No Good Deed

This morning when my 6 a.m. alarm chimed, a minute or so passed before I realized it was sounding due to how plugged my ears become when I lie down.

But I did not feel too badly otherwise ─ quite a change of late. Skipping two entire days without any activity whatsoever seemed to help me. And even though when I later visited the backyard tool shed for my usual single repetition in six sets of pull-ups and chin-ups, I didn't start off with the deep upper arm soreness that feels so much as if I am over-training. Even the squat work to challenge my damaged right knee and quadriceps muscles was not a trial.

Back in the house I heated up my day's first meal and brought that upstairs to my bedside computer to soon enjoy.

By the way, I was wrong about the morning time change ─ we actually gained an hour of morning darkness. This will make it easier on me where shopping early is concerned. I had thought that it was henceforth going to be daylight an hour earlier.

I believe that my younger brother emerged from his bedroom by 8:15 a.m., but of course I waited till at least 9:10 a.m. before joining him.

Then upon being invited to start operation of our old T95Q Android 9 TV Box, I started us off with a 25-minute (25:52) video uploaded yesterday to YouTube's AnitaK channel: What No One Tells You About the Iranian Regime.

My brother began taking offence with dear Anita, declaring that she was blatantly naive. This was reinforced with my next video choice. It exceeded an hour (1:07:42), but a few minutes can be knocked off at its start as well as even more towards its conclusion, so it was more like and hour, if not even slightly less.

The video had been streamed March 6 to Rumble's Kim Iversen channel: How’s the Iran War REALLY going? | Former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson.

Larry Johnson, founder of BERG Associates, LLC, is a leading expert in money laundering, product counterfeiting, financial forensics, and counterterrorism.

He served in the CIA (1985–1989) in paramilitary operations, the Directorate of Operations, and as an analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. As Deputy Director of the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism (1989–1993), he managed crisis responses to terrorist incidents across multiple regions, investigated the Pan Am 103 bombing, directed hijacking resolutions, and oversaw the $multi-million U.S. Anti-Terrorism Assistance Training Program for over 15,000 officials from 70+ nations.

From 1996–2006, he led the State Department’s Senior Crisis Management Seminar, training senior officials from more than 45 countries on terrorist threats and international counterterrorism accords.

Since 1994, he has designed realistic counterterrorism exercises for U.S. special operations forces and conducted high-stakes investigations through BERG, resulting in multimillion-dollar seizures, fines, and criminal penalties.

Mr. Johnson has testified as an expert witness in federal courts, including Kahane vs. Islamic Republic of Iran (2003), and frequently comments on terrorism for CNN, BBC, NPR, The New York Times, and other major outlets.

He joins the show to discuss the rapidly escalating US-Israeli war against Iran.

After that video, I tuned in the last of the movie that we finally finished watching in this third sitting. It was 2001's Kiss of the Dragon. I feel I have probably watched some or all of it before, but I remembered nothing of it. Our source for it was published June 27, 2024, to BitChute's Page Chronicles channel: 📽Jet Li Flick - 'Kiss Fear Goodbye.' • Kiss of the Dragon (2001) (Action/Crime/Thriller)  R •1h 38m.

Loads of action in this, but my thrill was being able to watch Bridget Fonda in her glorious prime. She always appealed powerfully to me, seeming so genuine ... and frankly, hot.

This was her second to last year of ever acting, for she quit after 2002. And although she was not to later age well, the actress I admired so much was someone I would have loved to have been able to run away with and live happily thereafter.

Anyway, we followed the movie with an eight-minute (8:57) video uploaded February 27, 2016, to YouTube's Proper Gander channel: Ley Lines: Sacred Sites and Ley Lines - Even American Cities Are Aligned.

When the Masons came to the New World, they practiced their trade in the same way they had in Europe.  They embedded codes in the design and foundation of the American colonies.  Many cites and major landmarks seem to be aligned.  Some researchers think this alignment is not coincidental, that something called 'Ley Lines' or 'Dragon Lines' might be involved.  Many major cities around the world, as well as ancient sacred sites, seem to be part of great circles around the earth, some researchers speculate.

Ley lines are alignments of places of significance in the geography or culture of an area, often including man-made structures. They are in the older sense, ancient, straight trackways in the British landscape, or in the newer sense, spiritual and mystical alignments of land forms.

