After Hours

Although it may have been nigh midnight when I got to bed last evening, I did not rise until around 7:45 a.m. And I had to hustle to get outside to do some watering of front yard garden plants.

Meantime, my younger brother rose to watch T.V. and have coffee. 

Afterwards I nevertheless ventured out to the backyard tool shed for the usual half dozen sets of pull-ups and chin-ups, but I just could not overcome the already strained anatomical architecture involved in that exercising to deal with the expected repetitions.

I think I just did a couple of pathetic nominal sets of pull-ups, and maybe one of chin-ups, before doing a final pull-up between the bars and then holding the dead hang for maybe a 50-count.

I tried not to beat myself up about this.

At least I had the usual 31 full flat-footed squats to work my damaged right leg (20 assisted; 10 unassisted; and one unassisted held in the squat position for a 100-count).

When I joined my brother for some T.V. and got his invitation around 9:10 - 9:15 a.m. to start operating our Android TV Box, I tuned in the second half of the nearly four-hour Shawn Ryan Show video (3:49:18) we had to break from yesterday at around the halfway point: AJ Gentile - Inside the Biggest Conspiracies in the World | SRS #229.

Then we finished up the last half or so of a nearly 50-minute (49:58) video uploaded November 8, 2023, to YouTube's FD Ancient History channel: Empire Builders: The Christian Empires | FD Ancient History.

In the 5th century A.D. the Roman Empire, which had ruled across Europe for 600 years, was facing collapse. More than 100 years earlier in 332 Emperor Constantine, who'd erected his victory arch in Rome, had moved the capital of the empire to a city in modern-day Turkey which was named Constantinople.
Constantine was the first Roman emperor to become a Christian and over the next 1000 years, his Eastern Roman Empire embraced Christianity and became the Byzantine Empire. Constantine changed the course of human history. With his adoption of Christianity, Christianity went from a persecuted minority sect to being the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Later, in the final years of the 1st century, Christian forces were more aggressive as Crusaders fought to retake Christendom's holy lands and sites from another younger religion on the march, Islam.
Meanwhile, Europe's great new sea-faring and trading power, Venice, sought accommodation and profit from all sides, whether Christian, Jew, or Muslim, in a complex game of shifting alliances, hostility, and war.

In this episode of Empire Builders, we explore 10 sites that made history. We visit Bryzantium's greatest church, the Hagia Sophia in modern-day Istanbul, the Crusaders' greatest fortress, Crac de Chevalier in modern-day Syria, and St Marks Basilica, in Venice, a showcase of the Venetian Empire at its peak., Together through these great sites, and others we chart the rise and fall of the great Christian empires of Byzantium, the Crusades, and Venice

We had to break from it two mornings earlier in favour of bed rest for my brother.

Time has run away on me. I only managed 48 minutes of afternoon sunning (3:20 - 4:08 p.m.) due to napping long and also finding my brother still home watching a Canadian Football League game with Bev.

He got back this evening no later than 8:12 p.m. from his daily bus trip to do his social drinking, by which time I had only recently had my day's sole meal (apart from two coffees earlier, of course).

In some desperation, I located a show to watch here on my bedside computer. My choice was Severance ─ episode nine ("The After Hours") of season two. This one was getting good!

I love how fierce Brett Lower is as her "innie" character ─ she has a walk that to me implies so much power. Hell, I feel that she's so darned hot!

And now there is but one further episode remaining in the series.

If interested, my source was this uFLIX.to link.

Next I watched Legacies ─ episode three ("We're Being Punked, Pedro") of the first season. It was okay. I'm just not fussy about some of the young male characters; and one of them ─ "Landon" ─ appears like he's going to be fairly central in the series.

My source was this GOOJARA.to link.

I had two cans of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol) over the evening. I hoped to be abed by 10 p.m., but that ain't surely happening. The morning plan is some early grocery shopping at the market half a mile from here that opens at 8 a.m., so I should be able.

Right now as I start shutting down browsers and their tabs, and also some programmes, it is 10:29 p.m.