It was so peculiar how difficult I found it to be to keep finding sleep in the latter stage of last night, but I kept resisting making a time check. Then finally, my 4 a.m. cellphone alarm sounded, allowing me to rise, dress, and get downstairs to boil water for a half litre mug of hot instant coffee with the works.
Only then did I notice the time on the stove and a battery-operated wall clock that it was a little past 5 a.m. ─ I had completely forgotten that Pacific Standard Time (PST) had arrived overnight and our clocks were to have been set back an hour.
Initially I fretted that this meant that I only had an hour before I was to have readied and been on my way at 6 a.m. on the 5.625-mile round trip to do some grocery shopping at Real Canadian Superstore, for I always give myself a two-hour window in which to normalize for that venture.
But soon enough it began to dawn upon me that I still had my two hours in which to normalize. All that had happened was that I had been abed an hour longer than I had meant to ─ and thus my trouble sleeping.
It was a few minutes past 6 a.m. once I was eventually on my way. All was wet and chilly outside, but I was to be spared rain. Fortunately, the cloud cover was so heavily thick that the gloom was nearly as if it was still night.
Anyway, all went well enough, and I was back home by maybe 8:40 a.m. at latest. No one else was up, so reasonably soon I had returned to bed for some needed rest.
When I later roused enough to care to rise again, it was well past 10 a.m. ─ probably nearer 10:30 a.m. My brother was downstairs watching an NFL game on T.V., and my wife was even up.
She was to soon leave, but if she was scheduled with a full workday, it seemed a little late for her to be heading off to the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time.
She was back home by mid-afternoon or soon thereafter, so I have just investigated a suspicion by visiting her Facebook, and I realize that I was correct ─ she had attended a Thai Buddhist event at the Burnaby temple: Wat Budhapanyanantarama (วัดพุทธปัญญานันทาราม).
When she left here, though, I had just begun watching some morning videos on T.V. via our Android TV Box with my brother, for he was not too interested in the particular NFL game then playing.
First were two videos at YouTube's Redacted channel:
- Oh SH*T, something BIG is happening in Germany and Europe is SCREWED | Redacted w Natali Morris (17:03) Uploaded yesterday.
The German economy has been collapsing slowly since the war in Ukraine and now it is collapsing quickly. Last week the International Monetary Fund cut its forecast said that the German economy would be stagnate this year even though they had previously predicted a 0.2% growth. Whose fault is this? The government is blaming Germans. Joining us to discuss is political analyst Ralph Schoelhammer, host of Hammer Time on YouTube.
- The trial of Daniel Penny begins! Is this another George Floyd moment? | Redacted w Clayton Morris (24:33) Uploaded November 1.
This is a trial of race and class and an indictment about lawlessness in our society. Daniel Penny, a former Marine, is on trial in New York City for the death of a homeless man, Jordan Neely, who was known by subway riders as a Michael Jackson impersonator. Penny placed Neely in a chokehold when he was acting erratic and threatening to fellow train riders. Neely later died and now Penny is on trial for manslaughter. Does the DA have a case? Lionel from the Lionel Nation YouTube channel joins us to break it down.
Then I tuned in the second half of a 48-minute (48:27) video that we had to postpone from two morning's ago that had originally been uploaded November 6, 2020, to YouTube's Free Documentary - History channel: The Castle Builders: Masters & Masons - How Medieval Castles Were Built | Free Documentary History.
Castles – citadels of world heritage. All over Europe, millions flock to see these masterpieces in stone.
They are drawn by the astonishing scale of construction – and by a sense of a lost world of heroism and chivalry. But castles are more than magnificent monuments to a past that’s dead and gone. They hold the key to understanding a crucial period in the growth of our civilisation.
In this first episode, we’ll see how some of the great castles of Europe were built, and how the ideas and techniques behind their construction changed and developed in a few short centuries. Kings and barons found the resources and manpower to start building castles, and spent fortunes on finishing them – and all of this happened at on a huge scale, at a frenetic pace, and often in the heart of hostile territory.
