I uploaded to my Christian’s Translations blog “À poil ou à plumes” (Naked or in Feathers) by Serge Gainsbourg and started preparing it for publication. Tomorrow I’ll have it posted and I’ll also post my translation on Facebook.
I weighed 87.85 kilos before breakfast.
Around midday I took my bike trailer down to Canadian Tire at Joe Shuster Way and King to shop for a step ladder. The Mastercraft ladder I’d seen last time didn’t seem to be there anymore. I tried out a 1.7 meter tall Maximum ladder and tried it out by climbing it and measuring my reach with my tape. The Mastercraft one might have been just high enough if I stretched but this one would give me a comfortable reach for anything I want to do with my ceiling. It was more than twice as much at $182 after tax. I stuck the ladder upside down in the lower bag of my bike trailer and was able to easily wheel it around the store to also get some bedbug spray.
I hitched my trailer to the bike and squeezed onto my bike with the other end of the ladder leaning against my back but as soon as I tried to ride, the trailer flipped. I used one of my straps to secure it. I walked it several meters up Joe Shuster Way and then tried to ride again. This time it held until I came out on Dufferin just below Queen. I didn’t feel confident riding on the hill leading up from the railroad bridge so I walked it up. Once I was on the level again I rode it home. There ‘s really no place I can keep the ladder in the open as far as I can see and so I just decided to stand it up in the bathtub behind the shower curtain where it can’t be seen. I’ll just move it out whenever I take a shower. On Friday I can start using the ladder to tape off some primed areas below the ceiling before painting colour up there.
I weighed 88.1 kilos at 15:00.
I took a siesta from 15:30 to 17:15 and it was too late for a bike ride.
I weighed 88.95 kilos at 17:40.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:30.
I finished reviewing the cassette recording of the early Christian and the Lions rehearsal and then digitized it. Steve Lowe and Arjan were learning my songs from scratch and Steve was teaching Arjan how to play them on bass. There was a discussion about my song “Instructions for Electroshock Therapy”. In my experience it was one of my most requested songs because a lot of my friends are psychiatric survivors who feel the song exposes the procedure. But Steve says a lot of people find it too disturbing and some have walked out while I’m singing it.
In my 2024-09-20 Song Practice Movie Maker project I synchronized the interface audio with the video and then deleted everything before “I Love You. Neither Do I”. I then saved the project as “I Love You. Neither Do I (Gibson)”.
I boiled a small sliced potato. I made pizza on a slice of Bavarian sandwich bread with marinara, tomato pesto, the potato, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore while watching episode 14 of Cain’s Hundred.
A group that takes over businesses for the Organization follows a plan by Benjamin Riker to take over Amalgamated World Transportation to use it for smuggling. They start by intimidating Amalgamated’s biggest customer Harry Marstow by threatening to kill members of his family if he uses Amalgamated’s services. They do this with four other companies until Amalgamated’s stock diminishes in value. Then Riker becomes a major shareholder in Amalgamated and contacts Vice President Kurt Yoder, the son of President Zales Yoder. They meet at Kurt’s club and Riker asks Kurt why Amalgamated is losing money. Just then Marstow walks in but doesn’t see them. Kurt points him out and says he’s one of the reasons business is slow. Then Nicholas Cain comes in and meets Marstow. Riker knows Cain and what he’s after from Marstow so he goes to the phone. Marstow is about to tell Cain about the threats he’s received when a phone is brought to his table and someone warns him that he’d better not talk. From this point on Marstow clams up and refuses to talk with Cain. Cain goes to see Kurt and tells him about Riker’s criminal past but Kurt is only concerned with his present as a major stockholder in Amalgamated. Kurt challenges his father’s authority in front of some of the board of directors. Kurt meets with his mother and says he won’t be coming for dinner. Riker meets again with Kurt and begins to plot Kurt taking over as president. Kurt says that between Riker and one other major stockholder who is almost swayed he can push his father out. Riker says he wants to put one of his own men on the board. Cain visits Marstow and his wife but they are both too frightened to talk. Cain meets with Kurt and Zale and warns them that he plans to control Amalgamated. Kurt says he’ll trust him but Zale says he’ll help Cain. Zale tells Cain that he understands his son because he also forced his father out and was almost hoping this would happen. Then Riker tells Kurt he can bring all five of the major customers back that left Amalgamated. At the stockholders meeting Marstow submissively arrives and says he’s back. Kurt addresses the stockholders and says he’s withdrawing his move to be president. He then exposes Riker, pointing him out, and says he’s been manipulating him. He also says Riker took Marstow away then brought him back and it had nothing to do with the merits of Amalgamated. Riker walks out. Marstow tells Cain he will cooperate now. Zale tells Kurt he’s proud of him and wants him to stay with the company.
Mrs. Yoder was played by Kathryn Givney, who made her Broadway debut in a 1926 production of Night Stick. She was typecast as a society matron and never played a lead role. She appeared in 22 Hollywood films and several stage productions. From the 1950s she played supporting roles on television series.
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