Remembering Angels

Started off a sunny morning with a fast breakfast and "How to Swim." Goofy begins learning basic strokes in his own living room, but he (and those living under him) are more appreciative when he finally hits the water. He has more luck making a mess out of an inner tube than actually swimming.

Rushed off to work after that. No trouble for the entire 8 1/2 hours. We were dead almost the entire day. It was beautiful, sunny, breezy, and just warm enough. Most people are likely waiting for Mother's Day weekend to do their shopping. It did pick up a little bit later around the dinner rush hour, but died shortly after and wasn't at all busy in the morning. They did send one of the college boys to help me with the carts during the last hour. Otherwise, I was in and out with little fuss.

Put on more Remember WENN while trying to figure out how to do something online. Angela Colton (Molly Ringwauld) wants to meet the romantic radio show character The Vagabond "Sight Unseen." Mackie Bloom (Christopher Murney), who plays The Vagabond, is nervous at first. He's short and chubby and doesn't look anything like his idea of a romantic hero. He tries to be the suave, sophisticated leading man he thinks Angela wants when he learns she's blind, but she doesn't care what he looks like, only that he sounds like a man of integrity.

Angela isn't the only visitor to WENN who teaches the staff a lesson in respect. Waiter George Smith (Howard Rollins) becomes "The Emperor Smith" when he's brought on to replace Mackie as Hilary's new love interest in The Hands of Time. George becomes a sensation, but he's also a black man playing a romantic role in an era where segregation was still very much legal. Betty and the others have to keep the determined columnist Walter Snell (Peter Jacobs) from figuring it out without the help of Victor Comstock, who was called to Washington DC. (Oh, and incidentally, Victor's increasingly lengthy absences will become very important towards the end of the first season and throughout the third...)

Switched to Match Game '76 during dinner. Jimmie Walker spent the week having quite the crush on a pretty young contestant who made her own chic clothing. Kate Jackson had more trouble dodging Gene and Richard's advances during her second of two appearances on the show. (Charlie's Angels was mentioned as debuting in a few weeks in the second episode.) 

Speaking of Charlie's Angels, I finished the night with the sixth season episode "Attack Angels" at The Roku Channel. After a young secretary dies murdering the executive of an up-and-coming geothermal company, Kelly and Kris go undercover as junior executives and Julie as a secretary to find out who wants to buy the company so badly, they'll kill for it. One of the company's rivals has hired a man who hypnotizes secretaries and typists into doing his bidding and killing their bosses...and Julie may be his next victim.