Haikus: March 2021

HAIKUS: March 2021

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.

Monday, March 1, 2021, 1:45-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Ann picked me up @ 1:45 pm;
Drove to Kaiser Santa Clara for my 1st COVID-19 shot
(2:20 pm); Didn't feel anything when vaccinated in my
upper left arm; 15-minutes wait before being released

Ann drove to Wells Fargo (2000 El Camino Real)
for me to deposit $1758.99 refund check from IRS;
Christian also gave me a roll of Quarters for $10. Monday, March 1, 2021, 4:40-10:40 pm
Mountain View: Kim Randall's Foothill College LINC-90C
"Online Collaboration Tools" class starts on March 1;
Introduction Discussion in Orientation due Wed. March 3;
Checked MyPortal & Canvas for first assignment—

Our daily lives have shifted quite a bit in the past 12
months! Please share something you are excited to do when pandemic "eases" up & introduce yourself.

Monday, March 1, 2021, 4:40-10:40 pm
Mountain View: Last entry on "Number 44"
before logging off @ 12:17 am was Item #222
"The Zen Teaching of Huang Po" (850 AD)—

Avoid pondering things in your mind,
thereby purging your bodies
of discriminatory cognition. Monday, March 1, 2021, 4:40-10:40 pm
Mountain View: LINC-90C assignment— Enjoy
Teaching poetry to kids; Sharing wisdom (Tour);
"Alone but not Lonely"; When pandemic ends, love to—

Go ballroom dancing at Cubberley Pavilion,
See classic films at Stanford Theatre,
Breakfast and movies with friends.

Monday, March 1, 2021, 4:40-10:40 pm
Mountain View: Number 8 uniforms: Carl Yastrzemski;
Yogi Berra; Cal Ripken Jr; Steve Young; 8-Ball; Octopus;
Mandolin; Dogwood Flower; Cosmos bipinnaus; Octogon

Lilly's 8th birthday is March 5,
Find images of 8 for a poem
to wish her "Happy Birthday". Monday, March 1, 2021, 4:40-10:40 pm
Mountain View: LINC-90C assignment—
Created a web page for LINC-90C Assignment 1;
and place it in Google Docs for class viewing

Found 1989 photo of myself
at Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop
taken by Sharon Olds on top of ski slope.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 4:00 pm-12:16 am
Mountain View: Flowers 8 petals: Red Chrysanthemum;
Bloodroot; Clematis; Fig Buttercup; Paris Japonica; Supernova 1987A; GermanyO67 Numeral 8; Germany 354 Beethoven; PRC1966 Ox; PRC1900 Rat; PRC1390 Horse; PRC722 Forest; China C69 Seagull; China C80 Geese

More 8-petalled flowers, stamps
with 8 denomination found for
Lilly's 8th birthday on March 5. Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 4:00 pm-12:16 am
Mountain View: Long heart-warming email from Elisa
(March 2, 6:37 am) thanking me for birthday greetings
and Number 44; She loved all the "44" stamps, and enjoyed my poems on "Opposum" and "Pizza Pro Juggling Dough";
It's freezing in Boston, 15 degrees this morning

Sent me 6 photos of her Birthday Cake, Lilly's Love
Note to Mom, Sophie making dumplings, Ben & Elisa, Lunar Ox Year Cake, Dog Audrey with snow.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 5:25-5:53 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post" & "Metro";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstroff Avenue)
6:35 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Ave & walked home

6 oz Sig Sel Chunks Imitation Crabmeat @ $1.99;
10 Yoplait Yogurts @ 29¢ = $2.90 - $1 off = $1.90;
32 oz Blue Diamond No-Sugar Almond Milk $3.00;
2 Sliced Almonds (1 lb) $5 (75% off) $1.25 = $2.50. Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 7:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: More 8 denomination stamps found for
Lilly's 8th birthday on March 5— Panama 499 Blue Fox;
Monaco 345 Jules Verne Orinoco; Uruguay C36A Pegasus;
US 1436 Emily Dickerson; US 1488 Nicolaus Copernicus;

US 1475 Robert Indiana "Love";
US 1453 Yellowstone Old Faithful;
US 1472 Santa; US 1508 Christmas Tree;
US C68 Amelia Earhart; Polar Bear; Condor.

Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 9:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Safari Browser doesn't show LINC-90C
assignments; Went to Chrome Browser and saw Kim Randall's Assigment #1 on Make 3 Google slides;
Create folder in Google Drive; Make Google Site

Took 2 hours 20 minutes
to do this first LINC-90C assignment
& submitted to Kim Randall @ 11:09 pm. Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 9:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Wrote this poem "The Sweet Smile"
while in bed the last two days counting eight syllables
per line, and what images to use for illustrations; Photo of
girl on Dad's shoulders is like one who greeted me years ago

The ending of Fellini's La Dolce Vita
is the most haunting and memorable
scene than any movie I've ever seen.

Thursday, March 4, 2021, 6:30-6:48 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Road) for copies of today's "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstroff Avenue)
7:30 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Ave & walked home

8 oz Sig Farms Fresh Spinach for Salad @ $1.99;
32 oz Sig Cafe Deviled-Egg Potato Salad @ $3.49;
No Monopoly Board— everything online this time. Thursday, March 4, 2021, 8:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: 1:50 pm Email from Foothill College
that I've been dropped from Kim Randall's LINC-90C
class for not submitting 3/3 assignments on time;
Emailed Kim (9:11 pm) to restore me into the class.

Submitted Assignment #1 to Kim Randall
@ 11:09 pm via MyPortal's Canvas,
but somehow it didn't go through.

Thursday, March 4, 2021, 8:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: 9:57 pm Email from Kim Randall:
"What you missed was orientation module and the Intro
Discussion which is what we use to determine who gets
dropped. So this is why you were dropped from the class.

