I weighed 85.1 kilos before breakfast.
Just before noon I headed for Danforth and Woodbine to take my guitar to The 12th Fret to see if they could lower the action. As usual I stopped around Logan to pee into the Second Cup. At the 12th Fret Brian right away set about to lower the action. Last time I'd been told they have an employee named Sean who cycles into work every day from Parkdale. When I heard a guy with an Irish accent I asked him if he was the Parkdalian and he confirmed he was. I told him that if I worked there I'd probably take the bike path to Woodbine but we both agreed it's more interesting to ride on the street. He lives on Dowling near King Street. I went to talk with Brian while he was working on my guitar. He said it could go down on the low E string but I said I also find it hard to play when I'm pressing an A minor chord, which doesn't involve the low E. I was surprised that he lowered the action by filing the nut instead of adjusting the neck. He said adjusting the neck is also one of the ways and he did that as well. He lowered the action where he thought it was safe to do so because if it's too low there will be buzzing. I tried it out but couldn't tell from playing there in the shop. It takes a lot of playing for me to notice anything. He said that very slight adjustments make a big difference on a guitar. He was pretty friendly this time and took the time to try to show me what he'd done. I appreciated his help.
When I got to Yonge I went down to King and rode west to Perfect Leather. When I walked in with my guitar the woman I'd spoken with the day before about the guitar strap immediately figured that I was the person she'd talked with. There are two middle aged people who seem to be in charge there and one older woman who seems to do more of the craft work. The man and the older woman were immediately tackling my problem even though I had yet to decide if I wanted them to be the ones to make me the strap. They were already selecting leather and figuring out how they were going to do it. They needed thinner leather to sew into a shell with foam inside for the shoulder pad. I had planned on checking out five other places but I had a sense early on that these were the people that were going to make my guitar strap. They spoke to each other in a language that I couldn't exactly place but thought that it might be Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese but it turns out that it's Greek. The woman I'd spoken with earlier went to dig around in the back and found a fancy set of buckle, tip and loop to go on. They wanted me to leave the old strap with them so they could make a pattern but I said I needed it and so the old lady made measurements. I was told it would cost $175 if I paid cash and so I went out to get some so I wouldn't make the same mistake I made at Metro Cycles the day before and wind up paying over $20 more in tax. I first rode to Spadina and north because there used to be a Bank of Montreal machine at Richmond but there isn't any more. I had to go all the way to Queen and then west to Portland to the BMO machine. Then I went down Portland and realized that I could have just gone up Portland in the first place because Perfect Leather is almost right at the corner of King and Portland. After I paid I was told that it would be ready tomorrow afternoon and I was impressed. The lady in charge told me her late father started the business fifty five years ago and they've been in the same location the whole time. She was proud to say they'd never bounced a cheque. She said that they made the leather clothes for Gord Downey's last concert. I guess I'll know for sure tomorrow if I made the right decision to not shop around and to pick Perfect Leather.
I went up to Queen just a block west of Spadina to buy a dozen sesame seed Montreal style bagels from Bagels On Fire.
I weighed 84.1 kilos at 15:45. For lunch I had one of the bagels with hummus and a glass of limeade before taking a late siesta.
I weighed 85.1 kilos at 18:16.
I was caught up on my journal at 20:11.
Yesterday in Movie Maker I made a separate project from my June 19 Song Practice project to isolate the song "Baby Pop". But "Baby Pop" is in part B when I had to switch the camera back on after it timed out. The Audacity audio recording kept on going while I was getting ready to restart the camera, and so the video is a minute or so behind. Before dinner I shaved some of it off so I could re-synchronize it. I should have saved the new project as June 19 Part B and then made a "Baby Pop" project later, but it doesn't really matter. I'll just save it as part B before I isolate "Baby Pop".
I made pizza on Greek flat bread with Basilica sauce and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 9, episodes 4 and 5 of The Beverly Hillbillies.
In the first story one of the bank secretaries, Darlene Mattingly, excitedly comes in to Jane Hathaway's office and announces that there's a handsome Navy officer there to see her. The man is identical to Matthew Templeton, who everyone thought was going to marry Elly May until they learned he was already married and that when he said he would marry Elly, he meant in his capacity as a pastor. But this doppelganger turns out to be Matthew's brother Mark and he's looking to meet Elly. Jane escorts him to the Clampett mansion where he sits in the parlour with Elly. He tells her about his work as a Navy Frogman and how he's working on a project to learn to communicate with dolphins and whales. When Elly tells Granny that he communicates with dolphins and can stay underwater for more than an hour she is alarmed because she thinks Mark can't be human. Granny asks Mark if it isn't hard to stay under water that long and he says, "Not for me. I'm a Naval frogman". She thinks he means he's a navel frogman and that he's a frog from the navel down. Mark shows Elly his equipment and says he'll demonstrate in the pool how he uses it. He dresses in his wetsuit pants and flippers but when Granny sneaks a look she thinks her fears are confirmed and that the flippers are Mark's feet.
In the second story Elly has started dating Mark Templeton but Granny still thinks he's a frog from the navel down. She goes to Jane and tells her that she's been having nightmares about Elly marrying a half man half frog. Jane says he sounds like an aquatic centaur. Then she starts telling Granny about the other half human creatures in Greek mythology. She says only Zeus on Mount Olympus could change it. Granny thinks that Zeus is a mountain doctor like her and asks how to get in touch with him. Granny makes a potion to cure Mark and makes him drink it. She doesn't see him toss his hat and coat on a bench outside before leaving to take Elly on a picnic. A frog crawls under Mark's clothes and when Granny finds it she thinks her potion backfired. Granny goes back to Jane and hears about the princess who kissed a frog and turned him human. Granny goes home and tries to get Elly to kiss the frog and says she'll leave her alone while she does it. Mark arrives and Granny peeks in to see him kissing Elly and so she thinks he transformed from a frog.
Darlene Mattingly was played by Sherry E. DeBoer, who was heiress to the Long's Drug Store fortune. She started as a model and did a spread for Teen Magazine which led to getting a guest part in the sitcom "The Good Guys". She appeared on several other TV series and then became a Hee-Haw girl for the 1971 to 1972 season of the country themed comedy show. She also had supporting roles in several B movies, especially horror and sexploitation films. She almost won the part of Bobbie in Carnal Knowledge which ended up going to Ann-Margret. She retired from acting after a third season appearance on Wonder Woman. In 1997 she co-founded the animal rights organization Political Animals.
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