Haikus: May 2022

HAIKUS: May 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.

Sunday, May 1, 2022, 7:50-8:05 am
Mountain View: To bed at 2:05 am; Woke up @ 1:20 pm;
(11 hours sleep) Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 8:05 am—
LGGGEA = GAGGLE; TATETS = ATTEST;
BGOLNO = OBLONG; LNAGOL = GALLON;
LIRASO = SAILOR; ULFETI = FUTILE

Cartoon Answer— The moonshiner was getting
up there in age, but he and his business were
GG TS OON GLN SIR TIL = STILL GOING STRONG
17.81% of 421 responders had trouble with this answer. Sunday, May 1, 2022, 4:15-5:00 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Sunday or
need for grocery shopping, stayed home to work;
Listening to KNBR 104.5 FM: Washington Nationals
leading San Francisco Giants 5-0, 8-0, and 11-5; Frustrating
BB Game; Should listen to KDFC 104.9 FM Classical Music

Need to convert May 8-iPhone
to HTML version with web links
to Truman and 5 birthday mates
plus birth flower, birthstone, & Zodiac sign.

Sunday, May 1, 2022, 4:50-5:45 pm
Mountain View: Pinterest sends photos & videos
of cute animals for inspiration on 5/1 @ 2:08 pm—
Warm Hug; Can't believe Agile Chicken;
Dog Riding Duck; Dog Riding Duck 2

All Seats Full— as dog
tries to board mother duck
filled with four baby ducklings. Sunday, May 1, 2022, 6:15-7:30 pm
Mountain View: Pinterest photos of cute animals
inspired poem "All Seats Full" with 4 syllables/line
to reflect the 4 baby ducklings aboard mother duck;
This is my fifth animal dialogue poem (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Dialogue between mother duck
and white puppy trying to board
her when all seats are filled up.

Monday, May 2, 2022, 6:05-6:14 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:05 am; Woke up @ 11:30 am
(10.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:14 am—
KOPRE = POKER; RSEDS = DRESS;
SACION = CASINO; ELYPES = SLEEPY

Cartoon Answer— After seeing his new
car's first door ding, he experienced a little
POE DR SIN SE = DEPRESSION
28.46% of 1026 responders had trouble with "CASINO". Monday, May 2, 2022, 2:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 2:00 pm; Gray Bus
@ 2:15 pm to Valero (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post";
No Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Avenue);
Bus #40 @ 2:30 pm to Montecito Ave & walked home

Paid $1183 May rent for apartment;
Want to see if maintenance will fix
ceiling lights, but office is closed.
Waited 10 days since asked for repair.

Monday, May 2, 2022, 3:45-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Rudy's phone call @ 11:30 am
woke me up; He's not getting my emails because
his Yahoo Mail was disconnected April 30 when
he didn't opt to register for Yahoo Plus (phishing?)

Yahoo Plus costs $30/year;
My Yahoo Mail account was not disconnected;
My wisdomportal.com email was disconnected when not
used for 11 months, then restored by Network Solutions. Monday, May 2, 2022, 4:30-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Time Magazine May 9, 2022 issue:
"Elon Musk Buys Twitter" (pp. 54-59);
"Middle Class, Low Hopes" (pp. 60-67);
"New Science of Forgetting" (pp. 74-77);

Ronald L. Davis: "We are inundated with
so much information on a daily basis that
the brain fights back, and forgets as much
unimportant information as possible."

Monday, May 2, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: USPS sends email daily
on incoming mail with photo of envelopes
except manila-size envelopes & Time Magazine

Deleted hundreds of USPS emails
from the last three years that are
cluttering my Yahoo Mail InBox. Monday, May 2, 2022, 6:30-7:30 pm
Mountain View: My first Yahoo email is 5-6-2004;
Deleted hundreds of emails from Foothill College's
Hoot newsletters & Krause Center on course registration

Receive 20+ emails daily from Google News on
"Poetry" & "Enlightenment"; As there's no time to read
them, InBox has 7200 x 18 years = 129,600 unread emails.

Tuesday, May 3, 2022, 6:47-6:57 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:35 am; Woke up @ 11:50 am
(10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:57 am—
LCXEE = EXCEL; SCAEE = CEASE;
PCNOOH = PONCHO; PSIRTC = SCRIPT

Cartoon Answer— Her joke about her
husband's high credit card balance was
EXE EAS PNH SIT = AT HIS EXPENSE
36.12% of 1102 responders had trouble with this answer. Tuesday, May 3, 2022, 1:00-1:22 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed on Tuesday
or need for grocery shopping; Stayed home to work;
Todd, Head of Maintenance came to repair ceiling lights;
Light bulbs out: kitchen (2), doorway (3), bathroom hallway (2)

Phone calls finally got maintenance to fix
ceiling lights that have been off for 10 days;
Todd, Head of Maintenance has been working
for Mid-Peninsula Housing for just one week.

