I memorized the first verse of “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg.
I weighed 88.3 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the first of two sessions and two or three times it was still in tune after a song was done.
My upstairs neighbour called me because he’d misplaced his key so I let him in. He still couldn’t get into his apartment. I assume it only locks from outside and so he went looking for where he left them.
I was getting ready to go to No Frills but I spent some time trying to find a Freshco flyer on my phone. For some reason the Freshco that always pops up is in Fort McMurray, Alberta. I suspect it’s because Wireless 4U sold me a second hand phone even though the guy said it was new. The Fort McMurray store did not have the deal on red grapes that the local one has. It took me over half an hour to figure out how to change the selected store.
I went to Freedom Mobile to pay for my November phone plan.
At No Frills there weren’t many firm red grapes, so I only got two bags of those. I also bought four bags of green grapes, two packs of raspberries, bananas, a pack of three chicken legs, a loaf of cinnamon-raisin bread, mouthwash, lemon dish detergent, a bag of peppercorns, three bags of skim milk, a jug of iced tea, a container of plain skyr, a container of berry skyr, and a bag of Miss Vickie’s chips.
I weighed 89.35 kilos at 14:53.
I took a siesta and woke up at 16:45. By the time I was ready to take a bike ride it was too late to go downtown and so I just rode to Ossington and Bloor.
I weighed 89.35 kilos at 17:45.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:15.
I finished listening to the BOOG spoken word cassette. Some of it was entertaining but there’s nothing I need to keep from it.
I reviewed the videos of my song practice performances of “Leave Some for Everyone Else” and “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” from September 2 to 6, 2024. On September 2 I played “Leave Some for Everyone Else” on my Gibson Les Paul Studio and the take at 13:00 in part B was okay. On September 4 and 6 I played it on my Martin Road Series. On September 4 the take at 101:30 wasn’t bad. On September 6 I paused too long at one point. I played “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” on the Martin on September 3 and 5. On September 3 the take at 50:15 was okay but the guitar was out of tune. On September 5 the take at 00:45 in part B wasn’t bad but I fumbled the lyrics.
I made pizza on a slice of Bavarian sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, a sliced boiled potato, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching episode 17 of Cain's Hundred.
Cain is on holiday and visiting the home of his friend Doug Crawford who is the district attorney for a normally quiet county. Doug gets a call about an assault and a witness has identified William Norman as the perpetrator. Cain knows the name because he’s one of the mobsters on his list but he’s surprised he would be operating out in the country. Doug explains that Norman owns a lodge and comes out there to fish. They go to get Norman to come to the station to be identified by the witness. Clem Burgess the victim had his glasses knocked off and broken during the attack and he mistakenly identifies Cain as his attacker. Clem’s daughter however is the witness and she positively identifies Norman as the attacker. She says Norman picked her up at the Blue Rooster and drove her home. Clem saw him trying to get fresh and tried to stop him and that’s when he was beaten up. Cain asks Doug if he can help him with the case but Doug says if he can put away Norman unassisted he’ll make a name for himself and he can advance beyond being just a county DA. Cain promises he’ll stay in the background and so Doug gives in. Ann’s boyfriend Gil comes to see her and says when it’s all over they’ll get married. Clem clearly doesn’t like him and tells him to leave. Cain goes to the Blue Rooster and asks a bar girl named Edna Temple if she saw Ann last night but she says she wasn’t there. The bartender says she was there with Norman but she’s usually there with Gil. Ann says she went with Norman because Gil was busy. Cain goes to the pool hall where Gil hangs out. Gil tries to play a game with Cain but he scratches. Cain visits Norman in jail and Norman says he was framed, either by the feds or by his partner Sandusky. Cain talks with Doug and they argue because Cain’s not sure he hasn’t been framed. Doug doesn’t care whether he’s guilty of this particular charge since he’s a known criminal. Cain goes back to the pool hall where he meets with an informer named Willie who drove out from the city to meet him. Willie is shown also playing pool and scratching. Cain on the other hand is shown to be a good player. Nobody who hangs around pool halls is as bad as Willie and Gil so it’s unrealistic but maybe it’s meant to be symbolic that criminals can’t win. Willie says that Norman and Sandusky both want to get rid of each other but the Organization won’t let them and has made it clear that if one kills the other they’ll kill whoever is left. Dave Reed is the boss of both Norman and Sandusky. Norman gets out on bail and he’s back in his cabin when Reed comes to visit. Norman admits to him that he is actually guilty of the assault. Cain arrives and Reed suggests he defend Norman in court. Norman doesn’t want him to but Cain says he will and Reed orders Norman to go with it. The cops find Sandusky in a shallow grave. In court Cain puts Edna on the stand. She says she lied earlier when she told Cain she wasn’t at the Blue Rooster on the night of the assault. She left the bar with her escort before Ann and Norman left but she did see Gil sitting in his car outside. Cain puts Gil on the stand and he says he saw Ann and Norman leave the bar then followed them to Norman’s lodge. Cain puts police Captain Martin Amherst on the stand and he says Sandusky was killed at the time of the assault. He also says the tire tracks near Sandusky’s grave were those of Gil’s car. Cain puts Ann on the stand and she says that when she left the Blue Rooster she did get into Norman’s car but he didn’t get in with her. Norman suddenly stands up and admits he’s guilty of the assault but the judge says he can’t do that. Ann continues that Gil got into Norman’s car with her. Norman paid Gil to switch cars with him. She says it was arranged for her to scream so her father would attack Gil and so Gil would hit him. Norman is cleared of the assault charge but held on suspicion of murder.
Ann was played by Carolyn Kearney, who started dancing at the age of 5. She studied at the Pasadena Playhouse. She appeared in Hot Rod Girl and co-starred in The Thing That Couldn’t Die. She was involved in a train accident and trapped in a compartment before being rescued. Because of that she developed PTSD for which she was misprescribed Xanax and became addicted. After she kicked the habit she helped found Benzodiazepine Anonymous.
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