I was tired of hanging out inside and decided to go for a short walk. It was cloudy, windy, and chilly, but not abnormally cold for mid-March, probably in the lower 50's. Dropped off a book I didn't want at the kiosk down the block and a copy of the letter terminating my case with the DVR now that I have a second job at the post office. Picked up toilet paper and a card for Mom's birthday at Dollar General and two regular pretzels and a cheese steak stuffed pretzel for lunch at A&A Pretzels.
When I got home, I had lunch while watching Lighthouse Island, a Jim Henson special from 1989. Young Zeb (Chris Makepeace) has come to Lighthouse Island to find the perfect wedding gift for the fiancee he's never met. He sees silver slippers in the antique store belonging to Clara Buford (Helen Burns) and decides he must have them. She says she'll give them to him...if he helps her retrieve a pearl belonging to her old rival Fred (Jerry Nelson). The pearl allows its owner to turn into anything. Fred turns up as a sea monster, a flying creature, and a tentacle. Zeb has his own reasons for wanting those slippers so badly he fights off Fred and his many forms...and they're not what Clara thinks.
Switched to Murder She Wrote after that ended. There's "No Accounting for Murder" when Jessica's nephew Grady gets a new job with a major accounting firm, only to be accused of killing his boss. Jessica is actually encouraged to help solve the mystery for once by an Irish cop who is overwhelmed with the long list of suspects who all seem to have had more than one bone to pick with the man. A security guard was more interested in finding the "phantom" who lived in the building's air ducts, and may be the key witness who actually saw the murder.
Oh, and I got my schedule at this point. To my shock...I have no Acme schedule. They gave me Sunday and next Saturday off, too. I asked for the weekdays off to focus on the kids' half-days. The college kids must be on spring break. Good thing I did use one of my float days to make up for the money I lost on Wednesday. That's the only money I'll make from the Acme this week.
It was later than it should have been when I called Uber. They took 16 minutes to arrive, which made me 10 minutes late. At least there was no traffic whatsoever.
Not a good thing, as we had 25 younger kids today, 10 alone at my table. The ones at my table were very good. One girl messed around a bit in the bathrooms, but other than that, they cleaned up when asked and were only a little noisy in the halls. They were even complimented by the head teacher when they all walked back from the bathrooms instead of running.
Of course they were all good. They wanted to go outside again! By 4 PM, the sun had come out. It was warmer, but not to the ridiculous extent of earlier in the week. Many of the kids still wouldn't wear jackets, or even sweaters in some cases. (At least they kept their shoes on this time.) I had to take a couple to the bathroom, but at least no one wanted drinks. It was too nice for much fussing, anyway. They chased bubbles, ran around the slides, and danced to "Pup Pup Boogie," several children's dance movement songs, the theme from PJ Masks, and "Happy Birthday" for one tiny miss whose big day was Sunday.
No one was happy when the clouds came back and it got too cold to stay out. Not that any of us were really in the cafeteria for long anyway. Of the ten children we brought back, six (plus three older kids) left as I was getting ready to go.
It was such a beautiful day, I walked home. Stopped at the Speedy Mart for bagels, then decided to cut across Newton Lake Park. Though green grass is showing in spots now and flowers are just popping up, most of the park is still dry and brown. Surprisingly quiet, too. I guess everyone was home for dinner. I saw two friends out for a stroll, someone walking their dog, and two Canadian geese poking around for their own evening meal.
Put on Match Game Syndicated when I got in. Most of the episodes tonight had an extra-sarcastic Patty Duke sitting in Brett's seat while she was out doing a play. Bubbly Betty Kennedy was the goofy ingenue. Charles tried to step up his acting to impress Oscar-winner Patty, including when the makeup people got stuck in the elevators. The next week features Jimmie Walker and hasn't turned up on GSN yet, so Buzzr skipped to the week after, with Bill Anderson, Bill Daily, and Jonnelle Allen.
Switched to the last season of Laugh-In after I finished Murder She Wrote. By the sixth season, Patti Deusch, Richard Dawson, and Lily Tomlin had joined the cast, and Sarah Kennedy was the new resident giggly blonde. Henny Youngman and his very annoyed wife were kidnapped by a robber and a comedy fan, Michael Landon did Titanic spoofs with the ladies, Richard Dawson did his WC Fields impression and gave another robber a glass with his money, lawyer Sarah covered financial news and played a very unlikely geisha with an extremely picky husband, Dick and Dan traded bad Irish jokes, and Dick decided he wanted to replace Dan with Lyle Waggoner.
Finished the night at YouTube with more Shirley Temple Storybook Theater. "Mother Goose" (Elsa Lanchester) would rather be writing comic poetry that makes all of the children laugh instead of gathering her geese. She records everything that goes on at the fair, including Tom the Piper's son (Carleton Carpenter) pursuing Polly (Temple), the daughter of the sneezing baker mayor (Billy Gilbert). When local rowdies cause trouble and accidentally burn down a tent, the Mayor calls for an end to the fair. Polly, Tom, their friends Jack and Jill, and the children know why the fair must go on, and they encourage Mother Goose to write a letter to the prince from all of them about the fair's importance. Turns out the Prince knows too, and he's a lot more open to children's rhymes than the Mayor is.
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