A Memory

It was difficult trying to sleep through the night ─ I had one excessively lengthy wakeful period. When I finally was able to sleep again, my 6 a.m. cellphone alarm sounded and roused me.

During the night I had reset it to 6 a.m. from its original 7 a.m. setting.

The plan was to get out for some early grocery shopping when the store a half mile away opened at 8 a.m. But my worst fears proved true where the time change was concerned ─ we had set our clocks back by an hour overnight.

Thus this often bright, sunny morning at 7 a.m. was already as daylit as it would have been at 8 a.m. the day before. I could already hear crows in their numbers carrying on, and occasional people's voices.

I detest going anywhere when the day is busy, especially now that I hobble about with atrophied quadriceps muscles at my damaged right knee. By 8 a.m. the day would already have sunlight pouring down because it would be 9 a.m. or mid-morning without the time change overnight. And being so damned sunny, people were already abroad.

Capping matters as I groomed a little past 7:30 a.m. was the fact that I could not make my beard / moustache look neat and not scruffy and unkempt ─ it needed a shampooing and setting. Or a severe trimming.

Despairing, I was back in my bedroom resigned that I would not be capable of braving the public with such brilliant daylight so early into the day ... and then my younger brother stirred and came forth from his bedroom unusually early.

That did it ─ I was confined here and would be venturing nowhere.

I did not anticipate joining my brother for any T.V. until around 9 a.m., but around 8:15 or so he invited me down to begin operation of our Android TV Box.

This was to prove a major boon where our last show was concerned.

First I led us off with a 15-minute (15:24) video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's AnitaK channel: Trump Wasn’t Talking About Us — He Meant Them.

Donald Trump recently said “Canadians are difficult,” but let’s be honest — it’s not everyday Canadians he’s talking about. It’s our so-called “representatives” who make things difficult: Trudeau, Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland, Doug Ford — the same crowd behind Canada’s political and economic mess. Trump’s comments came after Doug Ford’s embarrassing anti-tariff ad using Ronald Reagan’s voice — and it says a lot about where our leadership stands today.

We next got 10 or so minutes into another video, but I backed out of it when my brother demurred on its tame content.

My next choice was 56 minutes (56:27) and had been published yesterday to Rumble's HealingEarth channel: Thomas Massie - Holding the Government Hostage over the Epstein Files.

Source: Free The People _ https://www.youtube.com/@freethepeople/videos

Apparently it had been first uploaded to YouTube on October 29. Initially it was of questionable interest, but it did soon enough prove itself. I found myself very much liking this Republican Kentucky Congressman.

Our final video was far longer than I expected; nor did I realize that it was the final episode in the two-season series.

Commercial-free, it was not too much under two hours, so it was clearly a double-episode (episodes seven and eight).

To be specific, it was 1923 ─ the absolutely blockbuster second season and series finale episode ("A Dream and a Memory"). There is so much to say about this episode and the series, but I haven't the time ─ it is already after 8 p.m. and I want to watch a show ─ two if I can ─ and drink some beer. I plan to rise at 3 a.m. for the ¾-mile hobble over to the elementary school playground for some exercising there. Thus, I cannot have a late evening.

Nothing can replace 1923, but I think maybe I will slot in Reacher after this.

My wife had a full workday today, and she actually emerged from her bedroom around 9:10 a.m., finally leaving us around 10 a.m. on her rather long and sunny drive.

It was a bath day for me, so there was no light exercising in my wife's vacant bedroom. And I had a late start on that bath because my nap was later than usual. Before I had taken the nap and right after I had eaten a large meal ─ my only one of today ─ my brother emerged from his bedroom after getting some rest and invited me along on his drive to the government liquor store in the early afternoon.

I was not in the mood, but I took advantage, and now have two dozen cans of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol).

I will speak of 1923 in future posts. Right now it is 8:17 p.m. and I am going to take that break for a show and a tallboy (16 ounces) of Cariboo Malt (8% alcohol).

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What a wonderfully decent series I am finding Friday Night Lights to be! This time I watched episode three ("Wind Sprints") of the one and only season. My source was this GOOJARA.to link.

I only just realized why the unusually tender and alluringly sweet girlfriend of the paralyzed quarterback is so familiar ─ actress Minka Kelly later played the "Dove" half of the superhero duo "Hawk and Dove" on Titans. And of course, "Hawk" was played by the lead actor in Reacher, my planned replacement for 1923.

Cool!

I not only drank a tallboy of Cariboo Malt, but also a regular (355 ml.) can of malt at .1% alcohol weaker, somehow.

My wife got home at 9:39 p.m. My brother was home before I began watching my wonderful show, which I sometimes nearly find peculiarly inspiring despite my 76 years.

I am going to have to suspend brushing my teeth today ─ it is already 10:06 p.m., and I have a few things to finish up here on my bedside computer before getting to bed for that very early rise. I hope the volume of beer doesn't interfere with sleep ─ I forwent any other liquids since my mid-afternoon nap, so maybe my body will retain rather than choose to excrete the quantity of fluid.

Ere I got to bed, my wife sweetly approached me with $300, asking that I Interac e-Transfer it online back to her so she can then do similarly to her mother over in Thailand ─ my wife doesn't have the money in her own account in a different financial institution. I can do the transfer back to her sans a fee due to my senior age.

However, in beguiling fashion, she offered that I could add another $100 if I cared to contribute anything further for her mother.

Yes, I did.