Safari Browser didn't show Orientation Module
and the Intro Discussion since MyPortal/Canvas
doesn't work except in Google Chrome Browser. Friday, March 5, 2021, 12:00-2:40 am
Mountain View: Lilly's 8th birthday today—
Composed web page Happy 8th Birthday
with 6 flowers of 8 petals, Uniform #8 of baseball &
football players, and 19 stamps with 8 denomination.

8th Birthday Poem for grandniece Lilly
with 10 stanzas of 20 lines
on themes of number 8.

Friday, March 5, 2021, 12:00-12:30 pm & 2:30-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Al Guzman phoned to help me get back
into Kim Randall's LINC-90C class that I was dropped;
Went to Zoom & Foothill College's Student Registration,
but can't find where to insert add-code 3UDVAA Kim sent

Foothill Registrar closes at noon on Friday;
Kim Randall emailed to suggest we try again
on Monday 9 am-5 pm when they're open. Friday, March 5, 2021, 6:00-6:27 pm
Mountain View: 5:47 pm Bus #40 to Chef Chu's bins
for "Palo Alto Weekly"; Shopping at Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road); Lam's Salon news bins for "Daily Post";
7:17 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

19 oz Bag of Raw Wheat Germ @ $2.79;
0.61 lb Sweet Banana Chips @ $3.49/lb = $2.13;
Rainchecks: Walnut Halves & Cashews @ $3.99/lb.

Friday, March 5, 2021, 3:00-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Arline phones & we chat for an hour;
Last meeting on March 8, 2020 at Pearl Kruss's Gallery;
She got 2 COVID-19 shots and tells about her daughter
Ellen getting research grants at University of Wisconsin

Told her about Elisa's email of her family in Boston,
and my poem of "Pizza Pro" with Blondin crossing
Niagara on her birthday; Postage stamps of Pegasus
(issued 6-30-1943); Beethoven (expired 6-30-1933). Friday, March 5, 2021, 8:15 pm-12:48 am
Mountain View: Continue work on "Number 44"
Items #223-242: Philosophical writings— Saint Francis
of Assisi (1226) to Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn (1992);
Luckily, I have most of these books at home to type from—

#233— Angelus Silesius, Cherubinic Wanderer;
#235— Swedenborg's Worlds in Space, Ch. 44;
#237— Franklin Merrell-Wolff's Aphorism 44;
#238— Kerouac's Scripture of the Golden Eternity.

Saturday, March 6, 2021, 4:15-4:29 pm
Mountain View: 4:00 pm Bus #40 to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post", no "Daily News";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstroff Avenue);
4:40 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave & walked home

Int. Delight No-Sugar Caramel Creamer @ $3.00;
59 oz Silk Ultra Soy Protein Milk $3.97 Free;
5.3 oz Ratio Protein Yogurt $1.99 Free. Saturday, March 6, 2021, 5:45 pm-1:48 am
Mountain View: Jeremy Lin's 3-pointer to win in OT;
Continue work on "Number 44" Items #223-242:
Philosophical writings— 14 more texts to type—
St. Francis of Assisi, Mumonkan, Hekiganroku, Chang Tsai,

Ch'eng Hao, Ch'eng I, Chu Hsi, Kido,
Wang Yang Ming, Ficino, Sage Ninomiya,
Master Subramuniya, Seung Sahn, Paul Brunton.

Sunday, March 7, 2021, 5:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: NBA All-Stars Game in Atlanta;
3-Pointers Shooting Contest: Steph Curry wins his
2nd contest since last entry in 2015 with 31 points

From every angle, Steph Curry
shows why he is the best 3-points
shooter, sinking shot after shot. Sunday, March 7, 2021, 5:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Midpenisula Regional Open Space
Spring 2021 Newsletter "Views" received Friday;
No docent-led hikes as usual; Virtual events listed

Mount Umunhum was named for the
hummingbird by the Ohlone tribe;
"Coexisting with Cougars" article.

Sunday, March 7, 2021, 5:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" on Sunday to go out;
Interesting News: "The Universe Might Be One Big
Neural Network, Study Finds" (By Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics, Yahoo News, 3-5-2021)

Vitaly Vanchurin, physics professor, University
of Minnesota Duluth, published his paper
"The World as a Neural Network"
on the arXiv pre-print server last year. Sunday, March 7, 2021, 5:30 pm-1:42 am
Mountain View: Stayed home to work on "Number 44"
Items #243-281: Quotes from Poetry & Literature—
Su Tung-p'o (1101) to Jane Hirshfield (1994); Melville's
Moby Dick Ch. 44 (1851); Tagore's Gitanjali 44 (1912)

Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat 44 (1122);
William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 44" (1609);
Tagore's translation: Kabir's Poem #44 (1518);
Emily Dickinson's Poem 44 "Mistletoe" (1858).

Monday, March 8 2021, 5:30-7:40 pm
Palo Alto: Karen's place on Oregon Ave to see movie
"Rain Man" (1988) directed by Barry Levinson, starring Dustin Hoffman; Tom Cruise; Valeria Golino; Gerald R. Molen; Michael D. Roberts; Ralph Seymour; Bonnie Hunt; Beth Grant; Lucinda Jenney; Barry Levinson; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4; Karen got me home 8 pm

Frustrating film with Dustin Hoffman
behaving erratically as autistic child savant;
Recall Borges' "Funes the Memorious" (1942). Monday, March 8 2021, 8:25 pm-2:00 am
Mountain View: Al Guzman phoned 2:00 pm, tells me
Kim Randall got me back to her LINC-90C class at
Foothill Registrar, so I could do Assignments (March 1)
due March 3; After COVID-19 shot at Kaiser Santa Clara
(3/1 4:40 pm), checked Foothill MyPortal/Canvas, but Safari
browser does NOT show Assignments; Found on Chrome—

Can see "Orientation", "Module 1" (Google Slides),
"Module 2" (Google Earth) on Chrome browser
to do LINC-90C Assignments. Done "Orientation".

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 1:38-1:45 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Joshua Bell plays violin with
Andrew Litton conducting Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
to Jules Massenet's Thais: Meditation (1894);
(CD); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4).

