I weighed 91 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice and it went out of tune on almost every song.
I cleaned the warm mist humidifier that’s been running all week and set the other one going. Maybe in a month or so I won’t need the humidifiers anymore and my Sundays will be freed up for painting.
I weighed 91.5 kilos before lunch. I had saltines with peanut butter and five-year-old cheddar, with a glass of iced tea.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown but only as far as St George and Bloor because the Bloor bike lane was getting slippery. I went south to Harbord, west to Bathurst. south to Queen and then west to home.
I weighed 91.05 kilos at 18:05.
I was caught up in my journal at 18:41.
I recorded from cassette tape through audio interface to Audacity and then extracted to my hard drive a recording that has my daughter Astrid making mostly pre-verbal sounds. Most of the first half of one side is a CBC interview with Leonard Cohen. The rest of the tape consists of a woman reading Ontario legal documents in French.
I made some more sub-folders for photos in my SSD and deleted a few more images from my hard drive. I’m up to the pictures with titles that start with “L”.
I cubed a pack of tofu and sautéed it. I added water, spinach, two Szechuan spice packs, and two servings of noodles. I ate supper with a glass of Creemore while watching season 1, episode 28 of Combat.
K Company has just liberated a French town and is looking forward to rest and relaxation there when a sniper kills one of their men. They search house to house but we see a man dressed as a local walk to a bombed out factory on the edge of town and descend to a hidden living quarters in the basement. We see him don a German uniform.
Later he returns to the village, again dressed as a local and from another upper floor room kills another GI. The sniper easily escapes back to his hideout. Francoise the bartender goes to meet him there and we see they are lovers.
Kirby runs across two boys playing war. Caje learns they are looking for the sniper. They say they saw someone go into the factory. Saunders and Caje go there and meet Francoise and Hans on the way. They find the sniper’s lair.
After they return to the village the sniper targets Saunders but he sees the gun in the window and moves. The bullet hits the wall near Saunders’ face and partially blinds him. The sniper stops to help an old lady with her baskets just as Hanley asks if they’ve seen anybody. Through his blurry vision Saunders can see Francoise walking out of the village and he follows her. She detects him and hides. The sniper grabs one of his cached rifles and hides behind a ridge to wait for Saunders. Francoise sees this and calls out a warning so the shot misses him. Hans shoots Francoise then Saunders fires from side to side in his general direction with his machine gun until he hits and kills the sniper. He goes to Francoise as she is dying.
The sniper was played by Eric Braeden, who immigrated to the US as a teenager and worked as a translator, a cowhand, and a lumber mill hand in Montana and Texas. He earned a track and field scholarship to Montana State University. He and Bob McKinnon made a documentary of their successful trip the length of the Salmon River. He went to Hollywood to find a distributor and ended up being cast as the co-star in The Rat Patrol. His film debut was in Operation Eichman in 1961. He starred in Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Adulteress, and The Man Who Came Back. He co-starred in The Mask of Sheba, The Ultimate Thrill, and The Ambulance. He reluctantly accepted the role of Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless and it made him a star. He has been nominated for five Emmy Awards. He co-starred in the mini series Lucky Chances. He thinks Hollywood’s portrayal of US soldiers in WWII caused the Vietnam war.
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