Haikus: June 2017

HAIKUS: June 2017

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness—
an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks,
while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)
This web page best viewed with Times font size 14.

Thursday, June 1, 2017, 8:30 am-1:00 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home for cleaning— Threw
away bag newspapers & one bag Time magazines;
Epoch Times at Wal-Mart bin; Daily Post at CVS bin

Paid June rent check to Irene;
Julio not in today; Maintenace chief
Frank says Julio will send me notice. Thursday, June 1, 2017, 2:26 pm-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Six days away from the computer due to Memorial Day Lab closing & cleaning apartment for inspection

Wrote 12 haikus from Saturday 5/27
to Thursday 6/1, mostly on cleaning
my apartment throwing away magazines.

Friday, June 2, 2017, 2:20 pm-6:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Web page "Walter Teller: Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations"; Thanks to Walt Whitman Archive, dates of Horace Traubel's entries may be found.

February 27, 1889 entry—
the way books are made—
that always excites my curiosity. Friday, June 2, 2017, 7:30-9:40 pm
Palo Alto: Waverley Writers Poetry Reading
at Friends Meeting House (957 Colorado Ave)
Forgot Waverley Writers; Got 7:26 pm Bus #35,
half-hour late; Anne Cheilek gave me ride home.

Read two poems tonight—
"Tiger-Year Poets Reading"
"John Ciardi: Friend or Foe?"

Saturday, June 3, 2017, 11:42 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Web page "Walter Teller: Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations"; Dates in Walt Whitman Archive;
p. 208: Writers & Writing; June 3, 1889—

My effort has always been to pack, condense,
solidify— to get my material into the smallest
space compatible with decency. Saturday, June 3, 2017, 11:42 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Web page "Walter Teller: Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations"; Dates in Walt Whitman Archive;
p. 209: Writers & Writing; November 8, 1888—

First of all comes sincerity—
frankness, open-mindedness: that is
the preliminary: to talk straight out.

Sunday, June 4, 2017, 1:25 pm-2:50 pm
Mtn View: 1:25 pm Bus #40 Montecito & Rengstorff;
1:54 pm Bus #522 Showers Dr. & El Camino Real;
2:45 pm Walgreens; 2:50 pm Stanford Theatre flyers

Classical Comedy films playing—
Cary Grant in Arsenic & Old Lace
and Jimmy Stewart in Harvey (pooka). Sunday, June 4, 2017, 4:07 pm-5:00 pm
Los Altos Library: 3:07 pm Bus #22 Palo Alto Train Depot; 3:48 pm Bus #40 San Antonio Rd to Library; 5:13 pm Bus #40 to Montecito & Rengstorff 5:28 pm

Email to Rudy that I bought him
bottle Vitamin C 1000 mg, 200 tablets
and 2 lbs red seedless grapes @ 99¢/lb.

Monday, June 5, 2017, 12:05 pm-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Page "More Thoreaus's Journals"; Cover images of Stapleton's "H.D. Thoreau: A Writer's Journal" & Odell Shepard's "The Heart of Thoreau's Journals"

Books are due Wednesday, June 7
at Foothill Semans Library— typing
favorite quotes before returning them. Monday, June 5, 2017, 12:05 pm-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Web page "More Thoreaus's Journals"; Can't copy
& paste quotes from Google Books PDF files; Typed
13 entries from "H.D. Thoreau: A Writer's Journal"

March 17, 1852— I am conscious
of having, in my sleep, transcended
the limits of the individual.

Tuesday, June 6, 2017, 3:12 pm-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"LIFESTYLE: Neuroscience explains our growing attraction to spiritual retreats" (By Cindy Lamothe, Washington Post & Mercury News, 5-28-2017, D1-2)

Religion, Brain & Behavior (3-22-2017 paper)
Brain scans of 7-day attendees had major decreases in dopamine & serotonin transporter binding associated with positive emotions. Tuesday, June 6, 2017, 3:12 pm-7:30 pm
BASEBALL: Jimmy Piersall, Whose Mental Illness
Was Portrayed in Fear Strikes Out, Dies at 87
(By Richard Goldstein, NY Times, 6-4-2017);
MOVIES: Roger Moore, Who Played James Bond 007 Times, Dies at 89 (Anita Gates, NY Times, 5-23-2017)

Bookmarked New York Times obituaries
on baseball player Jimmy Piersall and
film star Roger Moore who died recently.

Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 11:59 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"More Thoreaus's Journals"; Odell Shepard's
"The Heart of Thoreau's Journals" Quotes;
p. 58— September 7, 1851

I am like a bee searching for the sweets
of nature. My profession is to be always
on the alert to find God in nature. Wednesday, June 7, 2017, 11:59 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"More Thoreaus's Journals"; Odell Shepard's
"The Heart of Thoreau's Journals" Quotes;
pp. 195-196— May 6, 1858

How many are free to think? free from fear,
from perturbation, from prejudice?
999 in 1000 are perfect slaves.

Thursday, June 8, 2017, 12:20-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned" (Rachel Galvin,
Humanities, Nov./December 2003, pp. 10-13, 50-54)

By noon, April 19, 1906, all of Newspaper
Row was destroyed, including the city's
tallest structure, the 22-story Call Building. Thursday, June 8, 2017, 12:20-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Dvořák in America" (By Scott Ethier,
Humanities, Nov./December 2003, pp. 26-29)

Composing New World Symphony (1893),
Dvořák was inspired by Native American
chants and Negro spirituals melodies.

Thursday, June 8, 2017, 7:30-8:50 pm
Stanford Theatre: William K. Howard directs
"The Princess Comes Across" (1936) with Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille, Alison Skipworth, George Barbier, William Frawley, Porter Hall, Lumsden Hare, Sig Ruman, Mischa Auer, Tetsu Komai; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4,);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Wanda pretends to be Princess Olga
on steamship, and accused of murder
before the real killer is found on board. Thursday, June 8, 2017, 9:00-10:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Mitchell Leisen directs
"Hands Across the Table" (1935) with Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy,
Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly, Marie Prevost,
Katherine DeMille, Joseph Tozer, Edward Gargan, William Demarest; (YouTube: 1, 2);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Manicurist looking for a rich husband,
finds pauper playboy who plans
to marry a wealthy debutante.

Friday, June 9, 2017, 10:02-10:13 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Charles Dutoit conducts
Montreal Symphony Orchestra in Rossini's
"Thieving Magpie: Overture" (1817); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Magpie Notes

Snare drums in overture
hints at execution of maid
before thieving magpie was found. Friday, June 9, 2017, 11:53 am-6:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Theresa's 4/16 email with photo of Spring Lilies;
Emily's 5/15 email with photo of mini husky Nali;
Cloud photos at Foothill College (6-7-2017)—

Double Clouds,
Layered Clouds,
Two-Eyes Owl Cloud.

Saturday, June 10, 2017, 10:14 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Web page Foothill Clouds (4-24-2017)

Nine Sunset Clouds (4-24-2017)
with six Double Clouds (6-7-2017)
for 15 photos of Foothill College Clouds. Saturday, June 10, 2017, 10:14 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Format photos of Redwood Grove Walk (5-22-2017):

24 photos at Redwood Grove
during our 50-minute walk
around oasis of trees & creek.

Sunday, June 11, 2017, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Theatre: Garson Kanin directs
"My Favorite Wife" (1940) with Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Ann Shoemaker, Scotty Beckett, Mary Lou Harrington, Donald MacBride, Granville Bates, Pedro de Cordoba, Hugh O'Connell, Chester Clute; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Hilarious scene—

Ellen recruits a mousy shoe salesman
(Chester Clute) as Stephen, but Nick found
the real, virile & handsome Randolph Scott. Sunday, June 11, 2017, 9:10-10:44 pm
Stanford Theatre: H. C. Potter directs
"Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" (1948)
with Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas,
Louise Beavers, Reginald Denny, Jason Robards Sr.,
Lex Barker, Connie Marshall, Sharyn Moffett, Ian Wolfe, Nestor Paiva, Harry Shannon, Tito Vuolo; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Building a dream house
created lots of headaches for
Blandings dealing with contractors.

