On Friday morning at 5:00 I was relieved to hear my alarm go off. I had been worried that when I hadn't heard it the day before it had been because of a mechanical malfunction or a dead battery. It turns out that I had just been deeply sleeping.
I finished working out the chords for “Tata Teutonne” (Teutonic Tata) by Serge Gainsbourg and ran through it in French and English.
I cleaned some keyboards that I have in storage and got rid of a dirty old NEC keyboard that is supposed to be white but is now mostly brown.
I had a can or organic cream of mushroom soup and a bowl of potato chips for lunch. Mushroom soup tastes like medicine.
I took a siesta but only slept for about twenty minutes and got up after forty-five.
I finished reading volume five of the Indian day school class action lawsuit documents. I downloaded volume six and was relieved to see it’s only a little over forty pages long.
I did my exercises in the afternoon while listening to Amos and Andy. In this story Kingfish, Sapphire and Andy take a train to Chicago for the annual Mystic Knights of the Sea convention. Sapphire wants to hold onto the money and the tickets but Kingfish insists that he can handle it. At the convention he is approached by a loud, laughing man named Hughie Higgins who says he's chairman of the welcoming committee. Higgins says there are a lot of sharpies on the floor, taking brothers for their money and so Higgins offers to take Kingfish’s money and tickets and put them in the hotel safe. Kingfish thinks that's a good idea and he gives Higgins the money. But later when Kingfish goes to the desk he finds there is no one named Higgins at the hotel. Realizing that he and Andy have no money to pay their bill they decide to hitchhike back to New York. Kingfish is afraid to talk to Sapphire and so he just leaves her a note telling her to wire her mother for money so she can get home. Kingfish and Andy end up hitchhiking west instead of East and end up at the Mississippi. They hop a cattle car back to New York and altogether the trip takes them six days. Back in New York Sapphire tells Kingfish she wished he had talked to her since she's the one that told Higgins to get the money and tickets so it would be safe with her.
I skimmed the sixth pdf and there wasn’t much info there. I copied one sentence that might be elsewhere in my notes from the other pdfs.
I started reading an article about the six Micmac teachers from Quebec that came to teach in New Brunswick day schools and against the government’s wishes they taught in Micmac. Five of them were the Isaacs sisters.
I had a potato, a piece of roast beef and some gravy while watching Zorro. In this story Joe Crane is still on the run but still trying to get his furs back from Los Angeles. They are locked up by Garcia. There is a Spanish California law that allows confiscated possessions of prisoners to be sold and so Diego tries to buy the furs so he can give them to Joe, thus allowing him to leave. But Don Carlos beats him to it and buys the furs to set a trap for Joe. Before Joe leaves Carlotta’s house she uses one of Joe’s tricks to steal a kiss from him. Carlos’s trap is that he will allow Joe to come to his hacienda to get his firs but he has a man on the roof to pull a rope that will open a door that will release the half wolf Lobo. But before Joe arrives Zorro has tied up the man on the roof and left him dangling outside the hacienda. Another of Carlos’s men tries to shoot Joe but Zorro stops him and holds him at the point of his sword while Carlos attack Joe with his sword. Joe holds him back with a wagon wheel until Carlos’s sword breaks and Joe knocks him out. Joe gets his furs, his burro and his wagon and is about to leave when he sees a rope on the ground. He pulls it and the door opens to release Lobo. Lobo is preparing to attack when Joe starts growling and howling in Lobo’s language. Suddenly they are good friends and Lobo leaves with him. I had expected him to go back to Carlotta but he heads for the mountains.
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