I weighed 90.15 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice and it stayed in tune most of the time.
Yesterday I’d forgotten to buy high acid vinegar for cleaning my warm mist humidifiers. Sunday’s my humidifier cleaning day and so around midday I rode to Freshco to buy some. I also bought some broccoli. When I got home I immediately worked on cleaning the humidifier that’s been running all week and started the other one working. Starting in about three weeks I’ll probably be using the humidifiers less and less until I won’t need to use them again until fall.
I weighed 90.8 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. It was cold again for the first time in a few days. Spring will be here in three weeks and probably after that there will only be one more storm before the weather starts getting warmer.
I weighed 90.45 kilos at 18:20.
I was caught up in my journal at 19:27.
I recorded from cassette tape through audio interface to Audacity and then extracted to my hard drive the song I sang while reading Rocky Capano’s lyrics at Cherry Beach Recording Studio on August 4, 1994. There were professional studio musicians backing me up. Rocky just handed me a lyric sheet and asked me to sing the song, so I made up the melody as I went along. I also got to record my song “Me and Gravity” with the same musicians. It wasn’t really the style I wanted for my song but it was interesting. It was the only time I’d ever performed in a fully professional recording studio.
I sautéed garlic and scallions, added some broccoli and then pho broth. I tossed in the half bowl of chili that was left over from last night. I had all two and a half bowls of soup for supper while watching episode 2 of Captain Nice.
The very wealthy Sheik Abdul comes to Big Town. Captain Nice saves him from an assassination attempt. Mayor Finney asks the sheik what he wants to buy in Big Town and he says he wants to buy Big Town but he’ll send back what he doesn’t use.
The sheik decides he wants Sergeant Candy Cane for his 120th wife. He starts the wheels in motion by first having Candy assigned as his police bodyguard (It looks like she’s a cop now and no longer a parking enforcement officer). The sheik asks Candy to marry him but she blurts out that she belongs to Carter Nash. The sheik offers Carter one of his beautiful wives in exchange for Candy but he turns him down.
The mayor’s sister is Carter’s domineering mother and she wants the sheik to come for lunch at her house. He accepts the invitation but plans on having Carter killed while he’s there. There are name cards and so the sheik’s servant injects poison into Carter’s pastry. But before the meal the sheik demands that his food taster sample the food. Carter feels bad that the taster only gets a few mouthfuls of food a day so he gives him his pastry which kills him.
The next time Candy is in the sheik’s hotel room a sack is pulled over her body, head first. He tells her that after a few years as his wife she will come to love him and then he will let her out of the sack.
Carter overhears the sheik’s plans to smuggle Candy out of the country and so he changes to Captain Nice (Whenever he does so he always first carefully hangs up his civilian clothes). Nice frees Candy and she places the sheik’s servant under arrest for murder, assault and attempted kidnapping. He is surprised and asks, “You arrest people for that?” Nice tells him, “This is a democracy. We can arrest people for practically anything”.
Mayor Finney was played by Liam Dunn, who studied at a small acting school while still in high school. He worked as a casting director for CBS and gave Warren Beatty, Steve McQueen and George C. Scott their first acting jobs. His film debut was in That’s My Man in 1947. He had a role in What’s Up Doc? and was noticed by Mel Brooks who made him part of his stock company of actors.
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