I’d been planning on waiting until the masks come off for me to go and start looking for a new or newer computer. But I think this PC is really going to die any day now and besides the frustrations of lagging are getting too much. I want to be able to do schoolwork without having to start and restart all the time, especially when I have assignments to work on. So, after our first in-person class tomorrow, I think I will start looking around for a computer while I’m downtown.
I weighed 87.8 kilos before breakfast.
I read some more of “The Triumph of Modernism” about Modernism in India. Tagore picked Nandalal to be the artistic director of his experimental university. Gandhi appointed Nandalal and his students to create murals in several of the villages of India as part of his project of presenting rural India as the cultural heart of the country. I also re-read some more of Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih.
I researched the downtown stores where I might be able to buy a new computer tomorrow.
I weighed 87.1 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride to Bloor and Palmerston.
I weighed 87.2 kilos at 17:30.
I finished reading “The Triumph of Modernism” and then started on “The Scale of Global Modernisms” which is thankfully a lot shorter. “Triumph …” was a hundred pages, but with a lot of images, and so it was closer to eighty pages of text, which is still basically more a book than an article.
I got over a third of the way through my re-reading of Season of Migration to the North.
I had a potato with gravy and the last of my pork ribs while watching an episode of Adam-12.
This story begins with Malloy and Reed on patrol when a speeding sports car goes through a stop sign. When they stop her, Penelope Lang, the beautiful, rich, and privileged oil heiress tries to charm Malloy out of giving her a ticket and even offers to take him out to dinner. She is so surprised by his cold, all-business response and insistence on giving her the ticket that she becomes obsessed with Malloy and begins to stalk him. Penelope shows up at the station asking for him and sends him a signed and framed picture of herself in a bikini. He keeps trying to get it through to her that he’s not interested but she will have none of it. She begins to make emergency calls so the police will come to her place but is disappointed that the district is covered by Ed Wells’s car and not that of Adam-12. So, she rents a penthouse in Malloy’s district and blasts her stereo so the tenants will complain, and Adam-12 will come. Malloy really gives it to her this time, telling her that he not only doesn’t like her but that she turns him off. She looks in shock as they leave but slowly begins to smile. The next day she has an expensive red sports car delivered to Pete at the station as a gift. He refuses to sign for it. Malloy’s colleagues and superiors are beginning to get annoyed with him and so he gives in and calls her up to ask her out. The next day he tells Reed that they went to dinner and a show and then went dancing but that they won’t be hearing from Penelope anymore. It is left as a mystery exactly what happened. Maybe she realized he was a cop.
Penelope was played by Ahna Capri who was born in a refugee camp in West Germany in 1944 to Hungarian parents. They came to the US as refugees in 1950. She began acting professionally at the age of 11 and grew up to become a blonde bombshell. She played Tania, the femme fatale secretary to the crime lord Mr. Han in “Enter the Dragon”. She co-starred in “Piranha”, worked with Rip Torn in “Payday”, and Adam West in “The Specialist”. She played Edie Westrope on the George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. She played Mary Rose on the sitcom “Room for One More.” She died in 2010 five days after a truck rammed into her car. Her brother Peter Robbins was the original voice of Charlie Brown in the television cartoons.
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