Monday, June 12, 2017, 10:59 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Web page of Huddart Park Hike with Deborah
(5-22-2017); 55 photos; Some favorite photos—

Saint Sebastian Tree to the Sky,
Power Lines & Panoramic View,
White Iris (Iris Albicans) on Trail. Monday, June 12, 2017, 7:00-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Listening on 95.7 FM Radio KGMZ
NBA Finals Game 5— Golden State Warriors vs. Cavaliers; Cleveland led 41-33 in 2nd quarter

when Iguodala made high-flying dunk
touching off a 21-2 Warrior run
to win championship 129-120.

Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 9:23-9:40 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Andris Nelsons conducts
Boston Symphony Orchestra in Richard Wagner's
"Tannhäuser Overture" (1845); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Germany B49 Wagner's "Tannhäuser" (stamp issued November 1, 1933)

Tannhäuser is a medieval German
Minnesinger & poet, competing
at the Wartburg Song Contest. Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 12:24-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Formatting 34 photos Half-Moon Bay Oceanfront
Walk (5-22-2017); Wildflowers on cliff— Lion's Ear (Leonotis neptetifolia), Yellow Bush Lupine (Lupinus arboreus), Distant Phacelia (Phacelia distans)

Leonotis neptetifolia,
Lupinus arboreus,
Phacelia distans.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017, 10:02-10:13 am
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road)
Last week special: Blueberries @ 98¢/half-pint,
This week special: Red seedless grapes @ 98¢/lb

Sunflower seeds @ $1.99/lb,
2 half-pints Blueberries @ 98¢,
Caught 11:01 am Bus #40 to Foothill. Wednesday, June 14, 2017, 11:30 am-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Web page for Half Moon Bay State Beach with
Deborah Oakley (5-22-2017), Favorite photos—

Lion's Ear Wildflowers & Ocean,
Slide Path to the Beach,
Purple Star-Thistle.

Thursday, June 15, 2017, 9:04-9:25 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Bruno Weil conducts
Tafelmusik in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's
"Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Serenade #13, K. 525" (1787); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); While teaching Statistical Mechanics at WPI (1978), told students—

Ascending & descending notes
in this music are similar to the
ensemble in Statistical Mechanics. Thursday, June 15, 2017, 11:08 am-5:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Ann Olmsted's June 12 email with Emerson quote
from Journals of May 14, 1838 (Source)— "Life & Death are apparitions... I taste therefore of eternity
& pronounce of eternal law Now & not hereafter."

Space & time are but forms of thought.
I proceed from God now & ever shall so
proceed. Death is but an appearance.

Thursday, June 15, 2017, 7:30-9:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Chester Erskine directs
"The Egg and I " (1947) with Claudette Colbert,
Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Louise Allbritton,
Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Billy House,
Donald MacBride, Samuel S. Hinds, Esther Dale,
Elisabeth Risdon, Ida Moore; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Bob informs Betty on their
wedding day that he has bought
a farm ranch to raise chickens. Thursday, June 15, 2017, 9:30-11:01 pm
Stanford Theatre: George Marshall directs
"Murder, He Says" (1945) with Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather,
Porter Hall, Peter Whitney, Mabel Paige,
Barbara Pepper; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Funny ending: Pete & Claire dropped their pursuers into a hay baling machine.

Pollster stumbles to rickety house
where maniacal family believes he was
told by grandma where money was hidden.

Friday, June 16, 2017, 1:42-6:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Anne Cheilek gave me ride home after Waverley Writers (June 2, 10 pm) and showed me the Canary Island Palms ordered to be chopped down by PG&E

Canary Palms (Montecito & Sierra Vista),
Canary Island Palms (1921 Montecito),
Tree Removal Notice (Closeup). Friday, June 16, 2017, 1:42-6:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Formatted 46 photos of Bay Bridge Trail walk
with Deborah (May 23); 34 more to format;
Some favorite photos—

Bridge Yard Building (210 Burma Rd),
Palm Trees to Bay Bridge,
East Span Straight Ahead.

