Eve Plumb

            Early on Saturday morning when I went to bed I realized that until my left arm starts feeling better I can’t sleep on my left side anymore. I seem to recall that I used to be a right side sleeper until my right arm started bothering me. Eventually the right arm got better so now I have to wait for the left arm. 

            I worked out the chords for the third verse and the instrumental of “L'année à lenvers” (The Year in Reverse) by Boris Vian. I think the fourth verse will have the same chords as the first but I’ll find out for sure tomorrow. 

            I continued collecting images to use in a photo montage video for “Notre Derniere Chance” (Our Final Chance) by Serge Gainsbourg. It’s impossible to find an image of a burning newspaper online that isn’t AI generated. 

            I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the first of two sessions and only had to tune it slightly once. 

            I weighed 87.4 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I rode down to No Frills where I bought five bags of Canadian cherries, two packs of Mexican raspberries, some bananas, a pack of five-year-old cheddar, a jug of iced tea, a jug of orange juice, two containers of skyr, and a bag of Miss Vickie’s chips. I did a price match on the cherries with the Freshco price. Wangmo the cashier told me there was a limit on the number of items I could price match. I’d never heard of that in all the years I’ve been price matching there. I tend to always buy at least five bags of grapes or cherries. Apparently the limit is four. Wangmo has always been a stickler about the rules while other cahiers let things go. Anyway she didn’t charge me for the extra bag. I think I’m going to avoid that cashier from now on. 

            I weighed 87.15 kilos at 14:00. I had whole wheat saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea. 

            In the afternoon I was headed out to take my bike ride when I met my upstairs neighbour David at the building door. We chatted for a few minutes. He’s been on disability for a few months and will be going back to work at the docks soon. I rode downtown and back. 

            I weighed 86.75 kilos at 17:45. 

            I was caught up with my journal at 18:30. 

            I worked on the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Paranoiac Utopia”. I was surprised that the instrumental in the concert video is the exact same length as in the studio audio and so when I begin the fifth verse the first two words, “The paranoia” are in sync in video and audio. After that 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. I managed to synchronize the concert video with the studio audio for “is so”, “thick it can cut”, “you with a”, and “knife and”. 

            In my “2024-09-30 Song Practice” Movie Maker project I got rid of everything leading up to the final take of “How to Say Goodbye to You”. Then I started a “How to Say Goodbye to You (Gibson) Movie Maker project, adjusted the audio balance and isolated the song. I published it and uploaded it to You Tube. 

            I started a “2024-10-10 Song Practice” Movie Maker project and almost had the audio and video synchronized before supper. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching episode 4 of The Brady Bunch. The boys are used to coming to Alice with all their needs but now that their father is married she thinks they should start going to Carol. So for skinned knees and disputes Alice begins telling them she’s too busy and to go to their new mother. They begin seeking out Carol more and more until Alice starts to feel unneeded. She makes up a story about a sick aunt in Seattle and says she’s leaving. But then Marcia and Jan overhear Alice telling a friend on the phone that she just doesn’t feel needed there anymore. Once the Bradys learn of this they concoct a scheme to make themselves look collectively helpless so Alice will stay. The result is that Alice decides to stay but she lets them know that she knew they were acting all along but the fact they would go to that much trouble to keep her means they must need her. 

            Jan was played by Eve Plumb, who made her acting debut in TV commercials in 1966 at the age of 8. She began getting guest parts in series television in 1967. She originated the catchphrase, “Marcia, Marcia Marcia”. Her only starring role was in Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway in 1976. She co-starred in the 1978 mini-series Little Women. She made her feature film debut in “I’m Gonna Get You Sucka”. In the 90s she became a painter. At the age of 11 she bought a 50s beach house in Malibu for $55,000. In 2016 she sold it for $3.9 million.