I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar during song practice. It went out of tune fairly often but not to as frustrating a degree as the Martin was going out over the last four sessions.
I weighed 85.7 kilos before breakfast.
I had planned on getting back to washing my bathroom walls but decided I’d better try to resolve a shipping problem. On December 11 I bought a humidifier for my daughter from Best Buy. On December 13 tracking said it was at a sort facility in Montreal near where Astrid lives. On December 15 it was at another sort facility near her but since then there have been no updates. Four days seems like a long time to wait and so I had a chat with customer service but I don’t think the person is even in Canada. They asked me to confirm Montreal’s province. After a while they said the facility said it’s being delivered and they said they asked them to “fasten up” the delivery. I guess they meant “speed up”.
Meanwhile the package of treats I sent by mail to Astrid two days ago arrived early.
Then Astrid gave me an order number from the LCBO and said they had a gift for me there. I went over there and it was three six-packs of Creemore plus a can of Mocha Crunch Chocolate Stout. That should be interesting. The Creemore will probably last until the end of January.
I weighed 85.75 kilos before lunch.
I took a siesta and ended up sleeping almost half an hour longer than usual. It was too late to take a bike ride all the way downtown so I just rode to Bloor and Ossington. I stopped at Freshco on the way home where I bought five bags of green grapes, a pack of raspberries, bananas, a pack of five year old cheddar, an eye of round roast, three chicken legs, three bags of skim milk, two packs of Full City Dark coffee, a jar of salsa, vanilla bean ice cream, white chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream, and a bag of chocolates filled with sea salt caramel.
I weighed 84.75 kilos at 19:00, which is the least I’ve weighed in the evening since October 28.
I was caught up on my journal at 20:15.
I completed frame 7 for my second rainbow wave animation and started on frame 8.
I roasted a pork tenderloin and had a slice with a potato and gravy while watching season 1, episodes 15 and 16 of Batman.
In episode 15 the food and beverage dispensers at Roosevelt High School, where Dick Grayson is a student, begin to issue lots of silver dollars in exchange for single dimes. Commissioner Gordon concludes it’s obviously the Joker who is behind this. I don’t see why it would be obvious since there is nothing joke related to this payoff. The worry is that easy money will corrupt the students and cause them to drop out. Then they will have no choice but to become criminals. I don’t see how that’s necessarily true either. Batman is called and he comes alone because Robin is already in school as Dick Grayson. Batman learns that Joker got out of prison a week ago and immediately bought control of the One Armed Bandit Novelty Company, which specializes in coin operated gadgets. Batman talks to the principal of the school and asks him to have the president of the student council call a meeting. Batman already knows that Dick Grayson is the council president. Meanwhile in a bar a customer puts a coin in the jukebox and instead of a record playing, the machine opens to reveal a robot machine gun with the voice of the Joker telling the clientele that it's a stickup. While everyone has their hands in the air two masked thugs enter and rob the register. Batman shows slides of the Joker to the student council members and draws attention to the flower in his lapel, which he warns sometimes emits gas. One student who is looking at it closely suddenly gets gas in his face because the Joker is standing behind the screen. The Joker leaves freely with nothing illegal that can be pinned on him. Batman reminds the students that nothing in life is free. In an abandoned garage the Joker is counting stolen cash with his gang The Bad Pennies who are mostly high school dropouts except for sweet Sue who is still in school and head of the cheerleader squad. She has stolen from the principal’s safe the examination papers but she won’t give them to Joker until she is paid. Her prizes are a rhinestone bracelet, a fox fur stole, and a quart of Mexican perfume. Batman and Robin decide to stake out the school. That night Sue is rigging one of the school vending machines when Batman and Robin arrive. Sue calls the Joker for advice and he gives her instructions. When the heroes meet Sue she tells them she saw a suspicious character in the gym. In the gym they see a vending machine that’s been tampered with. Batman slips in a dime and suddenly it shoots out clamps that bind their legs, followed by a gas that knocks them out. The Joker has them strapped to electric chairs in the back of a converted moving van. A slot machine is running and if there are three lemons the dynamic duo will be fried with 50,000 volts. The machine spins and one lemon appears, then another, and the last slot is still spinning to bring us to the cliffhanger.
In episode 16 the machine turns up three lemons so Batman and Robin will be electrocuted but suddenly there is a blackout. The Joker and his gang escape. Two cops investigate the truck and find Batman and Robin. They are saved before the power comes back on. But before Batman and Robin were captured they activated a recording device with microphones in Batman’s utility belt. It recorded the voices of the Joker and his gang even though the voices were filtered. But every voice has a wave pattern private as a fingerprint. When they analyze the patterns with the Bat Computer they discover that Susie is a member of Joker’s gang. Batman says that Joker must have led Susie astray with baubles. But Susie didn’t even flinch when she knew Batman and Robin were about to be killed so the temptation of shiny things would not have been Susie’s motivation to be a criminal. Susie hangs out at the Easy Living Candy Store and so Batman sends Robin under cover as Dick Grayson in a motorcycle jacket and pretending to have turned bad. Sue is sitting with Nick, another member of Joker’s gang. Dick is not being very convincing as a delinquent. He tries to smoke a cigarette offered by Nick and chokes. He says, “I already had two packs today”. He learns from Nick that another cocktail lounge is going to be knocked over so he and Batman head there. Meanwhile the Joker decides that Sue is a liability because Dick clearly knew she was a member of Joker’s gang, and so he plots to get rid of her. He gives her a half pint of a Canadian perfume called “Un nuit sans fin” (A Night Without End) but the perfume is poisoned. Batman and Robin go to the lounge and Robin puts a coin in the jukebox. A gun appears as before and this time not to rob but to kill the Batman. The Batman however is prepared with his unfolding bulletproof Batshield. There is a high school basketball game tonight between Roosevelt High and Disko Tech. The odds are 20 to 1 in favour of Roosevelt but the Joker bets against them because he plans to sabotage the team. Batman and Robin approach Susie to warn her but she dabs some of the poison perfume and collapses. The Roosevelt team is practicing and stop to get milk from the machine but they get next week’s nationwide pre-college exam papers. The Joker and his gang take pictures of the team in this compromising position and say they can’t play the game now. But suddenly Batman and Robin arrive, saying the photographs are meaningless because the papers are fake ones the heroes planted. They’ve saved Susie and she has revealed the whole scheme. The final fight occurs between the heroes and the bad guys with the big written sound effects. The Joker and his gang are beaten. Susie is going to be sent to the Wayne Foundation for Delinquent Girls.
One of the cheerleaders was played by Linda Harrison, who won the Miss Berlin, Maryland contest at 16. She was later signed to 20th Century Fox and trained in Fox’s special school for actors. Her film debut was in The Fat Spy. Her TV debut was in the pilot episode of The Felony Squad. She co-starred as the wild girl Nova in Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes. She was a regular on Bracken’s World. She began dating Richard D. Zanuck, the head of 20th Century Fox when she started working there and then was married to him for ten years.
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