Fortune Teller 500

            On Thursday morning I finished working out the chords for “Eva" by Serge Gainsbourg and started posting it on Christian’s translations.

            I did some more research into the British monarchy. Particularly on how it’s going to be hard for Charles to shut up about environmental issues once he is the king.

            I rode to Freshco where their grapes haven’t been firm enough to purchase for a month. I bought another five bags of cherries. I got two pints of strawberries, a block of five year old cheddar, a five kilo bag of potatoes, some pastrami, a two litre carton of skim milk, a strawberry-rhubarb pie, a bag of oven fries and a pack of paper towels.

            I had a pork rib and some fries for lunch.

            In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. This story begins with Sapphire leaving Kingfish to live with her mother because he’s a bum who’s never provided for her. In a desperate effort to win her back he gets a job as a deliveryman for a department store. He sends her a message that he has a surprise for her but doesn't tell her that the surprise is the fact that he is now employed. After work he has one package left over because the customer had not been at home and so he puts it in his closet with plans to deliver it the next morning. He goes out for dinner with Andy but while he is gone Sapphire comes home and discovers the package. Thinking that it’s the surprise Kingfish had mentioned she opens it and is thrilled to find that it’s a $500 beaver coat. Kingfish doesn’t have the nerve to tell her that the coat is not hers and so he tries to convince the department store that he was robbed of it while making deliveries. The manager almost believes it but then learns that Kingfish’s wife has brought a beaver coat into the store for alterations. Kingfish will go to jail if they don’t get the coat back. Kingfish gets his friends to arrange for a fake robbery of the coat but they don’t coordinate their plans and so three fake robberies are plotted. In the first one the beaver coat is taken and Kingfish is whacked on the head. A minute later another robber arrives to take Sapphire’s old coat and Kingfish is again clobbered. Seconds later a third thief arrives, takes Sapphire’s mother’s coat and also hits Kingfish. The next day Kingfish delivers the beaver coat to the real owner. She wants to try it on but when Kingfish is helping her Sapphire shows up, says she’s been following him, and seeing that her coat has been given to another woman she leaves him again.

            I did a bit of writing on my reflection paper:

The Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs have a lot in common with Canada's hereditary chief. They are “caretakers of the people and the culture” while she similarly “gives a sense of stability and continuity by acting as a focus for national identity, unity and pride.” (Royal) Traditional leadership for the Wet’suwet’en hereditary leaders is more about responsibility than authority. This responsibility is paralleled by Canada’s hereditary leader, who has no executive role but plays an important part in the life of the nation by undertaking duties that have developed over a thousand years.

But then I got distracted by research into whether or not Queen Elizabeth is indigenous to England. Since she descends from the House of Wessex most of her ancestry would predate the Norman Conquest and so she's mostly Anglo-Saxon. If you think of the Celts as being indigenous to England she does have some Celtic ancestry. But the Celts weren’t even in England yet when Stonehenge was built.

            I made gravy from some beef drippings I’d been saving but I used too much flour and it became too thick. I boiled a potato and had the last of the pork ribs while watching Zorro.

            In this story Don Sebastian, a business associate of Don Alejandro is waiting to catch transportation out of Los Angeles with a large sum of money. The wagon that had been scheduled for his journey has a broken wheel but it will take five hours for repairs. Sebastian does not want to wait in the tavern and so he entrusts the 1500 pesos to Sgt Garcia so he can go back to Alejandro’s house and sleep. Garcia is nervous about the responsibility and Diego decides to stay in town to keep watch on Garcia as he guards the money. The dancer and fortuneteller Lupita plots to get the money with the help of her musician henchmen Gustavo and Hernando. She buys Garcia wine and then tells his fortune. She tells him that the person that he least suspects may kill him that night. Garcia begins to distrust everyone. He sends all the other soldiers away and locks Diego and Bernardo out of the fort. This allows Lupita and her men to easily overwhelm Garcia and take the money. They have just locked Garcia in a cell when Zorro arrives to defeat the thieves and retrieve the money.