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My 3:30 a.m. cellphone alarm was to rouse me overnight for another visit to the elementary school playground for some exercise ─ the ¾-mile or so round trip walk for my bad right leg's sake, and of course the usual half dozen sets of pull-ups and chin-ups at the playground.

I am still using the smaller kids' equipment because the equipment at the older kids' playground was all removed early last month and has yet to be replaced.

Nothing is different with my repetitions. With a 30-count between sets, I had an opening of two sets of pull-ups (six and then two repetitions); then two sets of chin-ups (three repetitions in each set); and finally two sets of pull-ups between a pair of nearly stationary half rings (two repetitions in each set).

Then back at a bar, I held a dead hang for a 90-count. I suspect that if the bar was not coated with a slick and glossy yellow paint, and was instead its basic plain metal, I could have done a 100-count.

I finished up with nine slow full-range decline push-ups on a metal ramp. That's an increase of one, incidentally.

It is too dark to water the front yard garden flowers when I get back, so I passed time here at my bedside computer. Before I knew it, the time was past 5:30 a.m., so I ventured forth for that chore ... but even then it is darned gloomy initially. The days are definitely starting later.

I think that I was likely back to bed by 7 a.m., but I was awake when my brother quietly emerged from his bedroom to go downstairs for coffee and T.V. news. I'm guessing that was around 7:30 a.m.

I must have managed a little sleep, and finally rallied before 8:30 a.m. to commence my morning.

I waited until a little past 9 a.m. before joining my brother, and at his invitation to start operating our Android TV Box, I led us off with a 26-minute (26:15) video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's Juno News channel: The Nanny State Strikes Again?

Is Nova Scotia’s jaw-dropping ban on hiking, camping, and fishing in provincial forests, with fines up to $25,000 for anyone daring to step into the woods a reasonable step to manage dry, fire-prone conditions?

Or is it a dramatic overreach from aspiring authoritarian governments, similar to what was witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Are those critical of the restrictions dangerous lunatics who want to see Atlantic Canada burn, or are they sincerely worried about such sweeping restrictions on freedom becoming normalized?

The Canadian Constitution Foundation’s Josh Dehaas joins ‘Not “Sorry”’ host Alexander Brown to discuss the move, and what can be done to fight back.

The second video was almost an hour longer (1:23:43), and had been streamed August 7 to Rumble's The HighWire with Del Bigtree channel: Episode 436: TICKING LYME BOMB.

Stephen Colbert’s reign of ridicule is coming to an end, and Del Bigtree delivers the final word. Then, Jefferey Jaxen breaks down RFK Jr.'s bombshell decision to cancel over $500 million in mRNA shot contracts—marking a seismic shift in public health policy. With vaccine-induced immune dysfunction under fresh scrutiny, the accountability era may have just begun. Plus, a new report reveals which 40 jobs artificial intelligence is most likely to replace—are you on the list? Finally, Dr. James Neuenschwander takes us deep into the misunderstood world of Lyme disease, as Justin Timberlake’s public admission draws new attention to this elusive illness.

Guest: Dr. James Neuenschwander

And we finished up with The Jonathan Ross Show ─ episode six of season or series 22. The late 1970s / 1980s band Simple Minds was to perform their 1985 hit Don't You (Forget About Me) at the finish of the show, so I was interested in witnessing that old hit. (At the bottom of the sidebar at the right in that Wikipedia article there is an "audio sample" of the song for anyone who cannot place it by title alone.)

Alas, as is usually the case when I hear a version of a song performed live by its originators, it just wasn't the same. The tempo, the range, the vocal strength ─ it wasn't the hit I have known for 40 years.

We all get old and it shows.

My brother headed on back to his bedroom for more bed rest after the performance, for it was probably around 11:55 a.m. by then. I had eaten shortly after the Del Bigtree video had begun, so at least that was out of the way. But I still failed to seek my nap until after 12:30 p.m.

The morning had been markedly overcast, but it was rather muggy. When I was done with my nap, I was willing enough to sun, but my brother was still home and watching T.V. with Bev. The sky looked like it was mostly cleared up.

Anon he did head away on foot for a bus to do his social drinking somewhere, and then a bit after 3 p.m. I resignedly checked the sky again, and discovered that the heavy haze was back. Sure, the sunshine was getting through, but I was disinclined to put in the time.

I feel rather guilty for it, because tomorrow's wealthy is likely to be even more overcast, but I just feel oppressed today for want of proper sleep the past two nights.

I am going to break here for a small supper, and to watch a couple of shows here on my bedside computer while enjoying as many cans of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol). It is 6:03 p.m.

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My first show was Blood Ties ─ episode seven ("Heart of Ice") of the first season. Lead actress Christina Cox is absolutely adorable to me, yet I cannot claim to have ever seen her act in anything other than this series, even though I know that to be impossible in view of her lengthy credits.

The episode finished ahead of 7:30 p.m., and as yet my younger brother had yet to return.

A single can of beer had sufficed, incidentally.

My initial source for the episode was this GOOJARA.to link, but it started buffering or crapped out a little past the 12-minute mark; nevertheless, this uFLIX.to link saved the day.

My brother was home before I began watching my next choice: Norway's Heimebane (Home Ground) ─ episode six ("Ingen kommentar") of the first season. Apparently that episode title translates as "No comment".

My source was this WLEXT.is link, but be prepared to have to deal with a succession of unwanted popup browsers every bloody time your cursor touches the play screen to do anything at all such as enlarge the view screen, or start the video, or pause it ─ anything.

I really enjoy this series, and am constantly surprised by how much English seems to be commonly known and used in everyday speech in Norway. But this episode was deeply interesting for its subject matter.

Frankly, it is an excellent series, and so are the characters and the actors portraying them.

One further beer sufficed.

I am going to try and get a couple or more things done here on my computer before shutting everything down, for I hope that I can again visit that elementary school playground for exercise. But I detest what it costs me for sleep since I have to be available to watch some latter morning T.V. with my brother.

I wish ... life was better. Anyway, it is 9:23 p.m.