We’ll meet the Castle Builders – the labourers and masons who did the hard work; the geniuses of design who imagined them, the structural engineers who turned them into reality; and the kings and barons who commissioned them and lived in them.
We’ll travel from Richard the Lionheart’s astonishing Chateau Gauillard in Normandy to the ‘layered’ defences of Caerphilly – the first castle in Britain built to be defended by walls within walls – and around Edward I’s massive ‘ring of iron’ that gripped North Wales.
Large-scale dramatic reconstructions and state-of-the-art computer graphics will give us a thrilling sense of how all of these mediaeval mega-structures were designed and built.
Next was a 14-minute (14:15) video uploaded October 26, 2023, to YouTube's 10th Legion Pictures channel: The Russian Sleep Experiment - Paranormal History.
The Soviet Union, 1947, at a covert Soviet test facility, a military-sanctioned scientific experiment is conducted on five prisoners that were deemed 'Enemies of the State.' The prisoners were kept in a sealed gas chamber, with an experimental gas-based stimulant compound continually administered to them, to keep the them awake for a period of 30 consecutive days. At least, that was the plan. Hosted by Mike Droberg.
And we finished with a nine-minute (9:25) video published November 8, 2020, to BitChute's bluedemon218 channel: Unexplained Death of Elisa Lam.
The body of Elisa Lam, also known by her Cantonese name, Lam Ho Yi (藍可兒; April 30, 1991– February 2013), a Canadian student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, was recovered from a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles on February 19, 2013. She had been reported missing at the beginning of the month.
I hope I cited everything we watched!
Even so, my brother was often distracted, bothered with his missing wallet and the complications this has brought. He had believed he must have lost it on a bus Friday night when he was returning home from where he had finished getting sloshed.
But he said that now he has the glimmering memory of possibly coming home in a taxi, for he remembers something about paying a cabbie $11 for a fare. Unfortunately, if so, he does not remember the cab company nor anything else.
But this has not halted his excursions by bus to go drinking. He headed off for a bus just ahead of my wife arriving home this afternoon.
Earlier he had intended to get away in his van on whatever errand(s) he wanted to discharge. Alas, the poor tortured soul had the ignition interlock device in his van fail him ─ evidently there was still alcohol in his system or breath from last night's drinking.
He's had the mandated device for nigh three months by now ─ I think it is supposed to be remaining installed for a total of six months.
I have an evening outing planned, and quite forgot that it now gets dark an hour earlier than it did yesterday, so it was dark shortly past 5 p.m. The intention is the 5.972-mile round trip hike to Fleetwood's Save-On-Foods for some further grocery shopping.
Towards that outcome, I enhanced my motivation by excusing a can each of Cariboo Genuine draft beer (5.5% alcohol) and Bumper Crop Black Cherry cider (7% alcohol) by tuning in the Magnum P.I. series finale episode ("The Big Squeeze").
It was certainly exciting enough ─ I loved watching the scene of Juliet Higgins performing an American Ninja Warrior feat of descending the outside of a balconied building almost entirely by hand, dropping from one handhold to the next.
Actress Perdita Weeks has a phenomenally gorgeous leanly muscular physique that is second to no woman, but she would not have been risked performing any stunt like that. Nevertheless, I remain agog of the young woman!
I watched the episode here on my bedside computer. If you have a decent browser adblocker, my source was this 123MoviesGo.show link.
Incidentally, I wonder if it was Mandy Kowalski ─ indicated by IMDd as Perdita's uncredited stunt double for the episode ─ who performed that feat?
As for the episode, it was like any other. It was undeserving of being a series concluder.
Alright, I had best begin readying and get away on that goodly hike, for it is presently 7:34 p.m.
I will be sitting up late this evening watching two or three of our shows with my brother once we are both back home ... and doing some further drinking.
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