Headed out to work after that. No trouble there! It was cloudy, cool, and windy all morning, but the clouds didn't really amount to much besides looking gloomy. By the time it started getting busier, I was an hour from being done for the day. Swept the store and pushed carts with no trouble whatsoever.
Got my schedule during my break. In good news, four days off, one of them Saturday. I'll get to see Collingswood's big May Fair. However, I don't have nearly enough time when I do work. I'm surprised they don't want me to do all of Memorial Day Weekend.
Did some grocery shopping next. I got really lucky. The generic light popcorn I bought a while back was on clearance. I bought two boxes. Mr. Beast bagged oatmeal cookies were on clearance as well. Had online coupons for Chobani Yogurt, Made Good granola bars, and that Olipop soda. (Tried the Barbie Peaches & Cream today). The Cara Cara Oranges weren't on sale, but they weren't a bad price. The only things I bought that weren't on sale in one way or another were the bagels for lunch this week and the baby carrots. I even got garlic cheese spread from the deli for free with another online coupon.
Went straight home after that. Watched Super Password while I got organized. Lauri Hendler of Gimmie a Break and Pat Sajack were the celebrities that week. I did get to hear Lauri announce she was leaving the show at the end of the current season (which she did, if memory serves me correctly) before I went downstairs to pump my tires again.
Switched to The Persuaders! while doing job searching. The dead son of a wealthy household arrives to "Take Seven" million from the beautiful daughter (Sinead Cusack) who had been there for years. She gets Brett and Danny to help...but when they're followed by a detective, they realize that there's more to this than siblings squabbling over an inheritance.
"Greensleeves" is a beautiful old manor that's recently been restored, to the surprise of its owner Brett. He discovers people who claim to be MI5 agents there and passes himself off as an actor recruited to play him. Danny comes along as his butler. Turns out it's all a ruse to get an African leader to give up the vast nickel deposits in his country.
Danny and Brett are competing at waterskiing when they discover a beautiful girl in a wig who had been drowned. Their search for who did this leads them to an annoying cop who isn't interested in the case and to an old businessman (Bernard Lee) and his ruthless wife. He's not what he seems, however. Brett and Danny will have to get past the wife and her lover to expose them as the real masterminds behind the "Powerswitch."
I'd been waiting all day for my newest project to arrive. The Wild Wild West came in a large container with DVDs layered over spokes. They were badly organized; if you wanted to get at later discs, you'd have to remove several. The Vega$ and Good Times complete series sets were in cheap paper holders. Though The Persuaders! was in a smaller case, it too had overlapping discs. I moved them all to a bright blue DVD holder I picked up from Amazon last night, along with the home-made Happy Days seasons 7 - 11 discs Lauren sent me for Christmas.
Worked on writing for a bit after I finished. Mother Nature explains that her son is the product of her having fallen in love with a human several years before. The man has since passed away, but her son survives. He's also a victim of Lady Jacqueline, who is in charge of winter and doesn't see why she should stop being in charge because it's time for the seasons to change...or why there should be any change at all.
Broke for dinner and Match Game '78 around quarter after 7. They're really skipping around. They started on the week with Helaine Lembeck before heading into former baseball player Joe Garagiola's only week on the show. Also new that week was a nifty but short-lived camera angle that gave us more of a bird's eye-view of the panelists.
Finished the night at Tubi with the pilot episode of Hart to Hart. Millionaire Johnathan Hart (Robert Wagner) is shocked when a poker buddy of his seemingly commits suicide on the way home from a health spa. He checks into the spa in the hope of finding out what's going on. Turns out his wife Jennifer (Stephanie Powers) had the same idea, only she's investigating the death for her newspaper. Jennifer befriends a neurotic movie star (Jill St. John) who is taking a strange "anxiety therapy." When she dies too, Johnathan begins to suspect that the heads of the spa (Stella Stevens and Roddy McDowell) have more than their client's health in mind.
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