Before hearing his beautiful music,
bought this postage stamp honoring
Massenet: France 452 (issued 6-22-1942). Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 1:59-2:13 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Vaclav Neumann
conducts Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig
to Bedrich Smetana's The Moldau (1874);
(CD); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3).

Wrote about Smetna's "The Moldau"
in my 2017 poem "Yellow-Veined Leaf Sings"
on this "wild water" passing woods to Prague.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 3:15-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Patrick McDonnell's comics "Mutts"
(3-8-2021) reminds me of Korean Zen Master
Seung Sahn's teaching of "Don't Know Mind"

Everyone's "Know Mind" is different,
Everyone's "Don't Know Mind" is the same.
Keep "Don't Know Mind" to be enlightened. Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 3:15-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Patrick McDonnell's comics "Mutts"
(3-9-2021) reminds me of Roshi Shunryu Suzuki's
1970 book "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"

Suzuki arrived in California in 1959,
opened San Francisco Zen Center in 1962;
His "Beginner's Mind" book became a best-seller.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 3:15-11:55 pm
Mountain View: "OFF THE SHELF: Power of Poetry"
(By Eve Glasberg, Columbia News, 3-9-2021)

Professor Dustin D. Stewart looks at history of
English poetry; Poet Edward Young (1683-1765):
practice for the afterlife in the here and now. Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 3:15-11:55 pm
Mountain View: "Number 44" Item #252: Anthony Yu's translation of The Journey to the West (1518), p. 268

Light clouds renew the light of the sun.
Willows by the wayside spread their curvate green;
Rains give life; all things bear the looks of spring.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 2:17-2:44 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Hilary Hahn plays violin with
Marek Janowski conducting Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
to Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto (1844);
(CD); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4).

Instead of an orchestral tutti, the concerto opens
with the almost immediate entry of the solo
violin, playing the very tune in E minor. Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 3:00-4:00 pm
Mountain View: "OP-ED: Google puts lid on cookie jar and ends an internet era" (By Timothy L. O'Brien, Mercury News, 3-9-2021, A6) "Google, internet search giant, said
that it is done tracking us as we skate around the web."

Google and Facebook jointly inhaled nearly
three-quarters of the $300 billion
spent on web advertising in 2020.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 4:25-6:05 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Road) for copies of today's "Daily Post";
Shopping (5-5:30 pm) Safeway (580 N. Rengstroff Ave);
5:47 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Avenue & walked home

6 oz Sig Sel Greek Spanakopita (12 ct) @ $3.79;
6 oz Sig Sel Chunks Imitation Crabmeat @ $1.99;
32 oz Int Delight No-Sugar Vanilla Creamer $3.00. Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 6:37-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Patrick McDonnell's comics "Mutts"
(3-10-2021) continues the Zen teachings; Kitten Shtinky
says: "Don't Know Mind" is our mind before ideas,
opinions, concepts and judgments arise to create suffering.

Buddha says "Life is suffering"
because our knowing mind is stirring up
endless thoughts of unfulfilled desires.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 6:37-11:55 pm
Mountain View: "Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
poet and Beat icon, dead at 101" (His 1958
"A Coney Island of the Mind" sold hundreds
of thousands of copies in the U.S. alone.
He called his style "wide open" influenced in part by
e.e. cummings, was often lyrical & childlike. (By Janie Har
& Hillel Italie, AP, Mercury News, 2-24-2021, A4)

"Peacocks walked/under the night trees/
in the lost moon/light/when I went out/
looking for love", he wrote in "Coney Island". Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 6:37-11:55 pm
Mountain View: "Stanford research: Why Zoom
meetings can wipe you out" (Jeremy Bailenson describes psychological impact of hours every day on Zoom,
Google Hangouts, Skype, FaceTime, or other video-
calling interfaces. On Zoom calls, everyone is staring
at everyone, all the time. Our faces appear too large.)
(By Lisa M. Krieger, Mercury News, 2-24-2021, B1-B2)

When so many faces are so close to ours,
we're in a hyper-aroused state,
it's taxing on us & stressful.

Thursday, March 11, 2021, 4:30-4:43 pm
Mountain View: 4:14 pm Bus #40 to Chef Chu's
news bins for copies of today's "Daily Post";
Shopping at CVS (2630 W. El Camino Real)—

8 oz Folgers Classic Instant Coffee @ $8.79;
Special $3.49 coupon + 40% off coupon;
Final price = $2.09 (Saved coupons for Rudy
who never came to buy Bengay $5.79 for $1.49). Thursday, March 11, 2021, 5:00-5:43 pm
Mountain View: Shop at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd);
Kamini refunded $6.38 for overcharge items by Nyokabi;
6:22 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

8 oz Lucerne Sliced Swiss Cheese @ $1.77;
2 Sig Sel Cinnamon Apple Sauce @ $1.88 = $3.76;
4 Planter's No-Salt Peanuts @ $1.99 = $7.96;
(40 minutes wait for Bus #40 to go home.

Thursday, March 11, 2021, 7:40-11:55 pm
Mountain View: "Why an Animated Flying Cat With
a Pop-Tart Body Sold for Almost $600,000" (Fast-growing
market for digital art, with cutting-edge technology.)
(By Erin Griffith, NY Times, 2-22-2021)

In the 10 years since Chris Torres created Nyan Cat,
an animated flying cat with Pop-Tart body leaving a
rainbow trail, seen on the web 186 millions times. Thursday, March 11, 2021, 7:40-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Patrick McDonnell's comics "Mutts"
(3-11-2021) continues Zen teachings; Kitten Shtinky tells
Mooch: "I try to keep an Empty Mind by NOT thinking."
(Patrick McDonnell's fascination with Zen & Eckhart Tolle)

Mooch: "But don't you have to think
to make that choice?" Shtinky:
"Hmmm... I hadn't thought of that."

