Haikus: February 2022

HAIKUS: February 2022

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, February 1, 2022, 6:55-7:07 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 3:00 am;
Woke up at 2:00 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle
@ 7:07 am— TNLNIE = LINEN; ASYHT = HASTY;
WREVES = SWERVE; FMLUEF = MUFFLE

Cartoon Answer— The ocean's undulations
were making it possible for the srfers to have
LIE AT SW MLE = A SWELL TIME.
23.45% of 1079 responders had trouble with this answer Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 5:00-5:40 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Tuesday
or need for grocery shopping; Stayed home to work;
It's Chinese New Year— Cathy's email (Jan 31, 7:56 pm):
"Gong shi fa chai! Have a wonderful new Tiger year!"

Richard's email Jan 31, 10:38 pm): "Happy New Year"
with 8 colorful fireworks; Cantonese: "Gong shi fa chai"
(Congratulatons on fortune & riches); In Mandarin:
"Xin Nián Kuài Lè" (New Year happiness).

Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 6:10-7:15 pm
Mountain View: Robert Thurman was first to greet me (12-24-2021,
11:08 am) "Happy Holidays & A Miraculous Water Tiger 2022!"
Dad was born 7-29-1902; Water Tiger Year comes every 60 years,
so he experienced it in 1962 and posthumously this year in 2022—

Tiger Year People: Leonardo DiCaprio (1974), Al Ghazali (1058), Thomas Becket (1118), Roger Bacon (1214), Johannes Gutenberg (1398), Hans Sachs (1494), St. John of Cross (1542), William Harvey (1578), Daniel Boone (1734). Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 6:10-7:15 pm
Mountain View: More Tiger Year People: Francisco Goya (1746), Thomas Taylor (1758), William Wordsworth & Ludwig van Beethoven (1770), Nicolò Paganini (1782), Emily Dickinson (1830),
Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Erik Satie & Sun Yat-Sen (1866)

Isadora Duncan (1878), Dwight D. Eisenhower & Charles
de Gaulle (1890), John Steinbeck & Barbara McClintock (1902), Joe DiMaggio (1914), Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth II, Allen Ginsberg (1926), Stevie Wonder (1950).

Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 7:25-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Work on Numbers 45: #145-152—
Collectibles: Playing Cards; Wings: Friend or Foe;
World on Wheels; Look 'n See; Scoop; Firefighters;
Flags of the World; Antique Autos; Davy Crockett

It's great that collectors of these cards
uploaded images of the complete sets
from the 1950s for me to download now. Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 5:30 pm
Mountain View: Steve Gould's email (Feb. 1, 5:30 pm):
"I hope you're engaging in a smattering of New Year festivity tonight, and I hope the Year of the Tiger is healthful and productive." Steve's Jan. 29 email, 2:55 pm wondered

if "Squirrel & Kitten" poem composed in sleep
was written down immediately on waking up—
It was composed while awake, sleeping in bed.

Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 11:00-11:55 pm
"Celebrate Lunar New Year with a tour of Chinatown's murals"
(By John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 1-30-2022, F7-F8)

San Francisco neighborhood's public art tells stories about identity, history & healing. 1. Grant Avenue & Sacramento: mural of pagodas, firecrackers & lion dancers; 2. Mural of San Francisco native Bruce Lee adorns a wall on Commercial Street; 3. Clay Street: colorful mural of dragon & phoenix attacking Statue of Liberty; 4. Commercial & Grant: tiger-dragon chimera sailing over a bed of lotus flowers; 5. Zodiac mural on Jack Kerouac Alley: made up of hundreds of Chinese red envelopes; 6. Dragons Gate mural looms over a pedestrian walking on Trenton Street; 7. Ping Yuen mural on Stockton St in San Francisco's Chinatown.. Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 11:00-11:55 pm
"NY Times' 52 places to go in 2022 include two in Bay Area"
(By Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 1-30-2022, F7)

The two California destinations are: Great Highway
in San Francisco & Santa Cruz County's Big Basin
& Henry Cowell state parks whose redwood forests
survived wildfires of 2020; Other U.S. destinations are:
1. Hoonah, Alaska; 2. Saguaro National Park, Arizona;
3. Estes Park, Colorado; 4. Sarasota, Florida; 5. Humboldt, Kansas; 6. Little Calumet River, Chicago, Illinois;
7. Cobscook Shores, Maine; 8. Queens, New York;
9. Cleveland, Ohio; 10. Bronzeville, Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
Times' 2021 list had one California destination, Santa Rosa.
NY Times' 52 Places to visit around the world in 2022.

Wednesday, February 2, 2022, 9:38-9:46 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 3:30 am;
Woke up at 1:10 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle
@ 7:07 am— IVADO = AVOID; GALEE = EAGLE;
VORENG = GOVERN; ETIMVO = MOTIVE

Cartoon Answer— People thought Mary
Shelly's new Frankenstein character was a
AD ELE VN OI = NOVEL IDEA
40.84% of 1234 responders had trouble with this answer Wednesday, February 2, 2022, 2:25-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Left Apt @ 2:25 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 2:45-3:18 pm;
3:50 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave and walked home

Sig Sel Butterscotch Pudding (4 ct) $1.29 - $1.00 = 29¢
2 Gorton Popcorn Shrimp 14 oz @ $10.49 BOGO = $10.49;
64 oz Vanilla Almond Milk ($2.99) @ $2.49 - $1.00 = $1.49;
4 oz O Organics Popcorn ($3.99) Just-For-U coupon = Free.

Wednesday, February 2, 2022, 6:00-7:07 pm
Mountain View: Went to LINC-405 Zoom session @ 6:00 pm;
Kim Randall was Instructor in charge instead of William Cavada;
Other students include Mara MacDonald & Janet Yorkihara;
Kim navigated me through Gmail All Settings to place at bottom
of email "Peter Y Chou, WisdomPortal.com" in Signature Line.

Photo of Gmail's All-Settings Section;
Email to Al Guzman 2-2-22 @ 6:44 pm;
LINC-405: Gmail (Winter 2022). Wednesday, February 2, 2022, 9:30-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Groundhog Day: "Punxsutawney Phil sees
his shadow, meaning we're in for 6 more weeks of winter"
(By Doyle Rice, USA Today, 2-2-2022); On average, Phil
has gotten it right only 40% of the time over the past 10 years.
This is the 136th year that Phil has made his prediction since 1886.

Today is Candlemas holiday in Europe—
Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ,
40 days after Dec. 25 (Luxembourg B174).

Wednesday, February 2, 2022, 10:10-11:00 pm
Mountain View: Numbers 45: #153: U.S. Postage Stamps
with 45¢ denominations (1-22-2012 to 1-26-2013).
There were 253 U.S. stamps issued in 2012—

Most stamps are "Forever" without denominations; Only 45¢
stamps are Weather Vanes (1-20-2012): U.S. 4614 Bull;
U.S. 4615 Eagle; U.S. 4616 Rooster; U.S.4617 Centaur.
Wednesday, February 2, 2022, 11:00-11:55 pm
Mountain View: Numbers 45: Canada Postage Stamps
with 45&# 162; denominations; #1563-1764 (200 stamps)
issued from August 15, 1995 to November 6, 1998—

Canada 1563-1566: Migratory Wildlife (8-15-1995);
Canada 1579-1583: Comics Superheroes (10-2-1995);
Canada 1591-1594: Birds (1-9-1996).

Thursday, February 3, 2022, 9:27-9:50 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 2:50 am;
Woke up at 4:30 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle
@ 9:50 am— FSOLS = FLOSS; ZRAYC = CRAZY;
KAITNE = INTAKE; COETNA = OCTANE

Cartoon Answer— The bird had trouble seeing
the window and would try to remember to
FLS CRY ITA OTAE = STAY CLEAR OF IT.
45.46% of 1973 responders had trouble with this answer Thursday, February 3, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Left Apt @ 6:00 pm; Bus #40 @ 6:08 pm to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Metro";
Too late for Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave);
6:18 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave and walked home

Overslept with 13.5 hours in bed; (Blood Sugar: 67);
Quick breakfast of Coffee, Cran-Pomegranate Juice,
Cinnamon Crisp Chips & White Cheddar Popcorn;
Already dark when leaving my apartment today.

