Clean House

With my cellphone alarm set for 3 a.m. last night, I was to be awake and checked the time around 2:24 a.m. and made the choice to rise then. It was so darned hot in my bedroom even with the upright fan running.

It happens to be a white Lasko "tower fan". I have no idea how to use it other than just turning it on and letting it blow directly at me. My youngest stepson brought it upstairs here to my bedroom two or three weeks ago for me to use, but gave no instruction and never brought any manual or guide. So I just press the "on" button and aim it where I want the breeze directed ─ I have no idea if it oscillates.

Anyway, for my outing, the plan was to walk the mile or so to my financial institution to withdraw $200 from its outdoor ATM, and that is just what I did. On the return portion of the walk, I of course stopped at the elementary school to use the youngest kids' playground for a half dozen sets of pull-ups and chin-ups, since the older kids' playground equipment that was removed early last month has not been replaced.

My workout was what is normal of late: two sets of pull-ups (six and then two repetitions); two sets of chin-ups (three repetitions in each); and two sets of pull-ups between a pair of stationary half-rings (two repetitions in each) before returning to a bar for a dead hang (an 80-count).

Then eight slow full-range decline push-ups on a metal ramp before heading the remainder of the way home.

Dressed exactly as I had been when exercising, my total bodyweight was somewhere from 181-182 pounds.

Using that outdoor playground's equipment is far easier on me that is using the metal ladder I have stretched across some backyard tool shed rafters. Its rungs are useless ─ I have to try and grip its thick sides to do pull-ups and chin-ups with, so I never have a secure grip; and it's truly stressful on my wrists when I do chin-ups because I try to lower myself down as far as I can.

Consequently I may put more effort into getting to the school in the wee a.m. than I have been doing ─ i.e., I shall have to ensure that I get up early enough in the night to care to be out there.

After I got back home, I spent time here on my bedside computer because it was too dark to water the front yard garden flowers.

I managed to avoid declining and was later able to do that watering; and then I fried up a couple of eggs in ghee and coconut oil. When they were done, I then tore up two slices of a whole grain bread to absorb as much of the oils as could be done; I also added three chopped garlic cloves and a good chunk of raw ginger similarly chopped (I did the 'chopping' by using my teeth to break the garlic and ginger into smaller portions).

That dish ─ followed by a small mandarin orange ─ I ate here at my bedside computer before finally getting to bed. By then it was 7:30 a.m. or so, and I doubt that I got a full hour in bed before forcing myself back up because my younger brother had meantime risen for the morning and I am the operator of our Android TV Box when he gets tired of the morning news shows.

After I joined him shortly past 9 a.m. and got his invitation to activate the Android TV Box, I led us off with a 15-minute video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's AnitaK channel: "2 Years Ago They Refused Fire Help… Today They’ll Fine You $25,000".

The topic was the forest bans going on in the Maritimes. That was also the topic in our second video.

At nearly 1½ hours (1:26:48), it had been published yesterday to Rumble's Libertytalkcanada channel: Canada-Arsonists Getting OFF Without Fines/Jail Time While Residents In Climate Lockdowns.

Climate Lockdowns: IMPORTANT TIMELY INTERVIEW with Canadian Constitutional lawyer Marty Moore & veteran Jeff Evely. In Canada Arsonists GETTING OFF WITHOUT FINES & JAIL TIME yet regular innocent people following fire ban rules can't walk through the woods to get to fishing, or go for a damn walk. Regarding Canadian Jeff Evely's $28,000 ticket just walking through the woods...we give important information/nuance/details/ lawsuit updates that other podcasts haven't yet... ALL CANADIANS NEED TO SEE THIS

After that I tuned in some previously downloaded fare beginning with Coupling ─ episode three ("Unconditional Sex") of season or series three. That show can be so effectively titillating!

I now do not know my download source, but it is always possible that it was this GOOJARA.to link.

Incidentally, the would-be seductress "Wilma" was played by actress Emilia Fox who could still fulfill that role today at the age of 51, in my opinion!

Our final video was ─ I must have thought ─ to have been a documentary, but it turned out to be a 1½-hour panel discussion of it. We gave up on it after maybe 10-15 minutes, and my brother returned to his bedroom for further bed rest.

With afternoon sunning planned, I should have returned to my own bed smarter than I did, for it was around 12:30 p.m. ere I had done so. Even so, I still managed to rouse and get up a little before 2 p.m.

I was to see that my brother had not yet emerged from his bedroom, so I hurriedly readied and got myself out into the backyard for my 1½ hours of very hot sunning. I probably did not officially commence until 2:17 p.m., and ended the session at 3:48 p.m., if I am recalling this correctly.

This heat!

I thought to have some exercising in my wife's vacant bedroom late this afternoon, but it was just too oppressive. Her bedroom window is open, but she only has lacy almost see-through blinds over the West-facing windows and they are largely drawn open. Even with her ceiling fan turned on, I just could not withstand what I knew I would be in for; and besides, I did not wish to put in the time because I was kindling some interest in a Christmas movie.

So I had a quick, light supper; and then tuned in 2018's This Is Our Christmas.

In its write-up I recognized one cast member's name ─ Donna Spangler. She had been acting in some earlier Christmas movie that was pretty damned lame; she seemed to be heavily sedated and lifeless.

I wondered if it was possible that it was this movie, and I was not clearly remembering the plot of the previous feature, so I did some research. I am now certain that the earlier movie was 2015's Beverly Hills Christmas.

It seems that this more recent movie is a vague sequel, for Donna Spangler's character in this movie is also an 'angel' who returns to try and lend a divine hand to her immediate family. A young actress who plays her late teen or early 20s daughter "Ravin" is probably Donna's real daughter ─ how else explain her name Ravin Spangler?

Admittedly the movie was sheer hoke and I was unaffected emotionally for half or more of it, but it had its charm and I enjoyed watching the various actors and their characters.

And was supporting actress Megan Duffy ever cute!

Somewhat fortunately the movie was not quite 80 minutes long, so I was able to dawdle my way through a single can of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol).

My source for the movie was this OK.ru link, by the way.

I suppose that it concluded around 8 p.m., and a peek outside my bedroom door revealed my brother to be home, passed out in front of the T.V., but physically keeping Bev company.

I chose one further show. It was FBI: Most Wanted ─ episode 21 ("Clean House") of season four. Boy, did that one ever erase any sense of goodness the movie may have bestowed.

I kept rooting for actress Silvia Dionicio's character, but it was all for naught. The poor thing was murdered, and died knowing that her best friend had been murdered a day or two before her.

My episode source was this GOOJARA.to link.

The actress portrayed a 15-year-old, but she would have been 22 when the show was filmed.

She made me wish that I could somehow intervene in the vulnerable life of someone in a similar plight, but I have no option but to waste away what little life remains to me because I do not have the finances to be free of my bondage to family and resultant debt, quite apart from now being rather crippled and limited of range. I wish I was worthwhile instead.

I had a second can of beer.

It is presently 9:51 p.m., so I am going to start shutting down everything on my computer and try to get to bed and sleep so I can have a constructive wee a.m. (such as a decent workout at the elementary school playground).