Anita and Sasha

After I got to sleep last night, having retired very soon past 10 p.m., I feel that I slept well until my 3 a.m. cellphone alarm roused me to get me up for the ⅜-mile (or so) walk to the elementary school playground, exercising my damaged right leg with the walk and exercising the rest of me at the playground.

I got involved in some Facebook activity that delayed me longer than I expected, but I still went.

I was to find the playground equipment slightly damp with condensation, so it was necessary to use the bandana that I bring along for such an eventuality.

And so ─ with a 30-count between sets ─ I led off with two of pull-ups (six and then two repetitions); then two sets of chin-ups (three and then two repetitions); and lastly two sets of pull-ups between a pair of stationary rings (two repetitions in each set).

I felt myself to be heavy, so these numbers were not easily achieved.

I then held a dead hang from a bar for a 70-count, but even that was difficult as my grip slowly slipped. An issue here is that the equipment is for younger-aged elementary school students, so to do these exercises ─ and especially the dead hang ─ I have to curl my lower legs behind me, and holding that posture in itself is taxing after a time.

I miss the older kids' playground that was utterly removed a couple or so weeks ago ─ for no reason! Everything was as serviceable as if it was new, but money-wasting idiots decided the lifespan of the equipment was ended and a new playground is to be constructed ─ I hope over the Summer and in time for the coming school term after September arrives.

With my bad right leg, I stumble about in the dark on the uneven sawdust base of the playground as if I am some decrepit old man on his last legs.

Anyway, after the dead hang, I had myself at least six decline slow full push-ups on a ramp before readying and slowly walking my way back home.

Once here, I remained outside to water front yard garden plants before I finally came into the house and upstairs to my bedroom. I neglected to weigh myself as fully dressed as I had been when I exercised, so I really have nothing to compare the work effort to.

It had to have been just about 6 a.m. by the time I got back to bed for a little more sleep, doing better this time than I usually do. It was just after 9 a.m. when next I checked the time, and I had slept very well meantime.

I hustled to try and ready to get downstairs to claim control of the T.V. when I realized that my younger brother had not yet emerged from his bedroom, but this was exactly when he did emerge, thwarting me.

Incidentally, my wife had not come home, clearly having too much fun downtown with her friend Ui, her eldest son and his girlfriend, and the visiting family of the girlfriend who are out here from Nova Scotia. Yesterday they all visited Shannon Falls Provincial Park, and today it seems maybe Whistler.

So, morning T.V. with my brother this sunny day began with a 1⅓-hour (1:20:31) video streamed two days ago to YouTube's AnitaK channel: What's in these things? with Pharma Whistleblower Sasha Latypova.

Great stuff!

We were only to have time for one further show, since we were to find that it was something like 64 minutes long ─ if I heard my brother's read-out correctly. I expect that when it had aired on T.V. originally, they clogged in enough commercials to extend it to 90 minutes.

The show was Yellowstone ─ the premiere episode ("One Hundred Years Is Nothing") of season five. If I am remembering this properly, the episode just took us into the beginning of the noon hour.

My brother returned to his bedroom for some further rest; I had a light enough meal and just after 1 p.m. was in bed for a short nap ─ I was up again in just under an hour. I'm actually unsure if I really did nap, though.

At that point my brother was apparently readying to head away to commence his daily social drinking.

I was not going to miss out on any sunning, so by 2:11 p.m. I had begun doing so out in the backyard, and I managed to get in just a few minutes over 1½ hours.

I've been doing a little work at flexing and sustaining the pressure on my right leg's lower quadriceps muscles to gain back the flexibility and strength that area lacks at present to fully elevate my lower leg. I cannot recall all of the half dozen exercises the physiotherapist yesterday wanted me to practice, so I am just focussing on some variation of the couple more intense exercises of that collection that seemed to have impressed me.

It is quite possible that I will not book a return visit. She had said to do so for a week later, but if she is only going to be assigning me various exercises that I am to do at home, I can likely build upon what foundation she had laid out.

With that said, it is presently 7:18 p.m. and I am taking a break from this post so that I can watch a show here on my bedside computer while enjoying a Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol).

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I tuned in Severance ─ episode six ("Attila") of season two.

I confess to getting a little emotional imagining myself being allowed the intimacy that "Helly" (as represented by beautiful actress Britt Lower) offered "Mark". I liked this episode.

My source was this TVids.net link, but be prepared to shut down an unwanted new browser for another website ─ I find that the new browser always pops up as soon as I touch the TVids.net player with my cursor once the video starts. I cannot avoid touching my cursor to the player screen because the feature to enlarge the player to fill my computer screen does not display otherwise.

When the entertaining episode was done, I discovered my younger brother to be home and watching T.V. downstairs with Bev.

Nonetheless, I was set for another show and can of beer. And so I tuned in what is reportedly the very last available episode of The Beautiful Life: TBL. Apparently maybe two others were filmed but never released, so this one was the only season's episode five ("The Beautiful Campaign").

In the opening credits I saw Gal Gadot listed ─ I never noticed her name before. But Wikipedia makes it sound as if she had not yet appeared before the series was cancelled.

So who was the foreign-born actress involved with character "Cole" who taught newcomer "Chris" how to properly do a runway or cat walk? She was tall, and in this final episode certainly looked to me to resemble Gal.

It is a rotten deal that the series ended with just the five episodes, for I was growing deeply into it. And now there are no answers to various plot storylines.

Anyway, my episode source this time was this YouTube link.

I've got to call it quits ─ things somehow ran overlong as often happens when I cram in two shows in an evening, and even my wife is home. I want to try for another exercise session at the elementary school playground, but it is now already 10:27 p.m., so I am  unsure if I dare seek to rise at 3 a.m.