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My cellphone alarm was set for 3 a.m. last night, but I made a time check at 2:11 a.m.; and then after maybe three further minutes contemplation, I chose to rise then. And so it was only a few ─ less than five ─ minutes after 3 a.m. when I was on my way.

My wife had risen once before I had left, using the toilet. She habitually ignores that my bedroom light is on and my bedroom door open, and this was no different.

I found it quite overcast out there, and just on the cool side.

Early into my walk, I saw someone cross the street at the first intersection and then just stand there on the corner that I was going to have to make a left turn at. This was initially annoying, but I was to see that it was likely a woman, probably awaiting a ride. I didn't suspect her to be a hooker because not only was her sex pretty much impossible to tell from her attire, but she had a muffler (scarf) drawn across her lower face, and possibly wore a hood.

At the elementary school I was heading for, as I was passing along its front, suddenly into view from its far side where I was bound came a couple (man and woman). These two could have continued to the street without our coincidence, but instead they stopped right where I was going to be making my turn towards the side of the school, and the male then made to seat himself on a very low wooden log-style fence just before I arrived to that point, forcing me to essentially make my turn right past them.

Only then could I hear that a fairly large object being toted was a radio being played with extremely low volume.

We ignored each other. I turned past them and continued along the side of the school and was quickly out of their sight. I am sure my five-foot walking stick offers some deterrence, as does my apparent husky aspect, despite my obvious gait issue.

Still, at the playground I was never entirely full at ease that they were not going to come back my way or sneak around the opposite side of the school, but I was not to see them again.

My performance matched my recent 'best' at the seven sets of pull-ups and chin-ups I have undergone at the school, beginning with two sets of pull-ups (3-2), the same with two sets of chin-ups, a single repetitions in each of the two sets of gymnastics-style rings pull-ups as well as a repetition in a set of pull-ups between two jungle gym monkey bars. I held the hang at the finish of the monkey bars pull-up for a 60-count.

All sets had a 30-count between them. And I exercised without my jacket.

Then I forced 20 assisted full flat-footed squats that I followed with five that were unassisted, the very last squat being held for a 60-count before the strained rise.

My knee seems hopelessly damaged. I do not see me able to take long walks anytime in the foreseeable future ─ and I am speaking here of months more. It has thus far been since the accident ─ which was just ahead of 4:30 a.m. on March 1st ─ just over three full months now, so I can easily see myself still crippled in three more months.

Anyway, I finished up my exercising with five slow full-range decline push-ups on a cement ramp before assembling and heading for home.

Alas, that was to cost me all of my silver coin when I had the misfortune to coincide with what must have been two panhandlers a block or so from home, the more loquacious of the pair making the solicitation with unnecessarily verbose, indirect language.

I tend not to carry any coins greater than 25¢ in denomination, so at most they may have profited by around $2.

Thanks to my earlier than customary outing, I was back into bed just ahead of 5:30 a.m., and remained there for nearly three hours.

My younger brother was downstairs watching T.V. by then. And just a short time later, my wife peculiarly rose and went downstairs for whatever reason, soon coming back upstairs and returning to her bedroom.

I did not join my brother until shortly after 9 a.m., soon getting his invitation to start operation of our Android TV Box.

My wife was to emerge from her bedroom a little past 9:30 a.m. as is proper on those full workdays that she has at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time, and she left for that purpose soon past 10 a.m.

I was most unimpressed with the A.I.-voiced first choice my brother and I watched, a seven-minute say-nothing video with a clickbait title that had been uploaded yesterday to YouTube's Canada Now channel: BREAKING: Elections Canada Finds MISSING BALLOTS Across Canada — Liberals & Carney in MELTDOWN!

I will not knowingly watch anything on that channel again. It was a time waste.

Next was pure enjoyment at just under four minutes and published yesterday to BitChute's Truth Provider channel: Canada is a dystopian nightmare and it’s only going to get worse.

(mirrored video from Tajana Truthseeker).
I like her rant... spot on!

Sources:
Tajana @TruthSeek01011 on X: https://x.com/i/status/1928890274547155448
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tajana.truthseeker.50035
and also: https://www.tiktok.com/@trut…

The third video was less than a minute longer (4:38) than Tajana's, and had been uploaded earlier today to YouTube's The WhatsHerFace Show channel: Australia’s push to BAN KNIVES!?

Welcome to Australia, where crime is rampant and solutions are... knife bans? That’s right, A country where knives are sharper than politicians and immigrants more dangerous than its wildlife.

