Haikus: October 2019

HAIKUS: October 2019

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.

Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 8:31-8:38 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Sol Gabetta plays cello while
as Charles Olivieri-Munroe conducts Prague Philharmonic Orchestra to Bizet's Carmen: Micaela's Aria (1875);
CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); History in Music Trivia 1875

Matthew Webb is first person to swim the English Channel (8-25); Theosophical Society founded in New York City by Helena Blavatsky (11-17);
Mark Twain finished Tom Sawyer (Nov. 1875). Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 11:30 am-12:09 pm
Mountain View: Rudy comes with me to Public Storage
but manager Destiny can only reduce my rent fee for 5'x15' storage bin from $295 to $200; Can't match
the $155/month for same 5'x15' bin a block away

Destiny has 5'x10' unit on 1st floor @ $197/month;
Shows 5'x10' units on 2nd floor @ $140/month;
Rudy can help me move on Thursday @ 8 am,
but I need to throw away boxes to fit smaller bin.

Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 1:15-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Continuing work composing Number 98—
Geography Section: 98 Rue de Rivoli, Paris;
Bocage is a shoe & leather store on this street.

Wendy's at 189 98th Avenue, Oakland, CA,
98 Riley Street in Darlinghurst, Australia;
98 floors Trump International Hotel & Tower. Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 1:15-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Continuing work composing Number 98—
History Section: Isocrates (436BC-338 BC) was born
in Athens. He opened a school of rhetoric (393 BC)

Isocrates died at age 98 after reminding
King Philip of Macedon
to conquer Persia.

Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 7:03-7:38 pm
Mountain View: Smart & Final (141 E. El Camino Real)
Raincheck for 8 Progresso Soup NE Clam Chowder 98¢;
No bag to go shopping at 99 Ranch (1350 Gramt Road)

Walgreens (121 E. El Camino Real) to buy
2 jars Maxwell Instant Coffee, 8 oz @ $2.99;
Got 8 pm Bus #22 to Showers Drive @ 8:08 pm Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 8:25-9:00 pm
Mountain View: 8:12 pm Bus #40 late @ 8:21 pm;
Went to Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) for this week's
specials (higher price 10/2); Got 9:21 pm Bus #40 home.

4 Pringles Potato Chips @ 88¢ & $1.25 off coupon,
32 oz Yogurt $1.89, Sig. Select Ice Cream $2.67,
Deviled-Egg Potato Salad $5.69; $5 Reward Off.

Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 11:00-11:25 am
Mountain View: Kaiser Permanente (555 Castro St.)
Blood Pressure: 140/67 (128/59 on 5/13/2019);
Michelle Ma ordered HbA1c fasting blood test.
Caught 11:45 am Bus #52 to Foothill College.

Fasting blood test at end of October;
She can see diabetic patients under 75,
but has seen me free for last three years. Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 12:15-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Formatting photos for Item #81 in Number 98—
Found photos #7196 and #7213 on my camera
chip of Stanford Bronze Plaques 1898 and 1998

Took these photos around Dec. 2017—
so save time by not going to Stanford
Memorial Church Quad to take them again.

Thursday, October 3, 2019, 8:30 am-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Public Storage @ Old Middlefield Way;
Phoned Rudy yesterday at 7:30 pm to come at 9:00 am
as I couldn't open the iron gate last night since
Destiny logged me off old storage bin, and will
need new password when office opens at 9:30 am.

Borrowed A-Ladder so Rudy could pile boxes up
to the ceiling, anchoring them with cardboards
and paper bags so they won't topple over. Thursday, October 3, 2019, 6:00-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Public Storage @ Old Middlefield Way;
Rudy left at 6 pm as he's behind in his C++ class;
There were 9 empty boxes, 5 bags of paper & plastic
bags, old IBM-clone computer, keyboard, & printer
to donate to Goodwill; Books to donate to Library

50 more bags of printouts & books
in old 5'x15' storage bin to fit
in new 5'10' storage bin.

