Massive Setback for My Left Foot

Before I was yet prepared to retire last evening, I heard what I suspected was my younger brother come into the house, so I shut myself into my bedroom. But evidence thereafter was that it was my wife home from her latter day stint working at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time.

In the latter afternoon that day she had phoned me to have me research if my Aeroplan points were sufficient to help her get a Canada Air flight to Rome, Italy, where one of her two sisters lives ─ my wife had projected a two-month round trip commencing March 10.

This intensely aggravated me ─ it's as if my wife does her utmost to be as unsettling as possible.

Well, I did look into it, but I don't have quite 7,000 points, and even the cheapest of one way flights requires at least 38,000 points.

So she's going to have to come up with some other scheme ─ I have been bled dry where her leeching of my pension income is concerned. I have no intention of remaining a 𝔣𝔲𝔠𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤 prisoner of this house while funding any and all of her extravagances.

Anyway, I believe that I was to bed before quite 11 p.m., with my cellphone alarm set for 4 a.m. to get me up in plenty of time to ease into a planned grocery expedition equating to a 5.625-mile round trip hike to Real Canadian Superstore. It would give my left foot's plantar fasciitis (if that is what is amiss) a serious testing.

I had maybe four blocks of serious sleep, finding myself overheated in bed, but I was able to remain there until finally I heard my alarm chiming. But I did not much want to get up at all.

I looked rather dreadful in the bathroom mirror, quite baggy-eyed; and I felt listless and even groggy.

But eventually I did manage a normalization.

Incidentally, my youngest stepson was still up.

I believe that I managed to get on my way just ahead of 6 a.m., walking at a leisurely pace to best protect my bad foot. It was sensitive, and I had a slight limp, but the trip seemed feasible.

Maybe ¾ of a mile from home I withdrew $200 from my financial institution's ATM.

The store opens at 7 a.m., and I had timed things such that I got there less than five minutes after its opening. The morning seemed as delightfully dark as when I first left home, which suited me. I was wearing a festive 'furry' green Kangol cap, but I had been too self-conscious to wear my similar red one because I was reluctant to be conspicuous in it on the hike back home as daylight increased despite heavily overcast skies.

The walk home was to see me bearing approximately the same weight in each hand ─ three kilogrammes (or 6½ - 7 pounds). Normally that is not too onerous, but it was too much for my foot. It was already very sensitive by the time I was to the store, but coming home I was soon in considerable pain, if not agony.

Unfortunately, the pain has only become exacerbated here at home. I can barely use the damned foot. And here I had initially wondered if maybe I might even be able to have an outing this evening!

Now I am just hoping that I will have recovered enough to handle a 1½-mile or so round trip walk Tuesday evening for some further grocery shopping at Save-On-Foods. The prospects are not encouraging.

I probably accumulated an hour or so back in bed fairly soon after my walk. My brother had emerged from his bedroom a short time after I had sought that rest.

After I joined him for some TV upon being given the okay to use our Android TV Box to take control of the T.V., I tuned in a six-minute (6:16) video published yesterday at Rumble's Libertytalkcanada channel: Canadian Hospital Denies Healthcare To This Man's Child So They Can Steal His Organs!

They refused to do a treatment that would work...So the Dad took him to a hospital in the US and they saved him. Canadian hospitals kill people for their organs now $$$.

Then it was a 52-minute (52:42) video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's Redacted channel: "We've DISCOVERED Time Travel but it's NOT what you think" Ashton Forbes | Redacted w Clayton Morris.

Is our deep state sitting on free energy. The idea that we could travel instantaneously to different parts of the world for free. Could we heat our homes, run all of our devices on free energy?

After that it was the last half or so of a video we had to break from a day or two ago. At 50 minutes (50:29), it was originally published July 14, 2019, to BitChute's Adaneth channel: Ancient World | Alexandria The Greatest City (Episode 5).

Episode 5: Three cities dominated the ancient world: Athens, Rome and a third, now almost forgotten. It lies hidden beneath the waters of the Mediterranean and a sprawling modern metropolis. Alexandria was a city built on a dream; a place with a very modern mindset, where - as with the worldwide web - one man had a vision that all knowledge on earth could be stored in one place. Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to become the world's first global centre of culture, into which wealth and knowledge poured from across the world.

Until its decline in the fourth and fifth Centuries AD, Alexandria became a crucible of learning; Hughes uncovers the incredible discoveries and the technical achievements of this culture. The film's cast of characters reads like a list of the greatest figures of ancient times: political figures like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, and intellectuals including female mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Hypatia, Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes and Ptolemy. At last, after 1,500 years squashed under a modern metropolis, new clues are emerging from the earth to the real nature of this grand experiment in human civilisation.

My brother thereafter returned to his bedroom for a short bed rest. I fixed up a fairly heavy meal, and this was to delay my own return to bed until after my wife had risen for the day. She issued a soft "Good morning" as she passed by my bedroom on her way downstairs to the kitchen.

I was soon shut up in my bedroom and did acquire a short sleep, emerging around 2 p.m. or soon after. I was to find my wife dressed to be heading off somewhere. Normally if she is scheduled to work in the latter part of a day, she leaves between 3 - 3:10 p.m., but it was only 2:30 p.m.

As she left, she just said quickly, "I'll be back."

That led me to think that she was perhaps just going shopping, but apparently that was not so.

I badly want to watch a Christmas movie and do a little drinking, but I plan to sit up late once my brother returns home, watching maybe a couple of the shows we follow in common ─ and of course, drinking some beer. Thus, I would rather not have a head start on it ... but I may yet succumb.

I am distinctly fuzzy on some of the Christmas movies just recently watched ─ too much to drink. I think one that I watched on Christmas Day was 2018's A Christmas Break-In, but I could not really recognize anything from its description ─ I had to watch the one-minute video excerpt to have memory refreshed.

I also watched 2018's Shoelaces for Christmas, but I think that I must have done so on my own. Or else I possibly watched it twice. It was quite good. The young teen character as played by actress Mia Topalian was initially quite dislikable, but as she changed, she became very endearing.

Oddly, the actress had a pretty good run of acting credits from 2012 through and into 2020 ... but nothing since then.

Another movie I watched on my own was A Gingerbread Romance (2018 again), but I was not at all fussy about it. I will not say more.

Nor will I speak further of Christmas movies in this post.

In fact, I am going to close shop early ─ I've been sitting cramped up at this computer for too danged long this afternoon and into the early evening.

It is presently 6:28 p.m., and my wife is still away.