I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the last of two sessions. Tomorrow I’ll begin a four day stretch of playing my Kramer electric guitar.
I weighed 87.1 kilos before breakfast.
Professor Balot provided a link to get me and my fellow speakers Kenzo and Aria of this Friday’s opening dialogue in touch with each other. I wrote an initial message:
Just to start things off and see if this is something you both would be interested in discussing, I've been thinking about the endings of Beowulf and The Mere Wife. We have Ben Wolfe standing on the tracks facing down a speeding train and it seems that the only reason he doesn't simply save himself by jumping off the tracks and into the mere is because he wants to die. That puts the ending of Beowulf into perspective. Here is a king with the command of an army that could have killed the dragon without their ruler losing his life. It is made clear that without Beowulf on the throne the Swedes will invade and yet he seems more concerned with going out with a bang like Ben Wolfe against the train. What do you think?
Kenzo responded later with some detailed thoughts, so the ball is rolling.
I weighed 86.2 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride but it was snowing and so I only went as far as Bloor and Ossington and then headed south to Queen and home. I was wet by the time I got to my place.
I weighed 86.5 kilos at 17:00, which is the most I’ve weighed in the evening in two weeks.
I was caught up on my journal at 17:53.
I responded to Kenzo’s idea that the Geatish woman who sang at Beowulf’s funeral was a peasant. I assume he thought so because noble women tended to be named. But I think she might have been a female skop or singing storyteller. The skop mentioned earlier in the story was not named either.
I read several more pages of The Buried Giant. I have it right now as an eBook since I’m still waiting for my Amazon order to arrive so there are no page numbers, only percentages. I’ve read 25% of the book so far.
Axl and Beatrice have decided to travel to their son’s village even though they barely remember their son. As they are hiking there is a sudden storm and they take shelter in the ruin of an ancient house. There is a tall boatman standing in a corner and an old woman sitting and holding a rabbit. The woman has a knife and she is going to slaughter the rabbit. The boatman says this house is his childhood home and the woman comes there often to slaughter animals and defile the place with blood. The woman says that years ago she was travelling with her husband when they needed to cross to an island. The boatman took her husband across and then returned, telling her she couldn’t go. It sounds like the man is Charon, the boatman who carries people to Hell. Since the house is a Roman ruin it makes sense.
Axl and Beatrice then travel to a Saxon town where there is panic because two ogres have kidnapped a child. A warrior named Wistan kills the ogres and saves the child. They stay at the home of a town leader named Ivor who laments that the people of the town are losing their memory. Axl and Beatrice tell them about the mist that takes away memory. Ivor tells them that people might be forgetting because god is forgetting the pre-Christian ways.
I had a potato with gravy and a chicken leg while watching season 1, episode 9 of Burke’s Law.
Wealthy Wade Walker’s plane explodes in mid air, killing him. Walker’s best friend and partner in the boat business is an attorney named Kelly Rogers. They go to see him. His secretary is played by Nancy Sinatra. Burk finds a big bottle of vitamins. Rogers says the vitamins were Wade’s only concession to clean living. Rogers says there were four women in Walker’s will, Suzanne, Iris, Jerri, and Cathy, each to get $1 million from his passing. He wanted to marry one of them but couldn’t decide. He held a birthday party for himself the night he was killed with the intention of choosing which one. Stacy the secretary typed up Wade’s will and so only she, Rogers and Walker knew about it, but then Stacy says she left her office for two minutes and when she came back there was a cigarette with lipstick on it in the ashtray. They go to see Iris who is a straight laced nurse in a hospital. But after they leave she shows herself to be quite promiscuous with her patients. They go to see Suzanne who is a model and the winner of the Miss International pageant. They go to see Cathy who raises horses. She met Wade when she was hunting and his sports car nearly killed her dog, She shot bird shot at his car and he spanked her. She liked it. They go to see Jerri at the nightclub where she sings. She’s been drinking heavily. She says Rogers was in love with her and that Wade had decided to marry her. Burke goes to arrest Rogers on suspicion of murder because he withheld that information. Also he owns a company that makes hand grenades. But then they learn that the explosive that killed Wade was housed in a shotgun shell. They go back to see Cathy. Burke finds a tobacco pouch in Cathy’s workshop and tells her she’s off the hook. They catch Rogers at the airport and arrest him. Burke presents him with evidence that his prints were on the detonator. Rogers pleads guilty and is taken away. Burke was bluffing because the pictures of fingerprints he showed him were his own. Then the lab technician tells Burke that Walker was dead three hours before the plane crash and so Rogers isn’t guilty of murder even though he did plant the bomb. However Rogers commits suicide before they can get to him. Walker died from an overdose of morphine administered in a vitamin pill. Iris is out because hospitals don’t keep that much morphine but Suzanne used to work in a pharmacy where she had the druggist wrapped around her finger. Burke picks Suzanne up under false pretenses and says he’s taking her to a party, then he takes her to the station and books her. She read Walker’s will and knew she was almost done with being Miss International so she wanted to get the money soon to keep up her new lifestyle. She seems quite happy about getting a mug shot because she’s getting her picture taken.
Cathy was played by Rhonda Fleming, who co-starred in A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Home Before Dark, Pony Express, Slightly Scarlet, While the City Sleeps, The Buster Keaton Story, Abilene Town, Adventure Island, The Great Lover, The Eagle and the Hawk, The Redhead and the Cowboy, Crosswinds, Hong Kong, The Golden Hawk, Tropic Zone, Serpent of the Nile, Inferno, Those Redheads from Seattle, Jivaro, Yankee Pasha, Queen of Babylon, Tennessee’s Partner, The Killer is Loose, Gun Glory, Bullwhip, Alias Jesse James, The Revolt of the Slaves, The Crowded Sky, and The Big Circus. One time a cameraman tried to deliberately take a bad photo of her but was astonished to find that every photo turned out beautiful. The Italian press called her “La bomba rossa” (The Red Bomb). She founded several charities and worked on the boards of several more. She was part of a gospel quartet that included Jane Russell. They put out an album entitled Make a Joyful Noise that sold a million copies. In 1957 she had a successful nightclub act in Las Vegas. In 1958 she recorded her only album, Rhonda. Although she died before the 2020 election she voted for Donald Trump with an absentee ballot.
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