Friday, October 4, 2019, 3:30-6:05 pm
Mountain View: Public Storage @ Old Middlefield Way;
Moved 6 bags of books to smaller 5'x10' storage bin;
and throwing away two bags of 2001 printouts on

Internet & Stanford's Singularity Conference:
also Dad's old lecture notes of classes taught at
Seton Hall, NJ, including students' term papers. Friday, October 4, 2019, 7:50-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Friends Meeting House (957 Colorado Ave)
Waverley Writers Poetry Reading (18 poets came today);
Joel Katz gave me ride home; Read two poems tonight—

"Love at First Listen" poem (9-26-2019)
sparked by Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Winter inspiring my 1st poem "I See Joy" (6-15-1968);

Saturday, October 5, 2019, 9:15-11:10 am
Mountain View: Public Storage @ Old Middlefield Way;
Al Guzman came to my apt at 9:00 am, was expedient
in moving everything out of old 3'x15' bin into
the new 5'x10' bin and bring 15 bags home.

Al drove me back to Public Storage
to retrieve Rudy's putty knife used
as a door stopper that I forgot to take. Saturday, October 5, 2019, 1:15-2:55 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Because of moving stuff from Public Storage,
this week, have not been here at Foothill
College Krause Computer Lab for 3 days

Wrote 6 haikus October 3-5
of moving stuff from storage bins
& last night poetry at Waverley Writers.

Sunday, October 6, 2019, 2:02-2:36 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts
San Francisco Symphony to Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony #5 in c Op. 67 (1808); CD;
(YouTube: Michael Tilson Thomas, Toscanini,
Gustavo Dudamel, Leonard Bernstein, BM Music)

Most famous four notes in music:
dun-dun-dun-DUN!— Beethoven is
exhorting us to "Wake Up! Wake Up!" Sunday, October 6, 2019,, 3:00-6:10 pm
Los Altos Library: Check out "Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
(777.Adobe1Disc); Put hold on "Adobe Premiere ProCC2018" (777.55Jago2018!Disc) as book checked
out (2011) is 8 years old and may be outdated; Cavada's
LINC083F.02W class "Digital Video Editing" began 10/1

Foothill College My Portal: Canvas
doesn't support Internet Explorer,
need to use Google Chrome to see LINC 83F

Monday, October 7, 2019, 8:32-8:40 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Sharon Isbin plays guitar
with Pacifica Quartet to Luigi Boccherini's
Guitar Quintet #4 "Fandango" in D G.448 (1798); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); History in Music Trivia 1798

U.S. Dept. of the Navy established by John Adams (4-30); France annexes Geneva (4-26);
France takes Malta (6-12-1798).
Monday, October 7, 2019, 11:03 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Went to Registrar (12:10-12:29 pm) to drop LINC 83F
"Digital Video Editing" (10/1-11/11); Add LINC 62
"Cloud-Based Word Processing Tools" (10/28-11/22)

Delaying class starting until October 28
will give me time to finish "Numbers 98" for
Professor Harold A. Scheraga's birthday (10/18).

Monday, October 7, 2019, 7:35-7:51 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd.)
Karen picked me up at Library to shop & drove me home;
2.37 lbs Turkish Apricots @ $2.99/lb = $7.09;
2.29 lbs Dried Cranberries @ $2.99/lb = $6.85;
Spinach $1.99, Green Onions 79¢ Rainchecks—

2.71 lbs Black Grapes @ 98¢/lb = $2.66;
1.83 lbs Cluster Tomatoes @ 98¢/lb = $1.79;
2 Almond Breeze Coconut Milk @ $2.14 = $4.29. Monday, October 7, 2019, 8:15-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Cooked enough dinner Sunday night
for four meals: Tai Pei Fried Rice, 3 scrambled eggs,
water chestnuts, Chai Charng with bamboo shoots,
Sea Pak Shrimp Scampi, peas, green beans, 4 bean curds,
baby carrots, almonds, walnuts, cashews, pumpkin seeds

Two tea-leaf eggs with soy sauce;
Cluster tomato sliced in 8 sections;
Almond milk, Cinnamon-Apple sauce.

Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 8:28-8:32 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Michail Jurowski conducts
Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra to Wilhelm Peterson-Berger's The Story of Sleeping Beauty: Happiness (1934); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); History in Music Trivia 1934

Japanese company Fuji Photo Film is established (1-20); John Dillinger breaks out of Crown Point County Jail with a wooden gun (3-3); First Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, released (5-5-1934).
Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 11:10 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Work on "Numbers 98"; Adding 3 lines to #66: 98th U.S. Congress bumped "98 in Geography" from page 4 to 5 and #79 Oakland's Wendy's to page 6 with no cropped photos

Al Green's "Love and Happiness" (1972) is 98th
greatest song in Rolling Stones Magazine survey;
"Yankee Doodle Dandy" is 98th Best Movie & "Court Jester" is 98th Funniest Movie in API polls.

Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 7:30-8:45 pm
Los Altos Library: Astronomer Andrew Franknoi's Lecture: "A Grand Tour of the Universe!" in Orchard Room (Seating 100 all filled; 25 people stood against wall; Lecture piped into another room); Arrived 6:55 pm

Sat against wall center aisle with none ahead;
Forgot distance glasses to see slides clearly;
Showed over 50 slides of Planets, Stars, and
Galaxies in the Universe; Ended lecture with
Dorothy's quote: "There's no place like home."
Q&A session 8:20-8:45 pm; Signed his flyer. Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 8:32-8:38 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Patrick Gallois conducts
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä to Domenico Cimarosa's
The Generous Enemies: Overture (1796); CD;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); History in Music Trivia 1796

British explorer Mungo Park becomes 1st European to reach Niger River (6-21); U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain, under terms of Jay Treaty. (7-11); President George Washington's Farewell Address, warns against partisan politics
and foreign entanglements. (9-17-1796).

Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 11:06 am-3:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Work on "Numbers 98": Adding 2 lines to #82
Tom Harmon: Mark Harmon seeing his Dad not
tackled on video, bumped #99 Panda Coin to page 8

Adding image of Krishna Print #98 in Item 112
bumped Bach Cantata 98 album in Item 119 to
page 11, so no photos are cropped from pp. 1-12.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 11:06 am-3:30 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Numbers 98"; Brought 2 books to type: Seung Sahn's "The Whole World Is A Single Flower 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life" for #176 and "Rumi Daylight" for #181—

Don't hide Your heart but reveal it,
so that mine might be revealed,
and I might accept what I am capable of.

Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 4:30-5:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center: "Numbers 98":
#137 Rig Veda; #138-139 Iliad & Odyssey; #142 Buddha's Dhammapada; #143 Ashtavakra Gita; #144 Yoga Sutra; #149 Names of Allah; #150 Holy Koran

Friend helped me bring two boxes home
from Public Storage for sorting, and
put step-ladder in locker (6:30-7:30 pm).
Thursday, October 10, 2019, 9:40 am-7:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Numbers 98": 5 books to type: Chinmayananda's Ashtavakra Gita; Dropping Ashes on the Buddha;
Sayings of Joshu; The Philokalia; Bodhicaryavatara

Copied #98 from five books last night—
98 in the Bible (3); Plato's Phaedo & Meno;
#98 in Ling Ch'i Ching and Lankavatara Sutra.

Friday, October 11, 2019, 11:05 am-4:35 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"Numbers 98": Typed 37 items from philosophers &
poets; Created "98th Happy Birthday Page" yesterday
for Professor H.A. Scheraga's birthday (10-18-2019)

Israel 399: King David for 98th Psalm;
U.S. C147: Grand Teton Park for relaxation;
France 4588: Paris River Seine for exploration.
Friday, October 11, 2019, 11:05 am-4:35 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Edit "Love at First Listen" for centering; "Numbers 98":
163) Case 98 of Hekiganroku: "Tempyo's Two Wrongs";
219) 98th poem is by Mirabai (translated by Robert Bly)

172) Ch. 98 of Wei Wu Wei's Ask the Awakened;
162) Section 98: Mater Kido's Every End Exposed:
217) Poem 98 "Apogee", Kay Ryan's The Best of It.

Friday, October 11, 2019, 6:00-7:20 pm;
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: James Whale directs
"The Impatient Maiden" (1932), starring Lew Ayres,
Mae Clarke, Una Merkel, Andy Devine, John Halliday, Oscar Apfel, Ethel Griffies, Helen Jerome Eddy, Bert Roach, Cecil Cunningham, Blanche Payson, Arthur Hoyt, Monte Montague; (YouTube: 1, 2, Full Film);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Young woman working for divorce lawyer
falls in love with a doctor, but doesn't believe
in marriage, and lured to live in rich apartment. Friday, October 11, 2019, 7:30-9:05 pm;
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Frank Borzage directs "Little Man, What Now?" (1934), starring Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale Sr., Catherine Doucet, DeWitt Jennings, Fred Kohler, G.P. Huntley, Muriel Kirkland, Mae Marsh, Donald Haines, Christian Rub, Alan Mowbray, Paul Fix; (YouTube: 1, full film);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Young married couple struggles to survive
during difficult economic times of the
late Weimar Republic as Hitler's rise to power.