Thursday, February 3, 2022, 5:08-5:13 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Ludovico Einaudi, piano, &
Marco Decimo, cello, play Ludovico Einaudi's
Two Sunsets (2009); (CD); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)
[Bookmarking "Jumble" (10 min.) instead of KDFC (an hour)]

Contemplative music by Einaudi
on double sunsets that is soothing
for listening & wonderful to watch.
(Saw two sunrises at 1999 Lake Copco retreat with Nina.) Thursday, February 3, 2022, 5:48-5:58 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Zubin Mehta conducts
Vienna Philharmonic to Johann Strauss II's
Blue Danube Waltz Op. 314 (1890); (CD);
(YouTube: Zubin Mehta, André Rieu, Laszlo Kovacs)

When Strauss's stepdaughter, Alice von Meyszner-Strauss,
asked Johannes Brahms to sign her autograph-fan,
he wrote down the first bars of "The Blue Danube",
but added "Unfortunately NOT by Johannes Brahms". (*)

Thursday, February 3, 2022, 7:20-7:30 pm
Mountain View: Wrote $1183 check to pay
Mid-Peninsula Housing for February rent;
Phoned Kaiser Permanente for Drug Refills—

300 One-Touch Lancets & 300 Test Strips (Free);
100 tabs Lisinopril; 100 Glipizide; 200 Metformin;
Refills for pickup on Feb. 8 at Mountain View Pharmacy. Thursday, February 3, 2022, 7:35-7:45 pm
Mountain View: Phoned Fidelity Investments;
Spoke to Taylor Nicholson to order another
booklet of 100 free checks beginning with #1903

Fidelity check #1802 was written
on 9-30-2020 to Kaiser Permanente
$16.00 to pay for one vial of Humulin.

Thursday, February 3, 2022, 10:00-10:50 pm
Mountain View: "OP-ED: The great truth doctoring has taught me about death" (By Tyler Johnson, Mercury News, 2-3-2022, A6)

Doctors face one of their biggest challenges when they
must tell a patient that they are dying. This is a moment
for stillness and silence. And yet, there is need for shared presence— really being there with and for each other—
at a moment of loss can sanctify sorrow. Some alchemy can wring from the stone of shared suffering something like love. Thursday, February 3, 2022, 11:00 pm-12:55 am
Mountain View: Numbers 45: Completed #1-152 starting on
January 12, 2022; Since #278 was last entry, I'm halfway through.

Canada postage stamps with 45¢ denomination—
Canada 1172 Pronghorn (1-12-1990);
Canada 1360 Queen Elizabeth II (7-31-1995);
Canada 1396 Canadian Flag (7-31-1995);
Canada 1708 Tiger Year (1-8-1998);
Canada 1762 Warship (11-4-1998)

Friday, February 4, 2022, 8:45-8:49 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 4:00 am;
Woke up at 1:05 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle
@ 8:49 am— THHCI = HITCH; TAESU = SAUTE;
MRRPEI = PRIMER; PRISLA = SPIRAL

Cartoon Answer— They raised money to repair
their church because they didn't want to see their
HIH SAE PRI SPR = PARISH PERISH.
38.97% of 1373 responders had trouble with this answer Friday, February 4, 2022, 3:00-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Left Apt @ 3:00 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Peninsula News";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:30-4:11 pm;
4:20 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Ave and walked home

16 oz Sig Select Green Beans @ $1.88 - $1.00 = 88¢;
2 Tai Pei Pork Pot Stickers @ $2.71 BOGO free = $2.71;
3 lbs Reser's Deviled-Egg Potato Salad ($8.99) @ $5.00;
No Raincheck for 16 oz Sig Sel Cheesecake Tray @ $5.00.

Friday, February 4, 2022, 5:30-7:15 pm
Mountain View: U.S. 45¢ Weathervane stamps (issued 1-20-2012)
from colnect.com are not in mint condition— U.S. 4614 Cow;
U.S. 4615 Eagle; U.S. 4616 Rooster; U.S.4617 Centaur.

Hip Stamp & Mystic Stamp had better copies—
US 4614 Cow; US 4615 Eagle; US 4616 Rooster;
US 4617 Centaur; US 4613 Rooster on Perch;
Black background for stamps in Photoshop. Wednesday, February 2, 2022, 7:20-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Working on Numbers 45—
#153: Format 5 U.S. 4613-4617 Weathervane stamps
in a row with 45¢ denominations (7:20-7:50 pm);

#154: Format 17 Canadian stamps with 45¢ denominations
(7:50-10:30 pm)— Canada 1563-1566: Migratory Wildlife; Canada 1579-1583: Superheroes; Canada 1591-1594: Birds;
1172 Pronghorn; 1360 QE II; 1396 Flag; 1708 Tiger Year.

Saturday, February 5, 2022, 10:01-10:24 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 3:00 am;
Woke up at 11:30 am; Solved Jumble Puzzle
@ 10:24 am— SIPEO = POISE; THHCA = HATCH;
DERNOV = VENDOR; RPNIAS = SPRAIN

Cartoon Answer— He purchased the
scale model schooner online and would
PIE HTH VED SPAI = HAVE IT SHIPPED.
37.11% of 1288 responders had trouble with this answer Saturday, February 5, 2022, 11:30 am-2:00 pm
Mountain View: Al Guzman's 11:30 am phone call woke me up;
Came at 12:30 pm to treat me for breakfast at Pho Vi Hoa
Restaurant (4546 El Camino Real) for Vietnamese Noodle Soup;
We went next door to Good Morning for breakfast instead.

Al had "Delight Special": Two fluffy pancakes, 2 sausage links, hard-boiled egg, with coffee. I had "Florentine Scrambles": Three eggs scrambled with spinach, mushroom and Swiss cheese, hash brown and wheat toast with milk

Saturday, February 5, 2022, 2:10-3:00 pm
Mountain View: After telling Al that my laptop
color printing has faint caption text below the
images, he came over to examine the problem

Cyan is not showing up; used nozzle
to clean the toners, and got it to work;
Also fixed light bulb and lamp on table. Saturday, February 5, 2022, 3:00-3:45 pm
Mountain View: After Al fixed the printing problem,
I printed 12 poems written in 2022, so text is visible
below the images & no streaks in photos any more.

Was surprise that my laptop
had these self-cleaning features
that Al used on his Epson printer.

Saturday, February 5, 2022, 12:30 pm
Mountain View: Gave Al Guzman bag of goodies
to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Tiger—
O Organics Water Sesame Crackers

2 bags Sprouts Coconut Rolls with Mixed Berry;
5.3 oz Ferrero Rocher Hazelnut Chocolates;
1 lb Pumpkin Pie Chocolate Almonds. Saturday, February 5, 2022, 4:00-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Before breakfast, Al stopped at Chef Chu's
bins for me to pick up "Palo Alto Weekly" and "Daily Post";
After Al fixed the light bulb and lamp on my desk,

it will be easier to compose "Numbers 45".
No need to go to kitchen light to resize
those 22 stamps to align in each row.

Sunday, February 6, 2022, 7:46-9:07 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 1:30 am; Woke up
at 2:17 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:07 am—
NNTETA = TENANT; NVYITA = VANITY;
NICORI = IRONIC; KAHNSE = SHAKEN;
BMDOYE = EMBODY; GSTOPI = SPIGOT

Missed Cartoon Answer— The owner of the
day spa saw rising profits with so many people
ENT VAT II SHA MY PIG = PAYING THEM A VISIT.
58.96% of 502 responders had trouble with this answer. Sunday, February 6, 2022, 3:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed today,
or need for shopping; Stayed home for more work;
Late breakfast: Dill Rye Bread Toast with butter;
2 scrambled eggs, 8 Black Forest Ham, 6 Swiss Cheese,
Spinach, 2 Pickles; Coffee with No-Sugar Creamer

Light bulb went out again on desk lamp
last night; Bulb is new, and can't get lamp lit;
Before bed, formatted 10 stamps 45 Francs from
France #155 for Numbers 45 (currency change 1960).

Sunday, February 6, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: "Four spectacular Bay Area waterfall hikes"
(By Melissa Ozbek, Mercury News, 2-6-2022, F7-F8)

1. Leona Heights Park, Oakland (4444 Mountain Blvd);
2. Uvas Canyon County Park, Morgan Hill (8515 Croy Rd);
3. Diablo Foothills Park, Walnut Ck (1700 Castle Rock Rd);
4. Hidden Villa, Los Altos Hill (26870 Moody Road). Sunday, February 6, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: "Tripadvisor's 10 hottest World destinations
in 2022"; (By Jackie Burrell, Mercury News, 2-6-2022, F7)

1. Majorca, Spain; 2. Cairo, Egypt; 3. Rhodes, Greece;
4. Tulum, Mexico; 5. Dubrovnik, Croatia;
6. Ibiza, Spain; 7. Natal, Brazil; 8. Arusha, Tanzania;
9. Goreme, Turkey; 10. Santorini, Greece.

Sunday, February 6, 2022, 7:07 pm-12:14 am
Mountain View: Formatted 16 stamps #156 (45 denominations):
Chad 45 Francs (4); China 45 Yuan (2); Chile 45 Pesos (2);
Mozambique Co. 45 Centavos (3); Sweden 45 Øre (5)

Will search for 45 denomination stamps tomorrow from
Austria #320 (45 Groschen), Germany (45 Marks),
Italy (45 Lira), Niger 135 (45 Fr.), Spain (45 Pesos). Sunday, February 6, 2022, 1:30-2:30 am
Mountain View: Had a large breakfast late (3-5 pm),
and not feeling that hungry, Will have 7 pot stickers
with Almond Milk & Florida Natural Orange Juice.

