Olive Dunbar

            On Saturday morning I finished memorizing “Al Cassel’s Air” by Serge Gainsbourg. I searched for the chords but was not surprised that nothing turned up, since this song was only written for a one-off TV skit. Tomorrow I’ll start working them out and they shouldn’t be very difficult, as all the verses have the same melody and there’s no chorus. 

            I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice and it was in tune from the start and stayed there. Tomorrow I’ll begin a four session stretch of playing my Martin acoustic guitar unless I hear soon from Alex Wood that he’s ready to repair it, in which case I’ll take it up there on Tuesday. 

            I weighed 86.45 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I went to No Frills where I bought one bag of red grapes, four bags of green grapes, two packs of raspberries, some bananas, a pack of five-year-old cheddar, a double pack of New Zealand grass fed ground beef, a strawberry-rhubarb pie, a pack of chocolate croissants, two artisan naan, two large containers of skyr, one small container of creamy skyr, PC vanilla ice cream, PC coffee ice cream, a bottle of compressed whipped cream, a jug of raspberry iced tea (they were out of the low sugar kind, a bag of Miss Vickie’s jalapeno chips, and a bag of PC Korma chips. When I got home I went out to the LCBO and bought two six-packs of Creemore. 

            I weighed 86.7 kilos at 14:45. I had saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of low sugar iced tea.

            I took a siesta from 15:30 to 17:00. 

            I weighed 86.65 kilos at 17:15. I was caught up in my journal at 18:15. 

            I started adding shades of blue to the sepia copy of frame 26 of my rainbow wave animation. I was almost done at suppertime. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, Genoa salami and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 1, episode 11 of The Bill Cosby Show.

            Chet’s nephew Roger is sick and asks his uncle to take his paper route for a day. To save Roger from losing his job, Chet agrees to do it. Chet rides Roger’s bike to the place where the other kids gather to wait for the truck to bring them their papers. The boys look down on Chet because he doesn’t know how to fold the papers for throwing. He struggles with it and all the others have left by the time he gets it. He does the job but doesn’t always have a good aim while throwing the papers and has to retrieve them, once from behind a fence with an angry dog. When he’s finished one of the boys informs him that he took the wrong route and now has to retrieve all the papers he delivered to take them to the right street. At the Jacobi house he sees Mr. Jacobi coming home drunk and grabbing the paper so Chet follows him inside to retrieve it. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobi are arguing while Chet tries to find the paper. Chet intervenes and acts as a counselor, causing the couple to tenderly reconcile, then Chet finds the paper and leaves. Later Chet goes by his brother’s place to see how his nephew is doing only to learn that he had a recovery, went to school and now he’s out playing. Chet tells Velma that he’s going to go beat Roger up. 

            Mrs. Jacobi was played by Olive Dunbar, who attended the Yale School of Drama and was one of the youngest in the class of 1946. She began her acting career on stage. She made her Broadway debut in The Joyous Season in 1948. When one of her theatrical tours ended in LA she decided to stay and break into film and television. She starred in the 1969 short film adaptation of the short story “The Lottery” as Tessie Hutchinson, the woman who is stoned to death.