Homegrown

I remained home last evening. The Shoe Company was to close at 9 p.m., and I believe that it was already around 7:30 p.m. when I published yesterday's blog post. With the store a mile away and my left foot as sensitive as it is with its plantar fasciitis or whatever the heck is wrong with the heel and arch area, it seemed folly to undertake the trip.

And so I was home and all set up with our Android TV Box lined up to play the first show I had planned for us once my younger brother showed up from his daily social drinking ─ he actually got home a little earlier than I expected, for it was well before 9 p.m.

What I had lined up was Noughts + Crosses ─ the series and season two finale "Episode 4".

The episode barely began when my brother's 'healthy' brain had shut down and he was passed out for the entirety of the episode. I am no longer interested in seeking to cater to him. If his brain health is so voluntarily pathetic because he craves this level of daily drunkenness, then he can do without my previous efforts to keep him attuned to what was happening in series we follow.

He fortunately revived just as I began playing the next show I tuned in. It was Resident Alien ─  episode four ("Avian Flu") of season three. I'm very much enjoying the new bird-like alien (played by actress Edi Patterson) who is the love (sex) interest of our titular character, Harry. She's coming across as a rather provocative female, I must confess!

We finished with The Last Kingdom ─ "Episode nine" of final season five. A fabulous series!

There was to be one final show that we watched as a result of my brother's "something short" request. I selected Young Sheldon ─ episode 11 ("A Race of Superhumans and a Letter to Alf") of season two. Happily actress Isabel May was in the episode ─ she is the sole reason we began watching the series in this season two when she made her first appearance.

Once this episode was done, my brother was to remain up for at least a half hour because I began playing random 1960s "live" YouTube music videos via the SmartTube app downloaded into our Android TV Box.

I think I was lucky that my brother retired when he did, for I was nearly set to open a fourth can of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol). And so it was that I was able to retire sensibly enough with just the three beers, and may have been to bed by 1:30 a.m.

After about four hours, I began having sleep issues. I had no hangover ─ I just felt too awake. I rose around or near 7 a.m. for an hour or so, then got some further bed rest. But my brother was not to emerge from his bedroom until well past 10 a.m., by which time I had almost finished watching a nearly 1½-hour (1:28:31) video published much earlier today to Rumble's A Warrior Calls channel: Exposing massive ignorance, corruption in Canada/USA as World implodes without Truth.

I had fast-forwarded through much of the early part of the video to bypass Christopher James Pritchard's usual banality, ranting, and advertising.

When the episode was done ─ and it is to be the last until something like January 17 ─ I tuned in a documentary: Better Off Dead. My source was this OK.ru link.

Thereafter I tuned in another documentary, but had to suspend it at 28 to 30 minutes because my brother desired some bed rest before leaving to catch a bus and begin his daily social drinking. This had been a bath day, so I was having that bath when my brother emerged from his bedroom and left.

I was desirous of a Christmas movie and some drinking, but realizing now how unfeasibly early it gets dark in terms of commencing my Sabbath fast, I decided to forego my usual early afternoon nap and instead watch the movie and have a small supper beginning around midafternoon.

My movie choice was 2018's Homegrown Christmas.

I am a fan of Lori Loughlin's Christmas movies! It's difficult to believe that she is presently 60 years old, and was maybe 53 at youngest when the movie was filmed. In terms of the movie plot, she and her love interest (actor Victor Webster) were supposed to have been high school sweethearts ─ yet Lori is almost 8½ years the actor's senior!

I only just learned that the young actress (Isabella Giannulli) portraying Lori's young teen/adult niece is actually her real-life daughter!

Anyway, if interested, although I did watch the movie on T.V. with aid of our Android TV Box and one of the streaming apps, I see that it is also presently available at OK.ru at this link.

I drank three cans of Cariboo Malt, and just barely finished the last of my supper (an apple) just as the Western sky was fading to night around 4:40 p.m. at most. This clears me to be able to break my fast as early as 5 p.m. tomorrow.

Early in the evening I even phoned my late old friend William's ladyfriend Sandy, and we chatted for maybe 40 minutes.

I'm glad of that.

Boy, I'm tired as I type these words at 9:39 p.m.! My brother got home maybe around 9 p.m., but I heard him and shut myself up into my bedroom. I will be remaining home tomorrow while I endure my Sabbath fast, but I think I'm going to be to bed by maybe 10 p.m. this evening even though it will mean I'll be up well before daylight.