Friday, October 11, 2019, 9:55-10-15 pm
Mountain View: Bus #22 got to San Antonio Rd
@ 9:50 pm; Went to Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd)
for this week's specials. Got 10:29 pm Bus #40 home.

2 Quakers Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal @ $1.99;
32 oz Yogurt $2.19, 5.3 oz Oikos Yogurt Free;
Sig. Cafe 2 lbs Deviled-Egg Potato Salad $6.99. Friday, October 11, 2019, 11:00 pm-2:30 am
Mountain View: After dinner, rounded up 6 books
to type tomorrow at Krause Center for "Numbers 98"—
Copied Section #98 from Chu Hsi & Wang Yang Ming.

Chu Hsi: "Many people are not willing
to learn from their inferiors, consequently
they remain ignorant throughout their lives.

Saturday, October 12, 2019, 11:00 am-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Brought four books to type for "Numbers 98"
206) A.E.'s Song and Its Fountains;
166) Letters of Marsilio Ficino

169) Frederick Franck's Book of Angelus Silesius;
173) Paul Brunton's Notebooks Vol. 16:
Enlightened Mind, Divine Mind.
Saturday, October 12, 2019, 11:00 am-3:00 pm
Los Altos Library: Find books for "Numbers 98":
179) Su Tung-p'o; 189) Wu Ch'eng-en's Jouney
to the West; 190) Basho: Complete Haiku; 201)
Emily's New Poems; 210) Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets

214) Transtromer's Half-Finished Heaven;
216) Bly's Stealing Sugar from the Castle;
218) James Richardson's By the Numbers.

Sunday, October 13, 2019, 2:00-6:05 pm
Los Altos Library: No Poem 98 in Tomas Transtromer's
Half-Finished Heaven; Found Poem 98 in The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems, translated by Robin Fulton; It is titled "The Crossing Place"

"Ice-wind in my eyes and the suns dance
in the kaleidoscope of tears as I cross
the street that's followed me so long" Sunday, October 13, 2019, 9:54-10:03 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Gordon Hunt plays oboe
with Norrköping Symphony Orchestra to
Domenico Zipoli's "Elevazione" (18th century);
CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

My favorite classical music
Elevazione voted #70 this year;
ranked #54 in 2018 KDFC Poll.

Monday, October 14, 2019, 9:25 am-4:20 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Los Altos Library is closed for Columbus Day,
but Foothill College is open for me to work.

Bookmarked movies seen at Stanford Theatre
on Friday, October 11— "The Impatient Maiden"
and "Little Man, What Now?" with video links.
Monday, October 14, 2019, 9:25 am-4:20 pm
Los Altos Library: Checked out two books
from Foothill Library to type for "Numbers 98"
The Gift: Poems by Hafiz and The Bijak of Kabir

Returned books to Library after typing—
183) Hafiz wonders "Who will feed my cat";
187) Kabir says there's no peace without Ram.

Monday, October 14, 2019, 4:41-5:58 pm
Mountain View: Left Krause Center for 4:41 pm Bus #40;
5:08 pm Bus #22 to Smart & Final (141 El Camino Real)
for 2 Progresso New England Clam Chowder @ $1.25.

Stopped by Walgreens (121 East El Camino Real)
for 4 bags 6 oz No Shell Pistachios @ $6.49;
with $1.00 off coupons @ $5.49 (Total $21.96). Monday, October 14, 2019, 11:00 pm-2:30 am
Mountain View: 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Road)
Came June 23 & bought 6 bags of Kimbo Buns @ $1.39;
(now @ $2.49); 6:51 pm Bus 22 & 7:20 pm Bus 40 home

Kimbo Jumbo Thick Dry Tofu $2.69;
Kimbo Taiwan Veggie Buns $3.69;
I Mei Frozen Sesame Buns $2.50.

Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 10:30 am-6:25 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Finish composition to "On the Numbers 98"—
Typed Fragment #98 of Heraclitus (Item 142) and
Sonnet #98 of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Item 206)

Heart, have no pity on this house of bone:
Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy.
No man holds mortgage on it; it is your own Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 10:30 am-6:25 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Went through my Numbers Collection to find
words adding to 98 in Numerology (Item 218)
Dragon Transformation = 32 + 66 = 98

Evergreen Medicine = 54 + 44 = 98
Firefly Reflection = 45 + 53 = 98
Philosophy Journey = 62 +36 = 98

Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 11:00 am-4:35 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Printed 28 pages @ 65% for "Number 98"—
Stanford 1998 Plaque for cover "On the Numbers 98"

Poem "Meditations on 98: Seek on & Look in"
based on words of writers linked to Verse 98,
Chapter 98, Line 98, and Page 98 (see Notes). Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 5:00-6:39 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd.)
(Friend gone when I got to Mtn View Senior Center
at 5:30 pm to help me put bags in her car's trunk)

2.19 lbs Cluster Tomatoes @ 98¢/lb = $2.15;
18 oz bag of Raw Wheat Germ = $2.79;
Raincheck for Organic Grapes @ $1.49/lb.

Thursday, October 17, 2019, 8:30 am-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Stayed home for City Inspection
of Apartments; Threw away 6 bags of newspapers;
However the inspectors never showed up

Julio said I should have 40 inches space from
kitchen wall to my boxes in living room;
Now there is 80 inches of space. Thursday, October 17, 2019, 4:50-7:50 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Went to Los Altos Library to print two copies of
"98th Happy Birthday Page" in color @ 20¢

Using Numbers 97-Preface as template,
composed Numbers 98-Preface so source
of Cover is connected to Stanford 1998 Plaque.

Friday, October 18, 2019, 12:25-12:35 pm
Los Altos Post Office (221 Main Street)
Postal clerk Vincent who postmarks carefully
has moved to Modesto, closer to where he lives;
Mailed 33- pp. "Number 98" for Scheraga's birthday

New clerk John Li slapped meter mail
for $2.75 media rate + $2.20 insurance
without affixing nice postage stamps. Friday, October 18, 2019, 10:00-10:11 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
Movie ended at 9:20 pm, ran to Palo Alto Train
Depot to catch 9:33 pm Bus #22; Stopped
@ 10 pm; 17 minutes shopping & catch bus

Select Cafe Devilled-Egg Potato Salad @ $6.49;
Bear Claw Coffee Cake $1.53 (reward coupon);
Caught last Bus #40 at 10:27 pm home.

Friday, October 18, 2019, 6:10-7:20 pm;
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: James Whale directs
"The Kiss Before the Mirror" (1933), starring
Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart, Jean Dixon, Donald Cook, Charley Grapewin, Walter Pidgeon, Wallis Clark, May Boley, Christian Rub, Reginald Mason; (YouTube: 1, 2, Full Film);
(Film Reviews: 1, , 3, 4)

Lawyer defends friend for murdering
his unfaithful wife, and discovers
his own wife has a lover. Friday, October 18, 2019, 7:30-9:25 pm;
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: John M. Stahl directs "Magnificent Obsession" (1935), starring Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Betty Furness, Sara Haden, Ralph Morgan, Henry Armetta, Gilbert Emery, Arthur Treacher, Beryl Mercer, Alyce Ardell, Theodore von Eltz, Sidney Bracey, Arthur Hoyt, Cora Sue Collins; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3 ); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Renowned surgeon dies, as careless playboy
is saved; He falls in love with his widow,
causing her further injury & blindness.

Saturday, October 19, 2019, 9:25 am-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
With "Number 98" for Scheraga's birthday finished—
Complete Cover and Preface on "Numbers 68"
for friend Cathy's birthday (8-5-2019)

Special thanks to Al Guzman for
letting me work at Sunnyvale Campus.
to complete these special Numbers project. Saturday, October 19, 2019, 9:25 am-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
On October 7, dropped Cavada's LINC 83F
"Digital Video Editing" (10/1-11/11) class
to complete Scheraga's "Number 98" project.

Add LINC 62 "Cloud-Based Word Processing Tools" (10/28-11/22) class, so I'm no longer
working on "Numbers" compilations.

Saturday, October 19, 2019, 3:40-3:54 pm
Los Altos Library closed; Jack dropped me off at
Mountain View San Antonio Rd & El Camino Real;
Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rd); 4:20 pm Bus #40 home

2.18 lbs Green Seedless Grapes@ 98¢/lb = $2.14;
2.46 lbs Turkish Apricots @ $2.46/lb = $6.05;
Silk Almond Milk $2.50; Green Onions 79¢. Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, 7:50-8:35 pm
Mountain View: Forgot it's Halloween Party
at Cubberley Ballroom Dancing; Walked fast
and arrived in 45 minutes instead of an hour.

