I worked out the chords for most of the fifth verse of “Flashback” by Serge Gainsbourg.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the third of four sessions and the B string continues to go out of tune a lot.
I weighed 88.45 kilos before breakfast.
I spent some time copying an email conversation that I had last year with the landlady about noise. She agreed that it was okay for me to sing and play guitar every day at 9:00. Since then she’s been complaining about me doing it at all.
I weighed 88.9 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I rode downtown with the set of wrong sized Duralex tumblers I bought from Amazon and took them to Staples to do the return. There was a very long line-up of people making returns. I exclaimed out loud that Amazon really fucked up. I imagine if they paid their employees a decent wage they would make fewer mistakes. There were two lineups but I asked the person in front of me if this was the lineup for Amazon returns and she confirmed that it was. Later she moved over to the other line. When there were only six people ahead of me the person behind the desk for that line announced that the other line was for Amazon returns. I moved over but now some people that had been behind me were in front and there were ten people ahead. It was quick once I got to the desk. The guy just scanned my QR code and I was done but all in all I spent about an hour in line.
I weighed 88.5 kilos at 16:38.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:38.
In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “Insisting On Angels” I finished synchronizing the old video of me playing the song with the much older studio audio. All that was left were the final “da da dah” parts that had in the video fallen behind the audio. I just needed to cut out little bits from the video to line them up again. It’s more difficult to synchronize “da da dahs” than it is to line up words, but I got it done. The old video is really poor in quality and dull in appearance so I need to add some effects to enhance it. I started by brightening all the parts of the old video. Tomorrow I’ll experiment with some more effects.
I sautéed the bag of Argentinian shrimp with garlic and had them with a potato and gravy while watching the third season premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
At the end of season 2 the Gorn have captured about a hundred colonists from an outpost after killing thousands. Pike rescues his girlfriend Captain Batel but the Gorn have laid eggs inside her. La’an, M’Benga, Sam Kirk, and Ortega are captured. The Enterprise is under attack.
At the beginning of season 3, The Gorn are attacking the Enterprise. Una suggests jamming the Gorn coms. They mark the Gorn destroyer containing their crewmembers with a dud torpedo containing a distinctive element called Wolkite. They use a specific frequency of harmonics to get through the Gorn shields and to ram the ship before escaping. Chapel tries to freeze Batel to stop the incubation of the Gorn while they try to get them out of her, but her body turns out to be allergic to the freezing serum. Spock goes to help Chapel. Scotty is trying to rig up a cloaking device while his old professor Pelia nags him about not keeping a progress log. Meanwhile La’an wakes up in the Gorn sack and breaks out. There’s no explanation as to why she would be able to wake up and break out and if it has anything to do with her augmentations. She frees M’Benga, Ortega, and Kirk. The sacks are digestion mechanisms providing food for the Gorn and part of Ortega’s hand is missing. Scotty completes the transponder after Pelia comes in screaming and lying to say the Gorn are there. Scotty’s cloaking device works. They follow the Gorn destroyer to a binary star system. In sick bay, after running several computer simulations to test out various cures for Batel but in each scenario human DNA would fail. Finally they decide to inject Batel with Illyrian DNA, which has a more powerful immune system than humans. On the Gorn destroyer the group finds a Gorn ship and some weapons. That’s a little too convenient. On the Enterprise, Operations officer Jenna is exhausted and Pike tries to dismiss her but she refuses to leave her post as long as her crewmates are in danger. Uhura has a theory that the Gorn hibernate when their star flares up. They get Scotty rig up a way to make the Enterprise simulate a flaring star. In sick bay Chapel and Spock are going to surgically remove the Gorn but Spock stops her and suggests that since the Gorn hatchlings emerge from their host to feed, why not feed the Gorn inside Batel? La’an finds a Gorn computer interface and gains access to the transporter codes that would allow the hundred colonists to be transported to the Enterprise directly from the Gorn sacks. The Gorn attack and the prisoners fight their way to the Gorn ship. Ortega takes the controls and maneuvers free of the destroyer although it nearly kills her because she was wounded in the Gorn attack. La’an sends the Enterprise the transport codes and everyone is beamed aboard. The Enterprise uses the energy from the binary star to simulate it looking like a flaring star which causes the Gorn to go into hibernation.
Operations officer Jenna Mitchell is played by Canadian actor Rong Fu. She attended Earl Haig Secondary (where I used to pose as a model sometimes). She studied acting at York University. She acted in several of Toronto’s main theatre companies and at the Shaw Festival. She co-starred in the TV series Hello Again. She had recurring roles in Skymed and Space Janitors. She wrote the short film May Flowers and is co-writing the movie The Next BIG Thing.
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