The phrase was coined in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, referring to supposed alignments of numerous places of geographical and historical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths, natural ridge-tops and water-fords. In his books Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track, he sought to identify ancient trackways in the British landscape. Watkins later developed theories that these alignments were created for ease of overland trekking by line-of-sight navigation during neolithic times, and had persisted in the landscape over millennia.

In a book called The View Over Atlantis (1969), the writer John Michell revived the term "ley lines", associating it with spiritual and mystical theories about alignments of land forms, drawing on the Chinese concept of feng shui. He believed that a mystical network of ley lines existed across Britain.

Since the publication of Michell's book, the spiritualised version of the concept has been adopted by other authors and applied to landscapes in many places around the world.

Considering how little the video actually offered, the description doesn't exactly match up.

Our final video was The Life of Riley ─ episode 17 ("Riley's Operation") of season two. I'm calling it "season two" despite IMDb listing it as the first season. I am considering the first season to be the single season version that featured Jackie Gleason as Riley.

I'm unsure why I started off with episode 17, but sources for it include YouTube (this link, for example) and Archive.org at this link.

I am stopping and breaking from blogging here because it is already 6:23 p.m. and I have to begin watching my usual three T.V. shows here on my bedside computer and having a few drinks. I will only say that I did have some light exercise in my wife's vacant bedroom (she had a full workday today), and I have since supped ─ my second and last meal of the day.

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I was disappointed when I saw that the first show in this evening's rotation was The Handmaid's Tale ─ I have suffered through that dreary series for so, so long. But as soon as episode two ("Nightshade") of the fourth season began, I remembered how exciting the series had become as of the finish of season three.

And so I watched with both interest and enjoyment. My source was this CinegoGo.co link.

It was good, for sure. And so went my first can of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol). All was over by 7:22 p.m.

Early into my next show I got a text from my wife ─ it was 7:45 p.m.:

Hi, can you bring a wine box in my room plz

In other words, she wanted to ensure that I left her some wine in her bedroom for when she got home from work, in case I was retired for the night in my own bedroom. I'm always happy to help her out!

The show I was early into was The Guardian ─ episode 11 ("No Good Deed") of season two. My source was this uFLIX.to link.

I was pleased that Farrah Fawcett was back in her short-lived previous recurring role as a still-attractive non-glamorous grandmother to her young granddaughter played by AJ Michalka.

And Wendy Moniz! Wow! That scene at the episode conclusion where she shuts the office door behind her to leave her character alone to intimately involve herself with main character Nick Fallon had me outburst semi-aloud, for I'd be a goner if she had done that to me.

I'm so pathetic. 

The episode and my second beer were done by 8:26 p.m., and at some point during the show my brother had gotten back home from his social drinking to pass out in front of the T.V. with Bev to enjoy.

With my third show ahead, I poured at least 10 ounces of Sommet Rouge wine (12% alcohol) from the four-litre box that I left in my wife's bedroom.

When I saw that my third and final show this evening was to be Dimension 404 ─ episode five ("Bob") of the only season ─ I was not thrilled. My source was to be another CineGo.co link this evening.

I fully expected this to be the feeblest show of the evening, for it is rather farcical and juvenile; but it turned out to be the only one of the three I have watched that affected me emotionally. I was amazed by that!

It was rather sad to discover that the voice of massive meat computer Bob was actor Tom Noonan who only died about two dozen days ago at the age of 74 ─ older than my brother, but younger than I.

Without knowing that, I nevertheless did a lot of snuffling through the latter part of the episode, even though I greatly dislike this unnecessary focus on normalizing homosexuality, even if it is Lesbian (there is nothing more vulgar that seeing men 'romping' or affectionate with one another).

By the way, both this and The Guardian were set within the Christmas period, so this tends to have a larger effect on me. 

Dimension 404 ended by 9:47 p.m. At 10 a.m., my wife arrived home.

She gave me $200 and asked that I do an online transfer to her so that she could send the money to her mother in Thailand. My wife never has an account balance; and for her to deposit the cash tends to find the financial institution holding the money until her account gets clearance.

As a senior, I can make Interac e-Transfers from my main financial institution without a fee.

Alright, I am going to publish this post now at 10:44 p.m. and soon get to bed. My wife had a shower and seems to have shut herself up in her bedroom for the night. I hope she isn't ailing, and is just being sensible if she has another full workday tomorrow.

In closing, I want record of the absolutely impossible claim that Blogger lists my blog as having had 1,140 visits today. That is ludicrous. Blogger should be better able to discount bot visits.

I am unimpressed. And I have only earned 1¢ via AdSense at most so far this year? Yeah, right.