Friday, March 12, 2021, 3:40-5:20 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post", Daily News", "Metro";
Shop (4:20-4:43 pm) Safeway (580 N. Rengstroff Ave);
5:10 pm Red Bus to Montecito Avenue & walked home

2 Sig Sel Quiches 11.2 oz (15 ct) @ $3.79 = $7.58;
3 lbs Sig Café Potato Salad @ 50% off = $3.24;
Pound Cake 50% off ($2.14) - $2 coupon = 14¢. Friday, March 12, 2021, 6:20-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Memories of teenage years in Glen Oaks
(1954-56), playing Skully on the sidewalk of our courtyard
with neighborhood kids hitting bottle caps inside 9 squares,
blasting away competitors' bottle caps in order to win.

Found a Skully Square with 13 numbers;
Revised it to a 9-numbered Skully Square
using "Transformation Rotate" in Adobe Photoshop.

Friday, March 12, 2021, 6:20-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Teenagers in Glen Oaks go to stores
with soft drinks machines hunting for nice bottlecaps:
Coca Cola; White Rock Ginger Ale; Canada Dry;
Pepsi Cola; Budweiser Beer; Heineken Beer

We took great pride in our bottlecaps
like samurai with their shining swords—
they must have no dents, smooth & pristine. Friday, March 12, 2021, 6:20-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Memories of teenage years in Glen Oaks
(1954-56), collecting Charms from Vending machines;
Plastic animals, soldiers, four-leaf clovers, real compass,
some trinkets are so common that nobody wants in trade

Scarcest charm is a light bulb
that glows in the dark which
came miraculously as a gift.

Saturday, March 13, 2021, 12:00-2:30 am
Mountain View: After collecting six bootlecaps online,
& made 9-numbered Skully Square, wrote "Skully" poem:

Be friends with other players
so they won't blast you away.
Keep focus and you will win. Saturday, March 13, 2021, 12:00-2:30 am
Mountain View: After downloading recent "Mutts" comic
strips with Zen themes, wrote "Don't Know Mind" poem—

Keep Don't Know Mind
to be Enlightened
and enjoy the peace.

Saturday, March 13, 2021, 3:38-5:45 pm
Mountain View: 4:06 pm Bus #40 to Chef Chu's
news bins for "Palo Alto Weekly" & "Daily Post";
Shopping at Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road);
5:35 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

0.63 lb Dk Chocolate Almonds @ $3.99/lb = $2.51;
2.02 lbs Red Seedless Grapes @ $1.98/lb = $4.00;
2.09 lbs Yellow Bananas @ 59¢/lb = $1.23:
2.80 lbs Roma Tomatoes @ 88¢/lb = $2.46. Saturday, March 13, 2021, 6:40-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Can't do Kim Randall's LINC-90C
Module 2 Assignment on "Google Earth" because
it's locked; Apparently, didn't do Module #1 Assignment
(due March 7) correctly, submitted late March 8 & March 9

Kim Randall dropped me from LINC-90C class
because I didn't do "Orientation" assignment right;
With Al Guzman's help, she installed me back into
her class on March 8, but my assignments are late.

Saturday, March 13, 2021, 6:40-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Went back to LINC-90C "Orientation";
Can't see 4 "green checkmarks" after viewing 1) Course
Overview, 2) Assignments & Deadlines, 3) Evaluation
& Grading, 4) Introductions; Typed in "Reply Box"—

Copy & paste "Introduction"
done on March 3 in Reply Box—
Everything showed except photo. Saturday, March 13, 2021, 6:40-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Sent "Introduction" done in HTML to Kim
on March 3 instead of MyPortal/Canvas since it was not visible in Safari browser; That's why I was kicked out of her
class; With Chrome browser, saw LINC-90C Assignments

Hurray! Typing in the Reply Box worked.
Module 2 "Google Earth" assignment is
visible so I could work to complete it.

Saturday, March 13, 2021, 8:45 pm-2:00 am
Mountain View: LINC-90C "Module 2: Google Earth";
1) Welcome to Google Earth; 2) 15 Years of Google Earth: Protecting elephants from poachers; Photo of Black Hole;

3) Voyage Story: Whale Sharks;
4) Free Shipping: Henry Box Brown's
250 miles escape to freedom (Map). Saturday, March 13, 2021, 8:45 pm-2:00 am
Mountain View: Kim's Query: What are interesting things
noticed about Google Earth? What do you like in Google Earth? Did anything draw your attention from 2 articles?

Record a response in Studio, a video
tool that is embedded into Canvas;
Composed Module 2a in HTML.

Sunday, March 14, 2021, 5:15 pm-1:00 am
Mountain View: Forgot to turn clock an hour forward
for Daylight Saving Time ("Spring Forward"); Couldn't
solve Jumble Puzzle (2:50-4:50 pm)— "Dr. Seuss' style
of poetic verse created success for him in the ______".

Answer to 3-14-2021
today's Jumble Puzzle—
"P-Rhyme" of his life. Sunday, March 14, 2021, 5:15 pm-1:00 am
Mountain View: No Sunday "Daily Post" published
or need to go grocery shopping; Stayed home to work on
Kim Randall's LINC-90C Module 2 "Lit Trips" assignment;
Difficult to work in Google Drive; Better to do in HTML—

"Module 2b" is due 11:59 pm tonight—
How to compose Google Maps for
my "European Poetry Journey".

Sunday, March 14, 2021, 5:15 pm-1:00 am
Mountain View: Difficult to follow tutorials
to create Google Maps; Went to Google Maps:
Typed "Europe" and cropped map from
Dublin, Ireland to Konya, Turkey

Europe Map;
Europe Map Cities;
Europe Map Directions;
Literature Trips to Points of Inspiration. Sunday, March 14, 2021, 5:15 pm-1:00 am
Mountain View: Searched maps of Ireland, United Kingdom,
France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, and placed
blue dot on cities, and pencilled in yellow for directions;
With Map in place, write up on 11 poets with epiphanies—

AE & Joyce (Dublin), Wordsworth (Tintern), Blake (London), Balzac, Rilke (Paris), Goethe (Harz Mtns), Schiller (Weimar), Byron (Montreux), Dante (Ravenna), Rumi (Konya, Turkey).

