Back on the Floor

            On Tuesday morning I finally worked out the chords for “Ma lou Marilou" by Serge Gainsbourg. They're not exactly the chords that are being played on the record but they simulate the general idea.

            Around midday I returned to cleaning my kitchen floor for the first time in months. I washed and scrubbed an area between the kitchen table and the hallway. Next I’ll start working on the section under the table.

            I had tuna, salsa and potato chips for lunch.

            In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. This was another rehash of a previous story. Andy and Kingfish are in Central Park when they see a man drowning. Kingfish pushes Andy in to save him. He turns out to be a millionaire and so they go to look for a reward for Andy that he would split with Kingfish. But they list a lot of expensive things that they claim Andy lost during the rescue, like a diamond wristwatch and an expensive suit and so on. At first the millionaire assumes that Andy must be extremely wealthy and so he doesn’t want to insult him by offering a reward. But the man says he will send Andy a cheque for $1000. But Kingfish doesn’t want the cheque to be in Andy's name and he goes to the rich man to tell him that Andy has died. He shows the man a fake will that says that he is Andy's sole beneficiary and so the man writes the cheque in Kingfish's name. Later Kingfish gets a call from the local sanitarium saying that they are looking for Mr Pembrook and have heard that he’s done some business with him. The man explains that Pembrook recently escaped and has been writing bad cheques again. When Andy comes over Kingfish says he will give Andy the $1000 cheque for $50. Andy agrees and the transaction is made. Then Kingfish tells Andy that he tricked him and that the cheque is worthless. But Andy says that he tricked Kingfish because he had a friend call to say he was with the sanitarium.

            I took a bike ride to Yonge and Bloor and down Yonge. I noticed that the preacher is back at Yonge and Dundas and there was a guy with a banner that read, “Chinese Communism is the Root of All Evil". I did not know that the Chinese Communists caused the Holocaust and bombed Hiroshima. They must also have a time machine to go back and cause all of the evil that happened before Chinese Communism existed.

            I got caught up on my journal around the time I started cooking dinner.

            I worked on trying to get ready for recording new videos. I found the usb device for uploading data from the memory card. I set up the video camera on the tripod and set up my microphone on the stand. I tried to find the voice recorder on my computer but it’s been almost three years since I last used it. I finally located it through the start menu just when it was time for dinner. I still want to test the voice recorder and make sure the camera is at the right level and so I decided not to record on Wednesday but to get everything ready by Wednesday evening and to aim for recording on Thursday.

            For dinner I had a potato, two chicken drumsticks and some gravy while watching The Adventures of Robin Hood.

            In the first story Lord Grenwald is dying and his nephew Bascom sends for the sheriff to tell him that Grenwald is in possession of a charter that was written by Henry I that limits the powers of English monarchs. If the charter were to be used then it could ruin Prince John’s plans to rule England. They must find where it is hidden in order to bring it to Prince John. Grenwald's lifelong servant Hume goes to see him and Grenwald pretends to suddenly be in his death throes so that the guard will run to get help and leave he and Hume alone. Grenwald tells Hume where the charter is hidden and tells him that he must take it to the archbishop. The charter is in the large candle stand in Grenwald's bedchamber but Hume has to put it back because Bascom comes in. Hume tells Marian about the charter while Grenwald is telling Bascom that he wants to have one last party before he dies. Bascom is sure that Grenwald told Hume where the charter is hidden and so he places him in the dungeon. Marian tells Robin about the charter and so Robin goes to the party and blends in with the guests. He volunteers to be the victim in a game of something like blind man’s bluff that is played with a hood over one’s head. Robin pretends to stumble down the stairs to the dungeon and then knocks out the guard, placing the hood over his head. He releases Hume and they go to Grenwald’s bedroom where Robin gets the charter. He hides inside of a jousting dummy that two party guests decide to take outside the castle for a private contest with a horse and lance. Robin dodges the lance and takes the horse to escape and takes the charter to the archbishop.

            The second story was a bit of a mind fuck like something out of The Prisoner. A Celt named Brack easily sneaks past the guards into Robin’s camp and throws him a spear with a message of introduction from Friar Tuck, who has been staying at Tintern Abbey. Tuck is asking Robin to help Brack and his tribe that is being forced out of their home in the forest of Dean. So Robin travels with Brack on a four day march to Tintern Abbey where he learns that Lord Humphrey is evicting the Celts from his land. Robin goes to see Brack’s people and meets his wife Meg, who he finds making a sleeping potion that helps people suffering from fever. He learns that their lives are simple. They make and trade charcoal and they hunt wild boar by tricking them into pits. Robin goes to try to persuade Lord Humphrey to let the Celts stay but he cannot convince him. Robin comes up with a very strange plan. When Lord Humphrey comes to give the Celts their final warning he falls into a boar pit. He is passed something to drink while they prepare to pull him out but it is the sleeping potion. When Humphrey wakes everyone calls him Owen and he is treated like a member of the tribe who had been experiencing the delusion that he was Sir Humphrey. Robin comes as Lord Humphrey and evicts them all to the Black Mountains, using the same words that Sir Humphrey had used to justify the eviction. They keep Lord Humphrey drugged with the potion until he is convinced that he really is Owen. When Owen recovers he is appalled with the conditions he and his people have to live under in the mountains. He goes back to Dean to argue with Lord Humphrey. Robin pretends to put up a debate but finally gives in and draws up a deed allowing the Celts to live in Dean, which Owen signs. They drink a toast but Owen is given the fever potion again and this time when he wakes he is told he is Lord Humphrey. He accepts that he has allowed the Celts to stay but hopes they will allow him to visit from time to time.

            Meg was played by Sally Travers.