On Tuesday morning I finished memorizing “Au risque de te déplaire” (At the Risk You’ll Have the Blues) by Serge Gainsbourg. Out of habit I searched for the chords but since the lyrics haven’t been posted the chords wouldn’t have been. Tomorrow I’ll start working them out.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar during song practice. While playing and singing I look out the window and this time I saw an elderly woman walking up Dunn Avenue with a walker. Then a guy in green scrubs came up behind and stopped her. She pointed toward Queen but he took her walker away, then firmly grabbed her arm and forced her to walk back south again while she was clearly resisting all the way. I found it very disturbing. Maybe she’s a patient in the hospital down the street but not a prisoner I hope.
I weighed 85.7 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since April 22.
Around midday I cleaned the newer warm mist humidifier. It took a little less time because I’ve needed to use it less.
I weighed 87.15 kilos before lunch. That’s the most I’ve tipped the scale in the early afternoon since May 5.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride and rode my vintage Raleigh downtown and back for the first time since it broke three months ago. I realized that the Raleigh is lighter, faster and handles better than the new Surly. The only thing I would change is to raise the handlebars. When I got the Surly the handlebars were lower than the ones on the Raleigh and so I bought an extension that brought them higher than the Raleigh. Now that I’m used to that I’d like to raise them on the Raleigh as well.
I weighed 86.55 kilos at 18:15.
I was caught up on my journal at 19:49.
I continued adding shades of blue to the sepia copy of frame 20 of my rainbow wave animation. I have five shades left to add to this frame and then there will be nine more to do.
I had a potato with gravy and two chicken drumsticks while watching the final episode of Birdman and the Galaxy Trio.
In the first Birdman story, at the Pentagon a general puts a top secret formula in a safe and walks away, but as he does so a hand reaches through a window and a black ring shoots a ray at the man’s shadow. The general goes through a door but his shadow remains behind, then it turns and walks back to the safe, opens it and brings the formula to the hand at the window. The hand is that of Murro and he takes the formula to F.E.A.R. headquarters. He offers it in exchange for being given full control of F.E.A.R. Number 1 tells the agents to attack but Murro turns their shadows against them, easily defeats them and then assumes control. During Falcon 7’s next communication with Birdman, Murro grabs Falcon and abducts him, then he tells Birdman to meet him at F.E.A.R. Castle. When Birdman gets there Murro turns his own shadow against him. It has all of Birdman’s powers and Murro creates a shadow roof to block the sun so Birdman will weaken as his shadow gets stronger. Avenger frees Falcon 7 who drops a stone block from above and knocks out Birdman’s shadow. Murro can’t animate any shadows because the sun has been blocked out. He stupidly announces that his ring will fix that but Birdman destroys it with a solar blast and renders Murro powerless. Murro then disappears in a puff of smoke and Birdman concludes that he was the spirit of darkness itself.
In the final Galaxy Trio story, a strange shape shifting planetoid approaches the planet Z11. The Trio is notified and they head there at blur speed (their equivalent of Star Trek’s warp speed). They receive a communication from Plaston, ruler of the artificial planetoid Plastus. He shows them that he has changed the shape of Plastus to a flat shield that blocks the sun from reaching Z11. He says Z11 must agree to his demands or he will freeze the planet. The Trio beams down onto Plastus. Gravity Girl analyzes the planetoid and finds that it is made of a rubber-silicon compound. Plastus and his pirates attack with guns that shoot liquid plastic that hardens around the target. Meteor Man and Gravity Girl are surrounded by the gloop while Vapour Man is only covered from the waist down. They abduct Gravity Girl. Vapour Man uses a freeze vapour on Meteor Man’s cocoon, which makes it brittle enough for him to break out. He uses a heat vapour to free himself. They return to Condor 1 to plan Gravity Girl’s rescue. She contacts them via her ring phone and says she’s in a cell below Plaston’s control tower. They didn’t take her density meter away from her and she’s figured out that the surface of Plastus is only 15 meters thick and the rest of the planetoid is gas. She says it can be punctured like a balloon by Condor 1’s retro rockets. They bring the ship down and penetrate the surface with the rockets. Gas begins to shoot out from below. Vapour Man rescues Gravity Girl and they take off just before the planetoid blows. It spins chaotically off into space like a quickly deflating balloon.
In the final Birdman story, Morto the master mechanic is working in the prison laundry and has turned the steam boiler into a small rocket ship in which he escapes. He returns to his lair, dons his armour and rebuilds his Medieval style flying robot horses and knights. He attacks a government arsenal and steals the weapons. He takes control of a TV broadcast to demand control of the country. Birdman challenges him to a fight to the finish and Morto accepts. He says it will be a jousting contest at noon the next day. Birdman arrives and Morto provides him with a mechanical horse and weapons. Morto cheats and has two of his robot knights attack before the contest but Birdman defeats them easily. Just before Morto and Birdman joust, Morto lowers a dome over the field that blocks out the sun. Birdman weakens and falls from his horse as Morto charges. But Avenger drops a boulder through the top of the dome and sunlight streams through, replenishing Birdman’s power. Morto is defeated.
This series had poor animation and weak writing but there was nothing wrong with the characters that a higher quality of workmanship couldn’t have fixed.
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