Monday, December 28, 2020

A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood

Began a cloudy morning with breakfast and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. He writes "Something Special for Dad" after he sees how happy Dan Sr. is to get a letter from Grandpere. Daniel and his father go to Baker Aker's bakery to make banana bread that'll say "I Love You, Mom!"

Worked on writing for a while. Gene gets one especially drunk sailor to tell them where Brett's being kept. He tells them she's dining with Goodson before he passes out. Tom tells two of his men to take the sailors' uniforms. They'll dress as sailors to sneak into Goodson's cabin, rescue Brett, and find the rest of their crews.

Broke for lunch at 11. Went to The Roku Channel for the original My Little Pony while having a smoothie for lunch. Posy takes in four "Fugitive Flowers" who seem to be on the run from a group of huge crabs. The flowers claim that the crabs are after them and that they're on the run...but nothing is what it seems, and just because something is beautiful doesn't mean it's good.

Called for a ride to work shortly after the cartoon ended. Work...was pretty much the same as yesterday. We were steady around 12:30-1 PM, to the point where I had to take customers for a few minutes. After that, we died quickly. The clouds vanished by the time I was climbing into the Uber car, and it turned into a gorgeous, sunny, breezy winter day. Spent the afternoon gathering carts and the last hour or so sweeping the store and doing returns, with no trouble whatsoever.

Went straight into leftovers for dinner and Match Game '75 when I got home. Robert Urich of Spencer for Hire and Vega$ and soap opera star Jamie Lynn Bower got ardent kisses from Brett Somers and Gene Rayburn respectively in the opening. Match Game PM introduced a contestant who could turn his feet all the way around. (It was really gross. Even Gene was kind of freaking out.)

Sale of the Century had its closest game yet. All three contestants were constantly within five dollars of each other, and no one bought any Instant Bargains. It came down to a tie between the champ and the one lady. She got it by one question and won a Norman Rockwell print on the Match the Prizes board.

Finished the night with TV shows online. In the second season, a magician recruits Charlie's Angels to find out who's been using his "Magic Fire" act to burn down fashion warehouses for the insurance money. Sabrina poses as a French fashion designer, Kelly as a magician's daughter who wants to sell her father's secrets, and Bosley and Kris as a magician and his assistant to find out who's really behind the arson attacks.

Cathy Lane is eagerly waiting for her father to come home in The Patty Duke Show first season episode "The Christmas Present." Trouble is, her father, a foreign correspondent, is currently in a European jail after trying to get the scoop on a revolution. Patty and her dad try to find a way to bring him home. 

Even when Cathy's dad Ken (William Schallert) does make it home in time for "Auld Lang Syne," he's fired by the head editor of the New York Daily Chronicle J. R Castle (John McGiver) for breaking the rules. Patty, Cathy, and Patty's dad Martin try to find a way Ken can first get his job back, then make use of his years of experience as a foreign correspondent. 

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