Too Close

That image made me laugh aloud!

But on with today's narrative, beginning with the end of last night's sleep.

My cellphone alarm was set for 6 a.m., but after some wakefulness I decided to obtain relief in the bathroom, and so I checked the time ─ it was 4:51 a.m.

I returned to bed, but exactly a half hour later I checked the time again because I was no nearer falling back into any sleep. Since it was 5:21 a.m., the odds were stacked against me of gaining any further sleep before 6 a.m., so I just rose for the morning.

I was later to have my backyard tool shed exercises and was back in the house just ahead of 8 a.m. The session was another in which I opened with three pull-ups, then settled on one in the second set; then two sets of two chin-ups in each; and the closing single repetition in each of the two sets of pull-ups between the sides of the child's slide ladder that I have stretched across some rafters and which is my sole means of these exercises.

I held the dead hang of the final pull-up for a 50-count before tackling the squat work to keep my damaged right leg's quadriceps muscles strengthening.

I do not recall when my younger brother emerged from his bedroom, but it may have been ahead of 8:30 a.m. And as usual, I waited until after 9 a.m. before joining him for some morning T.V. Actually, I went downstairs a little after 8:50 a.m., but I spent time in the kitchen fixing up a heated breakfast. It proved to be too heated, for I had to let it sit for some while to cool a little, but even then it was cruel to my mouth's interior.

My wife had another full workday at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time. She emerged from her bedroom a bit past 9:20 a.m., which is slightly earlier than usual; and was away just past 10 a.m. after showering and otherwise readying herself for her longish drive and her long day.

I was to discover later that she helped herself to $40 from my account, leaving just $2 and change in the balance. She's bleeding me for whatever she can get ─ I wish God would make it financially possible for me to get away from here in honourable fashion.

As for shows I watched with my brother once he relinquished the T.V. to me so I could put our T95X Android 9 TV Box to work, I led us off with a two-hour video streamed January 22 to Rumble's Vaccine Safety Research Foundation channel: VSRF Live #211: Too Dangerous To Publish? Vaccine Data vs. Vaccine Dogma.

This Thursday on VSRF Live, we welcome Brian Hooker, PhD, and Karl Jablonowski, PhD — two powerhouse research scientists with Children’s Health Defense (CHD) — for an in-depth conversation on vaccine safety, research integrity, and emerging data that raise serious public-health questions.

Dr. Brian Hooker is a biologist, author, and Chief Scientific Officer at CHD, widely known for his work on vaccine safety, data transparency, and neurodevelopmental outcomes. His research and advocacy focus on evaluating public-health claims against real-world data and defending open scientific inquiry in the face of political and institutional pressure.

Joining him is Dr. Karl Jablonowski, Senior Research Scientist at CHD, whose work centers on epidemiology, vaccine policy, and data analysis. Dr. Jablonowski has become a leading voice examining how public-health decisions are made — and where gaps exist between official narratives and emerging scientific evidence.

Together, Dr. Hooker and Dr. Jablonowski will discuss their research on aluminum adjuvants in vaccines, including findings from a recently published paper co-authored with internationally recognized experts in aluminum toxicology — Christopher Exley, Chris Shaw, Yehuda Shoenfeld, and Guillemette Crépeaux — examining biological and neurodevelopmental risks associated with aluminum exposure. 📄 https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0946672X25002238

They will also address their recently withdrawn preprint, “Increased Mortality Associated with 2-Month-Old Infant Vaccinations.” The paper was removed from the preprint platform following an advisory board decision under site policy. The authors did not request the withdrawal, and the withdrawal notice and author information remain publicly available. The authors plan to republish their work on an open-science platform.

In addition, they will discuss findings Dr. Jablonowski has described as a “huge revelation” concerning autism and military families. In recent work conducted with Dr. Hooker, the authors report higher rates — and increased severity — of autism among children of U.S. military service members compared to the general population, with risk appearing to increase when both parents served, and among National Guard and active-duty families, even when not deployed. These findings, they argue, warrant serious investigation into potential contributing factors affecting military families.

Also joining the discussion is attorney Rick Jaffe, counsel for the plaintiffs — including Children’s Health Defense — in a bombshell federal lawsuit filed this week against the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The suit alleges the AAP violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) by making false and misleading claims about the safety of the CDC childhood immunization schedule while receiving funding from vaccine manufacturers and pushing financial incentives tied to aggressive pediatric vaccination rate targets. Attorney Jaffe will break down the legal theory behind the case, what the complaint alleges, and why its outcome could have far-reaching implications for medical policy, public trust, and institutional accountability.
📄 https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/aap-lawsuit-complaint-redacted.pdf

This conversation will explore the science, the data, and the legal and ethical implications surrounding vaccine policy — and why transparency, accountability, and open scientific inquiry are essential to restoring public trust.

