I finished memorizing “Alice hélas” (Alice Alas) by Serge Gainsbourg and looked for the chords, but no one has posted them. I worked them out for the intro and most of the first verse. It’s fairly simple and so I might have it done on Friday.
I was in the good mood during song practice and in general. Probably because my birthday is tomorrow.
I weighed 84.8 kilos before breakfast.
Around 12:30 I pulled out my cutlery drawer and washed the drawer and all its contents. Next, I’ll clean the drawer below it and hopefully get it better organized. All three drawers beneath the cutlery drawer are junk drawers, but it would be nice to arrange the contents of each one so they make sense in each their own context rather than all of them being a jumble. Some stuff has got to be thrown away but I have to be careful because sometimes an odd little useless item that I’ve hu ng onto for years has turned out to be just the thing I need for a project.
I weighed 85.4 kilos before lunch.
I had the last of my caribou-fig paté on a toasted Montreal-style bagel with a glass of lemon iced tea.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 85 kilos at 17:45.
I used the 4K Video Downloader to download the shock therapy clip from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” I imported it to my Movie Maker project for a video of my song “Instructions for Electroshock Therapy” and put a copy of it at the end of the timeline. There I cut out everything but the part where the nurse puts in the rubber mouthguard. I inserted that part into the video to correspond with the lyric, “Insert and fasten the mouthpiece so the patient won’t bite their tongue.” There’s too much of the clip and so I’ll shave it down in the next session.
I made pizza on a slice of Bavarian sandwich bread with fire-roasted tomato pasta sauce, hot Italian sausage, and extra old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching episode 8 of the most recent season of Star Trek: Discovery.
In the previous episode, the genius Tarka revealed plans for a weapon that would destroy the Dark Matter Anomaly. But the council voted against his proposal because the species behind the DMA, which they have named Unknown Species 10-C is far in advance of their own and they opt instead for Michael’s proposal of establishing first contact. Because the DMA destroyed his home planet, Book wants to destroy it at all costs and so he allies himself with Tarkas, steals the spore drive and escapes with Tarkas in his ship.
In this episode, the president of the Federation and the admiral both tell Michael she is too close to this case and is forbidden to follow Book. But later the admiral tells Michael to use any means in her power to stop Book and Tarkas. Michael knows that Tarkas needs isolynium to complete his weapon and she also knows they need to buy it on the black market. She tries to second guess Book based on her experience of working with him as a courier in the interplanetary underworld.
Michael and Operations Officer Owosekun take a shuttle to the planet Parathia to ask the casino owner Haz Mazaro for a star map of the 10-C, but when Michael finds that Book and Tarkas are there she tries to buy the isolynium before they can. But Mazaro has already told Book he will sell them the isolynium if he and Tarkas can find the cheater in his casino. Mazaro sets a price Michael needs to meet before he’ll give it to her. She doesn’t have it and so Owosekun enters a cage match to win the money. She loses twice but keeps on getting rematches until she unrealistically wins. But when they have the money, Book and Tarkas catch the shapeshifter who has been cheating. Mazaro calls it a draw and says they have to settle it in a poker game with two others from the Emerald Chain.
Michael and Book work together to eliminate the other two but then have to face each other. Book is the better player and wins the isolynium. But unknown to him Michael has placed a tracker on it. Back on Discovery, the star map is analyzed and it is discovered that the DMA is a mining machine to extract boronite.
Haz Mazaro kind of looks and talks like an alien Jay Leno. I almost expected to find the former Tonight Show host behind the prosthetics, but the actor is Daniel Kash, who is the son of Canadian opera icon Maureen Forrester. He directed the short superhero film “Germ Girl”, written by and starring his wife Haley Tyson. He plays the main villains in the video games Watchdogs and Thief.
Before bed I searched for bedbugs and for the second night in a row I didn't find any.
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