Tuesday, May 3, 2022, 5:05-8:11 pm
Mountain View: This is the 4th week of Foothill's
Spring Quarter. I've just one assignment done
so far for LINC-405 and need to catch up.

LINC-405: Spring 2022— Replicate poem
"All Seats Full" done in HTML (Times Roman font)
in Google Drive (Arial font) for my 2nd assignment. Tuesday, May 3, 2022, 8:30-9:00 pm
Mountain View: After telling Ann about Time Magazine's
May 9 article on "New Science of Forgetting" (pp. 74-77),
Ann sends link to neuroscience researchers' 2018 article

"The Biology of Forgetting: A Perspective"
by Ronald L. Davis (Scripps Research Institute Florida)
and Yi Zhong (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China).

Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 7:08-7:12 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:20 am; Woke up @ 10:55 am
(10.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:12 am—
VRREI = RIVER; HWONS = SHOWN;
VITANE = NATIVE; MTFOHA = FATHOM

Cartoon Answer— A tennis match
begins when the first serve is
IE SON NTI TOM = SET IN MOTION
40.71% of 1319 responders had trouble with this answer. Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 12:15-1:15 pm
Mountain View: Rudy came at 12:15 pm, Drove to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 12:25-12:55 pm;
3 Sparkling Water @ 96¢ = $2.88; Spinach Soufflé @ $2.56

64 oz Silk Oat Milk ($4.99) = Free for Rudy;
64 oz Apple Juice ($2.99) @ $1.90 = Free for Rudy;
2 Raisin Bread ($3.98) @ $2.50 = $5.00 (Free for Rudy);
Red Grapes @$1.48/lb = $2.60 lb ($3.86), 2.46 lb ($3.64).

Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 4:15-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Service Coordinator Zahira Peña likes
my poem "Celestial Tree" (2-2-1995) and included it in
Mid-Peninsula Housing May Newsletter, adding graphics
(photos of Stonehenge & Hawk with drawings of Tree & Stars)

Every leaf of mine is a tavern
with bread & drink for angels,
and at night I would break into
blossom, each of my flowers a star. Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 4:30-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Ann's link to "Biology of Forgetting" paper
reminded me of Robert Bly's poem "Courting Forgetfulness"
in the "New Yorker" (7-21-2008) and my response poem
"Courting Remembrance" (7-22-2008) with Notes (7-23-2008)

Concluding stanza of my ghazal—
Peter, it's regretful that you've forgotten the soul's
past strivings, but the purpose of remembrance
is to be attentive to the present task at hand.

Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Zoom class
Skills Workshop with William Cavada

Showed how to import photo (Katherine Hepburn)
from Google Images to one's desktop,
Google Drive, and Google Photos. Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 6:30-7:00 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Zoom class
Q&A Session with Kim Randall

Kim has a beach background
and I thought she's in a bikini;
She says "It's hot, I'm in a tanktop!"

Thursday, May 5, 2022, 10:21-10:26 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:20 am; Woke up @ 11:45 am
(10.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 10:26 am—
ARKPN = PRANK; SRUHC = CRUSH;
UCPLST = SCULPT; PINANK = NAPKIN

Cartoon Answer— After Ford introduced its
F-150 in 1975, customers headed to dealers to
PRK CUS CUT PKI = PICK UP TRUCKS
14.86% of 895 responders had trouble with this answer. Thursday, May 5, 2022, 3:00-4:08 pm
Mountain View: Ann came at 3:00 pm, Drove to
Kaiser Pharmacy (555 Castro St) for my 6 diabetic
medications ($0 co-pay); Drove to Mountain View Post Office
to mail 22nd Anniversary web pages to Cathy in Las Vegas

Sent 4 animal poems: All Seats Full"
(5-1-2022); "Eye to Eye" (3-6-2022);
"Squirrel and Kitten" (1-28-2002);
"Puppy & Ducklings" (1-20-2022).

Thursday, May 5, 2022, 5:00-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Jack Mullen phoned and ranted
an hour on Stock market tumbling 1063 points;
Inflation: skyrocketing food prices at Wal-Mart;
Joe Biden & Democrats destroying the country;

He wants Greg Reppen's email; Says that Uganda's
Birabwa moved to Minneapolis; Wished to have taped
our conversations at Panera Bread on April 3, 2022. Thursday, May 5, 2022, 8:00-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Karen's May 5 email says she saw an old movie
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008); I saw this
film at Stanford Memorial Auditorium (April 5, 2009) filled
with parents of Stanford students (missed 1st hour of film)

Reason I got there late (9 pm), was attending another film
beforehand (7:00-8:41 pm) "This Dust of Words"
on Stanford student Elizabeth Wiltsee's suicide.

