I memorized the fourth verse of “Variations sur le même t'aime” (Variations on the Usual I Love You) by Serge Gainsbourg. There’s only one verse more to nail down.
I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the first of two sessions. I think I’m going to take it to the Twelfth Fret tomorrow to have the action lowered.
I weighed 85.8 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since October 29.
I looked for places nearby that fix radiators and first made the mistake of calling a company that repairs car radiators. I finally got in touch with P Carito Plumbing and Heating. The guy on the phone said Alfredo would come in two hours. Alfredo called in about an hour and a half but I missed the call and didn’t notice it for half an hour. I called the number back and Afredo’s assistant answered. He said they were on another job but Alfredo would call me back. After another half an hour I got through to Alfredo and he said he was a couple of minutes away so I waited downstairs for him. Alfredo was an old Italian guy who seemed to be out of breath all the time. He had to pry open the wooden casing of my living room radiator and the eastern one in the kitchen to bleed them. He discovered later that there are holes a the ends of the casings (on the first through the bookshelf and the second if I pulled out the fridge) that would have allowed access. As soon as he bled them they were instantaneously hot again. He said the invoice said $80 but he’d only charge me $60. That was a lot cheaper than I expected and I paid in cash. It turns out Alfredo is only a year older than me.
I weighed 85.65 kilos before a late lunch at 15:15. That’s the lightest I’ve been in the early afternoon since October 29.
I took a siesta at 15:45 and got up at 17:15. It was too late to take a bike ride. I had planned on going to Freshco but decided I would go tomorrow on my way back from The Twelfth Fret.
I weighed 86.5 kilos at 17:35.
I was caught up on my journal at 18:54.
I returned to my project to animate a wave for the Movie Maker video I’m creating for the studio recording of my song “Seven Shades of Blues”. I added three more rainbow images to the first frame of the second wave, and digitally manipulated the images to help them to fit.
I tried to begin a Movie Maker project for my October 1 acoustic song practice performance of “Vomit of the Star Eater”. But Movie Maker rejected the AVI file I converted from MOV, so I had to convert it to an AVI-WMV format. That took almost an hour. The converted file was accepted.
I grilled two T-bone steaks and had one with a potato and gravy while watching episodes 61 to 65 of Batfink.
In episode 61, Sandman Sam dresses like an Arab and rides a camel, I guess because the animators associated Arabs with sand. He robs a jewellery store and puts the police to sleep with his slumber sand. Batfink goes after him and Karate finds him first but is easily sent to dreamland by slumber sand. But Batfink is unaffected because bats can only sleep upside down. However, Sam already has Batfink’s foot in a snare, which he trips and hangs him upside down to then blow the slumber sand in his face to cause him to doze off. Then Sam cuts the rope and sends Batfink falling off a cliff, but it doesn’t work because crime fighters never sleep for long. Batfink takes Sam to jail but has to leave Karate behind because he spilled slumber sand on his foot and it fell asleep.
In episode 62, Hugo Agogo has a yoyoagogo that he has invented, shaped like a donut so he can put a live stick of dynamite inside. He stands in the street and unravels it into a furriers where it releases the dynamite, which explodes and as a result somehow intact mink coats fly into his arms. Batfink goes to Hugo’s lair where Hugo captures Karate and threatens to kill him if Batfink doesn’t give up, and so he does. He allows himself to be confined in a trap. Karate is also clamped in a trap. Then Hugo leaves the room and sends his yoyo to deliver dynamite through a small window in the door to blow the heroes up. But the dynamite doesn’t release and returns to Hugo and blows up when the yoyo ravels. This is because while Hugo was capturing Karate, Batfink was putting glue in the hole of Hugo’s yoyo.
In episode 63, Hugo has developed hate smoke (hoke), which he releases throughout the city causing everybody, even Batfink and Karate to hate each other. In the museum that displays the golden Goddess of Love, while the guards argue over how much they hate each other, Hugo walks away with the statue. Despite hating each other Batfink and Karate continue to work together. Batfink is always talking about his wings of steel and now Karate tells him to get some new dialogue. Hugo gives each of the heroes a bomb to throw at the other and then he escapes. But before destroying each other they realize they both hate Hugo more and so they throw the bombs after him. The explosion subdues Hugo and also dissipates the hate smoke so the heroes are no longer at odds.
In episode 64, Hugo blows open a safe and when confronted by a guard hits him with a backward ray that makes him return backwards to where he came from. The narrator asks Hugo how he ever thought of such a thing and he answers that he was a backward child. Batfink and Karate go to Hugo’s lair to capture him but they are hit with the ray and sent back to Batfink’s cave. They return to Hugo who hits them again. This time Batfink backs into a plutonium bell with only ten seconds of air. But Hugo knows Batfink will escape because he always does and so he waits for him. Batfink emerges from the bell because the pivot rivet on the latch was missing. So Hugo hits him with the ray again to send him back inside, then he replaces the pivot rivet. Then Karate bursts through the door, trips and falls against Hugo to cause him to drop his backwards box. Then Karate accidentally hits the box’s button with his foot, causing the ray to hit Hugo. So Hugo goes backwards and reverses the repairs he did on the pivot rivet, thereby releasing Batfink who captures Hugo.
In episode 65, the Great Escapo escapes from prison. Karate captures him but he escapes to his carnival. Karate catches him packing and puts him in a trunk, which he immediately escapes. Karate calls it a trick trunk but Escapo says that is insulting. He challenges Karate to get inside the trunk to prove it has a secret way out and so he does but finds it doesn’t and so Karate is trapped. Batfink confronts Escapo and hears Karate’s voice coming from the trunk but thinks Escapo is using ventriloquism. Batfink is knocked out. Escapo puts him in a straight jacket, then in a milk can, then in a safe, then pushes the safe into a pool. Then Batfink taps Escapo on the shoulder. He does not explain how he got out. Escapo is impressed. Batfink reveals that when he retires from crime fighting he will become an escape artist. Escapo willingly surrenders and suggests that when he gets out of prison they could be partners in show business.
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