On
Sunday morning I started working out the chords for “Rocking Chair" by
Serge Gainsbourg. There was one set of chords posted online but they are over
simplified and I’m hearing more than they indicate.
I worked on writing my Food Bank
Adventure.
I finished washing my bedroom floor
and only realized then that I’d completed cleaning the floor on the whole west
side of my apartment. Taking into account what I’ve already done on the west
side of the kitchen there is really only about a third of the floor of my whole
apartment left to do. Mind you there will be a lot of work to washing that final
third because it’s very black in sections and there is a lot of furniture to
move in order to get it done. But I won’t be working on the floor for a while
now because there is lots of work to do in organizing the storage shelf in the
bedroom and cleaning and organizing the shelves on the west side of the
kitchen. I don’t think I’ll get back to the floor until school is finished in
April. Maybe it will be finished before summer.
I had a quarter of my homemade pizza
for lunch.
In the afternoon I did some
exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. In this story, while Sapphire is
visiting her mother in New Jersey, Kingfish gets them both evicted in New York.
When Sapphire finds out she leaves him. He starts thinking that might be a good
thing because he’ll be free of all the nagging. He meets a man who wants to
hire a butler and drive out to live in California. Kingfish convinces him to
hire him. He thinks he’ll finally be free but when his boss comes to pick him
up he is told to sit in the back with the housekeeper. The housekeeper is
Sapphire.
For dinner I had another quarter of
my homemade pizza with a beer while watching Zorro.
This story begins with Diego being
grabbed from behind by someone with a knife in an alley. He says he is going to
kill him but then Diego flips him and he sees that his attacker is his old
friend the notorious practical joker Ricardo. As they catch up Ricardo reveals
that he’s met the woman of his dreams and he asks Diego to help him serenade
her. He comes along but when the senorita comes out onto her balcony she turns
out to be Anna Maria Verdugo. Diego and Ricardo become rivals for Anna Maria’s
affections. They all arrange to go riding together the next day but the night
before Garcia comes to arrest Diego because a man calling himself Julius Caesar
has signed a complaint declaring that Diego stole his horse. Diego spends the
night in jail but then Ricardo comes with Anna Maria to tell Garcia that it was
all a joke and Diego is released. They are about to go riding when Ricardo
overhears some men say they are going to rob Garcia and Reyes as they are
transporting the payroll. Ricardo warns Garcia but he takes no heed because he
thinks it is another practical joke. Bernardo has also overheard about the
planned robbery and warns Diego. He tells Anna Maria and Ricardo to start the
ride without him and along the way they find Garcia and Reyes tied to a tree.
Both Ricardo and Zorro go after the thieves, jump them and quickly stop them.
Anna Maria’s horse has run away and she asks Zorro to take her back to the
hacienda. As Zorro and Anna Maria ride away Ricardo smiles and says, “We shall
meet again.” I’m guessing that he might recognize that his friend Diego is
Zorro.
Sergeant Garcia is played by Henry
Calvin, who had a rich baritone singing voice and sometimes sang on Zorro as
well as many of the other Disney shows and movies in which he appeared. He sang
“Never Smile at a Crocodile" in "Babes in Toyland". He did a
skit on the Dick Van Dyke show in which he and Van Dyke impersonated Laurel and
Hardy.
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