then there's no helping the senile idiot and I'm not about to ruin my enjoyment of the series by responding to every pathetic question he keeps peppering my way if I do respond.

As I have said before, I love my brother; but this drunkard is some other entity I am forced to tolerate on too many evenings. This malign personality takes over as a form of 'demon drunk possession' because my brother cannot seem to moderate his drinking on any regular basis, unfortunately.

He was to pass out during this show ─ maybe midway ─ and thus missed out on the remainder. Afterwards I tuned in a few substantial YouTube videos via the SmartTube app that I have downloaded in our Android TV Box, while I had a final meal and then brushed my teeth.

He remained unconscious, and I nearly opted to just turn everything off and retire to my bedroom, but I was sorely tempted to have a cider.

I did resist the drink.

It was possibly 2:30 a.m. when my brother revived and soon decided t call it a night. I never made it to bed until ... well, too near 3:30 a.m., if I am correct.

This morning I was to rise ahead of 8:30 a.m., and my wife emerged from her bedroom nearly at the same time. She was to have to put in a full day at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time.

At least she was up and comfortably able to be on her way shortly after 10 a.m.

It was around 9:40 a.m. when my brother made his appearance. At the time, I had used our Android TV Box to tune in a 58-minute (58:37) video published today on Dr. Peter McCullough's Substack: The Role of the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex in the New World Order.

Dr. McCullough with Vince Stegall and Doug Norvell on the ENDTIME Show to discuss the bird flu, monkeypox, LGBTQIA+, and so much more.

I also tuned in a short (7:50) video published today on Dr. William Makis's Substack: VIDEO - Tucker Carlson - 24 year old Injured by Military (POTS, Pacemaker).

Catherine Herridge on How 𝕏 Was the Only Platform That Would Allow Her to Share the Story of a 24-Year-Old Soldier Who Was Injured by the COVID Vaccine

"She's 24-years-old...She's had multiple heart attacks. She's had a mini-stroke and we sat down with her just days before she got a pacemaker at 24...

We felt that 𝕏 was the platform where we could have an open candid conversation...

What I heard anecdotally from colleagues is that on other platforms that story...could be deamplified."

Unfortunately I got little out of the video because the story was entirely news to me, so I knew nothing about the background. I wish the full video had been posted.

I only now located it. At nearly 1½ hours (1:28:54), it can be found on Tucker Carlson's X (formerly Twitter) where it had been published back on July 11.

We also watched several other videos, but I will only mention two.

First was a 31-minute (31:28) video published earlier today at Rumble's Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms channel: C3RF "In Hot" interview with CHP's James Enos.

Major Russ Cooper (Ret'd) discusses the state of free speech in Canada with the Christian Heritage Party's James Enos. How is it that a national political party needs to take the City of Hamiliton to court a second time to secure its ability to bring issues forward in the public square? Strap in for some tight maneuvering as the "Steel City" is called to account - again!

And there was a 47-minute (47:55) video uploaded October 16, 2020, to YouTube's Free Documentary - History channel: Food History: The Renaissance Meal | Let's Cook History | Free Documentary History.

In the Renaissance, with cities like Venice and Florence at the helm of European innovation, changes in the arts and sciences lead to a new outlook in eating habits. Vegetable gardens became horticultural laboratories, recipes were published thanks to the likes of Gutenburg and table etiquette became the obsessive subject of social standing.

The 16th Century was a time of conflict within the church of Christianity, and the conflict spread from the battlefield onto the dining table, with the philosophies of Da Vinci and Luther creating divides amongst followers.The chef became the true master of ceremonies in the courts. The sugar craze, use of spices and table manners guide of Erasmus are aspects of Renaissance gastronomy that are still in place today.

An entertaining five part series exploring the origins of our eating habits. Each episode reconstructs a famous meal from a different period in history, depicting the evolution of tastes, customs and world trades that have shaped our cuisine.

My brother had his bed rest thereafter and then left for the day before I had yet sought a nap following my midday meal. I could have sunned this afternoon, but it is a bath day, and I do not have time for sunning, blogging, and also a bath.

I did intend to watch some T.V. in order to justify a beer or two this early evening, but to my near dismay, no later than 6:45 p.m. I could hear the T.V. ─ my brother was already home!

Well, I will be commencing my Sabbath fast at sunset; and I also intend a wee a.m. five-mile+ walk. Consequently, I was to disappoint my brother that I would not be operating our Android TV Box and sitting up with him this evening. He does not know how to operate the Android TV Box. But at least our basic cable package affords him better choices than what would have been available on the T.V. at his girlfriend Bev's home ─ her T.V. only has a pair of 'rabbit ears' for reception, affording a mere half dozen channels.

He seemed quite normal ─ he was not away long enough to get plastered.

It is just past 8 p.m., so I may as well deem this post complete and have my bath.