I ran through singing and playing my translation of “Flashback” by Serge Gainsbourg. I started collecting images for a photo montage video of the song, because there is none on YouTube. Only Petula Clark’s entire album, including that song, and that only has a photo of her album cover.
I weighed 87.25 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since September 27.
Because of my agreement with my upstairs neighbour Jacob I changed my song practice time from 9:00 to 10:00. So for the first time in all the decades I’ve been practicing in the morning I had breakfast before song practice. It felt weird singing on a full stomach.
I touched up the primer on my bathroom lazy Susan and the metal rack, then I added a fourth coat of primer to the metal shelf brackets in the bathroom. I think that should be enough. I think the inside of the bathroom door needs some more and then I think I’ll use the rest of the primer for covering up bedbug stains and cracks in the bedroom. When the primer is finished I’ll buy a stepladder and start preparing to paint the bathroom in colour.
I weighed 87.85 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 87 kilos at 18:16. That’s the lowest in the evening since September 26.
I worked before and after supper on getting caught up in my journal.
I made a new batch of gravy from chicken drippings and had some with a potato and a chicken breast while watching season 3, episode 5 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Dr. Roger Korby is researching the possibility that ancient technologies achieved immortality by creating quantum instability at a molecular level and wants to explore a heritage site on Vadia Nine. Chapel has gotten Starfleet to approve getting him there and she’ll be leading a small away team. A magnetic anomaly indicates that an ancient structure is buried beneath the surface. The Enterprise uses deflector beams to reveal a massive structure that could have been a temple or a palace. Uhura translates the symbols and it says entrance can only be gained with blood given freely. Chapel puts her hand into an opening and a needle comes down to prick her. She lets her blood drip into a receptacle and the door opens. Inside they find ancient skeletons of people that starved to death there because they were trapped. On one of the skeletons Ensign Gamble finds a sphere that he picks up and brings close to examine. It explodes in his face and burns out his eyes. Gamble is beamed back to the Enterprise. Dr. M’Benga tries to regenerate Gamble’s eyes but there is mysterious resistance. Ortegas’ brother Beto is a filmmaker documenting the mission. He has sent a drone into the next chamber and shows the others what looks like an abstract sculpture. With them also is Njal, a native of the planet. He decares that it’s evil and runs for the door but a ray vaporizes him. They decide to venture deeper into the building. The building is friendly towards Chapel and the door to the next chamber opens but the six team members find themselves split into groups of two that cannot see the others. Chapel and La’an are one pair and they find the sculpture to be phasing in time. It is here and not here all at once. Spock looks down a well containing thousands of the spheres. One rises in front of his face and he sees a Gorn inside. In sick bay Gamble begins to talk as if someone else is inside of him and that entity knows about M’Benga’s daughter. Captain Marie Batel enters sickbay and sees Gamble. Suddenly an entity inside of her recognizes the one inside Gamble and they begin to fight. When Pike enters with guards, Gamble runs and Marie is sedated. Gamble is captured and put in the brig. The three pairs in the building realize they are all in the same room but on different planes of existence. It’s possible that the building is a prison and that the orbs are prison cells. Each group has an artifact and they are each standing in front of the sculpture. They find the corresponding parts of the sculpture to fit the artifacts and the team is back together. They had crossed a bridge to get to the chamber but now it is gone. Spock says effect must precede cause. They have to step onto the open space to cause the bridge to appear, so after some hesitation Chapel leads the way and the bridge appears. Gamble breaks out of the brig force field and kills his guard. He confronts Pelia, Scotty and Sam Kirk but M’Benga comes up behind with a phaser. Gamble turns toward M’Benga and is about to fire when Pelia kills him. The energy of the entity rises from Gamble and Scotty recaptures it in the sphere then beams it into a pattern buffer. Pelia gives a speech about how there is evil in the universe, then asks if Beto wants her to repeat it on film. There is some indication that the prisoner in the pattern buffer is not helpless.
Korby is played by Cillian O’Sullivan, who began acting on stage at the age of 7. His first television roles were in Irish language productions for TG4. He played an Irish gangster on Daredevil: Born Again.
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