Called Uber after the cartoon ended. Not only was it way too hot to walk to work, I needed to get there and home quicker. The one going there took 9 minutes. I was almost late to work. Got luckier going home - the afternoon driver didn't even take 3 minutes. No traffic either way.
Work was pretty much the same it's been since the week after the 4th of July. It was quiet all morning. Got slightly busy a little before noon, then went right back to being quiet. I swept the store, put away carts, and ignored the heavy humidity and heat.
When I got in, I changed, then had lunch while watching What's New, Scooby Doo? It's a "Recipe for Disaster" when Shaggy and Scooby win a contest and immediately want to tour the Scooby Snacks factory. Shaggy and Scooby are in high heaven, or would be, if there weren't concerns about industrial spies and two monsters covered in batter scaring off workers. This is one time Shaggy and Scooby insist on solving the mystery, before the home of their favorite food is shut down for good.
Headed out to the school after lunch. Needless to say, the kids were inside today. It was too hot to be doing anything more than riding four blocks outside! I walked in on the second round of "The Detective Game." After snack time, I built airplanes and attempted to make Maple's tower with the builders at the Lego table and drew Hilary and Jeff's confrontation in his room with the artists at the coloring and drawing table.
Later on, they requested more help with the little kids, so I went down to the smaller cafeteria and played Candy Land with some of the pre-schoolers. That really brought me back. My sisters and I played Candy Land in one form or another throughout the 1980's, and then played it for another five years in the early-mid 90's after Keefe was born. We used to have so much fun with that one. We'd make up stories about the characters as we scooted our little colored gingerbread men along the path.
Soon as I got home, I went straight into writing Hilary and the Beasts. No one is happy the next day. The ladies take their meals in Hilary's rooms, Troll and Eagle in their rooms. Maple and Hilary finally go downstairs to the music room to play songs with Miss Organ. That does it. Their music first brings in Betty and Bear, then Eagle, who had been getting his lunch. They're all dancing together when Troll comes rumbling downstairs. Hilary teases him about being too above the others to dance. He grabs her to show her that, yes, he can dance just fine (and he's certainly better at it than the other two). Hilary tries to ask him about Jeff again, but he continues to insist he owns the house...and some of his gestures, his movements, are just a little too familiar for Hilary, who finally runs out in confusion.
Watched Remember WENN while I worked. Hilary is "Courting Disaster" when Jeff's obnoxious lawyer Drake Stanley (Andrew Seear) comes to her claiming Jeff wants a $100,000 lawsuit. Maple and Betty trick him into appear on their "Tell it to the Judge" show. Scott plays lawyer for Hilary to prove that there's something wrong here...but it's Gertie and Betty who finally find a way to bring in Jeff for the last word.
The cast is saying "And How!" when the station is chosen to broadcast the last episode of the network show "The Strange Loner" before its star leaves for a Hollywood role. Trouble is, the star is a womanizing jerk who passes out the moment he gets to the station. The real Native American man who plays his sidekick (real-life Native American activist Russell Means) proves to be far more charming (if a bit stiff on the air). Meanwhile, the others are far more excited about Eugenia's recent discovery - pizza!
Switched to Match Game '76 during dinner. Pat Moriata seems like an unlikely fit for this show, and indeed, this would be his only week. Lee Merriweather and ever-creative Patti Deusch have a lot more fun.
Finished the night online with the Bowery Boys. Sach is thrilled when he discovers $10,000 in a rolled-up newspaper on the sidewalk. Slip takes control of their cash, literally laundering their money and even offering it to charities in their neighborhood. It turns out to be Jinx Money when they learn it came from an illegal card game. Each of the gamblers who try to steal it from the Boys ends up dead. The cops don't believe Sach's story about a man carrying an umbrella doing it, until one of their molls goes after the boys, and they almost end up being "the Umbrella's" victims.
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