Monday, March 15, 2021, 5:52-7:10 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for copies of today's "Daily Post";
Shop (6:25-6:55 pm) Safeway (580 N. Rengstroff Ave);
7:10 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Avenue & walked home

22 oz Bertolli Shrimp Penne & Asparagus @ $5.99;
16 oz Ken's Lite Vidalia Onon Dressing @ $1.50;
16 oz Ken's Asian-Sesame Dressing @ $1.50. Monday, March 15, 2021, 8:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Took 11 hours (8:06 pm-7:00 am)
yesterday to complete "Module 2b: Literature Trip
to Points of Inspiration" submitted late @ 7:30 am
Forgot to make full-size screen page as Introduction

Two hours to do full-size screen page
with European travel map in center
surrounded by 11 poets and writers.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 1:15-2:40 am
Mountain View: Charm trinkets from vending
machines: Whistle; Elephant; Compass:

Alphabet-L Charm;
Four-Leaf Clover;
Race car Charm. Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 1:15-2:40 am
Mountain View: Better to work on LINC-90C
Assignment Module 3 "CANVA" to be on time

Canva was created in 2012
by Melanie Perkins in Australia
to create social media graphics.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 6:30-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Slept 12 hours (4:35 am-4:30 pm);
Missed 6:34 pm Bus #40; Next Bus #40 came 7:35 pm;
Shopped at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd); 8:12 pm Bus #40

48 oz Sig Café Potato Salad ($6.99) @ $5.00;
1.41 lb Green Cabbage @ 39¢/lb = 55¢;
Free 59 oz Silk Ultra Soy Milk all gone. Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 9:00 pm-1:00 am
Mountain View: Couldn't solve Jumble Puzzle—
"It was clear that the two suspects weren't telling
the truth to the police and were ______".

Answer to 3-16-2021
today's Jumble Puzzle—
ELISLA = ALLIES.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 9:00 pm-1:00 am
Mountain View: Full-size screen page "Literature Trip" done
in HTML and uploaded to Google Drive & shared with
instructor Kim Randall didn't show any images at all

Took screen shot of "Literature Trip",
and saved as "LiteratureTrip(615x704).jpg"—
now all images appear in Google Drive. Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 9:00 pm-1:00 am
Mountain View: Can't make Haikus boxes even in each row;
"TD WIDTH=380" changed to "TD WIDTH=440";
even adjustments of texts didn't help with problem

Go to MyPortal/Canvas in Google Chrome
to see Kim Randall's Assignment Module 3
using "Canva" for graphic design projects.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 12:00-2:18 am
Mountain View: Checked out Kim Randall's Module 3
Assignment in Google Chrome MyPortal/Canvas;
Was late handing in Module 2b assignment (3/15);
Module 3 due 3/21 11:59 pm, to be done on time

Module 3 Assignment is "Exploring Canva"
a graphic design platform for many projects;
Read 2 articles: "What is Canva?" & "10 Things to Do". Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 4:58 pm-5:50 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for today's "Daily Post" and "Metro";
Shop (5:25-5:37 pm) Safeway (580 N. Rengstroff Ave);
5:45 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Avenue & walked home

8 oz Sig Farms Spinach for Salad @ $1.99;
64 oz Open Nature Almond Milk @ $1.99;
64 oz Lucerne Chocolate Milk @ 99¢

Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 6:37 pm-1:06 am
Mountain View: Checked out Google Maps & Google Earth
for apartment lived in Glen Oaks (1956) without success

It's Saint Patrick's Day—
wore checkered green shirt today;
1980 Poems on Shamrock & St. Patrick. Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 6:37 pm-1:06 am
Mountain View: Continue work on Module 3
of Kim Randall's LINC-90C: "Exploring Canva"

Read 3 articles: "5 Unexpected Uses for Canva", "Canva for Education", & Explore Canva website,
for LINC-90C: Module 3 Discussions.

Thursday, March 18, 2021, 6:05-6:45 pm
Mountain View: 11 hours sleep (4:35 am-3:45 pm);
Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd)
for "Daily Post" & "Metro" for friends & neighbors;
6:33 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Avenue & walked home

Slight drizzle but didn't use umbrella;
No need to shop at Rengstroff's Safeway;
Bus #40 came after picking up the papers. Thursday, March 18, 2021, 7:20-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Karen's project at Almaden
Quicksilver County Park this week is "Banana Slugs";
Weirdest Animal; Slimy Facts; Giant Slug Video;
Found "Banana Slugs" photos on hikes with Connie—

South Long Ridge (9-21-2008);
Memorial Park (8-23-2009);
El Corte de Madera (7-4-2010).

Friday, March 19, 2021, 3:00-4:20 pm
Mountain View: Ann picked me up @ 3:00 pm;
Drove to Kaiser Permanente (555 Castro St) for me
to buy bottle 100 tablets Simvastatin ($9.00); then to
Los Altos Library for 10 books: Su Tung-p'o Poems; New Poems; By the Numbers; Evidence; Creeley; Basho; Anna Akhmatova.

The Gift: Hafiz Poems;
Collected Poems: Kenneth Koch;
Bly's Stealing Sugar from the Castle. Friday, March 19, 2021, 5:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Gave Ann 4 poems: The Sweet Smile,
8th Birthday Poem, Skully, Don't Know Mind, LINC-90C: Module 2b: Literature Trip; Full-Screen Slide of Project;
Can't print out photos niece Elisa sent in March 2 email
(Safari, Firefox, Chrome browsers); Downloaded photos:

Elisa & Birthday Cake, Lilly's Love Note to Mom,
Sophie making dumplings, Ben & Elisa,
Ox Year Cake, Dog Audrey with snow.

Friday, March 19, 2021, 5:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Wrote poem "Canva: My Story"
(7:00-10:30 pm) inspired by 8 Canva's templates
selected from hundreds shown in "Your Story" site

Spring Is Here:
Red robin singing,
buttercups blooming.
spring forward to joy.
Friday, March 19, 2021, 5:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Need to start Kim Randall's
Module 3b: "Banner Making in Canva"
due Sunday, March 21, 11:59 pm

1) Sign into Canva;
2) Click "Create a Design";
3) Select "Custom Size" (800x200 px);
4) Try out their suggested templates.

