Ann B. Davis

            On Thursday morning I worked out the chords for the first two verses of “L'année à lenvers” (The Year in Reverse) by Boris Vian. 

            I ran through singing and playing my more direct translation of “Notre Derniere Chance” (Our Final Chance) by Serge Gainsbourg using the names of French newspapers and magazines. I did some research and replaced the ones that no longer exist with ones that are more current. Tomorrow I’ll run through my alternative translation using the more familiar names of mostly English language newspapers. Then I plan to make a photo montage video of the song in Movie Maker to upload to YouTube so I’ll have a video to post when I publish it on my Christian’s Translations blog. Right now there is only a poorly done photo montage on Daily Motion and even if I used that I wouldn’t be able to post more than a link on Blogger. 

            I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the first of two sessions and it stayed in tune the whole time. 

            I weighed 87.05 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I put away all my laundry. 

           I started my Batgirl 22 video, made from season 3, episode 22 of Batman, using only the scenes featuring Batgirl. 

           I weighed 87.4 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride and on the way back stopped at Freshco. They still had Canadian cherries and so I got five more bags. I also bought a pack of Canadian blueberries, bananas, a loaf of multigrain sandwich bread, two packs of Full City Dark coffee, and a jar of marinara sauce. 

            I weighed 87.1 kilos at 18:20. 

            I was caught up with my journal at 19:13. 

            I worked on the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Paranoiac Utopia”. The concert video continues to drag behind the studio audio and so every few words I have to delete some of it to bring it forward. In the second chorus I managed to synchronize the concert video with the studio audio for “Queen Street West is slippery with ice in”, “summer weather and amidst all” and “this”.

            I uploaded to YouTube my electric version of “Comment te dire adieu”. 

            Then I started a new Movie Maker project for my September 30, 2024 song practice. I almost had the audio synchronized with the video when it was time for supper. 

            I had a potato with gravy and a chicken leg with skyr while watching episode 2 of The Brady Bunch. 

            Marcia reads a letter to the Dear Libby column in the newspaper that says, “We have a terrible problem in my family. I have three children of my own and three additional children from a recent marriage. I had no idea three new children could cause so much trouble. Should I continue pretending to love these new children and wait until they wreck my marriage or should I get out now?” Marcia is worried that one of her parents wrote the letter and so she removes it from the paper so the other can’t read it. She reads the letter to the her sisters and brothers and they all decide to be on their best behaviour so that the parent who wrote the letter won’t give up on them. But when their mother and father and Alice notice them doing chores without being asked they think there is something wrong. Alice confronts Marcia and Greg and convinces them to talk to their parents. Marcia tells her mother and Greg tells his father. Now Carol and Mike are worried that the other wrote the letter. But they eventually discuss it and learn neither of them wrote the letter. They are about to tell the kids when a woman comes to the door who says she writes the Dear Libby column. She says she doesn’t normally make house calls but she’s recently received seven letters from this address begging to know the name and address of the writer. The letters were from each of the kids and from Alice. Libby wants everyone to know that the letter came from another state. When they hear that all of the kids begin jumping for joy. 

            Alice was played by Ann B. Davis who earned a Bachelors degree in Theatre. She acted in stock companies and touring musicals until she started getting work on TV. Her TV debut was as a musical judge on Jukebox Jury from 1953 to 1954. Her film debut was in A Man Called Peter” in 1955. In 1955 she got cast as Schultzie the secretary on The Bob Cummings Show. She was nominated for four Emmys for her performances on that show and won two. She was never nominated for an Emmy for her performances on The Brady Bunch but she probably made a lot more money. She did commercials for Ford, Shake n’ Bake, Swiffer, and Minute Rice.