It's Sobering to Deplaster a Floor

            On Tuesday morning I posted my translation of and the chords to “Vu de l’extérieur” (From the Outside) by Serge Gainsbourg on my Christian’s Translations blog but since I hadn’t found a video to go with it yet, I didn’t publish it.

            I washed another section of the floor where my bed sits. In terms of dirt there isn’t that much in that area but there was a lot of plaster caked into the floor near the baseboard and I had a hell of a time scraping it off. If getting plastered is being drunk than removing the plaster must make the floor sober.

            I had heated frozen French fries for lunch.

            In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. In this story Andy has met the girl of his dreams in Nancy Simpson and she accepts his proposal of marriage. The problem is that a woman named Hildegard Jackson sends Andy a telegram telling him she’s about to arrive in town. Before meeting Nancy, Andy corresponded with Hildegard and got carried away to the point of proposing. She’s come to accept his proposal. Andy arranges with Kingfish to convince Hildegard that Andy was eaten by a whale. She falls for it but stays in town to be the maid of honour at the wedding of her best friend Nancy. Now Andy and Kingfish plot to have Hildegard arrested for murder. They go to the police and tell them she is a notorious poisoner. On the day of the wedding Nancy is walking down the aisle with Hildegard behind when the police arrive and arrest Nancy.

            I wanted to go and buy fruit and tea at the supermarket but I had to get caught up on my journal.

            I grilled more chicken drumsticks and had two for dinner with a potato and gravy while watching Wanted Dead or Alive.

            In this story Josh is trailing a bounty named Jo Collins. He stops for water at the home of a man named Bannister and shows him the poster. After Josh heads toward the mountains Bannister compares the wanted poster with a picture in his drawer and then he heads for the mountains as well. He gets ahead of Josh because of a shortcut but then has to fix a horseshoe and Josh catches up. Bannister admits that Collins might be his son and he’s come to find out for sure. His son supposedly died in the war but now he thinks he might have survived. They go to an old hunting cabin that Bannister’s son would have known about. They find Collins in bed with a bullet wound and banister says he’s not his son. The bullet is removed and Josh plans to take Collins back the next day but when Josh is out of the cabin Bannister tells his son that he’ll help him escape. He pretends that Apaches clubbed stole all but one of the horses and says he’ll wait there with Collins while Josh goes back to his place for more. Bannister has only hidden the horses and he is helping his son escape when Josh returns having figured out it was a ruse. Bannister pushes Josh and aims his gun but can’t shoot. When Collins says to kill him Bannister knows that his son really is a murderer and says he’s taking him in. Collins runs out and Josh goes after him. Collins grabs a rifle and is about to shoot Josh when Bannister kills his own son.