Saturday, March 20, 2021, 6:15-7:01 pm
Mountain View: Over 10 hours sleep (3:00 am-1:45 pm);
6:29 pm Bus #40 to Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd)
for "Daily Post" & "Daily News" for friends & neighbors;
No more buses after 5:50 pm; walked to Montecito Ave & home

Eve Sutton's favorite date is "March Fourth",
but I feel good marching forward
today on this first day of Spring. Saturday, March 20, 2021, 7:40-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Need to focus on Kim Randall's
Module 3b: "Banner Making in Canva"
that's due on Sunday, March 21 at 11:59 pm;
Wrote 3 poems in 3 days, Canva inspired two—

“Canva: 'My Story'” (3-20);
"Collecting Charms" (3-21);
"Spinoza" (3-22).

Saturday, March 20, 2021, 7:40-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Canva inspired me to write the poem
"My Story" using templates from their site "Your Story"—

Ending of "My Story"
poem— "Spring Is Here!"
but Spring is beginning today! Saturday, March 20, 2021, 7:40-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Patrick McDonnell's comics "Mutts"
(3-20-2021) illustrates my poem "Spring Is Here!"—

Mooch and Earl go out
"POP"— Robin singing
and buttercups are blooming.

Sunday, March 21, 2021, 12:00-1:50 am
Mountain View: Bookmarked "Interesting News"
in Mercury News: Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit

Harry & Meghan meets Dr. Doty;
Digital art sells for $69.4 million;
Protect against identity theft. Sunday, March 21, 2021, 12:00-3:50 am
Mountain View: Doing Kim Randall's assignment
Module 3b: "Banner Making in Canva"—

Selected Canva template—
"Explore the Wonders of Learning" to
"Explore the Wonders of Wisdomportal.com".

Sunday, March 21, 2021, 1:30-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Arline woke me up to chat;
Have not emailed her in two years; She forgot
password & need cellphone # for new account

She could see my website WisdomPortal.com, but not
March 2021 Haikus or my Poems 2021; Read to her:
"Don't Know Mind", "Skully", & "Collecting Charms". Sunday, March 21, 2021, 7:00-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Can't change image in Canva
template, but could download template and
make revisions in Adobe Photoshop—

Selected Canva template "Welcome"—
Changed to "Canva Banner"
to use in poem "My Story".

Sunday, March 21, 2021, 7:19-9:24 pm
Mountain View: Two hours to round up
6 photos of banana slugs from hikers
in the Bay Area with dates and locale;

Karen's Nature Journal Sketches—
2-25-2021, 2-26-2021, 2-27-2021,
included in "Banana Slugs in Bay Area". Sunday, March 21, 2021, 10:00-12:00 pm
Mountain View: Kim Randall's assignment Module 3b:
"Banner Making in Canva"— submitted 11:59 pm
at deadline to Foothill College MyPortal/Canvas

Submitted to Google Drive to share with Kim—
Larger: "Explore Wonders of WisdomPortal.com"; Designed Canva Template used in poem "My Story".

Monday, March 22, 2021, 1:30-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Ann picked me up @ 1:30 pm;
Drove to Kaiser Santa Clara for my 2nd COVID-19 shot
(2:45 pm); Angie removed tiny bandage from March 1 shot
in my upper left arm; 15-minutes wait before being released

Ann drove to Los Altos Library
for me to pick up e.e. cummings'
Complete Poems, 1904-1962. Monday, March 22, 2021, 5:00 pm
Mountain View: Resident Services Zahira Peña's
phone call on her March 16 email to publish
one of my poems in "Resident Corner" of
the April Newsletter of MidPen Services

Sending "Pizza Pro Juggling Dough"
poem to share since the athletic feats
video links will uplift us to wonder.

Monday, March 22, 2021, 5:30-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Al Guzman phoned saying
some biochemist (our age) knows the "Chou-Fasman
Method of Protein Prediction" & likes to talk to me.

Al met him at Foothill College's
Tutor Center and has him on Zoom,
but I'm too busy to chat with him now. Monday, March 22, 2021, 6:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: "Pizza Pro Juggling Dough"
poem is missing the YouTube video links;
Re-do page so it has these Olympics gems—

Jean Claude Killy's 3 Skiing Gold @ 1968 Grenoble;
Nadia Comaneci's "Perfect 10" @ 1976 Montreal;
Tara Lapinski's Figure Skating @ 1998 Nagano.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 2:41-3:45 pm
Mountain View: Jack Mullen phoned, chatted an hour;
Has not gotten COVID-19 vaccinations yet from Kaiser;
He may have had caught virus from Chinese fellow
returning from China in February 2019

Jack was sick with flu for five days,
sweating profusely; he didn't come
to Krause Center & spread it to me. Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 5:10-6:45 pm
Mountain View: 5:23 pm Bus #40 to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for yesterday's March 22 "Daily Post";
Shop (5:40-5:58 pm) Safeway (580 N. Rengstroff Ave);
6:33 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Avenue & walked home

12 oz Lucerne Mozarella Cheese Sticks @ $2.99;
2 Lucerne Coffee Creamers (32 oz) @ $2.50;
64 oz Lucerne Chocolate Milk @ $1.19.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 7:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Since Arline had trouble finding
my March 2021 Haikus and Poems 2021 pages,
made easier links in A-ZPortals to retrieve

Added to A-ZPortals: Gamble Garden, Giacometti, Guadalupe River Trail, Haikus, Hakone Gardens,
Hidden Villa, Fritjof Nansen, Poems 2021. Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 7:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Kim Randall posted Module 4
LINC-90C assignments that's due Saturday, 3/27,
11:59 pm, as this is Finals week & grades are due.

