I finished working out the chords to “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg. Tomorrow I’ll run through singing and playing it in French and then I’ll work on revising my translation.
I weighed 87.8 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since October 25.
I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the third of four sessions. It went out of tune a lot during the first half but hardly at all during the second half until the last two songs.
Around midday I headed down to No Frills. Approaching Lansdowne I passed to the right of a car that was stopped for the light and there was a little thump as part of my bike trailer hit something on the side of the car. At the light the driver called out “You fucking asshole” and said I was supposed to pull over if I hit someone’s car. I couldn’t imagine that my little trailer going at slightly more than zero kilometers an hour would have done any damage to his car. I think I had gone to the left around another car and then turned to the right of this guy’s vehicle and maybe the trailer rubbed against it enough to make a noise but I really doubt there was a scratch. I just said, “What do you think hit your car?” and he didn’t say anything then I continued on.
At No Frills I got two packs of raspberries. One can get two conjoined packs for $7.50 while they sell single packs for $3.99 and flag it as if it’s a deal. I bought five bags of red grapes, some organic bananas, some regular bananas, two packs of five-year-old cheddar, a sack of potatoes, a whole chicken, dental floss, a jug of high acid vinegar, three bags of skim milk, a bag of frozen pub fries, a jug of iced tea, two containers of plain skyr, a container of berry skyr, and two bags of Miss Vickie’s chips.
While I was picking out a bag of milk a guy opened the door next to the one I was looking in. Although he had plenty of room he was pushing the glass door against my body the whole time he was looking for the milk he wanted. I would never be that oblivious to someone else’s personal space.
I weighed 88.7 kilos at 14:40. October 29 was the last time I pushed the scale that hard in the early afternoon. I had saltines with peanut butter and five-year-old cheddar with a glass of iced tea.
I took a siesta from 15:15 to 16:45 and by the time I was ready to take a bike ride at 17:15 it was too late to ride downtown. I rode instead to Ossington and Bloor. While I was riding down Ossington a TTC bus cut in front of me to stop at a light. I had to get off my bike and walk ahead of him.
I weighed 88.65 kilos at 18:00. I haven’t been that fat in the evening since November 6.
I was behind on my journal again because of dozing off at the computer last night.
I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, a cut up New Zealand grass fed beef burger, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching the series premier of the sixties sitcom Car 54 Where Are You?
Frances Muldoon and Gunther Toody are police officers on their day off. They go fishing in a little row boat and see a yacht heading out to sea. Muldoon says he bets they’ll be fishing for swordfish and then he describes how exciting that would be. Then they see that on the yacht is their fellow officer O’Hara. Muldoon explains that O’Hara’s brother in law owns the boat. At work the next day Toody tries to convince O’Hara to ask his brother in law to take him and Muldoon fishing on his yacht but O’Hara refuses. Toody and Muldoon decide to butter O’Hara up. Toody fills out O’Hara’s duty roster while Muldoon leaves his car behind for O’Hara to drive. Toody also gives O’Hara a bouquet of flowers to give to his wife. But since this is the first time in five years of marriage that O’Hara has given Helen flowers she is suspicious that he is seeing another woman. Then he gets a call from Toody and another from Frances so Helen thinks those are both women. When O’Hara gets to work the next day the captain reads him the duty report that Toody filled out for him: “Arrested a black and white cat for driving without a license; Rescued Mrs. Simpson in a blue convertible that was stuck in a rain pipe; Arrested a brown cocker spaniel on suspicion of running a floating crap game; Gave a summons to Otto Schwartzkopf for walking his wife without a leash”. O’Hara tells them he’ll ask his brother in law to take then deep sea fishing on the condition that they stop doing him favours. Later Toody gets a call from O’Hara that they can go fishing on Wednesday but that’s the day of his and Lucille’s 15th wedding anniversary. She tells him, “If going fishing means more to you than our fifteen years of married life, more than the happiness of your wife, more than all our future happiness, then you can go!” Toody smiles and tells O’Hara, “She says I can go!” Lucille shouts out the window, “I’m married to a nut!” But when Muldoon and Toody come to work O’Hara tells them that his brother in law had to change the day to Thursday, which is not their day off. What follows is a very complicated series of schedule switches with other sets of patrol car partners. They can have one team’s Thursday off if they find that team a Saturday off. The Saturday team will do it for a Monday off. The Monday team wants a Tuesday. But once they have it all worked out and get a Thursday off they find they are scheduled for traffic court on Thursday. So then they have to do all of the switches all over again to get another team’s day in traffic court. They end up trading Thursday’s traffic court for doing a stakeout all week. They are at the stakeout when a convertible goes through a stop sign. Even though they aren’t on traffic detail Toody puts on the siren and stops the driver out of force of habit. Toody has to avoid giving the man a ticket and just tries to chew out the driver. But Harold Conroy would prefer a ticket over a lecture and he insists that Toody give him one. Then another squad car arrives and that officer tries to make out a ticket for Conroy but Conroy insists on Muldoon or Toody writing him a ticket. Finally the Inspector arrives and tells Muldoon to give Conroy a ticket. They have to negotiate again to find someone else to go to traffic court so they can meet O’Hara’s brother in law at the pier. But then O’Hara comes to tell them his brother in law Harold Conroy can’t go fishing that day because he has to appear in traffic court.
Lucille Toody was played by Beatrice Pons, who made her Broadway debut in Mahogany Hall in 1934. She had a nightclub act doing impressions of actors and singers. She played Tanya on the Dick Tracy radio series. Her television debut came when the Big Town radio series switched to TV in 1951. She played the wife of Joe E. Ross’s characters on both Car 54 Where Are You? and the Phil Silvers Show. Her film debut was in Diary of a Bachelor in 1964. She co-starred in Mothers Day.
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