I ran through singing and playing “Flashback” by Serge Gainsbourg in French, then I finished my translation. Tomorrow I’ll run through it in English and then work on making a photo montage video for the song.
I played my Kramer electric during song practice and it stayed in tune most of the time. Tomorrow I begin a two session stretch of playing my Martin acoustic.
I weighed 87.85 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since September 27.
The landlord knocked on my door and told me Jacob, the new tenant above me complained about me singing and playing guitar in the morning. I decided to knock on Jacob’s door to ask when it would be all right to sing and play. He said it might be okay for me to do it at the current time eventually but he’s adjusting to the new place and he finds it difficult. He told me to try starting at 10:00 for now. He says my singing and playing sound good but he has writing to do. I gave him my number so he can call me rather than going through the landlord. I asked if he’s seen any bedbugs yet and he said he hadn’t. I told him to let the landlord know as soon as he sees them because the Raja doesn’t listen to me anymore.
I washed the outside of the bathroom door. I’d been thinking I might need to paint it again but all it needed was to be cleaned until I start painting in the kitchen.
I weighed 88.7 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride and on Brock just south of Bloor I saw a nice bookshelf sitting on a lawn. It looked like it was being thrown out but it also had other items arranged on the shelves almost like a display and so it looked less like these things were being discarded. I rode downtown and stopped at Freshco on my way back. I bought seven bags of green grapes, two packs of raspberries, some bananas, a brown sugar ham, an Australian eye of round roast, and two packs of Full City Dark coffee. I did a price match on the grapes but they have a policy now that only allows me to get the price match on four of the bags.
When I got home I grabbed my trailer to hitch up to the Raleigh. I put my cinching straps in my backpack and rode back up Brock. The shelf is plywood but feels pretty solid. Most of the bookshelves I see being thrown out look like they could easily fall apart because they are made out of fiberboard. This one was 119.5 cm by 101.5 cm with three levels of shelves, each with two compartments of different sizes but with the top two the same size. I knocked on the door of the house and without opening the door the guy told me I was welcome to take it away. I strapped it to my trailer with two straps. At first I didn’t ride my bike because I was worried about the shelf flipping. After about a block I decided to risk it and ride, and everything was fine. I rode very slowly though. With the trailer as a hand truck it wasn’t even hard to get the bookshelf upstairs. My Burly bike trailer is one of the best investments I’ve ever made. I wanted to try to replace the entryway shelf because it’s pretty flimsy and easily falls apart but the shelf is too wide to fit. I think it will fit in the space to the left of my computer and the shelf that’s already there can go on top of the thick shelf to the right of my kitchen table.
I weighed 87.95 kilos at 20:10. That’s the least I’ve tipped the scale in the evening since September 28.
I had a potato with the last of my gravy and a chicken breast while watching Season 3, episode 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
La’an is asked to test a new game program called the holodeck to see if it could be a valuable morale boosting tool on long space fights. Spock and Scotty help set up the technology. La’an decides to create the first program based on the Amelia Moon detective stories she adored as a child. She also wants the program to be designed to be as challenging as possible. She plays Amelia and arrives on the Hollywood set of a science fiction program and finds that a murder has been committed. The suspects are the actors, writers and producers of the show “The Last Frontier” which is clearly a parody of the original Star Trek. The holographic characters are drawn from the people that La’an knows on the Enterprise. James Kirk plays a parody of William Shatner’s Kirk with an over the top imitation of his infamous pauses as he captains the USS Adventure. We see part of the show at the beginning. The captain says, “I wrote the book on jurisdiction and I’m known for my diction”. He talks to a ridiculous looking alien called an Agonyan who holds its eyes on sticks and constantly talks about how delicious humans are. She will only help them if they give her their brain cells. She fires nuclear lasers and takes their brain cells but they still seem to be able to function. So La’an enters the program as Amelia. Spock says his ancestor on his human side is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Apparently this was hinted in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country. Someone who looks like Uhura plays a chain smoking booking agent named Jerry Gloss. She found the body of the murder victim and called Amelia. Studio head Tony Hart has been strangled. Captain Pike is the face of T.K. Bellows who is a parody of Gene Roddenberry. Una is the face of Sunny Lupino the producer of the show, who is modeled after Lucille Ball. Maxwell Saint is the William Shatner parody. Ortegas is the face of Lee Woods who plays the doctor on the show, a parody of De Forest Kelly. Chapel is the face of Adelaide Shaw, who plays the first officer on the show. Hart was killed because The Last Frontier was being cancelled. Tony was Sunny’s ex-husband and so he must be Desi Arnaz. Sunny is having a drink when she starts choking and dies. La’an finds the program is countering her every move and so she needs help. She has Spock come in. All the characters have a negative reaction to Spock. Amelia says he doesn’t watch television so T.K. concludes he’s a communist. The holodeck is starting to cause minor functional problems for the Enterprise and Scotty is frantically trying to manage it. Amelia and Spock interview Saint. He was having an affair with Tony’s secretary as was Tony. T.K. says he is a writer so he’s never happy about anything. A chandelier falls and some of thew glass cuts La’an’s face. She realizes the program’s safety protocols are malfunctioning and tells the computer to end the program but nothing happens. She calls for Scotty but he doesn’t hear. They are trapped in the program. Of course that happens lots of time in future holodeck stories. Scotty knows he’s lost contact with La’an and consults Uhura. In the program Lee is found stabbed to death. Amelia finds a strip of film in the fake fireplace and deduces that it’s the weapon that killed Tony. Enterprise is flying into ma gamma ray burst and needs power to break free but the holodeck is draining the power. Scotty reroutes some power to give them thirty seconds of acceleration so Ortegas has to use some trick flying to make use of that little bit and break free. Amelia and Spock watch the film they found. Scotty makes himself appear as a hologram in the film they are watching and tells them the only way she can escape the holodeck is to solve the mystery. T.K. has a gun and informs Ameelia that they weren’t cancelling the show but rather replacing him. He insists though that he didn’t kill Tony. He thinks Amelia did it. He points the gun at Spock and she grabs it as it goes off, only wounding Spock. Amelia suddenly realizes that Spock is not Spock but merely one of the holograms and that he is the killer. She had asked the computer for a challenge and it gave her the character she would least suspect. She has solved the mystery and can now end the program. She reports to Pike and Una that starships are not yet ready for holodecks. La’an dances with Spock again and they begin kissing.
The Agonyan was played by Canadian actor Kira Guloien, who trained from childhood as a singer and dancer. At 16 she won a countrywide audition to be cast in the CBC series Triple Sensation. She studied at Ryerson Theatre School and began to act professionally while still in school. She played Elektra in Elektra in Bosnia at the Acropolis. She played Mrs. Walker in Tommy at Stratford. She made her Broadway debut in Dr, Zhivago the Musical. As a singer she has soloed with the Edmonton Symphony. She played the four armed bartender on Star Trek Strange New Worlds episode Wedding Bell Blues.
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