Need to get Module 4: "Using Padlet"
done on time, and email Kim on
my deficiencies in past projects.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 7:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Wrote this poem in my head yesterday
"COVID-19" during 30 minutes before 2nd COVID-19
vaccination at Kaiser and 15 minutes wait afterwards

COVID-19 has pushed our whole world
to the brink— School classes cancelled,
Olympics and sports games delayed,
libraries and restaurants closed. Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 7:30-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Didn't spent enough time this week with Kim Randall's LINC-90C assignments (Module 3b);
Wrote four poems one after another in four days—

"Canva: My Story" (March 20);
"Collecting Charms" (March 21);
"Spinoza" (March 22);
"COVID-19" (March 23).

Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 3:00-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Jack Mullen came to my apartment
to chat and pick up 6 large bags of newspapers
(Daily Post, Daily News, Palo Alto Weekly, Metro,
Mercury News Baseball Magazines) saved for him

Jack wants to go to Stanford Theatre
to see the old classic films he missed;
tells me new AMC theater opened in Sunnyvale. Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 5:00-5:15 pm
Mountain View: While walking on Montecito Ave,
Repair Assistant Lynne beeped & gave me a ride to
Safeway (580 N. Rengstroff Ave); Got "Daily Post";
6:33 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Avenue & walked home

Lynne fixed my heater (December 17);
likes to read the poems (1, 2, 3) sent
to Zahira Peña, Services coordinator.

Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 5:46 pm
Mountain View: Safeway (580 N. Rengstroff Ave);
Noah overcharged me on Tuesday 3/23 for Lucerne
chocolate milk (reg. $2.99) $1.19 instead of 99¢

Instead of 20¢ refund,
Sigrid gave me $4.00 back
for Safeway's overcharge. Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 7:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: On Foothill College Canvas
read instructor Kim Randall's comment on
my homework in Module 2b: Literature Trip

I did assignment in HTML
instead of inside Google Earth;
She gave me credit for my work.

Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 7:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Steve Gould sends two emails (3/23)
his EPA co-worker & astronomer friend James Haklar
took of "Lunar X" (3-20-2021, Saturday before sunset)

Lunar X is formed by sunlight illuminating rims
of the craters La Caille, Blanchinus, & Purbach,
and is only visible for several hours each month. Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 7:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Steve Gould sends 3 emails (3/23-3/24)
showing a Cycloid Tunnel in Central Park; Louis Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum (Ft. Worth, Texas) has cycloids.

Recalled visit to San Francisco Zoo
tunnel to African Savanna (8-27-2019)
but photo showed it was not a cycloid.

Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 7:49-8:00 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Anne Akiko Meyers plays violin with
David Lockington conducting English Chamber Orchestra
to Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons: Winter (1725);
(CD); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

Poem: "Love at First Listen"
(9-26-2019) tells how Vivaldi's
"Winter" brought love for classical music. Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 7:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Can't print out photos niece
Elisa sent in March 2 email (Safari, Firefox,
Chrome browsers); Downloaded photos and
assembled them on one page "Elisa's Photos":

Elisa & Birthday Cake, Lilly's Love Note to Mom,
Sophie Making Dumplings, Ben & Elisa in Kitchen,
Lunar Ox Year Cake, Dog Audrey with snow.

Thursday, March 25, 2021, 2:25-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Left apt at 2:25 pm; Gray Bus 2:40 pm
to Valero Gas Station for today's "Daily Post" & "Metro";
2:45 pm Red Bus to Montecito Avenue & walked home

No need for any Safeway shopping;
Will concentrate on Kim Randall's
Module 4 assignment using Padlet. Thursday, March 25, 2021, 3:30 pm-12:50 am
Mountain View: Kim's final assignment for LINC-90C:
Module 4: "Using Padlet"; For first part, wrote about
using Padlet to teach K-12 students to write poems

For part 2, decide on a wider audience—
"Albert Einstein & Wisdom Mudra" is
a better topic to inspire older people.

Friday, March 26, 2021, 3:58-5:45 pm
Mountain View: 4:15 pm Bus #40 to Chef Chu's
news bins for "Palo Alto Weekly" & "Daily Post";
Shopping at Sprouts (630 San Antonio Road);
5:25 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy & walked home

1 lb package Strawberries @ $2.50;
4.87 lbs Brazil Nuts @ $4.99/lb = $24.30 (raincheck);
4.27 lbs Cashew Pieces @ $3.99/lb = $17.04 (raincheck). Friday, March 26, 2021, 7:00-pm-5:05 am
Mountain View: VTA Busses gave free rides this month;
Starting April 1, they will charge fares again; My VTA
Clipper Card expires Dec. 31, 2021, but need to
take a class at Foothill College to keep it active

After much search, found 3x5 paper
listing 17 LINC classes taken so far
(2014-2021) that can't be repeated.

Saturday, March 27, 2021, 4:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: No "Mercury News" delivered;
Staying home to do LINC-90C final assignment
on time; Will pick up "Daily Post" tomorrow
at Valero Gas Station & shopping at Safeway

Went to bed at 7 am, woke up at 2:30 pm;
Did Padlet: "Wisdom Mudra for Enlightenment"
using Grid template with 16 images in four rows. Saturday, March 27, 2021, 4:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Kim's final assignment for LINC-90C:
Module 4: "Creating Padlet" due 11:59 pm tonight
instead of tomorrow on Sunday because she needs
to get grades in since this is Finals Week

Watch 2:08 video by Kim Randall
"How to Turn in Padlet Assignment"
for Module 4 Final Homework.

Saturday, March 27, 2021, 7:28 pm
Mountain View: Emailed Kim Randall after
submitting LINC-90C final assignment @ 5:55 pm
to Foothill College MyPortal/Canvas (due 11:59 pm)

Since texts not clear in Padlet, sent
Module 4b: Creating in Padlet (HTML)
and Module 4c: Creating inside Padlet. Saturday, March 27, 2021, 7:30 pm-1:38 am
Mountain View: Decided to do web page "Modules 1-4"
summarizing Kim's 9 assignments for LINC-90C class
"Online Collaborative Tools" in last for weeks

Need screen shots of BreakutEdu & MURAL
for images of "Orientation" & "Module 1a"
assignments to complete this page in 6 hours.