Don't want to oversleep since
Ann is coming at 3 pm for trip
to Kaiser to pick up my medications.

Monday, February 7, 2022, 8:20-8:26 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 4:00 am;
Woke up at 12:25 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle
@ 8:26 am— KORCA = CROAK; RIYTD = DIRTY;
BUDEOL = DOUBLE; TYREPT = PRETTY

Cartoon Answer— He used to comb
his hair to one side before his hair
RA DT DE PE = DEPARTED.
8.95% of 961 responders had trouble with this answer Monday, February 7, 2022, 3:00-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Ann picked me up @ 3:00 pm; Drove to
Kaiser Pharmacy (555 Castro St) for 5 medications (Free)
Picked up "Daily Post" at news bins near Cost Plus World Market;
Shopping at Walgreens (1905 W. El Camino Real)) 3:30-3:48 pm

Haven't been here since Mountain View Senior Center
closed in March 2020; Walgreens Reward Card expired
and re-registered; 2 Nice Garlic Powder @ $1.49 = $2.98;
They're not stocking Onion Powder in the Spice Section.

Monday, February 7, 2022, 6:03 pm-1:00 am
Mountain View: Format stamps with 45 denomination #156—
Albania (5) 6:03-7:03 pm; Australia (5) 7:27-9:10 pm;
Austria (6) 9:47-11:13 pm; Netherlands (5) 11:35 pm-1:00 am

Favorites: Albania 1371 Rock Thrush;
Australia 2031 Queen Elizabeth II;
Austria B253 Salzburg Cathedral;
Netherlands 613 Bells & Europa. Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 2:00-3:00 am
Mountain View: Had quick breakfast of three waffles
with butter and syrup (half-hour) instead of usual bowl
of Quaker Instant Oatmeal with nuts & seeds (1.5 hour)

Had Tai Pei Pork Pot Stickers (7)
for dinner the last two days; after 2 minutes
microwave, fried them in olive oil to be more crispy;
Will have Stouffer's Tuna Casserole tonight (7 minutes).

Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 8:57-9:35 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 4:15 am;
Woke up at 2:20 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle
@ 8:26 am— CSBIA = BASIC; NRIGW = WRING;
WNRADO = ONWARD; SEPYDE = SPEEDY;

Cartoon Answer— The huge
fossilized skull found in the desert was
BA RN OAD SEY = DRY AS A BONE.
40.67% of 1473 responders had trouble with this answer Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 4:30-6:00 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed on Tuesday
or need for grocery shopping; Stayed home to work;
Continue to compile stamps with 45 denomination—
Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, Spain

Since William Cavada has LINC-405 Zoom session
tomorrow at 6 pm, better work on Google Drive &
Google Sites; Watch tapes of his Skills Workshop
Videos in MyPortal Canvas to get assignments done.

Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 6:03 pm-1:00 am
Mountain View: Format stamps with 45 denomination #156—
Italy (5) 6:35-8:09 pm; Japan (3) 8:33-9:41 pm;
Czechoslavia 9:17 pm; Laos (2) 10:11-10:26 pm;
Denmark 11:01 pm; Finland 11:31 pm; Niger 12:07 am

Favorites: Italy 2600 Isole Egadi;
Czech 832 Bohemia Costume;
Japan 566 Nikko Yomei Gate;
Laos 98 Phra Vet Sandon Legend. Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 1:30-2:30 am
Mountain View: Could not find William Cavada's Skills Workshops
LINC-405 tapes on Jan. 19 Google Drive and Jan. 26 Google Sites;
Emailed Cavada (6:09 pm) but received no reply; Returned to work on #156 of Numbers 45, and formatted 14 stamps today (3.5 hours)

Karen's Feb. 7 email @ 6:27 pm—
"Bao jiao zi was fun. We had all the guys
and girls participating." Folding dumplings
is a cherished Chinese New Year tradition.

Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 9:35-9:40 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 4:15 am;
Woke up at 1:25 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle
@ 9:40 am— NRIGAHCIR = CHAIR; TILEE = ELITE;
GMTENA = MAGNET; EPLOPE = PEOPLE

Cartoon Answer— They were able to find enough
leftovers in the refrigerator to put lunch together
CA IE ME PEL = PIECEMEAL.
32.47% of 1198 responders had trouble with this answer Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 4:40-6:45 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 4:40 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 5:15-5:46 pm;
Red Bus @ 6:24 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home

16 oz Oroweat Dark Rye ($5.79) @ $4.07;
32 oz Nestle CoffeeMate Creamer ($4.49) @ $3.50;
10 Pringles Potato Chips ($1.79) @ $1.00 = $10.00;
Shaikh honored my Raincheck (expired 1-31-2022)

Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 6:45-7:17 pm
Mountain View: Yesterday Pinterest sent cute
photo of "Squirrel Pushing Wind" for a poem;
Working on stamps with 45 denomination—
Germany, Poland, Russia, Spain

Kim Randall guided me to the URL of Cavada's LINC-405
Skills Workshops— Jan 10-14 Google Drive; Jan 17-21 Google Sites; Jan 24-28 Gmail. https://foothillcollege.instructure.com/
courses/19533/pages/skills-workshop-recordings Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 8:42 pm-3:40 am
Mountain View: Format stamps with 45 denomination #156—
Spain (4) 8:42-9:59 pm; Germany (3) 10:18-10:58 pm;
Ryukyus 11:21 pm; Saar (2) 11:29-11:41 pm; Monaco 1:12 am;
Russia (2) 1:28-1:52 am; Poland (5) 12:05-12:32 am, 2:44-2:51 am

Favorites: Germany 550 Numeral;
Saar 118 Madonna; Spain 2745 Railway;
Spain 2457 Adoraton of the Magi;
Russia 7796 Siberian Crane;
Ryukyu Islands C12 Maiden Playing Flute.

Thursday, February 10, 2022, 11:40 -12:00 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 6:30 am; Woke up
at 12:30 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 12:00 pm—
NAFYC = FANCY; LGUEN = LUNGE;
IDNVIE = DIVINE; AVIRTI = TRIVIA

Missed Cartoon Answer— The U.S. stopped printing
the $1,000 bill in 1969, the last bill printed was the
FAN LGE DN RIA = GRAND FINALE.
43.57% of 1423 responders had trouble with this answer Thursday, February 10, 2022, 1:20-2:30 pm
Mountain View: Rudy came @ 1:20 pm after VA Hospital;
Drove to Valero (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Metro";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 1:35-1:58 pm;
Last time Rudy came was Dec. 23, 2020 when I lost my keys.

32 oz Nestle CoffeeMate Creamer ($4.49) @ $3.50;
Lascco Atlantic Smoked Salmon ($6.29) @ $4.99;
2 Gallons Value Corner 2% Milk @ $3.22 = $6.44;
Gave Rudy free gallon milk & four more bags free food.

Thursday, February 10, 2022, 4:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Today Pinterest sent a curious photo
of "Cat & Owl" for poem; When picking up my mail,
MidPen Housing Service Coordinator Zahira Peña
called out "Peter— Come for Grab & Go Snacks!"

For Rudy— Bag of Veggie Chips Mini-Hearts;
Cheez-It Crackers; Valentine X and O Pretzels;
Ghiradelli Dark Chocolates (Raspberry & Caramel). Thursday, February 10, 2022, 6:30-7:20 pm
Mountain View: Format stamps with 45 denomination #153—
U.S. 45¢ postage rate was from 1-22-2012 to 1-26-2013;
Found 5 Weathervane stamps U.S. 4613-4617 issued in 2012,
However more U.S. 45¢ stamps were issued before 2012—

U.S. C120 French Revolution; U.S. C127 Tropical Coast;
U.S. 2481 Pumpkinseed Sunfish (issued 12-2-1992);
U.S. E22 Special Delivery Arrows (issued 11-21-1969).

Thursday, February 10, 2022, 5:19-6:18 pm
Mountain View: While searching for U.S. 45¢ stamps #153,
found 4 Cyprus stamps (1894-1969) included in #156—

Cyprus 37 Queen Victoria (issued 8-14-1894);
Cyprus 122 St. Nicholas Church (issued 2-1-1928);
Cyprus 135 Cypress Tree (issued 12-1-1934);
Cyprus 336 Nativity Fresco (issued 11-24-1969). Thursday, February 10, 2022, 7:00-9:00 pm
Mountain View: While searching for 45 denomination stamps,
came across "Bullseye cancellations" for "Dates Collection"—

U.S. 1089 Architects (3-31-1957);
Denmark 617 Post Office (9-21-1978);
Denmark 1012 Sparrows (2-18-1995);
Netherlands 17 Coat of Arms (2-2-1872).

