On Tuesday morning
I broke my E string again, just a day after breaking the B. I’m starting to
think there might be something sharp on the bridge that’s cutting them. If I
break an E or B on Wednesday morning I won’t have a replacement.
I moved several video files to my
external hard drive and freed up twenty gigs on my computer.
In the heat of the late afternoon I
took my bike ride but instead of going through the hell again of taking the
bike unfriendly Don Mills Road from O’Connor I took Pape across the river to
Millwood, turned right on Overlea and took that across to Don Mills Rd. It was
so much easier and less nerve wracking that way. I went north then turned right
on St Dennis, which I followed to where it ends at Eglinton. Instead of going
back the way I came though, I decided to continue east on Eglinton because
there were a couple of streets that I hadn’t explored that run off of
Bermondsey. The first one was Mobile, at the end of which is an $11,000 a year
per student prep school and the second was Old Eglinton Avenue, at the end of
which at least ten garbage trucks were parked. My next ride should get me
finished with the Don Mills and Eglinton area and then I can spend some time
covering all the streets between O’Connor and Victoria Park, up to Eglinton.
After that I can get back to the Danforth east of Woodbine.
On the way home I stopped at Freshco
where I bought bananas and yogourt. I held onto a few dollars just in case I
would need to buy more guitar strings.
I watched the first episode of the
second season of Maverick. It wasn’t a bad story. A thief who stole $40,000
sets up Bret Maverick to take the fall. He’s tried and sentenced to hang but he
still keeps insisting that he doesn’t know where the money is because he’s
innocent. On the morning of Maverick’s execution though the greedy sheriff
proposes to fake his hanging if he’ll lead him to the money. Seeing this as a
way out, Maverick lies that he does know where the money is and agrees to the
sheriff’s plan. After they are well out of town the sheriff lets Maverick out
of the coffin, but he easily steals the sheriff’s horse and escapes.
A few days later a woman claiming to
be Bret Maverick’s widow shows up in town and wants to see her late husband’s
grave. After visiting it she leaves on the next stagecoach.
Hours later Bret Maverick, wearing a
moustache, arrives in town claiming to be Bret Maverick’s brother,
investigating the validity of the testimonies of the three men who had claimed
that they’d seen Bret commit the crime. But when Maverick hears that his
“sister in law” had just been there, he finds out which stage she left on and
rides after it. He intercepts the stage and gets on as a passenger, eventually
seducing his own “widow” whom he’s never seen. She decides to run off with him
but Maverick says that she should make a clean break from her husband. She
insists that she wouldn’t be able to face him but Maverick tells her he will
come to meet him with her. When they arrive at her home though she pulls a gun
because she’s been secretly sure all along that Maverick was a lawman and so
they’ve both been leading each other on: Maverick to find the guy that framed
him and her to bring the cop to her husband. When her husband comes out and
sees him he draws his gun and shouts that she’s brought the man that was
supposed to hang. A gunfight ensues between the two men and the wife could
easily shoot Maverick but can’t do it. Maverick kills the husband, and then
takes the wife back to clear his name.
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