I weighed 88.7 kilos before breakfast. I had a piece of cinnamon-raisin toast and spoon size shredded wheat with strawberries, honey and milk.
In the late morning I tackled scrubbing and scraping the inside of my oven door for a seventh time. This time I got the window three quarters clear. I’ll give it another try on Friday and if it’s not completed then I should have it done on Sunday.
I filled out the Canada Census that I received notice of yesterday. It took me half an hour.
I weighed 88.7 kilos before lunch. That means I worked off my breakfast exactly.
Before taking a bike ride I went over to the liquor store to get my bi-weekly six pack of Creemore. On the way back I saw Dawn from Bike Pirates. Her left arm was in a sling and she explained that her bicycle had thrown and kicked her. She said there was no car involved this time and it was all her own fault. She told me she was healing though.
As I was leaving my place with my bike the tall, friendly Indigenous guy whom I’ve seen around Parkdale for years was standing with his bike outside Popeyes. He saw me come out and asked, “You live there?" I nodded. He asked if I smoked and I said I don’t and then he asked if I could give him $2 for cigarettes. I reached down and dug out a toonie. I told him he was the first person I’d given change to in years and so he should consider it a compliment. He thanked me and went to buy his cigarettes.
I weighed 88 kilos after my bike ride to Yonge and Bloor and back, but before I weigh myself I always make sure the scale is on a part of the floor where my 4.5 kilo dumbbell registers that weight. I noticed however that the dumbbell’s weight registers differently by a tenth of a kilo more or less on different parts of the scale.
I worked on my poem series “My Blood in a Bug".
I edited the snake footage from the National Geographic video down to just nine seconds. But then when I added the snake pit scene from Indiana Jones and cut out all the people I saw that it was darker, more sinister looking and more suitable for the mood I want in my Instructions for Electroshock Therapy video. The Manitoba snakes were all filmed in daylight and it was too bright, so I deleted the whole National Geographic video. I'm left now with about four seconds of lightning and sixteen seconds of snakes. Next I'll experiment with inserting the snakes in between lightning flashes. An added benefit is that the snakes are illuminated by a flickering light that might look in my video like they are being lit by the lightning.
I heard Benji and Shankar talking in the hallway and remembered how Benji had said he had to do his census on paper. I decided to offer him my laptop in case he wanted to do it online. I opened the door and started singing to them, “It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood, it's a beautiful day if a neighbour" then I turned to Benji and asked, "Would you be mine" and then to Shankar, "Could you be mine?" When I asked about his census he said he’d already called them about sending him a paper census so he couldn’t do it online now. Shankar said he saw a ghost go into my place and it was a white lady.
I made two beef burgers and had one for dinner between two halves of a piece of toast with a beer while watching two episodes of Andy Griffith.
The first story followed a similar theme to an episode from a couple of seasons before. Clara convinces Bee that she is holding Andy and Helen back from deciding to get married by having them worried about her being alone. To prevent them from asking her to join them she pretends that she has a boyfriend. When Andy presses for the man’s identity Bee lies that it's her butter and egg man, Orville Hendricks from Mount Pilot. But later Barney finds out that Hendricks is married and so Andy becomes concerned. He goes over to talk with Hendricks and tells him about the rumour. Hendricks assures him there is nothing going on and since he doesn’t want his wife to hear such a rumour he decides to stop delivering to Bee. Andy has a talk with Bee and assures her that she is not a third wheel and that even if he and Helen get married Bee will be living with them. A new butter and egg man comes to the door who is not married.
In the second story a car speeds through Mayberry and so Andy and Barney go after it. But when they pull it over they discover that it’s the Fun Girls, Skippy and Daphne from Mount Pilot and they've deliberately broken the speed limit to get their attention. They are able to get rid of them by taking them to the town line. Andy and Barney have to work late but plan on meeting Helen and Thelma Lou later. But just as they are about to leave to meet their girlfriends the Fun Girls show up with a picnic basket and music. Andy leaves Barney with the Fun Girls and Andy goes to meet Helen and Thelma Lou, telling them that they have to spend the night at the courthouse because state prisoners have been brought in. Meanwhile Skippy and Daphne want to play jail and so Barney locks them up. When Andy comes back the girls want to dance. The guys are trying to resist when Helen and Thelma Lou walk in and see them all together. The girlfriends storm out and finally Andy puts his foot down and tells the Fun Girls they have to leave. After some work Andy almost patches things up with Helen and Barney with Thelma Lou. They invite them for dinner at Andy's place but when they get there Skippy and Daphne are in the house saying that they forgive them and are ready to party. Helen and Thelma Lou leave angry again.
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