Thursday, February 10, 2022, 10:00-11:30 pm
Mountain View: 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics—
Nathan Chen wins Gold Men's Figure Skating: 2-7-2022
and 2-9-2022; Russian 15 year old Kamila Valieva
wins Gold in stunning Grand Prix debut (11-2-2021);
Valieva at 2022 Beijing Olympics 2-5-2022 and 2-6-2022

Breathtaking to watch the best
Men's and Women's figure skaters
win Olympic Gold in Beijing 2022. Thursday, February 10, 2022, 11:30-12:00 pm
Mountain View: Didn't record the source of these
"Bullseye cancellations" for "Dates Collection"—
China 3 Dragon (3-3-1880); Swiss 184 Jungfrau (10-28-1921);
Swiss 183 Mountains (1-24-1936); Swiss B1 Matterhorn
(1-24-1914); U.S. R100 Washington $25 Revenue (1-24-1870)

Amazing three of the date cancellations
showed January 24 in 1870, 1914, 1936—
Synchronicity must be operating here.

Friday, February 11, 2022, 8:55-10:00 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 3:05 am; Woke up
at 12:50 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 10:00 pm—
TEREX = EXERT; YUFIN = UNIFY;
SCURPE = SPRUCE; DROOEV = OVERDO

Cartoon Answer— They needed a remedy,
so they went to a highly-rated doctor to
EE UN PRC ORO = PROCURE ONE.
45.41% of 1502 responders had trouble with this answer Friday, February 11, 2022, 1:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Woke up @ 12:50 pm; Since Rudy came at
1:20 pm yesterday, didn't have time for breakfast except coffee;
Blood sugar was 85; Had Nova Smoked Salmon, 2 Scrambled Eggs,
Deviled-Eggs Potato Salad, Pringles, & Almond Milk for dinner.

Breakfast: Dill Rye with butter, 2 Scrambled Eggs,
8 Black Forest Ham, 4 slices Smoked Gouda Cheese,
Bowl of Fresh Spinach, 2 Spears of Vlasic Pickles,
Cup of Coffee with Creamer, Pineapple Water.

Friday, February 11, 2022, 4:00-5:30 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 4:00 pm; Bus #40 @ 4:20 to
Chef Chu's news bins for "Daily Post" & "Pao Alto Weekly";
Shopping at Sprouts Farmer's Market (630 San Antonio Road)

0.98 lb Brazil Nuts @ 8.99/lb = $8.81;
Bunch of Organic Green Onions (6) @ 99¢;
0.07 lb White Onion Powder @ $14.99/lb = $1.05;
2 bags Cinnamon & Lime Chips @ $5.49 BOGO = $5.49. Friday, February 11, 2022, 5:40-5:52 pm
Mountain View: Safeway has $5 Specials on Friday;
Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Road);
6:20 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy Stop and walked home.

3 boxes of Quaker Instant Oatmeal @ $1.67 = $5.00;
2 Tai Pei Chicken Fried Rice @ $3.50 BOGO Free = $3.50;
Nova Smoked Salmon @ $5.47 + $1 off coupon Sold Out.
Refund $3.50 for Tai Pei Meals not given BOGO free.

Friday, February 11, 2022, 9:10-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Lion's Roar's 2/11 email @ 6:02 pm
on Shunryu Suzuki's 1969 talk "The Lamp of Zazen"—

"Enlightenment", we say. But in its true sense,
perfect enlightenment is beyond our understanding,
beyond our experience. That is true enlightenment. Friday, February 11, 2022, 9:30-9:50 pm
Mountain View: Number 45: #153-156;
Found & formatted 109 stamps with 45 denomination—

Began project on Feb. 4 with 5 Weathervane stamps,
ending Feb. 10 with 4 Cyprus & 4 U.S. 45¢ stamps;
Need to move on to Section #157 Quotes on 45.

Saturday, February 12, 2022, 11:10-11:25 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 2:30 am; Woke up
at 10:50 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 11:25 pm—
TOMOT = MOTTO; NHROO = HONOR;
LEDYIE = EYELID; RIFMNO = INFORM

Cartoon Answer— The chef added the
aromatic member of the mint family when it was
MTT HOR EYE IFM = TIME FOR THYME.
24.41% of 1106 responders had trouble with this answer. Saturday, February 12, 2022, 1:20-1:30 pm
Mountain View: Pinterest 2/8 Photo of "Squirrel Pushing" inspired
poem "Squirrel Pushing Wind" composed in bed before sleeping
& "Squirrel Sonnet" after waking, rhymed to Shakepearean Sonnet ababcdcdefefgg (Clement Wood, Rhyming Dictionary, 1936, p. 62).

Is that the wind you're pushing away
or some invisible monster has come
feasting on your huge acorn buffet
and wonders if you're serving rum?

Saturday, February 12, 2022, 12:10-12:30 pm
Mountain View: No time for breakfast, Rudy came
at 12:10 pm to pick up 3 Lucerne Cheese and Free
bag of 8 cans of veggies plus 2 bags of brown rice.

Drove me to Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd)
to pick up "Daily Post" and "Peninsula News"
and home; No need for grocery shopping. Saturday, February 12, 2022, 2:00-2:20 pm
Mountain View: My 1963 Citadel Press copy of "All the Love Poems of Shakespeare" with Eric Gill's illustrations on every page shows the rhyming scheme of 154 sonnets "ababcdcdefefgg".

Followed rhyming Shakespearean sonnet
in composing "Squirrel Sonnet" (2-12-2022)
and "Platonic Lambda Sonnet" (1-19-2011).

Saturday, February 12, 2022, 2:30-4:00 pm
Mountain View: “OP-ED: Khanna offers
vision for making tech work for 'all of us'”
(By Ed Clendaniel, Mercury News, 2-9-2022, A6).

Ro Khanna's new book, "Dignity in a Digital Age:
Making Tech Work for All of Us", offers a path for
how innovation economy can create opportunities
& enrich lives of workers across the country. Saturday, February 12, 2022, 2:30-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Melissa Kirsch's NY Times's email
@ 4:37 am— "How to Get a Better Night's Sleep"
(By Tara Parker-Pope, NY Times, 2-12-2022

People who sleep seven hours a night are
healthier and live longer. If you often
feel tired at work, your body is telling
you that it's not getting enough sleep.

Saturday, February 12, 2022, 4:00-5:40 pm
Mountain View: "IDEAS: Can Medieval
Sleeping Habits Fix America's Insomnia?"
(By Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, Jan. 27, 2022).

Roger Ekirch: If the purpose of sleep is mental
and physical well-being, "there is very good
reason to believe that uninterrupted sleep
at night best achieves that outcome". Saturday, February 12, 2022, 4:00-5:40 pm
Mountain View: "IDEAS: How to Want Less"
(By Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, Feb. 8, 2022).

Secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff. Thomas Aquinas, Buddha (& Mick Jagger) were saying the same thing. "I can't get no satisfaction". Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want. Secret
is not to increase our haves, but reducing our wants..

Saturday, February 12, 2022, 10:00-11:32 pm
Mountain View: "Douglas Trumbull, the Oscar-winning special effects wizard who called New Marlborough home, has died"
(By Felix Carroll, The Berkshire Eagle, Feb. 8, 2022).

Trumbull died at 79; Designed Stargate
sequence of Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"
using "slit scan photography"; Also did special
effects in 1983 film "Brainstorm". Saw this film
at Stanford Annenberg Auditorium in Professors
Bukatman & Levi's FilmStud 152 class, and
wrote 3 haikus on June 5, 2007, 8-9 pm Saturday, February 12, 2022, 10:00-11:32 pm
Mountain View: "Mega-rare turtle dove in
Palo Alto has birders flocking from far and wide"
(By Zach Savitsky, Mercury News, 2-12-2022, A1, A5).

Native to Siberia and Japan, the bird is so rare a sight
in the U.S. that it's been designated a Code 4 "mega-rarity"
by the American Birding Association. Until now, it's only been spotted in California twice. Dotty Robbins, booked flight from Gainesville, Florida, to see this rare bird,
that flew across the Pacific and landed in biologist
Andrew Bradshaw's backyard in Palo Alto..

