I’m working out
the chords of an old song of mine called “Hungry Hippunk Goes to Work”. I used
to do it with my band but I’ve never actually played it myself. I’m also
working out the chords for “Le Petit Commerce” by Boris Vian and on Thursday,
having failed to find the chords online, I started working them out for “Mallow
Mallory” by Serge Gainsbourg, which has kind of klezmer melody.
In the late afternoon, even though
it was mostly grey out, I took my first long bike ride of the year. I set the
timer on my phone for 58.5 minutes to see how far I could get in that time. I
was starting to feel the first tingles of fatigue while climbing Birchmount. At
St Clair I checked my timer and it was five minutes over. I’d thought that I'd
set it to ring once it had counted down but it hadn’t, or if it did it wasn’t
loud enough. Anyway I still wanted to ride to where I’d left off in September.
I turned right on Foxridge and then took an immediate left on Maywood Park and
followed that while exploring the southern streets that run off it. It’s in a
pocket on the west side of Massey Creek and there’s one more street for me to
return to explore the next time I go that far.
On the way back my legs were aching.
I stopped to pee at the Starbucks near Jones. I went down Yong to Queen and
stopped at Freshco on the way home where I bought grapes, raspberries,
blueberries, some cheddar, a pack of chicken drumsticks and a pack of two
steaks.
I got home at exactly 20:00 and I
was exhausted. My legs were sore and my hips ached a bit. I immediately started
heating up a frozen pot roast dinner that I’d gotten from the food bank. It
took and hour for it to be ready. I ate some of the potatoes and half the meat with
some gravy while watching to episodes of Sea Hunt.
In the first story Mike has a new
toy. It’s a water scooter, which at this time was tubular, almost as long as an
adult, with a light on the front, a propeller at the back and handles on the
back for being pulled along and for steering. They make a lot of them much
smaller now and they often look like drones. After driving around underwater
for a while he surfaces and by chance he comes up near a boy named Davy who is
swimming further out than even adults would in this area. He frightens Davy,
who quickly swims to his father Dave, his mother Rena and his sister Karen on
the beach. When Mike gets to shore he approaches the family to apologize for
frightening Davy and also suggests that he might have been swimming too far
out. Dave basically tells Mike to mind his own business and says that his kids
are strong swimmers and he’s been training them since they were one year old.
The kids say, “We’re gonna be in the Olympics!” Mike learns from the local
lifeguard that Dave is a former football star whose career ended with an injury
and so now he lives vicariously through his children and drives them hard to be
athletes. The kids ask if they can go out on the water on their paddleboard and
explore the nearby caves. Rena doesn’t think it’s a good idea but Dave says
they can go. They find a cave and go inside but while they are playing they
lose track of time. The tide begins to come in and washes their paddleboard
away and then it slowly begins to creep into the cave until the children are
trapped. Dave goes looking for them and when Mike learns they are missing he
tries to help but Dave tells him he can find his own kids. He dives for one of
the five caves and Mike follows. Dave is bitten by a moray eel and Mike brings
him to shore. Mike begins looking for the children, who have now climbed to the
highest point in the cave as the water rises. If they are not rescued in time,
at high tide the cave will be completely filled and the children will drown.
The kids are in the last cave that Mike checks. He can only rescue one kid at a
time and so Karen goes first. He teaches her quickly how to use his diving lung
and he holds his breath. By the time Mike gets back to save Davy it is almost
too late, as he has slipped under the water but he saves him.
Davy was played by the star’s son
Jeff Bridges in his first television role.
Rena was played by Dorothy Dean Bridges, Jeff’s real mother and Lloyd’s
wife.
In the second story a Latin American diplomat named Avilar is on a
honeymoon with his new bride on his yacht when they encounter three men in a
life raft far from shore. They rescue them but they turn out to be dangerous
escaped convicts led by a ruthless killer named Costa. Meanwhile Mike is
playing with his new water scooter and with a young woman named Nita. She is
kissing Mike in the water when her father, Interior Minister Giardo arrives on
a big boat. Mike thinks he’s in trouble for making time with Giardo’s daughter
but Giardo actually is there to ask for Mike’s help. He tells him about the
kidnapping of the Avilars and that the convicts are demanding a ransom that
includes money and weapons. He asks Mike to train two commandoes to go on a
rescue mission to free the Avilars. Mike trains them as best as he can in the
short time they have but decides to also be part of the rescue mission. They
use Mike’s scooter to approach the Avilar’s yacht underwater but one of the men
experiences equipment failure so it is up to Mike and one other man. They take
out all the men but Costa. Mike’s partner is wounded in the shoulder. Mike
fistfights with Costa for a while until he knocks him out.
Mrs. Avilar was played by Margarita Cordova, who was also a flamenco
dancer.
Nita was played by Karen Welch.
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