Saturday, June 17, 2017, 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Woke up at 6:30 am to catch 7:58 am Bus #40 to Foothill 8:20 am for Adobe Photoshop Overview LINC073Y class (9:00 am-3:00 pm)

Instructor William Cavada
didn't show up as this class
is totally online since June 5. Saturday, June 17, 2017, 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Martha Rubin, Krause Center worker,
told me to access Canvas via MyPortal
to find Cavada's Photoshop Syllabus

My old Mac computer at Krause Center
would not get in MyPortal; Had to use
newer Mac to find Syllabus & Exercises.

Sunday, June 18, 2017, 7:30-9:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
direct "The Court Jester" (1955) with Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick, Robert Middleton, Edward Ashley-Cooper, Michael Pate, Herbert Rudley, Noel Drayton, John Carradine; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); 7 actors in this film had marriages of 41 (Rathbone), 44, 47 (Kaye), 48, 54 (Lansbury), 55 (Cooper), and 57 (Pate) years.

Carnival performer Kaye
masquerades as a court jester,
romancing the princess (Lansbury). Sunday, June 18, 2017, 9:25-11:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Norman Z. McLeod directs
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1947) based
on James Thurber's 1939 short story with
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff,
Fay Bainter, Thurston Hall, Ann Rutherford,
Gordon Jones, Florence Bates, Konstantin Shayne, Reginald Denny, Henry Corden, Doris Lloyd,
Fritz Feld, Frank Reicher; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Proof-reader Mitty daydreams
himself as hero of his own adventures
while real-life jewel thieves stalk him.

Monday, June 19, 2017, 9:21-9:31 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Riccardo Chailly conducts
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Johannes Brahms's "Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80" (1880); CD; (YouTube: Georg Solti, Michael Tilson Thomas, Bernstein, Riccardo Muti, Paavo Järvi)

Composed as "Thank You"
to the University of Breslau
offering Brahms honorary degree. Monday, June 19, 2017, 1:30 pm-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Wrote six haikus Friday-Sunday, June 16-18, linking to actors in "The Court Jester" & "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" plus reviews and YouTube videos of films seen at Stanford Theatre on Sunday, June 18

Preface & Meta name keywords
for Bay Bridge Trail walk
web page with 80 photos.

Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 10:45-11:07 am
Mountain View: Took 10:38 am Bus #34 for
shopping at Safeway (570 North Shoreline Drive)
& caught 11:10 am Bus #34 just in time home

Four Near East Couscous @ 99¢
Juicy Juice White Grapes 64 oz @ $1.24,
Swiss Cheese @ $1.13, Free Macaroni Salad. Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 1:30 pm-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Went to Foothill College Semans Library and
borrowed 3 books for Cavada's Photoshop class—

Photoshop 4 for Macintosh,
Photoshop 5/5.5 Wow! Book,
Adobe Photoshop 6 in 24 Hours.

Wednesday, June 21, 2017, 12:04 pm-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Stamp illustrating "A Dream of Philosophical Beauty" poem is Malta #312, 1/2 pence Neolithic sculpture "Sleeping Woman" (issued 1-7-1965)

After Deborah told me about
her dream of Paul Brunton,
found my poem of 44 years ago. Wednesday, June 21, 2017, 12:04 pm-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Ann Olmsted's 6/12 email citing Emerson's Journal
of May 14, 1838— "Life & Death are apparitions" reminds me of my poem "Death is More than Life"—

not bound by space and time
not dust to dust we return
but star to star we soar

Wednesday, June 21, 2017, 12:04 pm-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Photoshop Project 1: Five Cropped, Resized Photos:
Huddart Park Sign (cropped); White Iris (cropped); Cargo Ships (cropped); East Span Bay Bridge (cropped); Sailboat in Bay (cropped); Notes

Hike photos 1306x978 dpi
from May 22-23 cropped and
resized to 200x200 dpi (197 KB). Wednesday, June 21, 2017, 7:45-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road)
Wheat Germ @ $2.49/lb (Raincheck @ 89¢/lb);
This week special: Buy $30+, Get $5.00 off;
On-the-Vine Cluster Tomatoes @ 98¢/lb;
Missed 8:08 pm Bus #40, Got 9:17 pm Bus home.