Sunday, February 13, 2022, 9:05-9:25 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 12:45 am; Woke up
at 1:55 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:25 am—
CAUALT = ACTUAL; MRSEMI = SIMMER;
INNGEE = ENGINE; SLNSUE = UNLESS;
LHAYMN = HYMNAL; MCONOM = COMMON

Cartoon Answer— For the small, burrowing
insectivores, their daily routine was
AL MME EE ESS MAL OMO = SAME "MOLE", SAME "MOLE".
29.89% of 435 responders had trouble with this answer. Sunday, February 13, 2022, 3:38-5:00 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed today,
or need for shopping; Stayed home for more work;
Listened to Super Bowl LVI on KNBR 104.5 FM Radio;
as Rams leads Bengals 13-3 (4:25 pm), 13-10 (4:32 pm)
Trickplay: Bengals Joe Mixon throws TD to Tee Higgins

Joe Burrow seems rusty
while Matthew Stafford is
comfortable throwing two TDs
on his home field at So-Fi Stadium.

Sunday, February 13, 2022, 5:00-7:00 pm
Mountain View: Super Bowl LVI on KNBR 104.5 FM;
Burrow threw a 75-yard touchdown to Higgins;
Bengals leads Rams 17-13 for first time;
Bengals field goal to extend lead 20-13;

LA Rams kicks field goal 20-16 (5:51 pm);
Stafford TD as Rams lead Bengals 23-20 (6:55 pm);
Aaron Donald sacks Burrow to win Super Bowl LVI. Sunday, February 13, 2022, 6:00-7:00 pm
Mountain View: "Oriental Turtle Dove Flies to Palo Alto"
(By Sue Dremann, Mercury News, 2-10-2022) is worthy
news to write a poem. Oriental Turtle Dove:
Wikipedia; ebird; Cornell Ornithology Lab

Reading about this rare bird
Streptopelia orientalis in Palo Alto
at corner of Colorado Ave & Higgins Place.

Monday, February 14, 2022, 7:17-7:30 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 2:45 am; Woke up
at 12:15 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:30 am—
SSOLH = SLOSH; SIYDA = DAISY;
TKNITE = KITTEN; WSLIVE = SWIVEL

Missed Cartoon Answer— The fin-footed marine
mammel smooching his girlfriend was a
LSH AIS KTE SWI = SEAL WITH (A) KISS.
25.18% of 985 responders had trouble with this answer. Monday, February 14, 2022, 2:00-2:20 pm
Mountain View: Tango music ringing in my ears—
"Por una Cabeza" (1935) by Carlos Gardel (1890-1935);
"Libertango" (1974) by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992).
Find these music in YouTube videos—

Romantic music & dance on Valentine's Day—
Al Pacono dances with Gabrielle Anwar;
Argentine Tango music by Carlos Gardel;
"Libertango" danced on stage of concert.

Monday, February 14, 2022, 2:00-2:20 pm
Mountain View: Valentine ♥ Mints Poems;
Valentine Mints Lesson; Valentine Mints Poem;
Bronze Plaque by Ferry Building (8-5-2005, 11-10-2018)

For Valentine's Day, recall "Valentine ♥ Mints"
lesson taught to Menlo-Atherton High students
and SF Bronze Plaque installed to inspire others. Monday, February 14, 2022, 2:00-2:20 pm
Mountain View: "Mega-rare turtle dove in Palo Alto"
inspired poem "Oriental Turtle Dove"
Added four photos to this sonnet—

Oriental Turtle Dove on Bark;
On Fence; Crowd Sighting Dove;
Turtle Dove with Seed in Beak.

Monday, February 14, 2022, 2:45-4:15 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 2:45 pm; Half-hour walk
to Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:15-3:44 pm;
4:05 pm Red Bus to Montecito Avenue and walked home

16 oz Sig Sel Smoked Ham ($5.99) @ 30% off = $4.19;
4 oz Wild Sockeye Salmon ($7.99) @ $5.67 - $1 = $4.67;
Raincheck: 7 oz Violife Sliced Vegan Cheese ($4.99) = Free.
This free item expires 2/14 & Shaikh Hameed wrote raincheck. Monday, February 14, 2022, 2:44 pm
Mountain View: Karen's 2:44 pm email from NYC—
"Happy Valentine's Day!" & link to Foster Museum showing
landscape watercolors; 940 Commercial Street, Palo Alto;
Tony Foster: "Art— in Everything that Matters"

EARTH
HEARTH
ART
HEART

Monday, February 14, 2022, 5:58-6:06 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Janine Jansen, plays violin to Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Winter in f Op. 8 #4 RV 297 (1720); (CD); (YouTube: Cynthia Miller Freivogel; Itzhak Perlman;
Yehudi Menuhin; Julia Fischer; David Garrett)

On 1-25-2022, 6:30 pm, sent to KDFC 104.9 FM—
"Love at First Listen" how Antonio Vivaldi's
"The Four Seasons: Winter" inspired me to
classical music & writing my first poem (1968).
I've not heard them cite my story unless I missed it.
Monday, February 14, 2022, 5:48-5:58 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Two more performances of "Por una Cabeza"
by Carlos Gardel— Itzhak Perlman in Chile & Mariss Jansons;
Music, Art, Poetry— the map to transcendence and paradise.

The moment I heard my first love story
I began searching for you,
not knowing how foolish that was.
True lovers don't meet somewhere out there,
but are in each other all along.
—Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), Quatrains 1246

Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 9:30-9:33 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 1:00 am; Woke up
at 1:20 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:33 am—
IZOGM = GIZMO; RTFEA = AFTER;
GJEGOR = JOGGER; LETNER = RELENT

Cartoon Answer— Sasquatch prints had been found
in the snow, and the TV news crew got some
GO AF O ET = FOOTAGE. Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 3:50-4:00 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Tuesday or
need for grocery shopping; Stay home for more work;
Yesterday & today, workers put in new mailboxes that
were to be installed in January due to twice lootings

Mailbox key still the same?; Looters used
skeletal burglar's keys to open mailboxes
from the back and steal all first-class mail.

Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 1:22-1:30 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: John Williams conducts Boston Pops Orchestra
to Alexander Borodin's String Quartet #2: Nocturne in D (1881); (CD); (YouTube: 1; 2; 3; 4)

Alexander Borodin was a chemist
yet composed beautiful music
to entertain us today. Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 2:17-2:28 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Silvio Varviso conducts Dresden State Orchestra to Amilcare Ponchielli's "La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours" (1876); CD; (YouTube: Eugene Ormandy; Ballet; Tulio Gagliardo Varas)

"Dance of the Hours" from
Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda"
dramatizes the fleeting of time.

Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 6:15-6:45 pm
Mountain View: Lion's Roar sent 2/15 email @ 6:06 pm on
"5 Meditations to Calm Your Anxious Mind" (1-26-2022)

Kamilah Majied: Connect with your Breath;
Sylvia Boorstein: Conquer Anxiety with Kindness;
Jill Satterfield: Listen to Your Body & Avoid Fear;
Melvin Escobar: Manage Anxiety Mindfully;
Chris Germer: Three Steps to Self-Compassion. Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 7:00-8:15 pm
Mountain View: Go to My Portal: Canvas
in Google Chrome as it's not visible on Safari Browser

Find Cavada's LINC-405 Skills Workshops:
Jan 10-14: Google Drive (29:57);
Jan 17-21:Google Sites (33:52);
Jan 24-28 Gmail. https://foothillcollege.instructure.com/
courses/19533/pages/skills-workshop-recordings.

Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 7:00-8:09 pm
Mountain View: Watched two Cavada LINC-405
Skills Workshop Videos on Google Drive & Sites

He showed how to insert files & folders,
arrange photos, graphics, texts, sheets
on the page, publish & share with others. Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 8:40-11:05 pm
Mountain View: Used Free Movies at ICON as template,
and composed "$6 Movies Tuesday ICON Theater MV"

Will have to wait for Showplace
ICON Theater Mountain View to post
time of film showings on Tuesday, Feb. 22.

Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 7:30-7:40 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 1:50 am; Woke up
at 10:50 am; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:40 am—
FLEAB = FABLE; RLTUB = BLURT;
UPNATE = PEANUT; CLPEAA = PALACE

Cartoon Answer— The bird that didn't
fly away in the face of danger was
FBL LU PEN PAA = UNFLAPPABLE.
29.04% of 1336 responders had trouble with this answer. Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 2:10-3:20 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 2:15 pm; Red Bus @ 2:25 pm
to Wal-Mart news bins for "Daily Post"; Bus #21 to CVS
Pharmacy that sold out bottles 120 tabs Men's Multiviamins
@ $10.79 BOGO; Manager says more supply coming on Friday

3:05 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy Stop & walked home;
New Mailboxes installed; Old key not working;
New keys distributed; but mailbox still empty.
Placed 6 copies "Daily Post" at rack for neighbors.

Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 11:24-11:35 am
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Jason Carter plays guitar with
Bingham String Quartet to Luigi Boccherini's Guitar Quintet #4 "Fandango" in D G.448 (1798); (CD); (YouTube: 1; 2; 3; 4)

Love dancing to this music
of Boccherini especially
with casenets clicking away. Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 12:34-12:46 pm
KDFC: 104.9 FM: Kent Nagano conducts Montreal Symphony Orchestra to Paul Dukas's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" (1897); CD; (YouTube: Mickey Mouse; Russian Philharmonic; Paul Dukas)

Always a delight watching Mickey
putting on the Wizard's Hat playing
the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 6:00-7:00 pm
Mountain View: Attended Zoom Session of LINC-405
with William Cavada Skills Workshop talk on Gmail;
Mara asked about "Important" feature in Gmail.

I asked how to resize images
imported to Google Drive
and insert text below photos. Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 7:00-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Tried to replicate poems done in HTML
"Squirrel Sonnet" and "Oriental Turtle Dove"
in Google Drive & Sites; Difficult to reproduce.

In Google Drive, "Squirrel Sonnet"
was easier to replicate, however.
"Turtle Dove" not well aligned.

Thursday, February 17, 2022, 10:45-11:25 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 12:45 am; Woke up
at 12:40 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 11:25 am—
GNIES = SINGE; NOCEL = CLONE;
TBNAET = BATTEN; PSOIGS = GOSSIP

Cartoon Answer— The shipping
department at the perfume compnay
SNE CN TTE SS = SENT SCENTS.
10.72% of 1091 responders had trouble with this answer. Thursday, February 17, 2022, 3:52-5:20 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 3:45 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station for "Daily Post" & "Metro"
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 4:30-5:03
Bus #40 @ 5:10 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home

2 Tai Pei Chicken Fried Rice @ $2.50 BOGO free = $2.50;
8 oz Lucernne Sliced Swiss Cheese ($3.99) @ $1.99;
7 oz Violife Sliced Vegan Cheese ($4.99) = Free.
Still no mail delivered to new mailbox.

Thursday, February 17, 2022, 7:29-10:23 pm
Mountain View: Falling behind Assignments for LINC-405 class;
1. Gmail; 2. Google Drive; 3. Google Sites; 4. Google Drawings; Summarized in LINC-405 Winter 2022

1. GMail (2-2-2022);
2. Squirrel Sonnet (2-9-2022);
3. Turtle Dove Poem (2-16-2022);
4. $6 Tuesday ICON Movies (2-22-2022). Thursday, February 17, 2022, 11:15-11:45 pm
Mountain View: Last work on Number 45 was Feb. 10—
#153: Four U.S. stamps & #156: Four Cyprus stamps
with 45 denomination; 109 stamps done in project

Need to do Section #157: Quotes on 45;
None in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1956);
10 more days to finish project on Feb. 27
for niece Elisa's 45th birthday.

Friday, February 18, 2022, 8:35-8:57 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 4:25 am; Woke up
at 3:09 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 8:57 am—
GHFETT = THEFT; BNUTL = BLUNT;
MCNETE = CEMENT; NIYAML = MAINLY

Cartoon Answer— A brave knight wearing a suit
of armor ready to do battle is an example of
TET LNT EME MAIL = METTLE IN METAL.
44.13% of 1856 responders had trouble with this answer. Friday, February 18, 2022, 4:35-6:10 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 4:35 pm; Bus #40 @ 4:49 pm to
Chef Chu's news bins for "Daily Post' & "Palo Alto Weekly";
CVS manager Lena said Men's Multivitamins will come Friday;
Bus #40 @ 5:55 pm to Central Xpwy Stop and walked home

CVS Men's Multiviamons still didn't come in;
Half hour for Clerk Quan to write a raincheck;
Missed 5:26 pm Bus #40 to Los Altos Library;
Mail delivered at last after 4 days to new mailbox.

Friday, February 18, 2022, 7:23-7:40
Mountain View: Worked on Numbers 45 last night
12:00-2:09 am #157 (Quotes) to #161 "Dictionary
of Literary Biography: American Poets 1880-1945"

For Numbers 45 #160 Time Magazine Volume 45—
Jan. 1, 1945 to June 25, 1945, went through 26 issues
for 5 American Generals, Truman & Emperor Hirohito. Friday, February 18, 2022, 7:40-9:00
Mountain View: Mercury News Feb. 17 issue, page B1
has nice photo by Jose Carlos Fajardo of "Snow Moon";
Native American names for the February Full Moon.

February's "Snow Moon" full at 2/16, 11:57 am EST;
Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening";
Emily Dickinson's Poem 36 "dancing a jig with snowflakes".

Friday, February 18, 2022, 8:57 pm-1:06 am
Mountain View: Wrote poem "Snow Moon"
with 8 images to follow "Wolf Moon" poem (1-17-2022)

Music, Art, Poetry: Map for poem—
Music: Snow falling in Vivaldi's "Winter";
Art: Snow paintings by Hiroshige and Monet;
Poetry: Snow poems by Robert Frost & Emily Dickinson. Friday, February 18, 2022, 1:06-1:52 am
Mountain View: Woke up late (3:09 pm) and had quick breakfast
of 3 waffles with butter & syrup to get out for CVS & Library.

Missed 5:26 pm Bus #40 to Los Altos Library
(closes at 6 pm) to check out Joseph Bruhac's
"Thirteen Moons on a Turtle's Back" (1992)
Placed hold on children's book to pick up later.

Saturday, February 19, 2022, 9:55-10:09 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 4:00 am; Woke up
at 12:25 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 10:09 am—
ZIMEA = MAIZE; AAPDN = PANDA;
ORANWR = NARROW; PGROEH = GOPHER

Cartoon Answer— Many South American countries
are home to the Andes because of the way they're
AE DA NR GR = ARRANGED.
14.66% of 948 responders had trouble with this answer. Saturday, February 19, 2022, 2:15-2:30 pm
Mountain View: Realized my poem "Snow Moon"
didn't mention the photo that inspied the poem;
"February's Snow Moon / is more calm and quiet— /
white peaceful silence."

Changed the second stanza—
Mercury News shows Snow Moon
shines on Walnut Creek poppies
in peaceful silence.

Saturday, February 19, 2022, 3:00-4:10 pm
Mountain View: Ann came at 3 pm to pick up
big bag of newspaper & 3 recent poems; Drove me to
Valero (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Peninsula News";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:15-3:42 pm);
Red Bus @ 3:55 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home

Sig Sel Watermelon-Strawberry Sparkling Water @ $1.00;
23 oz Van de Kamp Jumbo Fish Sticks ($7.99) @ $4.99;
7.25 oz Sig Sel Macaroni & Cheese (99¢) = Free. Saturday, February 19, 2022, 4:50-5:40 pm
Mountain View: Received package from Fidelity Investments
(New Mexico), Booklets of 100 free checks (#1903-2002)
ordered on Feb. 3; Time Magazine (Feb. 28-March 7, 2022)
Kid of the Year: Orion Jean, Age 11, "Race to Kindness"—

Kindness is a choice, you can't force anyone else to be
kind. You hope that by inspiring other people to spread
kindness that they will somehow see it and, you know,
change their ways and be more kind in the future.

Saturday, February 19, 2022, 6:00-8:13 pm
Mountain View: Worked on Numbers 45: #162-163—
Books, CDs, DVDs with 45 in title; Searched
in Google, Amazon.com, and Santa Clara Libraries

Alexander Dumas, Forty-Five Guardsmen;
Peter Brandvold, .45-Caliber; L.D. Hicks, Trump 45; Victoria L. Schmidt, 45 Master Characters; K.A Barson,
45 Pounds; Yoshiki Nakamura, Skip Beat! 45; Clauspeter Becker, AMG 45: The Story The Cars; Eric Records, Hard to Find 45s on CD, Vol. 12; Andrew Haigh, 45 Years: DVD; Jürgen Böttcher, Born in '45: Film. Saturday, February 19, 2022, 8:15 pm-1:18 am
Mountain View: Worked on Numbers 45: #164-171—
in Art & Music— #164: Krishna Print 45;
#165: Hiroshige Woodcut #45 Views of Edo Yatsumi Bridge":
#166: Mark Rothko, No. 45 (Blue Divided by Blue);
#167: Peter Triantos, Napa Valley #45;

#168: Bach, Church Cantata #45;
#169: Haydn, Symphony #45;
#170: Beethoven, Opus 45: 3 Marches, Piano, Four Hands;
#171: Chopin, Opus #45: Prelude in C-sharp minor;
#172: Brahms, Opus 45; #173: Tchaikovsky, Opus 45.

