Marion Ross

            On Monday morning my arm was better than it has been since I strained it while lunging for a falling mug. 

            I continued to edit “L'année à lenvers” (The Year in Reverse) by Boris Vian in my Christian’s Translations blog to prepare it for publication. 

            In Movie Maker I published my “Notre Dernière Chance” photo montage video and uploaded it to YouTube. I noticed while at YouTube that they had blocked my Batgirl 3 video but had made public my Batgirl 4 video. 

            Then I uploaded the text of “Notre Dernière Chance” by Serge Gainsbourg, the chords and my translation to my Christian’s Translations blog. I started preparing it for publication and will probably have that done tomorrow. 

            I played my Kramer electric during song practice and it only needed to be tuned at the beginning and end. Tomorrow I’ll start a two session stretch of playing my Martin acoustic. 

            I weighed 87.38 kilos before breakfast. 

            I shaved and showered and I think I got most of the primer paint off me from yesterday. 

            I weighed 87.45 kilos before lunch, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the early afternoon since August 4. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 86.6 kilos at 17:45. 

            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 final chorus I managed to synchronize the concert video with the studio audio for “I feel”, “I can see forever””, “midst this blindness I”, “feel I can see for…” At that point the “doo doo”s begin and I synchronized the video with the audio for the first one. The first stage of the “doo”s at the end follow the pattern of a verse just like they do at the beginning. The camera is further away from me during that part and it’s hard to tell if the video and the audio aren’t lined up, plus for a while the camera is not shooting me at all. When it returns to me I have just begun the final dramatic singing of the “doo”s and I’m on the third “doo”. At that point the audio is definitely ahead of the video. So next time I’ll delete some of the video of Csilla playing the bongos until they are synchronized. . I might have the audio and the video lined up by Tuesday. If so then I can start shooting my Parkdale video on Wednesday. 

            I compared the song practice video of my acoustic performance of “Coiffure by Eliza” on October 14 to that of September 6 and September 6 looks better and is more expressive. So the September 6 version is the one I’ll upload to YouTube. 

            I compared my September 7 electric performance of “Eliza” to that of September 17 and the September 17 video looks better, sounds better and the Gibson is more in tune. I compared September 19 to September 17 and September 17 is the better looking video. I compared September 23 to September 17 and September 17 looks better, plus at the end of September 23 there is a siren. I compared September 29 to September 17 and although September 17 looks better I am more expressive of September 29, plus I use the volume pedal. I compared October 5 to September 29. September 29 is better but the Kramer has a less rattly sound and so I might do what I did before and make one video with the Gibson and one video with the Kramer. September 29 is the best Gibson take so now I’ll see which is the best with the Kramer. I compared October 9 to October 5 and October 9 looks good but I use the volume pedal instead of the tremolo bar. So I’m going to upload both September 29 and October 5. 

            I compared my September 2 electric performance of “Coiffure by Eliza” to that of September 8 and September 2 looks and sounds better. There are eight more to compare. 

            I had two small potatoes with gravy and a chicken leg with skyr and dill while watching episode 13 of The Brady Bunch. 

            All six children now have the measles. Carol calls Mike at work to let him know. Then she automatically calls her family physician Dr. Porter while Mike instinctively contacts his Dr. Cameron. When the boys see Dr. Porter they refuse to be treated by a woman and when the girls see Dr. Cameron they are horrified about the idea of being touched by a male doctor. Mike and Carol tell the doctors they will make a decision soon about which of them they will choose. In the end they decide to use both doctors. Then when Porter and Cameron return they announce they are going into practice together. Cameron was played by Herbert Anderson, who played the father of Dennis the Menace. 

            Porter was played by Marion Ross, who took drama lessons as a teenager. She acted in college productions and then worked in summer theatre in San Diego. She landed a contract with Paramount and appeared in a unbilled parts in movies. She made her film debut in Forever Female in 1953. She co-starred on Life with Father from 1953 to 1955. She made her Broadway debut in Edwin Booth in 1958. She was in her mid 40s when in 1974 she was cast in Happy Days and became a star. The show lasted ten years. She then starred in the series Brooklyn Bridge. I posted my Batgirl 5 and Batgirl 6 videos on YouTube. Batgirl 5 was accepted but Batgirl 6 was pending copyright approval at bedtime.