17 lbs Raw Wheat Germ @ 89¢/lb,
2 lbs Whole Cashews @ $6.99/lb,
6 Kettle Potato Chips @ 89¢/lb.

Thursday, June 22, 2017, 11:22 pm-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Photoshop Project 2: Images for Composite Story—
(1) Cartier-Bresson: Allée du Prado (1932); Changed Gray-scale photo, cropped, rotated, resized, RGB, to yellow-background; (2) Arunachala Hill; Bresson & Arunachala at Night; (3) Comet; Bresson-Arunachala & Stars; Bresson-Arunachala & Comet;
"Ramana's Mahanirvana and the Comet in the Sky"

Henri Cartier-Bresson saw a comet
soaring over Arunachala Hill when
Ramana died at 8:47 pm, 4/14/1950. Thursday, June 22, 2017, 11:22 pm-7:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Create HTML page for Project 2: Composite Story;
Listing step-by-step process of using three images
(Henri Cartier-Bresson, Arunachala Hill, Comet)
to tell a story; Used Photoshop Curves to darken sky above Hill; Kept Landscape visible; Cartier-Bresson figure changed to 50% magenta in foreground; Used starry background of Comet to fill sky above Hill.

Paul Brunton's A Search in Secret India
introduced Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950),
one of the wisest sages in the 20th century.

Friday, June 23, 2017, 8:26-8:29 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Xuefei Yang plays guitar to Anonymous, "Romance: Forbidden Games"
(19th century); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

First heard this tune in René Clément's
haunting 1952 film Forbidden Games—
one of my all-time favorite music. Friday, June 23, 2017, 11:55 am-6:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Brightened Bresson figure (fill white 30% opacity) to
Lighter Magenta & pasted to Arunacha with Comet

Project 2: Composite Story
in HTML with step-by-step
transformation of each image.

Saturday, June 24, 2017, 8:50-9:02 am
Mountain View: Waiting for 9:00 am Bus #40 to
Foothill College; Picked up copies of "Daily Post"
at newspaper bin at Jane Lane; A giant speckled
oval leaf is lying on bench besides me "Hello!".

Leaf is from Magnolia Baby Grand.
Saved it for scanning and poem,
but Epson Scanner not working. Saturday, June 24, 2017, 9:25 am-4:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Project3-PageLayoutPoster: Images— Castle Chillon from Inspiration folder; Byron from Greece #316 (1924); Switzerland #C12 Allegory of Flight (1924)

Paul Brunton told me on 8-30-1972:
"Over there's the Castle of Chillon
where Byron wrote his poem in one night."

Sunday, June 25, 2017, 4:56-5:01 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Yo-Yo Ma plays cello,
Ton Koopman conducts Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in Johann Sebastian Bach's
"Sheep May Safely Graze BWV 208" (1713); CD; (YouTube: Ma, 2, 3, 4, 5); 7-year old Ma

Aria "Schafe k�önen sicher weiden"
("Sheep May Safely Graze"), is the
most familiar part of this cantata. Sunday, June 25, 2017, 12:00-5:15 pm
Mountain View: Didn't go to Los Altos Library today;
Stayed home to throw away bag of newspapers & bag of computer printouts & magazines; Sorted printouts— Poems, Dick Maxwell's Poetry Workshops, CTIS Classes, CPITS (California-Poets-In-the-Schools)

Cathy phoned from Las Vegas at
5:44 pm to wish "Happy Birthday";
I had to catch Bus #40 at 5:54 pm.