Sunday, February 20, 2022, 12:12-1:10 pm
Mountain View: Went to bed at 5:00 am; Woke up
at 2:10 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 1:10 pm—
SITNIS = INSIST; MARLOC = CLAMOR;
TLMELA = MALLET; FMNUIF = MUFFIN;
DEHULD = HUDDLE; TTIENN = INTENT

Took an hour for Cartoon Answer— He made up
excuses for why he didn't want to take tango lessns to
SS CL MAE FI HDD IEN = "DIS-DANCE" HIMSELF.
67.29% of 483 responders had trouble with this answer. Sunday, February 20, 2022, 4:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed today,
or need for shopping; Stayed home for more work;
Answering 46 questions on "Presidential Quiz"
(By Kurt Snibee, Mercury News 2-20-2022, B13)
Got 36 right; Missed #4: Nixon only President born in CA

#21: There is a secret room behind
President Lincoln's head at
Mount Rushmore that was
to be called the Hall of Records.

Sunday, February 20, 2022, 5:30 pm
Mountain View: 46 questions on "Presidential Quiz"
(By Kurt Snibee, Mercury News 2-20-2022, B13)
Wrong answer given for #28: Who was the youngest president
to assume the presidency? Answer: JFK, 42 years 322 days

Correct answer: Youngest President in American History—
Theodore Roosevelt was America's youngest president
at 42 years, 10 months, and 18 days old when he was
sworn into the presidency. JFK was 43 years, 7 months,
and 22 days old when he took the Oath of Office.
Sunday, February 20, 2022, 6:57 pm-12:11 am
Mountain View: Worked on Numbers 45: #172-179—
in Music & Films— #172: Brahms Opus 45: Requiem;
#173: Tchaikovsky Op. 45: Capriccio Italien;
#174: Rachmaninoff Op. 45: Symphonic Dances;

#175: Sibelius Op. 45: Dryad & Tanz-Intermezzo;
#176: James Tinling's 45 Fathers film (1937);
#177: George M. Cohan's 45 Minute from Broadway;
#178: Rockin 45s Band from Long Island, NY;
#179: 45th Academy Awads (1973).

Monday, February 21, 2022 (Presidents' Day), 9:00-9:25 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 5:00 am; Woke up
at 1:30 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:25 am—
DLEER = ELDER; ETGAN = AGENT;
YAUPTO = PAYOUT; WCDARO = COWARD

Cartoon Answer— Honoring George Washington's
birth startng in the late 1800's created a
EDE AEN PYT CRD = "PRECEDENT" DAY.
25.17% of 1184 responders had trouble with this answer. Monday, February 21, 2022 (Presidents' Day), 4:00-5:10 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 4:00 pm; Bus #40 @ 4:11 pm to
Middlefield Rd; No "Daily Post" printed today or mail delivered;
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 4:15-4:44 pm;
Red Bus @ 4:55 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home.

1.33 lb Red Seedless Grapes @ $1.88/lb = $2.50;
Pound Cake ($4.29) 50% off - $2 Rewards = 14¢;
Sig Sel Mango-Pineapple Sparkling Water @ $1.00;
Raincheck for Sig Sel Macaroni & Cheese (99¢) = Free.

Monday, February 21, 2022 (Presidents' Day), 7:00-8:27 pm
Mountain View: Spent 5 hours yesterday on Numbers 45: #172-179: in Music & Films— Today's work on "45 in the Bible" #180-189 will be less time consuming as there are no images to search for.

Checked Complete Concordance to the Bible
(New KJV), p. 325 and found 15 citations for 45;
(3 citations for 43, 5 citations for 44, 3 citations for 46). Monday, February 21, 2022, 8:30 pm-12:10 am
Mountain View: 3.5 hours to do #181-189: 45th Psalm,
as well as Chapter 45 in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel;
45th Book of Enoch, 45th Saying of Gospel of Thomas

Chapter 45 of Pistis Sophia,
Chapter 45 of Aquarian Gospel,
Quotes from these texts for "Poem on 45".

Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 9:15-9:25 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 5:00 am; Woke up
at 1:00 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:25 am—
WATHE = WHEAT; EIFNK = KNIFE;
AWLRYE = LAWYER; SUUTNJ = UNJUST

Cartoon Answer— His compliment of
her sugar cookies she'd made included
WAT KE LE ST = SWEET TALK.
16.68% of 1109 responders had trouble with this answer. Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 5:00-5:35 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Tuesday; Stayed
home to work; Columbia friend Richard Hanauer's 2-21 email
@ 9:57 pm— 2/22/22 Twosday; Event occurred millenium
ago 1-11-1011; Next one: 3-33-3033 (Oops, no such date!)

One Touch Delica Plus Lancing Device
not working (spring broken) to get drop of blood;
Katrina from Colombia, South America, asked lots
of questions and will send new device free in 1-3 days.

Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 6:00-7:40 pm
Mountain View: Two comics in Mercury News has
theme of 2-22-22— Patrick McDonnell's Mutts
and Bob Thaves' Frank & Ernest

22 Letters in Hebrew Alphabet;
22 Major Arcana Tarot Cards;
Jim Palmer's Uniform #22;
22 players on football field. Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 7:40-9:40 pm
Mountain View: 22¢ stamps of 22nd U.S. President Grover Cleveland U.S. 827 (11-22-1938) and U.S. 2218d (5-22-1986);
Emily Dickinson's Poem 22: "There is no more snow!"

Byron's "myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty";
22 Books in St. Augustine's City of God;
22 Chapters in Book of Revelations;
22 Paths in Kabbalah Tree of Life.

Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 7:12-7:46 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 3:35 am; Woke up
at 12:30 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:46 am—
WATHE = WHEAT; EIFNK = KNIFE;
AWLRYE = LAWYER; SUUTNJ = UNJUST

Missed Cartoon Answer— When asked if she
thought they could win at roulette, she said
SH EE WE LE = "WHEEL" SEE
8.28% of 918 responders had trouble with this answer. Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 3:00-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Was up to 1:05 am last night
writing poem "Twosday 2-22-22" with 12 images;
22 lines of 11 couplets, citing Emily Dickinson's
Poem 22 & Byron's ooem "sweet two-and-twenty"

Didn't substitute 22/7 = π for "22 players on
football field", because 22/7 = 3.142857143
is larger than π = 3.141592653589
so they're NOT exactly the same.

Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 4:05-5:35 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 4:05 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 4:35-5:08 pm
Red Bus @ 5:20 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home

4 International Delight Creamers ($3.99) @ $1.99 = $7.96;
Sig Sel Homestyle Waffles (10 ct), ($2.49) @ $2.00;
Checkout Michael didn't honor free items for Rudy. Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Apartment inspection today 9 am-5 pm;
Cleaned clutter in living room, but insectors didn't come
William Cavada not on 6:00-6:30 pm Skills Workshop;
Perhaps Kim Randall will be at 6:30-7:00 pm Office Hours.

LINC-405 Winter 2022: 1. GMail (2-2-2022);
2. Squirrel Sonnet (2-9); 3. Turtle Dove Poem (2-16);
4. $6 Tuesday ICON Movies (2-22-2022).

Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 6:30-6:50 pm
Mountain View: Kim Randall told me that Cavada is off today,
that's why LINC-405 "Skills Workshop" @ 6:00-6:30 pm
was not posted; there are 28 students registered for class

Asked Kim how to share assignments done in LINC-405;
"kci" not in list, only Guzman, Cavada, Tognetti;
Found: "kcigoogle@krauseinnovationcenter.org" Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 8:45 pm-2:54 am
Mountain View: Shared 2 LINC-405 assignments to "kci",
Return to work on Numbers 45: #190-209: "Books on
Philosophy & Religion" (Book of Ani to Ling Ch'i Ching)

Have these books at home on shelves,
so should type passages quickly from them to
complete project in four days for Elisa's birthday.

Thursday, February 24, 2022, 8:30-8:58 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 5:30 am; Woke up
at 1:10 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 8:58 am—
DOYDL = ODDLY; FATSF = STAFF;
LPSIVE = PELVIS; VLIRDE = DRIVEL

Cartoon Answer— Getting medical advice
from the Internet can sometimes be
DD SA LVI IEL = ILL-ADVISED
39.42% of 1659 responders had trouble with this answer. Thursday, February 24, 2022, 4:00-5:30 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 4:00 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Metro";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 4:30-4:59 pm;
Red Bus @ 5:15 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home

32 oz Sig Sel Cut Green Beans ($3.49) @ $2.99;
Checkout Shaikh honored free items for Rudy—
7.25 oz Sig Sel Macaroni & Cheese (99¢) = Free;
Violife Vegan Smoked Provolone Cheese ($4.99) = Free.

Thursday, February 24, 2022, 4:08 pm
Mountain View: Walked by 276 Montebello Ave
for daily ritual, praying to Platonic Λ Pepper Tree
and greeting Wilber, 12-year-old Clumber Spaniel

As I'm praying to Λ Pepper Tree,
Lady with two poodles walks by—
Wilber jumps up excitedly Woof! Woof! Woof! Thursday, February 24, 2022, 7:40 pm-4:36 am-
Mountain View: Continue work on Numbers 45:
#210-233: "Books on Philosophy & Religion"
(Philokalia to Zen Master Kido)

#210-215: Philokalia, wisdom of Desert Fathers (9:30 pm);
#219-222: Santideva's Path of Enlightenment (11:11 pm);
#223-233: Oriental Zen Masters & Chinese Sages (4:36 am).

