On Tuesday morning went to bed after 2:00. I laid on my left side and kept a cold gel pack sitting on my right cheek while I tried to sleep. I don’t think I got much if any sleep. My right cheek was so swollen I could see it in the corner of my eye.
After yoga I collected more images of Zizi Jeanmaire for a photo video of “Les millionaires” by Serge Gainsbourg while holding the gel pack against my cheek. I have 22 pictures but I think I might need 300.
I weighed 88.95 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since January 21.
I played my Martin acoustic during song practice and it went out of tune most of the time. I couldn’t really sing because of the stitches but couldn’t play the songs unless I followed the lyrical sequence so I mumbled the words in key.
I weighed 89.85 kilos before lunch.
Around midday I finished touching up the pink areas on the grid of my bathroom exhaust fan. Tomorrow I’ll open up the wall paint and fix the blue and pink smudges below the fan.
I took a siesta at 14:30 and planned to sleep until 16 but didn’t wake until 16:39.
I took a bike ride as far as Ossington and Bloor because there was some melting today and the Bloor bike lane was clearer. I stopped at Freshco where I bought seven bags of grapes and matched them to the No Frills price of $4.34 a kilo. I also got some Pho broth, garlic chicken broth, two packs of Japanese beef noodles, a can of spicy tomato soup and a can of butter chicken soup.
I weighed 89.7 kilos at 18:40.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:36.
I tried again to record from cassette tape through audio interface to Audacity but Audacity still shows no waveform and there’s no audio reaching the track even though there’s a horizontal green recording bar bouncing to indicate it’s picking up the audio. It was working fine yesterday until halfway through a tape. I tried various things until suppertime but couldn’t figure it out.
I had a potato with gravy and a boiled chicken leg while watching season 1, episode 16 of Combat.
K company has liberated a French town and the villagers are celebrating them. 13 year old Gilbert, who has lost his entire family in the war, grabs his father’s rifle and approaches the men to volunteer as a US soldier. Lieutenant Hanley, rather than simply telling Gilbert he’s too young, has Caje explain in French that they are not allowed to recruit while in the field.
But when K Company moves out, Gilbert follows. He finds them under fire. When Hanley gets wounded and seems to have also a concussion, Saunders wants Gilbert to help Hanley back to his village until they can bring help. Caje gets him to go by telling him Hanley has made him his adjutant.
On the way Hanley collapses and then Gilbert sees German soldiers approaching, He covers Hanley in brush and then runs so the Germans will chase him. He is caught and the Germans find him amusing. One soldier named Kurt is particularly nice to him.
When the Germans move out Gilbert uncovers Hanley. He finds an overturned cart and uses it to wheel Hanley into the village, which is now abandoned. He takes him to his family house and puts him in bed. Then he sees a squad of Germans occupy the town, setting up machine guns in several windows. Hanley manages to communicate to Gilbert that he has to go get his men. He finds them and brings them back to the village where they take out the machine gun nests with grenades.
Gilbert uses his rifle to kill one of the German soldiers but when he does so he is upset, especially when he discovers that the German he killed is Kurt, the one German who was nice to him. He no longer wants to be a soldier.
Caje was played by Canadian actor Pierre Jalbert who was the Canadian junior national ski champion, senior national ski champion and captain of Canada’s 1948 Olympics ski team. He broke his leg before the games and couldn’t compete. He studied art appreciation at the Sorbonne in Paris then joined a French film company as a production assistant. He worked for the National Film Board of Canada then moved to Hollywood in 1952 and got work as a film cutter and editor for MGM. His screen acting debut was in Ski Crazy in 1955. After ten years working for MGM he was cast as Caje in Combat. He was the voice of Jules Verne in the documentary Footprints on the Moon – Apollo 11. He returned to film editing and was an assistant editor for The Godfather. He was nominated for an Emmy award for sound editing in the 1981 mini series Shogun.
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