I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice for the third day of four.
I weighed 85.2 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I tried various manipulations of my audio interface to see if that's what is causing the continuous extreme reverb in my Ableton recordings. None of those worked. I looked at a complicated tutorial but there was more talk of clicking to reduce buffer size in Options - Properties but for some reason I can't change the buffer size and there is no arrow down from the buffer size window. Last year I recorded in Ableton without reverb and so obviously did something to change it but I don't know what.
I weighed 84.6 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and on the way back I stopped at Freshco where I bought five bags of cherries, a pack of strawberries, a pack of blueberries, a pack of blackberries, a salmon fillet, three bags of skim milk, a bag of kettle chips, and a pack of full city dark coffee.
I got a confirmation from Cole Webber from Parkdale Legal Services that he can come at 13:00 on Sunday August 13 to talk about tenants organizing. My upstairs neighbour Shawn says he'll come but I'm still waiting for a confirmation from David.
I weighed 84.1 kilos at 17:30, which is the lightest I've been in the evening in twenty seven days.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:24.
I continued to try to figure out to get rid of the reverb that's plaguing my recordings in Ableton. I looked at a few videos but they don't really deal with the problem. I finally decided to try Audacity. I recorded successfully in Audacity last year before I switched to Ableton but never in stereo because I was only using the microphone. When I tried part of a song it recorded in mono but when I tried to switch to stereo I got an error message. But there was a link in the error message that helped me change settings to arrive at recording without the error message and after several changes it worked but it still wouldn't record in stereo. It was set for stereo but only one track was recording. Finally I followed a tutorial for getting Audacity to work in stereo and I seem to have gotten the settings right, and with no reverb. I'll try to record the audio of Friday's song practice and if it works out I'll set up the camera again and maybe restart recording video on Saturday. I might be able to salvage recording in the summer light long enough to get some videos as good or better of my songs as the ones I recorded with the faulty audio so I can synch them with the better audio and upload them to YouTube.
I had a potato with gravy and my last two chicken drumsticks while watching season 4, episodes 10 and 11 of Petticoat Junction.
In the first story Walter O'Connor, an old boyfriend of Kate who is now a successful baseball team owner or manager is coming to stay at the Shady Rest while he is fishing at Lost Lake. But he's really there to pursue Kate. Suddenly and oddly, Sam Drucker is stricken with jealousy even though he's seen others court Kate. But now he makes his feelings known to her. Kate doesn't know how to deal with it. Kate and Walter go fishing and the fish are not biting until Kate puts salami and cheese on a hook. Later Walter tries to convince Kate of the merits of city life. We don't hear Walter propose but we hear that he did propose and that Kate turned him down. Then Sam approaches Kate and before he can ask she says no. Sam is relieved and they are pals again.
Walter was played by Dennis O'Keefe, who started performing on Vaudeville as a small child with his parents' act "Flanagan and Edwards: the Rollicking Twosome". He continued the act after his father died. He appeared as an extra in many films before Clark Gable noticed him while shooting "Saratoga" and brought him to the attention of MGM. He costarred in "The Bad Man of Brimstone", "The Story of Dr. Wassell", and "Burn em Up O'Connor". After his contract expired he freelanced and starred in "The Leopard Man", "Raw Deal", and "T-Men". The latter was so successful that it became a radio series, also starring O'Keefe. He starred in the radio serial "Hollywood Mystery Time". He starred in the fourth film adaptation of the novel "Brewster's Millions" in 1945, in "Getting Gertie's Garter", and "The Lady Wants Mink". He co-wrote, co-directed, and co-starred in "Angela". He starred on television in the short-lived "The Dennis O'Keefe Show".
In the second story we see the return of Dr. Don Bailey who last season opened an office at the Shady Rest but we didn't hear from him again until now. There is a dance coming up and both Billie Joe and Bobbie Joe are turning down dates because they are sure that Steve and Don will be asking them to the dance. Betty Joe feels left out and when Ebb comes to ask Billie Joe to the dance, gets turned down, then asks Bobbie Joe and also gets the brush off, then tries to find Betty Joe as his third choice, Betty Joe has had enough of hand me downs and she decides to run away. She goes to Sam Drucker and asks him for a job. She plans on moving into a rooming house in Hooterville. She says she can deliver groceries for Sam but he says he stopped making deliveries when his old truck broke down. She asks him to make a deal that if she can fix the truck he will give her the job. He thinks it's impossible to repair and so he agrees. Kate finds out what Betty is doing around the time she gets the truck started and she agrees to let her follow her choice to the end. Meanwhile Ebb runs into Steve and Don and tells them that Billie and Bobbie told him they already have dates to the dance. Steve and Don decide to go fishing instead but stop by Sam's store and learn that Betty Joe doesn't have a date. Billie and Bobbie finally settle for Ebb and they both ask him to escort them to the dance. Betty Joe arrives at the dance with Steve and Don on either arm. She tries to dance with each of them but is moving awkwardly. Finally she passes Steve over to Billie and Don to Bobbie, tand hen goes to do a show stopping jitterbug with Ebb.
Tom Lester, who plays Ebb has a similar wild dance style that Jim Nabors had as Gomer Pyle.
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