I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the third session. I’ll be taking it to Alex Wood today to have him do the upgrades. Tomorrow I guess I’ll play my old Epi for one session.
I weighed 86.95 kilos before breakfast.
At around 13:00 I took my Martin guitar and my Gibson Les Paul up to Alex Wood. I left the Martin with him and he says he should have it on his bench in about a week and the re-fretting, and the installing of the new tuners, the new saddle, and the new nut will only take a couple of days. He raised the action on my Gibson but forgot to put the truss rod cover back on before I left with it and texted me about it later. I don’t really need it to play it so I’ll bring it up when I go to pick up the Martin.
I weighed 87.1 kilos before lunch.
I took a siesta at 15:00 and didn’t wake up until 16:45. It was too late for a bike ride.
I weighed 87.75 kilos at 17:30, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since November 28.
I was caught up on my journal at 20:15.
I returned to adding shades of blue to the sepia copy of the penultimate frame of my rainbow wave animation.
I had a potato with gravy and three pork ribs while watching season 1, episode 13 of The Bill Cosby Show.
Chet is still volunteering at the community centre for under privileged children. It’s Christmas Eve and he has promised to get a tree for the kids to decorate. At a tree lot a cranky old salesman named George is threatened with firing because of his surly attitude. He shows a customer a tree but the man says “I don’t know” and turns away. Chet arrives and immediately says he wants that tree and pays for it. The other customer now says he was about to buy the tree. George lets Chet take it but the other customer complains to the manager and George is fired. Chet is about to drive away when he sees George walking away and then learns he was terminated. He offers to take the tree back but George says it’s too late. He asked George where he’s going and he says the Ashley Hotel. Chet offers him a ride but he refuses. Chet delivers the tree to the centre and helps the kids decorate it. When it’s time for Santa Clause Helen tells Chet that he has to take on the role again because the other guy couldn’t make it. Chet has a date and doesn’t want to do it but suddenly he gets the idea to get George to play Santa. He goes to the Ashley Hotel and offers George $10 to do it. At first George refuses and says he doesn’t get along with kids. He says he had a daughter who died at the age of 6. Chet persists but George still rejects the offer. Chet goes back to the centre and starts putting on the costume and is about to stuff his belly with a pillow when George arrives and says he’ll do it but only if his interaction with the children is minimal. At first he is quite cold towards the kids while handing them their presents but then one girl is crying when she receives her gift. She says she was bad sometimes and isn’t sure if she deserves it. Suddenly George becomes tender and tells her she can keep the present. She kisses him and says she loves him and George immediately (a little too quickly) starts behaving like Santa Clause towards everybody. It’s a Christmas miracle.
George was played by Rex Ingram, who died at the age of 74 before this episode aired. Cosby personally asked Ingram to play the part. He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in medicine but was approached on the street to appear in the first Tarzan film and after that became an actor for the next fifty years. His film debut was in the 1918 silent movie Tarzan of the Apes. He made his Broadway debut in 1929. He starred in The Green Pastures in 1936. He co-starred in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He played Lucifer Junior in the original Broadway production of Cabin in the Sky. He co-starred in Hell on Devil’s Island, and Watusi. His TV debut was in Climax in 1956. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for transporting a teenage girl across state lines “for immoral purposes”. But the Mann Act disproportionately targeted black men. He pleaded guilty and may or may not have been but the way the system is set up, lawyers often advise their clients to plead guilty in order to receive a lighter sentence when conviction is inevitable. He became the first black actor to be cast in a US soap opera but A Brighter Day was canceled about a month into his role. He was a partner in the LA jazz club Alabam.
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