Friday, February 25, 2022, 8:37-8:42 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 6:30 am; Woke up
at 2:50 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 8:42 am—
NEVTE = EVENT; PALYP = APPLY;
MRUEMS = SUMMER; SCITTR = STRICT

Cartoon Answer— The gorilla spent so much
time with his girlfriend because she was his
EE AP MMR IT = "PRIME-MATE".
19.7% of 1147 responders had trouble with this answer. Friday, February 25, 2022, 4:40-6:40 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 4:40 pm; Bus #40 @ 4:51 pm to
Chef Chu's news bins for "Daily Post" & "Palo Alto Weekly";
Shopping at Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rd) 5:30-6:07 pm;
Bus #40 @ 6:25 pm to Central Xpwy Stop and walked home

6 Late July Tortilla Chips ($3.49) @ 99¢ = $5.94;
2 Bags Raw Wheat Germ 18 oz @ $2.99 = $5.98;
2.36 lb Cotton Candy Grapes @ $1.99/lb = $4.70;
1.51 lb Roma Tomatoes @ 88¢/lb = $1.42.

Friday, February 25, 2022, 4:40-6:40 pm
Mountain View: CVS still has no Men's Multi-Vitamins;
Sprouts mailed me $5 off coupon to buy $30.57 groceries

0.94 lb Org. Raw Pumpkin Seeds @ $4.99/lb = $4.69;
0.94 lb Walnut Halves & Pieces @ $4.99/lb = $4.69;
0.99 lb Sweet Banana Chips @ $3.49/lb = $3.45. Friday, February 25, 2022, 8:30 pm-3:40 am
Mountain View: Continue work on Numbers 45:
#234-244: (Marsilio Ficino to Zen Master Seung Sahn)

#234-241; Marsilio Ficino to Wei Wu Wei (12:44 am);
#242: Volume 16 of Paul Brunton's Notebooks (2:28 am);
#243-244: Master Subramuniya & Seung Sahn (3:40 am).

Saturday, February 26, 2022, 8:42-9:12 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 5:50 am; Woke up
at 2:10 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:12 am—
TOAPI = PATIO; ANOPI = PIANO;
DLEGUS = SLUDGE; MHSUUM = HUMMUS

Cartoon Answer— He ad used the same
hammer for more than 50 years because it was
ATI ANO SLG HUS = TOUGH AS NAILS
54.26% of 1644 responders had trouble with this answer. Saturday, February 26, 2022, 5:00-6:55 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 5:00 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station for "Daily Post" & "Peninsula News";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 5:35-6:09 pm;
Last Bus #40 @ 5:43 pm; Rolled cart home (6:26-6:55 pm)

20 oz Coco Cola Starlight Zero-Sugar ($2.29) = Free;
3 lb Mustard Potato Salad ($7.99) 50% off = $3.49;
Waterfront Nova Salmon ($5.99) - $1.00 = $4.99;
8 oz Sig Farms Fresh Spinach for Salad @ $1.99.

Saturday, February 26, 2022, 7:15-7:30 pm
Mountain View: Neighbor Don Richards is disabled;
He got a walker, but difficlt to walk; Asked me to heat
a pot of Progresso Tomato Basil Soup to serve him

Pinterest sent two mails daily of photos
to inspire me based on what I downloaded before;
Today's photograph sent at 2:37 pm— "Snowy Owl". Saturday, February 26, 2022, 9:15 pm-11:30 am
Mountain View: 14 hours work on Numbers 45:
#245-280: (35 passages from poems & literature)
May I finish project on time for Elisa's 2/27 birthday?

#245-280; (Su Tung-p'o to Jane Hirshfield);
14 poems were typed from Los Altos Library books;
#281: Numerology (words whose letters add up to 45).

Saturday, February 26, 2022, 7:49 am
Mountain View: Ann's 2/26 email @ 7:49 am
"The 45th day of the year is a special day, Valentine's Day.
Does that fit under any of your categories?"

Unlike U.S. Route 45 where I had to create 86a,
Inserted at #76: The 45th day of the year—
(Valentine's Day ♥). Saturday, February 26, 2022, 10:02 pm
Mountain View: Emailed Rudy to pick up
several Free Safeway Specials saved for him;
Fun to work on Poetry section for Numbers 45:

Quotes from poets' works on Number 45
will inspire poem "Meditations on 45"
that is always delightful to compose.

Sunday, February 27, 2022, 12:50-1:07 pm
Mountain View: Went to bed at 1:30 pm; Woke up
at 11:30 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 1:07 pm—
GDEAAN = AGENDA; TURAGI = GUITAR;
NOENTB = BONNET; NHEHYP = HYPHEN;
WTUTIO = OUTWIT; BHCALE = BLEACH

Cartoon Answer— The number 1 said he
was superior to the number 0 because 1 was
GEN ITR NNT HHE OTT BA = BETTER THAN NOTHING.
22.2% of 410 responders had trouble with this answer. Sunday, February 27, 2022, 11:30 pm-3:30 am
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed today,
or need for shopping; Stayed home for more work;
Took 14 hours to finish 281 items "Numbers 45" @ 11:00 am;
An hour to compose Birthday Page for niece Elisa (11:53 am);
Sent to her @ 12:22 am; She replied @ 2 pm "Thank you so much!"

10 hours sleep; Woke at 11:30 pm;
Breakfast of Dark Rye, Nova Alaskan Sockeye
Salmon, Spinach, Coffee, and Orange Juice;
Sleep cycle turned topsy-turvy, day into night.

Monday, February 28, 2022, 9:12-9:16 am
Mountain View: Went to bed at 5:30 am; Woke up
at 2:20 pm; Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:16 am—
TMTPOS = STOMP; KHAIK = KHAKI;
KEWYEL = WEEKLY; LEAOGI = GOALIE

Cartoon Answer— Their vacation in Florida's
southernmost tourist destination was
O K WY LE = LOW-KEY
25.23% of 1102 responders had trouble with "GOALIE" Monday, February 28, 2022, 4:00-6:55 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 4:00 pm; Red Bus @ 4:20 pm
to Showers Drive's Wal-Mart news bins for "Daily Post";
Bus #40 5:07 pm to Los Altos Library to pick up book on hold:
Joseph Bruhac's "Thirteen Moons on a Turtle's Back" (1992).

Picked up "Journey to the West" Vol. 2;
by Wu Cheng'en, translated by Anthony C. Yu;
Searched for Catalog # of Bosnia Erik Satie stamp in
Vol. 2 of Scott's 2022 Stamp Catalog, but found none.

Monday, February 28, 2022, 5:21-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Left library @ 4:30 pm; Bus #40 @ 4:52 pm
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 5:10-5:39 pm;
Red Bus @ 5:50 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home

20 oz Coco Cola Starlight Zero-Sugar Soda ($2.29) = Free;
Open Nature Vanilla Almond Milk @ $2.99 - $1 = $1.99;
23 oz Van de Kamps Jumbo Fish Sticks ($7.99) @ $4.99;
4 oz Waterfront Nova Salmon @ $5.99 - $1.00 = $4.99. Monday, February 28, 2022, 8:00-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Jack Mullen phoned and ranted an hour
on inflation in food, gas, cars, auto repair; Wal-Mart
in Milpitas much better than Mountain View store;

Biden is inept & Democrats turning the country
socialistic; Russia, Communist China, Iran,
and North Korea are taking over the world;
everything is falling apart— he is so pessimistic.

Monday, February 28, 2022, 11:30 pm-1:30 am
Mountain View: U.S. 9¢ stamps— PR14 Freedom (1-1-1875);
PR51 Minerva $9 (1875); 415 Franklin (4-29-1914) 561 Jefferson (1-15-1923); 714 Washington (1-1-1932); 748 Mt Rockwell (8-27-1934); 1043 Alamo (6-14-1956); C17 Delta Wings (5-15-1971)

Germany-Baden 4-Numeral (5-1-1851); (Color Error);
Belgium Q201: Railways Centennial (6-1935);
Madagascar C18: Plane Flight over Island (1941). Monday, February 28, 2022, 1:30-4:00 am
Mountain View: Grandniece Lilly's 9th birthday is on March 5;
Postage stamps with 9 denomination for a Birthday Page;
Number 9 (done for Byron's birthday 4-11-2002);
Poem on Number 9 for Elisa's birthday (2-27-1986)

Bulgaria 497: "9" Busting Chain (9-7-1945);
Albania 755: Pluto. 9th Planet (12-25-1964);
Israel 128: 9th Anniversary Independence (4-29-1957).