I memorized the fifth verse of “Ophélie” (Ophelia) by Serge Gainsbourg. There’s just one verse left to nail down.
I think that maybe when the landlord renovated the apartment upstairs he plugged up the heating pipes.
I weighed 85.35 kilos before breakfast. When I stepped on the scale I guessed that was what it was going to be.
I’ve been finding the cool mist humidifier uncomfortable and it’s forced me to sit around in a sweater even when the heat was on. I decided to look for a warm mist humidifier and so I looked up when Canadian Tire would be closed today. It turns out there is now a Canadian Tire in my neighbourhood at King and Joe Shuster Way on the edge of Uppity Village so I headed down there. When I found the humidifiers I saw a couple looking at the cool mist kind and I warned them against it. They appreciated my review. I had a choice between the Honeywell and the Noma brand and since Honeywell rudely listed its capacity in gallons I chose the Noma. I set it up and so far it’s quieter and more comfortable. It has more controls and digital readings so I know what it’s doing. The cool mist kind might be better for dry days in the summer.
I weighed 84.4 kilos before lunch, which is the lightest I’ve been in the early afternoon since October 16. I had Breton crackers with cream cheese and a glass of low sugar iced tea.
I weighed 84.5 kilos at 18:00.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:20.
I worked in Paint with rainbow images to start another rainbow wave to add to the video I’m creating for the studio recording of my song “Seven Shades of Blues”. The second rainbow wave will go with part 2 of the instrumental intro and it will look more like a section of a ripple wave. I flipped a rainbow image 90 degrees and connected one end to the end of the previous rainbow wave. I then flipped another rainbow image to place after it but I need to adjust the tilt so it matches the first one. The plan now is to flip other rainbows in the same way and to place them on the timeline.
I reviewed the video of my song practice performance of “Like a Boomerang” on September 18. The take at 12:00 sounded horrible because of the low action of the Gibson.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with Basilica sauce, a sliced hot Italian sausage and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 2, episodes 21 and 22 of Branded.
In the first story McCord arrives in a town where a hanging is about to take place. The atmosphere is disturbingly festive and tables are set up to serve beer while the crowd is enjoying the show. The man who will be hung is Frank Allison who is an old friend of McCord’s and who saved his life during the Civil War. Also there is Nan Richards, another old friend, who runs a newspaper and is there to report on the event. A young man arrives who is very upset at what he sees and begins knocking over the tables. The deputy stops him and begins beating him up but McCord intervenes. The young man is Lon Allison, the condemned man’s son. He and his father were close until his mother died and then Frank started drinking. Lon looked too much like his mother and Frank didn’t want to be reminded of her. When the war started Lon was placed in an orphanage and they haven’t seen each other since. McCord takes Lon to the jail to see his father but Frank doesn’t want him there. Frank is brought out to the scaffold and the noose is placed around his neck. Lon comes out onto an overlooking balcony with a gun to Nan’s head and demands they bring three horses and let his father go. Frank is glad of this but McCord convinces him that his son will hang for this and so Frank tells Lon not to make the mistakes he made. He also tells him he loves him. Then Frank uses his foot to open the trap door and die. Lon gets a job as an apprentice for Nan in her newspaper.
Lon was played by Beau Bridges, the son of famed actor Lloyd Bridges and older brother of Jeff Bridges. His film debut was at the age of 7 in Force of Evil. His TV debut was on The Lloyd Bridges Show. Beau was a star basketball player in college. He’s the only actor to have won the Emmy for best supporting actor in a mini series twice. He co-starred in The Other Side of the Mountain, Greased Lightning, Heart Like a Wheel, The Hotel New Hampshire, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Norma Rae, The Fifth Musketeer, Village of the Giants, The Wizard, and Columbus Circle. He starred in The Landlord, Shimmering Light, The Wild Pair, Secret Sins of the Father, Married, and Sandkings. He co-starred in the TV series Harts of the West, Maximum Bob, The Agency, and Stargate SG1. He’s had 14 Emmy nominations and three wins.
In the second story McCord is working for a rancher named Roy Beckwith who is fencing his property with barbed wire. But a rancher named Holland Thorpe believes in free range cattle and is violently opposed to the fencing of the range. He has his men attack McCord when he is seen loading barbed wire onto a wagon. Later McCord tries to convince Thorpe that barbed wire is the future of the west. It allows ranchers to import new breeds and to keep them separate. While McCord and Beckwith’s men are installing the fencing, Thorpe’s men fire shots as a warning. McCord goes to Thorpe and tries to reason with him but Thorpe sends him away wrapped in barbed wire. Thorpe plans to drive his herd through the new fence. Beckwith’s daughter grabs some wire cutters to open the fence but she is in danger of being trampled in the stampede. Beckwith tries to save her but gets caught in barbed wire. McCord saves them both and the cattle run through. Everybody walks away from Thorpe who has learned nothing from the incident and is presented as a lonely dinosaur.
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