I failed to sleep my night through to my 3 a.m. cellphone alarm. I first found myself checking the time still within the midnight hour (possibly 12:26 a.m.) because I wondered if it would be worth the effort to try and seek further sleep, or if 3 a.m. was nigh and I might as well get up for my outing.
The next time I was again awake and in that mindset, it proved to be 2:51 a.m., so I rose then.
As on Monday, I found the house welcomely in darkness. However, when I weighed myself dressed exactly as I planned to be for my sets of pull-ups and chin-ups at the elementary school playground fairly nearby, I could scarcely believe I was around 187 pounds. This was fully six pounds heavier than 16 days ago when I was doing the same sort of weigh-in.
Yet I did not feel overburdened or logey with excess fluid retention nor a lingering heavy meal.
The night sky appeared to be clear, and it was distinctly cool out. At the school, I was to find the playground equipment wet with condensation, but happily I was able to wipe what I needed to use just about as dry as I needed.
Even so, I just could not attain six pull-ups in the first set, a figure I deem expected of me. And when it came to the pull-ups between a pair of half-rings, a single pull-up in both sets was my limit, and not the usual two pull-ups in each.
So I added sets as compensation.
Thus: two sets of pull-ups (five and two repetitions); two sets of chin-ups (three repetitions in each); two sets of half-rings pull-ups (one pull-up in each); a further regular bar pull-up; and finally another half-rings pull-up.
Then two or three minutes later I barely managed to last out and achieve 10 slow full-range decline push-ups on a nearby metal ramp.
Finally, I returned to the playground equipment and possibly managed a further regular pull-up and then two at the half-rings.
Unfortunately, it entirely slipped my mind to do a dead hang, and I had fully intended to.
Then it was the slow lame hobble home, completing the possible ¾-mile round trip walk.
I don't recall my bedtime, but it was before 6 a.m.
My wife had come home last evening just about when I was getting set for bed, so we never communicated nor saw one another. She was to have today off work, although she left here wordlessly (to me) just ahead of 4:50 p.m. Perhaps she was disappearing to Vancouver where she hangs out when she has time off work.
I rose this morning nigh 8:30 a.m., correctly suspecting that my younger brother would be downstairs watching his T.V. news. I had been uncomfortably cool in bed following my outing.
After I'd joined him well past 9 a.m. and he turned the T.V. over to me so that I could put our Android TV Box to work, I led things off with a video that was supposed to be well over 1¾ hours long (1:52:16), but which turned out to be nothing but dead air until fairly close to the 47-minute mark.
So I will spare you if you choose to watch it ─ I have it set to play at the proper point.
It had been streamed two days ago to Rumble's The HighWire with Del Bigtree channel: LIVE– Trump, RFK Jr., announce Significant Medical and Scientific Autism Finding.
Live from the Roosevelt Room at the White House: President Trump, joined by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announces “Significant Medical and Scientific Findings for America’s Children,” unveiling preliminary results from an HHS investigation into potential causes of autism.
Next came a 51-minute (51:55) video uploaded January 1, 2021, to YouTube's Free Documentary - History channel: NASA's Finest Hour | 13 Factors That Saved Apollo 13 - Part 2 | Free Documentary History.
Watch '13 Factors That Saved Apollo 13 - Part 1' here: • To the Moon... and Back? | 13 Factors That...
“13 Factors That Saved Apollo 13” is a tale of desperation and heroics. When an oxygen leak threatened the lives of three astronauts, the mission became a life or death attempt to get them home safely, organised by people 200,000 miles away.
With limited power and supplies on board the spacecraft, NASA teams worked around the clock to engineer creative solutions to overcome carbon dioxide poisoning, dehydration, and the freezing temperatures of deep space to ensure the crew’s survival.
Using original footage and exclusive interviews with Apollo’s space scientists as well as recreations, this film explores 13 remarkable factors that brought the crew safely home. It’s a story of the courage and ingenuity that cemented Apollo 13 as NASA’s finest hour.
We had watched Part 1 several months ago.
After this came a 12-minute (12:05) video uploaded July 15, 2022, to YouTube's Dates and Dead Guys channel: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the History of Astronomy: How did we get this far?
We were all blown away on July 12, 2022 when NASA released a series of images from its James Webb Space Telescope. But how did we get to the point where we can see galaxies away when just a few hundred years ago it was a mystery that the Earth orbits the sun. In this episode that’s what I am trying to answer. We will start back with over 30k year old evidence of early astronomy and work our way through many of the major accomplishments that build to the modern day.
**There are two times in the episode where I use the term “astrology” instead of “astronomy.” Both of the times, I believe to be generally accurate. Astronomy is the branch of science which deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole. Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world. In the case of the ancient world they seem to have taken on the latter perspective but it’s possible that my interpretation isn’t perfect. I am definitely not referring to zodiac astrology of the 20th and 21st century.**
And we finished up with Peep Show ─ episode three ("Shrooming") of season or series three.
It was thereafter off to his bedroom for further rest by my brother. My wife was to rise before I got at my nap, so I had a light first meal of my day and then took my nap.
My brother was away to social drink when I rose.
I must here say that my wife did a heck of a lot of gardening; and she was to prepare a supper for us before she left in the latter afternoon.
Since it was another sunny day, I sat outside in the backyard and sunned basically from 2:33 - 3:44 p.m., although I remained clothed mostly. I had my shirt open, and for better than 15 minutes at the finish, I stood with my shirt off and my back to the Sun.
With my wife mysteriously away, I took advantage of her vacant bedroom towards the conclusion of the afternoon and had some light exercise there.
And now at 7:36 p.m. I am going to break and watch a couple of shows here on my bedside computer while enjoying a couple cans of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol).
Note that my brother got back home just ahead of 6:55 p.m.
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I first watched FBI ─ episode seven ("Monumental") of season seven. It's pretty sly how the writers deftly ensure that people who question all levels of governmental authority are always depicted in the most extremely negative fashion.
I bet they'd have turned the Ottawa Freedom Convoy 2022 in quite the terrorist hotbed.
Anyway, I enjoyed the episode otherwise, and got a big kick out of watching actress Missy Peregrym as "Agent Maggie" practically run down a fleeing suspect in an extremely fast and lengthy foot chase. It was not too long ago at all that the actress was beginning to display 'saddlebags' on those thighs of hers.
She's looking darned good lately.
My source for the episode was this GOOJARA.to link.
My next show was FBI: Most Wanted ─ episode two ("Footsteps") of season five. I enjoyed this one very much, too. I despise Islamic radicalization ─ absolutely. But I was glad it turned out as it did ─ I was just about certain that the bomb-making daughter would choose to blow herself up along with her father.
I chose to watch the episode at another GOOJARA.to link.
Well, dang it ─ I wanted more. So I pretty much drained what remained of my four-litre box of Sommet Rouge wine (12% alcohol) into a little more than half of a glass tumbler and tuned in Whitney ─ episode eight ("Clarence!") of the first season.
This time my episode source was a uFLIX.to link.
How have I never heard of Whitney Cummings prior to this relatively old T.V. series? ─ the scrawny tall thing is so phenomenally hot to me!
Regardless, I'm going to close shop here and suck the residue from the wine bag in the wine box as I slowly terminate things here on my computer for the night.
I won't be rising as a plan any earlier than 6 a.m. tomorrow.
Right now, 'tis 11:07 p.m.
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