Headed to work after the cartoon ended. No trouble here. It's the middle of the week and the middle of the month. Sports are the only things going on right now. Not to mention, the weather was just about perfect. Sunny and warm, with no clouds or even wind around. I swept the store, gathered the few carts around, and enjoyed the gorgeous weather. Grabbed a bottle of oat milk I had a free digital coupon for on the way home.
It was so nice, I took the long way home down Nicholson. They were a lot busier than the Acme, especially around the mall entrance. Maybe a lot of people had late lunches. Once I got off Nicholson and went over the hill and into Oaklyn, the traffic ended. It was a little bad on the White Horse Pike, but I got across.
Watched Garfield's Halloween Adventure while changing and eating lunch. Garfield is thrilled to dress up as a pirate and get all the candy he could ever want for free. His Halloween takes a turn for the spooky when he and Odie end up stranded on a remote island where ghostly pirates are coming for their treasure!
Headed back out after the cartoon ended. I needed callus remover. I've had a callus on my left pinky toe for ages now, and it hurts like heck. I checked Family Dollar first, but there was nothing there. No little toys to put in the Mystery Bags, either. I swear I got some trinkets from them last year.
Hiked down the White Horse Pike to CVS instead. In addition to the callus remover, I found bags with little orange and purple vials of bubble solution and tiny wands. They'd be something different for the Mystery Bags. They also had Cherry Coke Zero, which I've seen nowhere else in this area.
Also made a quick stop at the pretzel shop on the way home. I ordered two pretzels for a snack. When I peered in the bag, the guy gave me two more. They were a half-hour from closing. He probably wanted to clear out his inventory.
Watched Son of Paleface when I got home. Peter "Junior" Potter (Bob Hope) arrives in Sawbuck Pass, California to claim his late father's fortune. Turns out there's nothing in he chest he left him, his father owed money to the entire town, and his girl at Harvard was a fortune hunter who dumps him the moment she finds out his father wasn't a millionaire. Old-timer Eb (Paul E. Burns) claims to Peter that his father did have gold, but he hid it. Peter's more interested in courting Mike (Jane Russell), the singer at the local saloon.
He's not her only suitor. Government agent and singing cowboy Roy Barton (Roy Rodgers) is also interested in the lovely lady and the gold. Mike has her own secrets, including her involvement with the gang of black-clad outlaws lead by "The Torch" who have been stealing gold from stagecoaches. The local natives aren't happy about the son of the man who killed many of their braves (accidentally) being in town, either. They attack the town just in time to reveal the hiding place of the gold and let Junior show that the Potters may be cowards, but they're also heroes...somehow.
Think I enjoyed this one even more than the first. Frank Tashlin's direction turns this into even more of a live-action cartoon, with Peter's head disappearing into his body turtle-style after he drinks a particularly potent brew, him fitting up his newfangled horseless carriage with old-style wheels after the stable owner hides the tires, and Hope stumbling around in spurs as big as his head. There's also some very funny spoofs of Rogers' usual B-singing vehicles. Russell makes a great outlaw, too. If you love any of the three stars or are looking for a good comic western, you'll want to meet the Son of Paleface, too.
Did some job searching after the movie ended, then worked on writing. The woods grow more and more dark as Richard leads them further down the path. Richard's not concerned about him being damaged. He's made of metal. Charles fears that there may be something that eats straw out there, and Joyce is worried, too. And then they hear the roar...
Broke for dinner and Match Game '79 at 7 PM. Marcia Wallace is very nervous when she has to help the contestant with "Cookies and __" for $10,000 in the Head-to-Head in the first episode. The second one features some very interesting answers for a question about what wouldn't be a hundred years old then.
Stayed at Buzzr for Trivia Trap. Turns out the soap opera week was for Valentine's Day, which explains the hearts all over the place. General Hospital once again ruled. One Life to Live couldn't touch them. Stuart Damon saved their bacon by being the only person to make it all the way to $10,000.
The second episode reverted to the show's original format. Three twenty-somethings played one man about my age and two elderly women. The seniors were ahead for most of the game, but the juniors made a comeback after hitting a few big questions towards the end.
Finished the night on The Roku Channel with Charlie's Angels. "Haunted Angels" is the closest this series gets to a Halloween episode. Bosley is convinced that a friend of his is being swindled by a psychic institute who claims they can contact her nephew who was killed in a motorcycle accident. Sabrina and Kris poses as a psychic and professor studying her to get into the institute, while Kelly and Bosley do more research on the young man...and discover his reputation wasn't nearly as sterling as his aunt wanted to believe. When a psychic at the institute dies with everyone watching, Sabrina and Kris try to figure out who would want her dead and why they swindled Bosley's friend.
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