So why is Australia banning knives? Because clearly the only thing stopping knife violence is banning Crocodile Dundee’s weapon of choice. Maybe next time they’ll crack down on Bart Simpson’s slingshot, or Michelangelo's nunchucks.

Video four was also uploaded earlier today to YouTube. At 13 minutes (13:25), it was at the AnitaK channel: Are they dumb, drunk or beauty pageant contestants?

Why do Kamala Harris, Elizabeth May, Melanie Joly, Chrystia Freeland and Anita Anand sound either dumb, drunk or like a beauty pageant contestants?
Pretty sad.

That one was followed by a 12-minute (12:10) video uploaded May 30 to YouTube's Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™ channel: Trump and Biden Aligned on COVID-19 Vaccines: Who's Giving them Orders? Asks Emerald Robinson.

Emerald Robinson host of the Absolute Truth welcomed Dr. Peter McCullough who was the lead witness in the highly publicized US Senate HSGAC PSI Myocarditis Hearing on May 21, 2025.  They cover the explosive hearing, deception by vaccine promoters in HHS and the White House, and how Americans were harmed with continued mRNA vaccination while it was known by government officials that the shots cause heart damage.  McCullough remarked that those on the left and the right are puzzled by the COVID-19 vaccines which seem to be the only issue both Trump and Biden agree upon.  Both took the shots, refuse to have HHS pull them off the market, and both refuse questions on the failed vaccines.  Courtesy Absolute Truth Lindell TV May 28, 2025.

I then tuned in Red Cap ─ episode four ("Cover Story") of season or series one. Pretty good! If interested, my source was uploaded January 7, 2017, to YouTube's Western TV Series channel: Red Cap s01e04 Cover Story.

After that, we got nigh halfway through a movie, but postponed its remainder so my brother could have some bed rest this largely sunny day.

I had a most filling meal, but held off having a nap because I knew my brother had no beer left and would be wanting to make the drive to the government liquor store two miles off. I intended to go along and resupply myself with another two dozen cans.

And so it was to happen.

I like that liquor store! I just about always have a positive experience there ─ not just neutral with nothing bad to say, but decidedly positive.

Were it not for that trip, I might have sunned this afternoon. But soon after we were back, I then had my nap, and it was at least 3:45 p.m. by the time I rose from it to begin work on this post.

It is now 5:41 p.m. and I am going to take a break to challenge my knee, as well as give my upper body some exercise.

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I chose to enjoy my first can of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol) with The Avengers ─ episode 19 ("The £50,000 Breakfast") of season or series five. Unfortunately for me, I was 22 minutes into the first link source when I finally realized that I had been suckered into watching some earlier episode I had already seen.

So I located a proper source with this Tvids.net link that play flawlessly, but first it threw up another browser to some gambling or other sordid website that I anticipated and shut down before the destination had revealed itself.

How I loved Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) back then, although I was but 18 when the episode was originally released in the States. I am unsure if the episode was released in Canada the previous year when it first aired in the U.K. ─ I would have been 17 then. Whatever the case, I loved the woman for a full two years!

Obviously my can of beer ran dry before the proper video link had even gone halfway through the episode, so I paused the show in order to fetch some supper. In doing so, upon opening my bedroom door I coincided with my brother on his way to his bedroom to change his clothes. He was newly home no later than 7:30 p.m.

Anyway, I ate while watching the show and then opened a second beer.

By the time The Avengers was done, it was still daylit out there, so I selected another show. This time my choice was The Guardian ─ season one's episode 14 ("Family").

These episodes can get touching, and this one got to me to some degree ─ certainly the little Thai girl angle, but also Nicholas's rebellious young cousin whom I immediately disliked strongly. I think we were supposed to see a turnaround in the kid at the show's conclusion, but I didn't find myself responding as if it was demonstrably so.

But a darned good episode overall; and my flawless source was this GOOJARA.to link. I required over a half glass tumbler of Sommet Rouge wine (12% alcohol) to see me to the end.

I shall be intending another outing in the wee a.m. tonight to the elementary school playground ⅜ or so of a mile from here for some further overall exercising, so we shall see how the setting of my cellphone alarm for 3 a.m. goes this time.

I wish I had an entirely different life. If I knew as a young man that this is how I would end up ─ and if this is to be the best that I am to know from this point forward ─ then I would have pulled the plug and never gone through the decades of what I went through.

It is presently 10:01 p.m., so I oughtn't to be too very much longer in getting to bed.