Complications

By the time my 6 a.m. alarm chimed, I was almost eager to get up, for I had been struggling a lot to keep finding brief bouts of sleep in my latter night. And again, I never heard my wife come home last night that I can recall.

She had today off work, so I felt somewhat restrained insofar as sunning, but I will get into that shortly.

Around 7:48 a.m. I prefaced my visit to the backyard tool shed with the usual 10 slow full-range push-ups in the kitchen area, then I went outside. The half dozen sets of pull-ups and chin-ups were fairly usual. I opened with two pull-ups in the first set, then one in the second set; but I managed two repetitions as well in the first set of chin-ups, lapsing to just one in the second set. And I only had a single pull-up in both sets performed between the two sides of the child's metal ladder once attached to a slide ─ the ladder is stretched across roof rafters and is my only tool for pull-ups and chin-ups.

Due to the thickness of the sides, I cannot properly grip them ─ mostly my hands are cupped over them, and I try to touch a finger to my thumb with each hand to mimic actually gripping. However, there is great strain on the thumb-side of my wrists due to the awkward placement of my hands once they are supporting my weight.

Anyway, I held the dead hang of the final pull-up between the bars for a 45-count.

Then I dealt with the squat work to strengthen my crippled right knee and quadriceps.

Back in the house I got together my day's first meal, then brought that upstairs here to my bedside computer to eat. My younger brother emerged from his bedroom while I was having that meal.

I didn't join him for our morning T.V. together until a little past 9 a.m.; and it was nearing 9:15 a.m. when he invited me to take over with our Android TV Box ─ but he warned that he would not be home for much longer because he had made plans to go and visit his daughter and year-old grandson over in Washington State.

So I tuned in a 48-minute (48:28) video streamed yesterday to YouTube's AnitaK channel: CBC Loses Hockey Night in Canada + No Social for Kids! 

CBC Loses Hockey Night in Canada + No Social for Kids!. Plus White House Freedom 250 and JD on the View.

My brother maybe watched the first half of the video, then returned to his bedroom to ready himself. There was not much of the video remaining when he came back downstairs to leave, and I was left to watch the remnant by myself.

I watched nothing else. It was not much past 11:30 a.m. when I got back to bed for my needed nap, though I had a little difficulty relaxing enough for sleep, and I was rising anew just shy of 1 p.m.

My wife was up by then and busy in the kitchen.

Had this been a full workday for her, I could have begun sunning very early, but my brother was not yet back either, so that also hampered me. I finally just wrote off both the sunning as well as any afternoon exercising in my wife's bedroom ─ the only place in the house where I can exercise in private provided she is not here.

She did go off to do some grocery shopping a little past 3 p.m., but of course I need to know that she is going to be fully absent.

My brother returned in the early afternoon, having had a successful border crossing in both directions; and then a little past 2 p.m. he left on foot to catch a bus so he could go social drinking.

Right now it is 3:35 p.m. and I am still awaiting my wife's return from T&T Supermarket. I won't take my blogging break to do some drinking and watch whatever three T.V. shows are next on my list until after she takes her leave of us very late in the afternoon or early evening, for her routine on Wednesdays is to disappear until sometime on Friday (she has Thursdays off work as well).

So I break now just to await her return and subsequent departure, at which point I will quickly update this post and then get into my entertainment.

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Well, my wife got back at 4:25 p.m. from her shopping outing. And a little less than an hour later, she was gone ─ without a word to me.

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Feeling my social isolation, I tuned in the premiere episode of a T.V. series I was almost certain I had begun watching pre-COVID, but nothing about the episode was familiar ─ if I did see it before, I must have been quite drunk.

I am referring to Cloak & Dagger ─ season one's opening episode "First Light". My source was at GOOJARA.to.

This was certainly an interesting episode; and the young actress (Rachel Ryals) portraying the female lead character's childhood self was so darned cute!

The close of the episode struck home how lonely and alone I am, even if I don't always feel myself to be. I had watched the show with about a dozen ounces of Domaine d'Or red wine (12% alcohol) in a glass tumbler, and the show and wine were done by 6:35 p.m.

Next up was Superman & Lois ─ episode 11 ("Complications") of season three. Again, my source was at GOOJARA.to.

The latter part of this episode had me pretty much weeping and rebuking God for just watching me waste away to nothing when I am so confident I could transcend imagining if only I had the financial boost to yield me independence of family, government, and the Globalist / Elites / Cabal running this, Satan's world.

I drank a can of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol) during the episode, and both were done by 7:56 p.m. There is no question that Superman & Lois will be topping the charts for me this evening. Cloak & Dagger is some distance back in second place.

Rather than move on immediately into my final show and can of beer, I opted to spend the 15 or so minutes brushing my teeth so I would not need to have that ahead.

That third show was The Expanse ─ episode 11 ("Here There Be Dragons") of season two. And for the third time this evening, my flawless source proved to be at GOOJARA.to.

I will rate this episode ahead of Cloak & Dagger, so Superman & Lois remained well triumphant. The episode was done by 9:26 p.m.

I confess to being eager for more drink and entertainment.

Fortunately I amused myself with 1960s YouTube music videos until a slightly saner mind prevailed. But right now it is 11:10 p.m., and I must commence shutting down a lot of open browser tabs and software and get myself to bed.

Oddly, my brother has yet to return home.