Publicity Doppelganger

'Twas 10:01 p.m. when I got myself into bed yesterday evening. My cellphone alarm was set for 6 a.m., and I was to remain in bed until that alarm chimed this morning to get me up. It was time to put water on to boil for a mug of instant coffee to wash down an aspirin while I took occasion to normalize and then ready for the half mile hobble to No Frills that opens at 8 a.m.

I could see that we were in for a sunny day from the very start.

I actually got away earlier than intended, for I had heard my younger brother stirring about in his bedroom and I incorrectly believed he might be intending to emerge from his bedroom for his usual morning T.V. news shows and some instant coffee.

Once I was outside and on my way, it was only 7:40 a.m. at most (and likely earlier). Even with my crippled right knee, I was to the Cedar Hills shopping plaza well before 8 a.m. and thus I had to idle away some minutes before the store opened ─ it may have only been 7:50 a.m. once I was in the area.

But I got the shopping done and was back home by possibly as early as 8:30 a.m., discovering that my brother had not risen after all. In fact, he had still not emerged from his bedroom by 9 a.m., so I hobbled downstairs and took control of the T.V.

It was maybe 9:10 a.m. when he finally came forth.

By then I had our R69 Plus Android 14 TV Box all set to play a 16½-minute (16:52) video uploaded earlier today to YouTube's Moose on the Loose channel: WHOA! Canadians Sent 200k Angry Letters — Carney’s Senate Planned to Destroy Them.

The next video I selected well exceeded an hour (1:09:07), and had been published two days ago to Rumble's The HighWire with Del Bigtree channel: THE ITALIAN LIE: DOCTORS REVEAL WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN ITALY.

While touring Italy for “An Inconvenient Study”, Del sat down with Italian doctors, scientists, and journalists who were on the front lines when Italy became the image that terrorized the world into lockdown, and what they saw tells a very different story than the one broadcast globally. From manipulated death counts and suppressed treatments to vaccine injuries the government refused to acknowledge, these insiders paint a picture of a coordinated response that had nothing to do with saving lives. Their testimony raises a question that Del says he can no longer dismiss: was the pandemic not a crisis that was managed, but one that was scripted?

We may not even have gotten 10 minutes into it before my brother was complaining that it was "old news" ─ one of his excuses when a video bores him. Apparently he already knows everything there is to the Italy story.

Without arguing I backed out of the video and instead tuned in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ─ episode 12 ("The Sign") of season six. The episode was good enough, but I could do without the occultish element ─ the red-headed Izel posturing and singsong chanting like some storybook witch summoning the 'Dark Lord', or at least his powers. And did Sarge really kill off May?

Following Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., I resorted to videos I had previously downloaded onto a USB drive and had inserted in our T95Q Android 9 TV Box. First off was The Adventures of Robin Hood. As for the episode, it was from the first season or series.

Wikipedia explains why the chronological disparity ─ research it for yourself ─ but Wikipedia lists the episode as being the 22nd, whereas my source at RerunCentury.com here has it as the 19th ─ specifically, the episode titled "The Sheriff's Boots". One chronology is England's, while the other may be the release timing in the U.S. Anyway, many of the available series episodes are at RerunCentury.com.

We finished up with the last 38 or so minutes of Red Cap's movie-long 2001 pilot episode that we had broken from yesterday morning. Unfortunately I have no idea where the feature can be watched online. And my download source was somewhat involved due to the steps required, but ultimately I acquired that pilot as well as all of the episodes at Kprotector.com.

After the show was finished, my brother returned to his bedroom for further bed rest, for before mid-afternoon he would be leaving afoot for a bus to carry him off to social drink.

I had my nap, but is is possible I was not in bed a full hour.

I got in my second afternoon sunning session this year, and this time it shows a little more obviously than was the case last Thursday afternoon. I put in an hour and 37 minutes this time ─ 10 more minutes than on Thursday. So, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:07 p.m.

Prior to starting the session, however, I had my morning's skipped 15-minute tool shed exercise session. I was wearing gym shorts and a tank top, and managed to open with a set of three pull-ups, and then two more in the second set. However, I only managed a single repetition in each of the two sets of chin-ups that followed, and then the two sets of pull-ups between the two sides of the metal ladder from an old child's slide.

This ladder and its sides are all I have available for these exercises ─ it is stretched high across some rafters.

I also got my squat work out of the way. My quadriceps are rather muscling up and getting stronger, but with my knee cap (patella) no longer situated where it should be ─ and with possible lower quadriceps damage as well ─ I wonder if I shall ever have anything like normalcy where use of my leg is concerned.

Anyway, I watered the back yard garden plants once my sunning was done.

Back in the house I came upstairs and quite smartly engaged an abbreviated light exercise session in my wife's vacant bedroom. She had a full workday scheduled today at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time.

I do not recall hearing her arriving home last night after I had gone to bed, but at some point she quietly came into my bedroom to fetch the open four-litre box of Domaine d'Or red wine (12% alcohol), so I hope she didn't overdo things. She usually emerges from her bedroom on full workdays around 9:35 - 9:40 a.m., but this morning she did not go so until maybe 9:50 a.m.

A fast shower, and she was away on her fairly long drive before 10:10 a.m.

I have had my day's second and final meal, so I am taking my blogging break now to watch the first of whatever three T.V. series are on my list's rotation ─ and I will be enjoying a dozen ounces of that wine with the first show. Already it is 6:11 p.m.

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Using my bedside computer in lieu of access to a T.V., I tuned in Justified ─ episode one ("A Murder of Crowes") of season five. My source was at PlayMoGo.com.

Back when the series was in vogue, I watched a number of episodes, so I am not interested in re-watching any by trying the series out again. What does interest me is that gorgeous and hot (to me) Alicia Witt had a recurring role in season five, and I doubt I ever saw any of those episodes. So this was her debut episode in the series. I will continue to watch only the episodes in which she appeared.

This episode was over by 7:12 p.m.

My second show was accompanied by a can of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol). The show was Smash ─ episode 12 ("Publicity") of season one. My source was at GOOJARA.to.

I enjoy the series in pedestrian fashion. I loved Marilyn Monroe for a full two years when I was a very young man, after all. But this episode had absolutely no musical numbers that meant a thing to me.

It fell second to Justified, and I am not even following that series.

Fairly early into the episode I heard my brother coughing downstairs, so I figured him to be newly home and making Bev's empty latter day complete following his departure to go drinking elsewhere.

Smash was done by 8:24 p.m.

My third and final can of beer was devoted to Profiler ─ episode 11 ("Doppelganger") of season one. My source was at Goojara-official.co.za.

The video quality was very inferior, and there was German or Dutch or some Scandinavian subtitling throughout ─ and I tried over a half dozen other sources. Hell, maybe even more than 10 ─ yet they all bore the same subtitles and were pretty much as blurry. There is only one remaining source of this episode since it first aired in January 1997?

Fortunately I was able to sufficiently lose myself into the story.

Overall this evening I will give Justified top billing, Profiler second, and Smash third place.

Profiler was over by 9:38 p.m.

I am going to stop blogging for today and publish this. Then I shall brush my teeth, and get to work finishing up whatever else I must on this computer before going to bed. I have no pressing plans for tomorrow morning.

It is presently 10:13 p.m.