I normally do not reproduce so much description to a video, but the information is worthy. However, my brother and I only watched 30 or 40 minutes of it. Neither of us is statistics-minded, and much ado was being made of this sort of detail. When my brother voiced that he was finding the show "dry", I was sympathetic and thus I closed out of it.

Instead, I tuned in The Outpost ─ episode 12 ("Where Death Lives") of season three. I must say that I was not at all expecting that they would be killing off the "Tobin" character. I am wondering if some especially powerful Kinj will be allowed to intervene and revitalize him? We'll have to wait a few weeks to find out before we next tune in.

Our third and final video was only slightly better than half watched, for it exceeded two hours, and by then it was at least 11:50 a.m. and time for my brother's return to bed for more rest.

I knew that he only had one can of beer remaining in his supply, so I alerted him that I would probably accompany him if he was planning to drive to the government liquor store two miles away to restock.

This meant that I dared not nap, but I did lie in my bed and rested as deep as I could without assuming what is for me an effective sleep posture.

And so the trip was made. I ended up buying two 15-packs of cans of Cariboo Strong (7% alcohol). I've not tried this specific malt before ─ I usually only buy Cariboo Malt at 7.9% or 8% alcohol (depending on the batch). Unfortunately, Cariboo Malt is not stacked out on the floor, but is in a cooler. And none had been slid forward on the rollers within my reach, so rather than bothering about it, I just grabbed two packs of Cariboo Strong.

I also bought a four-litre box of Sommet Rouge wine (12% alcohol). The bill for it all came to exactly $87.

Thankfully all that's out of the way for a time!

I was unsure if I would be up to dealing with a light exercising session this early latter afternoon in my wife's vacant bedroom, but once there I got 'er done.

At present it is 4:28 p.m. and I have already gathered up what will be my supper (and my second meal of the day). I am going to break for a few hours from blogging so I can feed, and also watch three shows here on my bedside computer to enjoy with my last two cans of Cariboo Malt (8% alcohol) and probably a glass tumbler (roughly eight ounces) of the wine in an already open box.

I shall return to complete this post.

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First up was The Carrie Diaries ─ episode five ("Too Close for Comfort") of season two. My source was this uFLIX.to link.

I always enjoy episodes in this series ─ I wonder why? Sure, it's great having lovely young ladies to delight my old eyes, but I even enjoy the light dramas.

The episode ended around 6:30 p.m., and Bev still seemed to be watching T.V. downstairs by herself.

Next I watched Wynonna Earp ─ the series finale episode ("Old Souls"), as it happened. My source was this TVSeries.video link.

I'm just not into all of this Gay crap. I felt absolutely no emotion until the nearly closing scene where Wynonna was riding in her leathers on her big bike in pursuit of Doc Holliday in his car heading down the open highway.

But a bit of a spoiler was that after she shot out one of his tires and he climbed onto the back of her bike so they could continue the journey together, he never took any of his belongings from his abandoned car, including his cherished Wyatt Earp saddle ─ never to possibly return.

This occurrence rather spoiled the scene for me. It made more sense to have changed the damned tire and the twain carry on with both vehicles somehow.

It was sure surprising hearing the strong English accent of the actress portraying "Waverly Earp" in the epilogue that filled the additional footage to the long episode. And likewise hearing no Southern drawl to the actor portraying Doc Holliday.

I'm glad the series is done. I simply was not getting enough out of it.

It probably ended by 7:45 p.m., by which time my brother was home with Bev.

My final show was a sitcom, and it was done by 9:06 p.m. at most. To best enjoy it, I poured that glass tumbler of red wine. The show was Trollied ─ episode two ("Leanne's Visit") of the first season. My source was this M4uFree.cx link.

Thus far over two episodes, I haven't even cracked a slight smile. Still, I am rather liking the "Jane" interim manager character as played by actress Jane Horrocks, who would have been around 46 years old at the time. She seems to have a nice, taught physique that rather appeals to me ... and she's cute.

I have no idea how old the lady was in the photo above. Slim, but nicely muscled pins!

I'm going to get to bed earlier than I have done in an evening for a long while ─ probably my earliest bedtime this year.

With that said, I am now about to slowly start finalizing and shutting down whatever I have open on my computer. It is 9:46 p.m., so maybe I can be to bed by 10:30 p.m. at very latest.