Enchanted Christmas

Sometimes I don't even have to be laughing. (I have to be careful when those urges for relief start mounting.)

Anyway, I had my 1½-or-so-mile round trip walk last evening to finally deposit my younger brother's monthly expenses reconciliation cheque ─ it was actually for $290.18 (I think I wrote yesterday that it was $60 less than that).

My left foot's plantar fasciitis remained relatively calmed, and even today there was no excessive undue sensitivity for having had that walk. Of course, I was not toting any groceries or beer home, so there was no excessive strain involved for my foot.

It turned out that my brother had just gotten home ahead of me, so he got control of the T.V. and tuned in an episode of Northern Exposure. He spent practically the entire episode with his eyes closed, but droning on and on as if talking to someone who'd never seen the series before.

I always enjoyed the old series, but I wanted to watch our usual evening fare, and the episode was eating up prime time. As well, I did not want to start drinking any of my Cariboo Malts (7.9% alcohol) until our usual entertainment had begun.

When the episode ended, I didn't even wait for an invitation to start operating our Android TV Box, and the first show I tuned in was Bergerac ─ season one's episode three ("Unlucky Dip").

I had damned luck finding a good source with the main apps that I have downloaded into our Android TV Box. I gave up on them after trying at least three. Two only played foreign-language dubbed versions of the episode, and a third app played a totally different ─ a misfiled ─ episode.

So I resorted to a browser app and found a source at this OK.ru link that served me properly.

There was a minor character in the episode ─ a very attractive Punk or Goth lass ─ played by an actress named Catherine Hall, but I cannot find any useful personal information about her. She is obscure.

My drunken brother certainly loves hearing himself talk through everything. It's especially bloody annoying when his slow delivery about something a scene has brought to mind is rudely presented while consequential dialogue is going on in the show.

My next series choice was The Morning Show ─ season three's episode nine ("Update Your Priors").

Upon its conclusion at around midnight, my brother declared that it was late enough for him, but he remained seated where he was, deeply inebriated. I decided to just play The Last O.G. ─ season three's finale episode 10 ("Warning").

The show had scarcely begun when I realized that my brother was gone ─ i.e., unconscious. He not only missed the entire dramatic episode, but once it was done, in sort of an act of defiance I tuned in the current season 16 of American Ninja Warrior ─ episode 10, as it happened, which turned out to be something over an hour and 20 minutes long commercial-free.

Somehow my brother embraced unconsciousness until most of that show was done! I am getting fuzzy myself at this point after the three cans of Cariboo Malt and one can of Bumper Crop Black Cherry cider (7% alcohol) that I put away, but I don't think he revived much before the episode's conclusion.

All I can say now is that I never got to bed until after 3 a.m., for I was to see this afternoon that it was 3:10 a.m. when I made a Facebook Messenger response to a message I had received much earlier.

Yet I began my morning a little ahead of 8 a.m. There didn't seem any sort of hangover ─ just aftereffects of a late night.

My brother failed to emerge from his bedroom until just after 9 a.m., so I was prepared by then to have control of the T.V., and lined up a nearly nine-minute (8:58) video published two days ago to Rumble's The HighWire with Del Bigtree channel: MAJOR COMPANIES DUMP DEI.

Fortune 1000 companies in the US are halting their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs in droves. Jefferey outlines the fundamental problems in these incentives and why a country with a rich history of equality doesn’t need to pander to political correctness.

I followed that with a 1⅓-hour (1:23:38) video published two days ago to BitChute's TheCrowhouse channel: The World Has a Rat Problem.

"It isn't the rebels who create the troubles of the world, it's the troubles who create the rebels."

There are far too many links in the description for me to care in the least to try to reproduce them, so go there if you are interested.

Suffice it to say that when Max Igan announced he had said all that he planned to podcast about, he then droned on and on for well over a further half hour. It was keenly pissing me off because I had other videos I wanted to play, but the guy would not stop.

It's as if he has senility issues.

Regardless, I then squeezed in a two-minute (2:06) video published yesterday to Dr. William Makis's Substack: BREAKING NEWS: My family was threatened by Alberta Health Services 3 times today - word has it Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is doubling down with AHS to destroy my family.

They're expediting the process to have me imprisoned, or worse. At this point, AHS may try to have me killed. I will post Court Documents later today.

Legal Counsel is being retained and I will start GIVESENDGO to raise legal funds within 1-2 days.

Once the video ended, I just resorted to the thumb or flash drive I currently have ported into our Android TV Box. I played two episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood.

My source was RerunCentury. And the episodes were the first season's episode nine ("Checkmate") and 10 ("The Ordeal").

For whatever reason, the episodes are not only just out of synch with Wikipedia's listing, but even the air dates fail to synchronize.

The latter episode ended around 11:30 a.m., and that was it for my brother ─ he was set for some bed rest this rather sunny day.

Normally my wife has Wednesdays off work. She had come home last evening from working the latter part of the day at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part time, but she quite surprised me this morning by rising before 9:30 a.m. to begin readying with a shower and such, and then exchanging goodbyes with my brother and I just after 10 a.m. as she headed out on her fairly long drive.

I am running short on time, for I have no intention of sitting up late this evening even though I have no morning outings planned. I had my usual early afternoon nap, but what has consumed a lot of my time was a Christmas movie that I watched in the late afternoon and on into the early evening.

It was 2017's Enchanted Christmas.

I watched it on T.V. via our Android TV Box, but to my delight I was to find that it was available at this October 8, 2021, upload to YouTube.

Initially I was not too pleased with my selection, for it appeared as if it might be a warm-weather Christmas movie. Also, I got the impression that it was going to be centred around dance. Neither are features I want to be bothered with in a Christmas movie ─ I want romantic Christmassy movies!

It was also Hispanic-centric to a large degree.

The lead actress was unknown to me ─ Alexa PenaVarga. It was not until after the movie was done that I realized the the unknown-to-me actor who was to portray her love interest in the movie had the same last name. According to Wikipedia, when Alexa married to Carlos Pena Jr., they decided to take on a blend of their last names.

I am not any kind of fan of that sort of thing.

Regardless, I did warm up to the movie, but it still was not the type of Christmas movie I best like, even though it had snow and a cute little girl (actress Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen).

I will also say that Alexa has a rather nice pair of legs, and is definitely a looker!

But I would not likely choose to watch the movie again ─ certainly not on my own.

I moderated my drinking by just having two cans of Cariboo Malt.

I want to have some exercise in the morning ─ probably out in the backyard tool shed once it becomes daylit enough for me to be able to see out there; so this will require me to get up long before the night concludes. Thus I will be going to bed very soon. Right now it is 9:56 p.m., and I am shut up in my bedroom because my brother got home a short while ago.