Sunday, March 28, 2021, 4:40-6:00 pm
Mountain View: 5:03 pm Bus #40 to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Rd) for 3/27 "Daily Post" & "Daily News";
Shopping (5:07-5:17 pm) Safeway (580 N. Rengstroff Ave);
Last 5:50 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave & walked home

Sig Sel Quiche Florentine and Cheese & Bacon @ $3.79;
Sig Sel Spanakopita Greek Crispy Dessert @ $3.79;
3 lbs Reser's Potato Salad (50 % off) @ $3.99;
5.3 oz Oikos Protein Yogurt ($1.59) Free. Sunday, March 28, 2021, 6:40-7:40 pm
Mountain View: Check out Learning In New-Media
Classroom (LINC) classes to enroll for Spring 2021
Quarter at Foothill College so my VTA Bus Clipper
Card won't expire (Spring Quarter starts April 5)

Since Foothill Registrar is closed where
I paid by check, need Al Guzman
to pay with his credit card, then
I'd reimburse him with check.

Sunday, March 28, 2021, 7:40-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Feel sleepy with 8 hours sleep;
Better not take a nap & get to sleep at midnight

After writing above two haikus,
fell asleep for an hour 20 minutes
at chair in front of my laptop. Sunday, March 28, 2021, 8:12 pm
Mountain View: Emailed Ann & Karen
"Modules 1-4" of Kim Randall's LINC-90C class

Karen wrote back:
"This class sounds like a headache!"
Have to agree it consumed much energy.

Monday, March 29, 2021, 2:35-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Half-hour walk to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Road) for today's 3/29 "Daily Post";
Shopping (3:10-3:33 pm) Safeway (580 N. Rengstroff Ave);
3:45 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave & walked home

4 cans Sig Sel Pineapple Chunks @ $1.49 = $5.96;
1.56 lb Red Seedless Grapes @ $1.68/lb = $2.62;
1.5 qt Breyers Snickers Ice Cream @ $2.79. Monday, March 29, 2021, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: "How family-owned bookstore in Palo Alto has stayed open through the pandemic" (Faith Bell, owner of Bell's Books in Palo Alto, 300,000 volumes to the ceiling.) (By Aldo Toledo, Mercury News, 3-28-2021, E1, E3)

While hitchhiking after "Another Look"
book discussion at Stanford Oval, Faith Bell
gave me a ride to Palo Alto Cal-Train Depot.

Monday, March 29, 2021, 5:58-6:00 pm
KDFC 104.9 FM: Göran Sörllscher plays
guitar to Anonymous, "Romance for Guitar",
"Jeux interdits", Forbidden Games (1952),
CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Heart-tugging music from
Clément's Forbidden Games
brings back much sadness. Monday, March 29, 2021, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Dream last night of Hank Aaron's title
"Assistant to Baseball Commissioner" changed to "Instructor Associate"; Told him, after video of 715th homer breaking Babe Ruth's record, engage students with the following—

Top 250 Classical Music; Wildflowers by Color;
Astronomy Pictures; Hubble Images; Animals;
Paintings; Rock Music; Books; Platonic Λ.

Monday, March 29, 2021, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Searched for "Animals being
kind to others" and found these images I like:

Doe nests with lion;
Dog rests on elephant;
Chimp befriends dog. Monday, March 29, 2021, 4:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Images of "Ducklings following dog"
and "Baby chick riding a kitten" inspired this poem

"Where's My Mom?"—
Baby ducklings think dog is their Mom,
while baby chick found kitten as its home.

Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 5:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" on Tuesday or
need shopping; Stayed home & work in comfort;
Ann's Arundo donax photos from backyard pullings—

Arundo donax in backyard;
Young Arundo donax roots;
2/3 of Arundo donax pulled. Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 5:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Emailed Al Guzman to help me
register for Foothill's Spring Quarter on LINC
classes (runs 05/31/2021-06/25/2021), 1 unit—

Online classes: LINC 80: Multimedia Overview &
LINC 67: Designing Web-Based Learning Projects
both taught by Pereira Cassandra.

Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 10:30-12:00 pm
Mountain View: Cooked stir-fry dinner for 4 meals:
18 oz Innovasian Vegetable Fried Rice; 20 Peruvian Scallops,
10 Crabmeat Chunks, 24 Brussels Sprouts, 3 Green Onions,
Sliced Almonds, Cashew Pieces, Sunflower & Pumpkin Seeds,
2 Bean Curds, Frozen Peas, Sesame Oil, Asian Sesame Dressing

Too tired to cook big meal after midnight;
Since seeing Al Guzman @ 1:30 pm tomorrow,
start cooking this giant stir-fry at 10:30 pm. Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 10:30-12:00 pm
Mountain View: In 3/29 dream, Hank Aaron told me
when visiting MLB ballparks, the owners, managers,
and players treated him as celebrity seeking his autograph;
now he's worried losing his job as "Instructor Associate".
Told him to keep the high school students engaged & busy.

Keep students occupied at interesting web sites;
On waking up, realized Hank Aaron is dead.
Why worry about designing interesting lessons?

Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 1:30-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Al Guzman came at 1:30 pm
and registered me in Pereira Cassandra's "LINC 67:
Designing Web-Based Learning Projects"; Paid $87.75

Rudy came at 2 pm to see Al, & 7 bags of free food
I saved for him; Al & Rudy went to Starbucks
for coffee & snacks, but they have no chairs;
returned to my backyard for chairs to chat. Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 5:10-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Left the bag of 7 copies
of today's "Daily Post" picked up at Valero Gas
Station in Al's car; went out again to get them.

Gray Bus didn't stop at Montecito & Rengstorff Ave;
Bus #40 came at 5:37 pm; 4 "Daily Post" left in bin; 5:50 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave & walked home.
Rudy coming tomorrow at 12 pm for Safeway shopping.