I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice and it sounded horrible. The G string was buzzing and at first I thought the string had just gone dead, but later I noticed the D was buzzing a bit too and then the B and so I think the action has dropped since the heat came on. I planned on getting some sanding done today in the bathroom but I think I need to take the Martin back to the Twelfth Fret to get Brian to raise the action.
I weighed 86.2 kilos before breakfast.
At around midday I packed up my Martin and made the long bike ride to The Twelfth Fret at Woodbine and Danforth, stopping to pee as usual at The Second Cup in Greektown. At the Twelfth Fret Brian was amazed at how much the action had dropped. He remembered that last spring it had been too high and he’d needed to shave off some of the saddle. Now he had to glue a piece onto the saddle to raise it up again. He said he didn’t know what normal was but the fluctuations in the action of my guitar are certainly unusual. He said if it was high in the spring and low now then it will probably shift again. I told him I plan to buy a humidifier and he agreed that I need one. He said apartments above storefronts tend to get very dry in the winter. Martin Road Series guitars are all made in Mexico. Brian’s colleague put forward a theory that if the wood was cured in Mexico it might fluctuate more in Canada. Brian suggested that maybe mahogany dries more quickly.
I was exhausted riding home, especially since I only had a couple of hours sleep. I would normally stop at Freshco on a Thursday but decided I couldn’t handle it. I’ll go on Friday.
I weighed 84.65 kilos at 15:30 when I got home.
I took a late siesta and slept until about 18:30.
I weighed 84.65 kilos at 18:50.
I had a potato with gravy and a warmed up T-bone steak while watching the last two episodes of season 1 of Branded.
In the first story McCord is escorting Dr. Evelyn Cole across the desert to work at a frontier hospital run by Dr. Michell, who she knew in Boston. But they find Mitchell dead in the desert after his carriage was attacked by Apache. They find his driver, a wounded cavalry officer, still alive and take him with them. Meanwhile at a ruined stagecoach station that was also attacked, two prospectors arrive and run for the well. But a man named Luke says he’s been waiting for two days for someone to try the water so he would know if the Apache poisoned it. That doesn’t sound like something the Apache would do. Anyway the prospectors are afraid to drink the water now. McCord and Cole arrive and they are told the same. They are attacked by Apache and both prospectors are killed. McCord fights them off. Then he sees Luke freely drinking the water and preparing to leave with the gold from the prospectors’ saddle bags. Luke says he saw the men steal the gold in Cascabel and so he waited for them at the well and convinced them the water was poisoned so he could get the gold. McCord takes the gold back to Cascabel and says he’s going to put Dr. Cole on a train to Boston. Why would he assume she wants to go back to Boston when she’s come all that way to work in a hospital?
Dr. Cole was played by Carol Eve Rossen, whose Broadway debut was in Nobody Loves an Albatross. She played supporting roles in several movies and TV series. She was married for 17 years to Hal Holbrook. In 1984 she was attacked by someone with a sledge hammer while jogging in a national park. She survived by playing dead. She later wrote a book about the experience called Counterpunch. She also wrote Mother Goose Drank Scotch, a biography of her father director Robert Rossen who was a victim of the Hollywood blacklist.
In the season finale, McCord has worked a cattle drive to a town where a businessperson named Lucy Benson has offered him a job as an engineer. She wants him to build her ranch, which is already one of the fastest growing enterprises in the territory. He accepts the job but when he goes to his horse he sees the saddle has been tampered with and his sabre removed. Then he is hit from behind and beaten up. The leader Caruthers knows he is the disgraced Captain McCord and tells him to leave town. Later he has started working for Benson and he is transporting the ranch payroll when he is ambushed again by Caruthers and his men. They take the money and his horse. McCord walks back to Benson’s ranch carrying his saddle. He gets a horse and goes after his, which he finds tied to a tree but the money is gone. He goes into Benson’s house and notices an outline on the wall where a cavalry sword used to be. She says Caruthers and his men were just there saying they would kill him if they saw him again. McCord goes to the bank and asks the banker if Benson always has such a big payroll taken to the ranch. He says that’s the biggest since her husband Mr. Hacket died. McCord confronts Benson about her husband’s death and she says he was shot for desertion. McCord accuses her of hiring Caruthers to harass him to see if a man can really stand up under pressure so she can determine if her husband really was a coward. McCord sees Caruthers on the street and goes out for a show down. Meanwhile McCord’s friend Roy holds a gun on Caruthers’s men. McCord is about to draw when Benson says to stop. She tells Caruthers it’s all over. McCord tells Benson she should forgive her husband and start calling herself Mrs. Hacket again. That’s fucked up but she thinks it’s a great idea. Caruthers gives him back his sabre and says no hard feelings. McCord agrees and then punches him. Caruthers is okay with that. What a weak show.
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