Though thankfully my stomach is feeling a lot better, it's still windy and cold out there. I called Uber. No trouble there today. The one in the morning came in 6 minutes. The one going home arrived in 7. No traffic either way or problems on the road.
Work was a lot busier today than it had been yesterday, and it was harder to keep up with the carts. Tuesday is our senior discount day. There's a senior housing apartment complex less than a block from the Acme, and it tends to bring them by the droves. I had to put away a lot of cold items and clean up the messy back lounge area, too, and I forgot to sweep the floor in the lounge area. I was very happy to get out of there.
Went straight upstairs and changed after I got in. Made a fried egg sandwich for lunch while watching The Scooby Doo Show. "The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw" is the Mantis, a huge man-sized preying mantis who is stalking the area around a botanical garden. The professor who is about to buy the place, the caretaker, and another man who wants to buy it all warn the kids away. Fred and the girls are determined to stay, especially after they discover oily footprints and suspect there may be oil on the property.
Switched to Tubi for All Night Long after the cartoon ended. I go further into this 1962 jazz take on Othello from England at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Watched Match Game Syndicated while eating dinner and doing job searching (didn't find anything). David Doyle, Debralee Scott, Dick Martin, and Patty Duke figured into the second week of the show. The first episode featured a funny older lady with a charming English accent who claimed she wrote poetry and "dirt," as she put it. The second had David trying to do imitations for Charles and Brett, who just couldn't figure out what he was doing.
Listened to the soundtrack from Rocky IV while I worked on the All Night Long review. I've never been a fan of the Rocky films, but I'd be the first to admit that there's some terrific (and very 80's) music on this CD. "Eye of the Tiger" and "Burning Heart" by Survivor were the major hits at the time, but my favorite number is one of James Brown's best later songs, "Living In America." There's also the duet "Double Or Nothing" by Kenny Loggins and Gladys Knight and two good instrumental numbers, "War" and "Training Montage."
Finished the night with more Match Game Syndicated, this time genuine rediscovered history. Jimmie Walker finally fixed the red tape that kept his syndicated weeks from being seen. The first of them is running on GSN this week, starting with an episode from the previous week with George Kennedy and Dick Martin. Martin starts stripping when Gene points out that he doesn't usually wear a tie on the show...which inspires Betty White to do the same, not once, but twice.
Jimmie joins in for the next episode, along with Debralee Scott and Bart Braverman. Jimmie is honestly pretty subdued for him. Charles has more trouble when his name falls off the Star Wheel and he attempts to walk out, then makes snide remarks about how cheap the whole darn thing is.
Here's the episodes, so you can see how all this came out for yourself!
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