I worked out the chords for the first two verses of “La plus jolie fille du monde” (The Prettiest Girl in the World) by Serge Gainsbourg. That’s half the song and so I should have it finished tomorrow. Then I think I’ll need to do a major revision of my translation.
I weighed 86.5 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since May 31.
I left at around 13:00 to go and visit my old friend Raven in Bridgepoint Hospital at Broadview and Gerrard. She wasn’t in her room on the 8th floor but her roommate told me she’d gone to the lounge and gave me directions. But those directions were to the north lounge and since Raven is a patient on the 8th floor south I was directed to the south lounge from which she saw me and came out to greet me. She’s in a wheelchair and looking frail but she has an incredibly positive attitude. We got glasses of ice water and went down to sit outdoors on the patio of the main floor. We chatted for about two hours and got caught up. She’s there until July 17 and after that where she lives depends on what her social worker can find her. I gave her a copy of my book. Someone came to wheel her to the Mindfulness session.
I headed back to Parkdale along Gerrard as far as University, then went south to Queen and west to home.
I weighed 85.05 kilos at 16:30. The same as in the early afternoon of April 16.
I took a siesta at 16:50 and slept for two hours.
I weighed 85.35 kilos at 19:12. April 4 was the last evening I was that light.
I was caught up on my journal at 20:20.
When I power my amplifier or my fan I’ve been running an extension cord across the middle of the kitchen floor to the outlet above the kitchen sink. But today I remembered that there is a plug on the south wall that I’ve never used behind the credenza where I keep my comic books. I rerouted the extension cord along the southern wall and plugged it in. This way I don’t need to plug and unplug the cord above the sink and can keep it permanently connected. Plus there’s no unsightly cord sticking off to the side and there’s nothing to trip over.
It was too hot to use the stove but I had already thawed a slice of roast beef and so I just used the oven enough to warm it up for supper. I had it with some barbecue flavour chips, salsa, skyr and a beer while watching season 2, episode 9 of The Bill Cosby Show.
Chet has volunteered to take a group of urban children camping. Someone associated with the camp provides Chet with the names of the kids and tells them where to pick them up. He has to get them to the corner of 3rd and Adams, take the #7 bus to the last stop and a truck will pick them up to take them to the camp site. The kids have been told to wait for him at the basketball courts. He gets there and calls for the boys to stop their game and gather round. He says they are all going on an overnight camping trip and they say, “Right!” Then takes the roll call and only Harold Rogers is on the list. The other kids he’d called over were just there to play basketball. Harold says the other kids for the camping trip are at the playground. He finds them there but some are reluctant to go. Once he has them all ready to leave he asks for their permission slips signed by their parents. Harold has his but it’s not signed. He says his mother is at the laundrymat and so they go there. She signs it but before they leave two of the boys have already stripped to their underwear and put their clothes in a washer so they don’t have to go. Mrs. Rogers gives them some of Harold’s big brother’s clothes to wear. They get to the bus stop and all get on but have to get off again because they don’t have the right change. Chet goes to a nearby second hand store to get the change but the proprietor won’t give him the change without a purchase. Chet buys a yellow flag with an antelope on it and tells the boys they are now the Antelopes and gives the flag to Harold to carry. Back at the bus stop Chet learns that there won’t be another bus for two hours but they can walk to Wilshire and take the #9, which will be there in a half an hour. They are told to take that to where they can transfer to the #12. They go there and on the way two older boys on bikes try to pick on them. Chet says all his boys know karate so they back off. When the bus comes the driver won’t allow the flag pole onto the bus. Chet says they’ll leave it behind but the boys refuse and so they end up camping out in Chet’s apartment. They roast hot dogs in the fireplace and have beans from the stove. They say they all want to do it again sometime. They tell ghost stories after Chet falls asleep in their chair.
Just as he drives a convertible Mustang that’s far beyond the means of a public school gym teacher, Chet’s apartment is way too snazzy for someone with his income.
Mrs. Rogers was played by Beulah Quo, who had a Bachelor’s degree in social welfare and a Masters degree in Sociology. Her thesis was “The Occupational Status of American Born Chinese Male College Graduates”. During the 1940s she and her husband were involved with leading the lake Tahoe Chinese Christian Youth Conferences. They spoke out against the Japanese internment camps. They were teaching in China in the late 1940s when the communist revolution began and escaped on a US destroyer. She was teaching Sociology at a community college when director Henry King hired her as a dialect coach for Jennifer Jones who was playing a Eurasian in Love is a Many Splendoured Thing. She was also given a small role in the film. Her TV debut was on Hawaiian Eye in 1961. She co-founded the East West Players in 1965. She was nominated for an Emmy in 1978 for her performance in Meeting of Minds. She played Olin on General Hospital from 1985 to 1991.
I finished my eleventh Batgirl video based on season 3, episode 11 of Batman, but didn’t publish it. I was exhausted from the heat and went to bed a little after midnight.
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