On Thursday morning I worked out the chords for the fourth and fifth verses of “Mon Légionnaire” by Raymond Asso. There are only two verses left and so I should have it done on Friday.
I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the last of four sessions.
I weighed 86.4 kilos before breakfast.
I worked on the Critical Summary that is due on March 15.
I weighed 86.8 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and stopped at Freshco on my way back. I bought five bags of grapes, three packs of raspberries, some bananas, some vine tomatoes, two bags of avocadoes, an English cucumber, three white guava, and two jugs of Garden Cocktail.
I weighed 85.9 kilos at 18:00.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:15.
I worked on my Critical Summary.
I had a tomato, avocado, cucumber, scallion, and lemon juice salad with a glass of Garden Cocktail while watching season 2, episode 19 of Burke’s Law.
A woman named Rosie Sunset who sells maps of the stars by the roadside in Beverly Hills is found dead in her golf cart on the corner. George at the lab says it’s poison but they’re still trying to find out what kind. Few people knew her but everybody saw her and there were rumours that she was secretly rich. She recorded the license numbers of the cars that stopped. There is also a notebook with a phone number and the name “Waldo”. Waldo runs a high end artificial flower shop. He lights Burke’s cigarette and then keeps the burnt match in the book. At first he denies knowing anyone by that name but when Burke says she’s been murdered he faints. When he recovers he discretely admits that Rosie was his stepmother. He begged to put her in an apartment but she refused. She hated artificiality. Burke gets Rosie’s address from Waldo. In the middle of the room is a large abstract metal sculpture. Suddenly a neighbour with a Russian accent comes in and threatens them with a blowtorch because he thinks they are burglars until Burke shows his badge. He says his name is Leonid Borodny. Then he sees the sculpture, says he made it, and is shocked to find it there. Burke goes to Leonid’s apartment where there are other metal sculptures and also his beautiful sister Vanya who only knows two words “hello” and “yes”. Using only those words she immediately comes on to Burke. Leonid says Rosie never let anyone in her room and today was the first time he was there. Three years ago he was ready to give up art when a stranger showed up at his door and bought “Song of the Freeway”. Back in Rosie’s room Tim gets slugged from behind and immediately gets up right away but the attacker is gone. Burke doesn’t think that Rosie had money but he thinks somebody thought she did. One of the license plates has a Beverly Hills address thirty meters from where Rosie died. Her name is Cleo Delaney. Burke finds her practicing flamenco dancing. She was friends with Rosie. Another thing found at Rosie’s is a place marker from a German restaurant. The waiter says she was a fan of the accordion player Maximilian. Tim goes to see him and he tells him that Rosie was his good luck charm. Last year he was very sick with double pneumonia and hospitalized. He was worried about the bill but then discovered that all his bills had been paid anonymously in cash. He began to suspect Rosie and went to ask her when was in the hospital but she just laughed. They learn that Rosie had one other a man named Arthur Poindexter visit her. Burke goes to see Poindexter in his print shop. He says she was Joan of Arc in sneakers. She used to live upstairs and he’d stop by on his way to work. George at the lab finds that Rosie was killed by a miracle drug to which she was one of the few that had a negative reaction. The drug was celaphrane but I think this was made for the show. She should have been wearing a medical tag saying she was allergic to the drug. Les says she was issued a tag. Tim does a bank check on Rosie and there’s no indication she had much money. Burke concludes that the only people that could have known about her medical condition are Maximilian and Arthur and so one of them has to be the murderer. They find Maximilian has phoned in sick at work but also moved out of his apartment. Burke has the musicians union called to get out the word that Maximilian has been replaced. Next we see Burke in disguise as an accordion player at the same restaurant. He doesn’t really play the accordion but then neither did Maximilian. This draws Maximilian out and he is caught. He admits that he thought Rosie must have money and he was trying to figure how to get it. He followed her one day and a woman in a big car drove her to a cemetery where she laid a rose on a grave. The caretaker told him she hadn’t missed a day in six years. The person in the grave was Rosie’s husband Martin Fleischacker. They learn Martin was a master engraver but the treasury department suspected him of counterfeiting. Burke learns it was Cleo who drove Rosie to the cemetery. Burke finds Waldo’s book of matches in Cleo’s place and confronts hr about it. She admits she’s broke. She borrowed money from Waldo and in exchange she made friends with Rosie. Burke goes back to Waldo and he admits that his business had overextended and he needed money. He mentioned it to Rosie and soon received a package of $5000 in $10 bills. He knew it was counterfeit but his father was a genius and not one bill was ever questioned. He realized that his father had left Rosie a plate for printing $10s. He wanted to get the plate to destroy it. Burke goes back to Rosie’s room and finds Leonid there. He searches him and finds Rosie’s medical bracelet. He said he found it in a trash barrel behind the building. Burke goes to see Arthur and shows him the bracelet. He runs for a gun in a drawer but Burke stops him. Arthur says he caught Rosie in his print shop making the $10s. Burke finds the plate in a compartment welded to the bottom of Rosie’s lunchbox. Arthur is booked for murder.
Waldo was played by Dennis Day, who got his first big break on Jack Benny’s radio show in 1939 as his comic sidekick and singer. He worked for him until Benny died in 1974. He was discovered by Benny’s wife Mary Livingston who heard a recording Day had made of the song “I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak”. She was so impressed that she told Benny that Day should be on his show. He got his own radio show A Day in the Life of Dennis Day in 1946 but he stuck with Benny and became well known when Benny’s show switched to TV. He was called the United States of America’s favourite Irish tenor. He had his own TV series, The Dennis Day Show in 1952. In films he co-starred in Sleepy Lagoon, Music in Manhattan, Golden Girl, The Girl Next Door, and Melody Time. He starred in the animated Johnny Appleseed. He was known for singing Irish tunes such as “Clancy Lowered the Boom”. He had ten children.
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