Sunday, June 25, 2017, 7:30-9:05 pm
Stanford Theatre: Preston Sturges directs "Sullivan's Travels" (1941) with Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall, Byron Foulger, Margaret Hayes, Robert Greig, Eric Blore, Georges Renavent, Torben Meyer; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Film director Sullivan puts on
a tramp's outfit and visits slums
to see how the down-troddens live. Sunday, June 25, 2017, 9:15-10:55 pm
Stanford Theatre: Billy Wilder directs
"The Major & the Minor" (1942); Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Diana Lynn, Edward Fielding, Robert Benchley, Norma Varden, Frankie Thomas, Richard Fiske, Charles Smith, Boyd Irwin, Lela E. Rogers, Raymond Roe, Larry Nunn, Billy Dawson; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Ginger posed as 12-year-old
Minor for half-fare train ticket,
and falls in love with Major Milland.

Monday, June 26, 2017, 11:00 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Caught 11:37 pm Bus #22 at Palo Alto Train Depot home after last night's movies at Stanford Theatre

100% Critics ratings for films last night
at Stanford Theatre— Sullivan's Travels
and The Major and the Minor. Monday, June 26, 2017, 11:00 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Project3-PageLayoutPoster: Images— Using
Rounded Corner in Adobe Photoshop CS-5

Paste & Resize Byron(576x216).jpg
to RoundedCorners(574x216).jpg
for ByronRoundedCorners(574x216).jpg.

Tuesday, June 27, 2017, 10:45 am-11:17 am
Mountain View: Neighbor Don Richards takes me shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave); $10 off on $50+ purchase & $6 off on $60+ purchase

Salmon Fillets @ $2.50, Nonni'sBiscotti $2,
Deluxe Pizzas @ $3.32, Tai Pei Meals @ $2,
32 oz Yogurts @ $1.84, Crabmeats @ $1.59,
Dill Rye $3.55, Milk $2.84, Creamers $2.49 Tuesday, June 27, 2017, 1:02 pm-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Project3-PageLayoutPoster: Placing Switzerland C12 between Fly to Switzerland/Experience Enlightenment

Scale Swiss Stamp to fit Eye-Shape;
Place this image on top of 8"x10" page;
Place Byron & Chillon Castle at page bottom;
Do HTML page on step-by-step doing Layout.

Wednesday, June 28, 2017, 9:28 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
After Krause Center closed early at 5 pm, went to TLC yesterday, Al Guzman printed out Project 3: Page Layout in color; Worked till 7 pm and typed
in Yahoo Draft for Project 3: HTML Step-by-Step

Found protractor today to measure
angle of rotation of "Byron & Text"
to be 13 degrees counterclockwise. Wednesday, June 28, 2017, 9:28 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Finding Images for Project 4: Photo Essay Poster— GizaPyramidsB&W; PlatonicLambda; WalkingMan; Leonardo'sNose; FlyingGeese; RedwoodTreeTop; WizardHat; Newton'sPrism; FinlandCopperChapel

The Platonic Lambda Λ—
"Soul of the Universe" manifests itself
whenever we're walking, breathing, living.

Thursday, June 29, 2017, 9:22 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
FlyToSwitzerlandEnlightenment(460x260).psd to
FlyToSwitzerlandEnlightenment(460x260).jpg by
flattened layers so "Fly to Switzerland" shows up
in Project3-PageLayoutPoster.html; Project 4—

Collage of Words with Layer Style
applied to "Breathing, Walking, Living"
Drop-Shadow over NeonGlow background. Thursday, June 29, 2017, 9:22 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Project 4: Essay Poster— "GeeseGalaxiesVineyard"
composited using Vineyard background and pasting
"Flying Geese in the sky", and "Colliding Galaxies"
over Vanishing Point of Vineyard

Smudge Tool used to blur border
of "Flying Geese" into clouds
of "Burgundian Vineyard".

Friday, June 30, 2017, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College TLC Center
Returned 3 Photoshop books to Foothill Library
since the Library is closed at 4 pm on Friday

Photoshop 4 for Macintosh (1997),
Adobe Photoshop 6 in 24 Hours (2001),
Photoshop 5/5.5 WOW! Book (2000). Friday, June 30, 2017, 2:15 pm-3:12 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Uploading Project 4: Photo Essay Poster
to Cavada's Online Photoshop Class

21 files of Project 4 uploaded before
Krause Center closed early today
at 3:15 pm instead of 6:45 pm.