Too late to join circle for Waltz lesson;
Ate 2 plates of fresh fruits— strawberries,
blueberries, blackberries, kiwi, pineapples.

Sunday, October 20, 2019, 2:00-4:10 pm
Los Altos Library open today after yesterday's strike;
Karen dropped by to say hello at 3 pm; had to leave to
teach piano lessons; Want to join Al & me next week

Bookmarked four Mercury New stories—
Library Closed on Strike; Income Inequality;
Home Run Derby; AI as Human Companion. Sunday, October 20, 2019, 4:10-4:40 pm
Los Altos Library: Missed 4:06 pm Bus #40;
100+ cars passed by without picking me up hitchhiking
until Steve stopped & drove to Showers Drive for Bus 522

Gave Steve current Stanford Theatre flyer
& as gift, told him to check out my web site
WisdomPortal.com that's better than rubies.

Sunday, October 20, 2019, 5:55-7:20 pm;
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: William Wyler
directs "Counsellor at Law" (1933), starring
John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell, Melvyn Douglas, Onslow Stevens, Thelma Todd, Mayo Methot, Vincent Sherman, Richard Quine,
John Qualen, Angela Jacobs; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Got to movie at 5:45 pm

John Barrymore's finest performance
as impoverished Jewish boy who
becomes a successful lawyer. Sunday, October 20, 2019, 7:30-8:55 pm;
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: James Whale directs "Waterloo Bridge" (1935), starring Mae Clarke,
Douglass Montgomery (Kent Douglass), Doris Lloyd, Frederick Kerr, Enid Bennett, Bette Davis (her 3rd film), Ethel Griffies, Rita Carlyle, Ruth Handforth; (YouTube:
1, 2, Half of film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Train Depot for
9:06 pm Bus 22 to Rengstorff Ave & 1/2-hour walk home

Remade: Robert Taylor & Vivien Leigh (1940),
and as Gaby (1956) with Leslie Caron—
some critics prefer this original version.

Monday, October 21, 2019, 10:00 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Correct 3 typos in "Number 98" (pp. 11, 28, 29);
Complete Haikus for last three days

Haikus 10/19: Sprouts & Cubberley Dancing;
Haikus 10/20: Mercury News & Hitchhiking;
Haikus 10/21: "98" Typos & Preface Poems 2019. Monday, October 21, 2019, 10:00 am-4:40 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
After Preface Number 98 & Preface Number 68,
use Preface Poems 2018 as template for Poems 2019.

Wrote 20 poems so far this year
with five poems from earlier years
compared to 24 poems in 2018.

Monday, October 21, 2019, 5:40-5:53 pm
Mountain View: CVS Pharmacy (2630 W. El Camino)
Duracell 2032 Two Coin Batteries @ $7.63;
Used $1 off coupon for any Duracell batteries

Diabetic One Touch Ultra Meter
didn't work this morning because
it's low on batteries. Monday, October 21, 2019, 6:05-6:29 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
50¢ refund + $5 Reward Card for 10/11 overcharge of
Devilled-Egg Potato Salad; Got 6:48 pm Bus #40 home.

2 Quaker Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal @ $1.99;
2 Lucerne Coffee Creamers @ $2.49;
32 oz Lucerne Strawberry Yogurt $2.18.

Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 11:00 am-6:25 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Assembled "Number 98" with typo corrections on pages
11, 28, 29; Printed Cathy's Birthday on one page @ 50%

Need to edit "Preface: On Number 68"
and Notes to Poem: Meditations on 68
to avoid large gaps in several lines. Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 11:00 am-6:25 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Wrote on 13 poems in Preface: Poems 2019 yesterday;
Need commentaries on 12 more poems today

Finished writing Preface
along with the Cover to
Happy Monday!: Poems of 2019.

Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 6:55-7:16 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
Jonathan rang up purchase without me entering
phone # for Rewards coupons, overcharging $7.46.
Nyokabi's refund of $5.05 still short $2.41.

3 Quaker Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal @ $1.99;
3 Quaker Raisins-Dates-Walnuts Oatmeal @ $1.99;
2 Lucerne Pumpkin & Pecan Creamers @ $2.49. Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 8:30-8:36 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts
San Francisco Symphony to Sergei Rachmaninoff's
Vocalise Op. 34 #14 (1912); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); History in Music Trivia 1912

Fenway Park in Boston, Mass. opens (4-20);
Alaska becomes a territory of the U.S. (5-11);
Wilson wins U.S. presidential election (11-8-1912).

Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 5:45-6:07 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
Kamini refunds $2.41 overcharge with yesterday's
shopping plus $5 Safeway Reward Card for errors.

Bought 3 Square 10"x10" Aluminum Foil Pans
for $5.49 using Safeway $5 Reward Card
plus 49ers Basket Discount, so no charge. Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 6:15-6:52 pm
Mountain View: Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd.)
Karen came out of Sprouts as I was going in; Raincheck:
Turkish Apricots @ $2.49/lb; $5 off on $33.10 purchase

4.22 lbs Red Seedless Grapes @ 98¢/lb = $4.14;
1.05 lbs Macadamia Nuts @ $14.99/lb = $15.89;
120 tabs Magnesium Citrate $11.03 (91¢ tax).

Thursday, October 24, 2019, 8:32-8:40 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: André Previn conducts
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to William Walton's
Crown Imperial (1937); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); History in Music Trivia 1937

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men published (2-6);
Coronation of King George VI in London (5-12);
Hormel Co. sells precooked meat Spam (7-5-1937).
Thursday, October 24, 2019, 10:30 am-1:30 pm
Mountain View: SS Agency (1300 W. Middlefield Rd); Interview with Erica for Annual CalFresh Re-certification; Forgot document showing rent increase from $1149 to $1183; Went home to bring it for Erica to photocopy

Erica was wearing Steph Curry #30 jersey;
Told her I'll send email of interesting
article on Curry saved from years back.

Friday, October 25, 2019, 8:31-8:39 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Alfred Brendel plays piano to
Joseph Haydn's Piano Sonata #51 in D HOB16:51 (1794); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); History in Music Trivia 1794

U.S. flag of 15 stars & 15 stripes after admission of Vermont & Kentucky as 14th & 15th states (1-13);
Eli Whitney granted a patent for cotton gin (3-14);
Coffee bannd by Gustav III in Sweden (8-1-1794).
Friday, October 25, 2019, 10:35 am-4:05 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Al Guzman busy Oct. 26 & Nov. 2 for movies;
Available Sunday Nov. 10 for next outing.

Printed 24 pages "On Numbers 68" @ 58%
along with Cover, Preface, Birthday Page,
"Meditations on 68" Poem with Notes.
No time to edit five cropped photos.

Friday, October 25, 2019, 5:40-7:20 pm;
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: John M. Stahl directs
"Seed" (1931), starring John Boles, Lois Wilson,
Genevieve Tobin, Raymond Hackett, ZaSu Pitts,
Bette Davis (her 2nd film), Richard Tucker,
Frances Dade, Jack Willis, Dick Winslow, Bill Willis,
Dickie Moore, Helen Parrish; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Man leaves wife and children
to live with his mistress
and becomes famous author. Friday, October 25, 2019, 7:30-8:45 pm;
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Hobart Henley directs
"Bad Sister" (1935), starring Conrad Nagel, Sidney Fox, Bette Davis (her 1st film), Humphrey Bogart (6th film), Charles Winninger, Emma Dunn, ZaSu Pitts, Bert Roach,
Slim Summerville, David Durand; (YouTube: 1, 2,
full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Train Depot for
9:12 pm Bus #22 and 10:29 pm Bus #40 home

Con artist Humphrey Bogart swindles
small-town girl "Bad Sister" while
Bette Davis plays good sister in her 1st film.

Friday, October 25, 2019, 8:45-8:52 pm
Palo Alto Train Depot: After movie ended @ 8:45 pm;
8-minutes run to Depot & caught 8:52 pm Bus #22
arriving 9:11 pm to catch 9:17 pm Bus #40 home

Was planning for the last Bus #40 at
10:29 pm & some shopping at Safeway,
but making the earlier Bus #40 was a treat. Saturday, October 26, 2019, 10:11 am-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Bookmarked 8 articles on "Interesting News"
and 9 articles on "Enlightenment News"

"Louvre celebrates 500th anniversary of
Leonardo Da Vinci's death with new exhibit"
(By Claire Parker, USA Today, 10-22-2019).

