Killer Business

I slept poorly last night. I rose to use the toilet at one point and returned to bed at (I believe) something like 2:02 a.m., and likely failed to seriously sleep until checking the time again at 2:55 a.m. or so, rising then to avoid having to hear my 3 a.m. cellphone alarm.

Maybe 3:40 a.m. or so I was away on the ¾-mile round trip hobble to the nearby elementary school playground for some exercising. The temperature was remarkably mild, and there was a light cloud cover. It appeared to me that some hours back it must have rained, for our cul-de-sac was moist; but the avenues and streets were dry. There was a fair breeze, but it, too, was as mild as the still air.

As I was most of the way along the blocked alleyway beside our home that leads from the cul-de-sac to a main avenue, a white electric-powered car had entered at that end as far as the Jersey barriers there would allow. This had me wondering just what was going on.

To my surprise, a rather tall and slim nicely-dressed (from what I could tell in the dark) young woman started coming my way, and then I saw that she had a companion that pretty much twinned her. It seems the car had dropped them off, and they were short-cutting through the alleyway to get to wherever they were bound.

They were likely taken a bit aback by encountering me there in the dark, for the alleyway is creepy at night. Although it is short, it is in four lengths because it involves three sharp right angle turns, so one never knows what is ahead on the next stretch. Had the car not still been sitting and probably its occupant(s) observing, I likely would have addressed the ladies, but I felt it best not to make any observed contact with them.

To my considerable surprise at the playground, all of the equipment was perfectly dry. I can only conclude that the breeze was responsible.

I matched my performance in pull-ups and chin-ups of two days ago, and had weighed in at 186 pounds fully clothed but sans jacket ere leaving home. So two sets of pull-ups (5-2 repetitions); two sets of chin-ups (3-2 repetitions); and two sets of pull-ups between a pair of half-rings (2-2 repetitions) before undergoing a dead hang for a 60-count.

The pull-ups with the rings took everything I had, for I was almost finished of strength reserves at that point. And even the dead hang ─ which I essayed after a 30-count break from the half-rings, the same length of break between the sets of pull-ups and chin-ups ─ took my all to get past a count of 50. Yet a month or so back, a few times I managed 100-counts on the dead hang. So I don't know what exactly is afoot.

Anyway, I finished up with the usual 10 slow full-range decline push-ups on the nearby metal ramp before calling myself done and readying for the hobble back home.

I suspect that it was after 6 a.m. before I was back to bed until around 8:30 a.m., by which time my younger brother was downstairs watching T.V.

It was well past 9 a.m. when I joined him; unexpectedly, my wife emerged from her bedroom and seemed to be up for the day, although it was to turn out that she never had to go to work until mid-afternoon for the Thai restaurant's second part of the day. By then the ambitious woman had left home on errands a couple of times.

My brother and I were to watch just one video together via our Android TV Box. At nearly 2¼ hours (2:11:29), it had been published October 17 to Rumble's WTFLouie channel: Dr Lee Merritt Brain Stretching with Scott Kesterson 07-Oct-2025.

https://rumble.com/v700kec-brain-stretching-with-scott-kesterson..html?
Dr. Merritt and Scott Kesterson discussing the false reality we are living in--in all its craziness. We discuss eveerything from Tartaria to Charlie Kirk, and more. The real question is how do we as individuals navigate through an information war where we were born into the battlefield. We can also be found at Lee Merritt (TheMedicalRebel.com) Scott Kesterson (BARDSFM.com)

Dr. Lee Merritt never fails to be interesting and controversial.

After my brother returned to his bedroom for further rest, I had a light meal at my wife's encouragement, and then was to bed for my early afternoon nap.

When I rose well past 2 p.m., my brother had likely already left on foot to take public transit so he could commence his daily social drinking. And of course, my wife was to leave on her rather long drive to the restaurant in 40 or so minutes, I would say.

I think that we've had some very light rain ─ at least in the latter afternoon; but I haven't been monitoring the weather. And I have a heavy set of very dark red drapes over my bedroom window that I only ever partially open when it is oppressively hot in my room in the Summer; consequently I have no view of the outdoors, and my bedroom is where I spend most of my time.

Right now it is 6:42 p.m. and I have had my day's second meal; and before that I had some light exercising in my wife's vacant bedroom.

I am now going to break from this post so I can watch a couple of shows here on my bedside computer and enjoy a couple tallboy (16 ozs) cans of Cariboo Malt (8% alcohol). I shall resume what will be the remainder of this post later in the evening.

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My first show was Legacies ─ episode seven ("Death Keeps Knocking on My Door") of the first season. It had its moments, but I sure would not appreciate having to watch the series on a daily basis. Once in a while is sufficient.

If interested, my source was this RidoMovies.tv link.

Next up was iZombie ─ episode 11 ("Killer Queen") of season five. Despite being as impossible as is Legacies, I find iZombie far more identifiable.

This time my source was this GOOJARA.to link.

The show probably finished around 8:45 p.m., so plenty of time for something else. Even my brother was not yet back from his social drinking.

By the way, it sounds to have been lightly raining over the course of the evening.

I finished with a sitcom called The Business ─ the first season's "The Business (Pilot)" episode. I will readily say right now that it's a failure. But I was struggling to figure out why the lead actress ─ Kathleen Robertson ─ was so familiar to me, but no reason came to mind ─ not until I was writing about the show.

I was wrong on the identity of the suspected actress in The Business, but Kathleen Robertson was reminding me powerfully of actress Julie Bowen of Modern Family renown.

Regardless, my source for the episode was this OK.ru link. I will seek to keep watching the series if I am able to find further sources for the episodes.

My second can of tallboy beer got me all the way through all three shows, and I still have a wee bit remaining in the can. It is enough for the evening.

The Business probably finished around 9:45 p.m. Around 9:52 p.m. I heard my wife arrive home; and then at 9:55 p.m. my brother coincidentally showed up.

I plan to get up tomorrow at 6 a.m., likely to try and do a little local shopping ─ if I am able to withdraw funds from a different credit union's ATM than the one I normally use. The actual ATM is in a vestibule that is locked afterhours ... but the website claims that it is accessible from 6 a.m. - 10 p.m., so maybe I have always attempted access outside of those hours.

The morning will tell the tale, then ─ I plan to visit at 8 a.m. if all goes according to plan and I have a really decent night's sleep.

At present it is 10:26 p.m., so I am slowly going to wrap up various involvements I have going on here on my computer and soon enough thereafter be to bed.