Saturday, October 26, 2019, 10:11 am-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Bookmarked 9 articles on "Enlightenment News"
and 3 articles on "Poetry News"

"Bearing Witness": Czeslaw Milosz's
Harvard Lectures The Witness of Poetry;
(By Mark Nepo, Patheos, 10-22-2019). Saturday, October 26, 2019, 5:15-5:31 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
Signature Select Cinnamon Apple Sauce $1.78;
Caught 5:47 pm Bus #40 home

2 Lucerne Pumpkin Pecan Creamer @ $1.49;
2 Tai Pei Potstickers & Fried Rice @ $1.50;
2 Ken's Vadalia Onion Salad Dressings @$1.99.

Sunday, October 27, 2019, 5:40-7:20 pm;
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: William Wyler directs
"The Good Fairy" (1935), starring Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen,
Eric Blore, Beulah Bondi, Alan Hale Sr., Cesar Romero, Luis Alberni, June Clayworth; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Innocent orphan Margaret Sullavan
becomes a movie usherette and
is distracted by amorous admirers. Sunday, October 27, 2019, 7:30-9:20 pm;
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: John M. Stahl directs
"Imitation of Life" (1934), starring Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, Juanita Quigley, Alan Hale Sr., Henry Armetta, Wyndham Standing, William Austin, Edgar Norton; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Black maid becomes successful
but her fair-skinned daughter
wants to live as a white woman.

Monday, October 28, 2019, 8:31-8:34 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: André Previn conducts London
Symphony Orchestra to Erich Wolfgang Korngold's
Much Ado About Nothing: The Pageant Op.11 (1919); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); History in Music Trivia 1919

Theodore Roosevelt, died at age 60 in NY (1-6);
Oregon is 1st U.S. state to levy gasoline tax. (2-25);
U.S. Army sends convoy across U.S. (7-7-1919).
Monday, October 28, 2019, 11:06 am-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Went to Kaiser Permanente (555 Castro Street)
for diabetic medications & Humulin ($59.33), 10:08 am;
Caught 10:42 am Bus #52 to Foothill College 10:55 am

Noticed Deborah wore a triangle necklace △
while we danced Two-Step on Saturday.
She tells me it symbolized the Trinity (Λ).

Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 8:34-8:43 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Academy for Ancient Music, Berlin plays Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Symphony in G,
Wq 173 (1741); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4);
History in Music Trivia 1741

Maria Theresa of Austria crowned Queen Regnant of Hungary. (6-25); Anders Celsius develops his own thermometer scale, Centigrade (12-25);
Traitor Benedict Arnold was born (1-14-1741).
Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 11:10 am-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Read in Mercury News (Sunday, 10-27-2019, A20)
"Callers from around the world mourn loss of giant treehouse"; original article in NY Times (10-26-2019)

Since this tree house is 97-foot-tall
have to include it in Numbers 0-99
in my "Numbers Dictionary" along
with photo of world's tallest treehouse.

Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 8:34-8:43 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (645 San Antonio Road)
2 lbs Deviled-Egg Potato Salad $6.49; 7:48 pm Bus #40
home; Yesterday at Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road),
6:14 pm; $5 off for $34.71 purchase = $29.71

1.07 lbs UnSalted Macadamia Nuts @ $14.99/lb = $16.04;
1.09 lbs Salted Macadamia Nuts @ $14.99/lb = $16.34:
2.38 lbs Cluster Vine Tomatoes @ 98¢/lb = $2.33. Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford University: Encina Hall, Bechtel Center;
"Another Look" Book Discussion of Alfred Hayes's
"My Face for the World to See" (1958) with Robert Harrison, Tobias Wolff, David Thomson, Terry Gamble

Alex Harvey's Los Angeles Review of Books;
David Thomson's New York Review of Books;
Andrew Lipstein's The Rumpus Book Review.

Thursday, October 31, 2019, 8:32-8:39 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Odaline de la Martinez
conducts BBC Philharmonic to Ethel Smyth's
Serenade in D (1889); CD; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3);
History in Music Trivia 1889

Samoan crisis: cyclone sinks all German & American warships (3-15); Land Rush of 1889 in Oklahoma (4-22); First long distance electric power transmission in Portland, Oregon (6-3-1889).
Thursday, October 31, 2019, 12:15-6:00 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
Read in Mercury News (Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, B1, B10)
and July 31, 2017 on San Jose's Electric Light Tower
that inspired Gustave Eiffel to build his Eiffel Tower

Since this Light Tower is 237-foot-tall
have to include it in Numbers 101-366
in my "Numbers Dictionary" along
with photo of the 1881 tower