Thursday, May 5, 2022, 9:00-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Robert Bly's poem "Courting Forgetfulness"
in the New Yorker (7-21-2008) was written after Billy Collins' "Forgetfulness" (Poetry Magazine, January 1990)

Long ago you kissed the names of the nine muses goodye
and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,
and even now as you memorize the order of the planets,
something else is slipping away, a state flower perhaps,
the address of an uncle, the capital of Paraguay. Thursday, May 5, 2022, 10:00-10:48 pm
Mountain View: "What Do Memories Look Like?" (By David J. Craig, Columbia Magazine Winter 2021-2022)"; Neuroscientists Attila Losonczy & Franck Polleux at Zuckerman Institute

"How to Improve Your Memory (Even if You Can't Find Your Car Keys" (By Adam Grant, NY Times, 4-12-2019);
"Memory, Forgetfulness, and Aging: What's Normal and What's Not?" (National Institute on Aging, 10-21-2020);
"7 tips to improve your memory" (Mayo Clinic, 3-10-2021).

Friday, May 6, 2022, 5:37-6:34 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:40 am; Woke up @ 12:50 pm
(11 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:34 am—
KCKAN = KNACK; TOLGA = GLOAT;
RAYNTO = NOTARY; YETLIV = LEVITY

Cartoon Answer— For the Marshall
Islands, the rising sea level was
KNA GL OTA LIT = TAKING "ATOLL"
55.01% of 1567 responders had trouble with this answer. Friday, May 6, 2022, 3:30-5:15 pm
Mountain View: Left apt at 3:30 pm; Bus #40 @ 3;52 pm to
Chef Chu's bins for "Palo Alto Weekly"; CVS bins "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Road) 4:25-4:48 pm;
4:55 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpway Stop and walked home

4:21 pm: Deposit $84.13 at Wells Fargo (William Epstein);
Angel Food Cake ($4.79) @ $2.50 - Reward $2.00 = 50¢;
Godiva 14 oz Mint Medallion Ice Cream ($5.49) = Free;
Total = 50¢ (Savings 95%); More bargains for Rudy.

Friday, May 6, 2022, 6:00-7:00 pm
Mountain View: Columbia Magazine (Fall 2021)—
"What This Bird Can Teach Us About Memory"" (p. 44)
The tufted titmouse, a songbird native to the eastern US, has long amazed ornithologists with its ability to remember thousands of locations where it has stashed away seeds for future consumption

Neuroscientist Dmitriy Aronov has discovered secret
to the bird's extraordinary powers of recall, finding
that it has a specialized brain region for making
mental maps of its physical surroundings. Friday, May 6, 2022, 7:00-10:15 pm
Mountain View: Threw away a whole bag of newspapers—
"Daily Post", "Metro", "Peninsula News", & "Palo Alto Weekly";
"The Art of Memory" (1966) by Frances Yates surveys mnemonic techniques from Greeks (Simonides of Ceos) & Romans (Cicero)
to the Renaissance (Giordano Bruno & Gottfried Leibniz).

Mnemonic techniques: Cicero's "Memory Palace"
using a "peg system" to link people and things
so your memory will retain them for a long time.
Memory champs: Dominic O'Brian & Jonas Von Essen.

Friday, May 6, 2022, 10:15-11:55 pm
Mountain View: "The Man Who Found the Flow"
(By Andrew Cooper, Lion's Roar, May 7, 2021)

"What is happiness?" asked Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
He found it in a state of mind beyond results & rewards
and called it "the flow". Its characteristics include joy,
deep concentration, emotional buoyancy, a heightened
sense of mastery, a lack of self-consciousness, and self-transcendence. Aristotle's eudaimonia, a state of being
"well-favored" within oneself and in one's relation to the divine. Abraham Maslow regarded peak experience
as a kind of epiphany that happens spontaneously.
(MC died at 87, 10-20-2021; wished to have known him) Friday, May 6, 2022, 11:55 pm-12:24 am
Mountain View: For poem "Remembrance & Forgetfulness"
found "Remembrance" (delete Day) & "Forgetfulness" (add word)

Remember Oneness
Forget the rest.
Remember the Now
Forget the past.
Remember being born
Forget the dying.
Remember sunshine
Forget the darkness.
Remember the feast
Forget the famine.

Saturday, May 7, 2022, 7:37-7:52 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 4:15 am; Woke up @ 12:25 pm
(8 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:52 am—
KPMEOT = TEMPO; LOYMD = MOLDY;
RWLEYA = LAWYER; DONLEO = NOODLE

Cartoon Answer— When Cindy Crawford went
bowling at the Charity event, she was being a
EM LD LR OOL = "ROLL" MODEL
14.25% of 744 responders had trouble with "LAWYER". Saturday, May 7, 2022, 3:15-5:15 pm
Mountain View: Left apt at 3:15 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station for "Daily Post" & "Peminsula News";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:45-4:15 pm);
4:55 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Ave and walked home

Stouffer's Tuna Casserole 12 oz ($3.50 ) @ $2.26;
2 Thin-Crust Supreme Pizza ($6.99) @ $2.19 = $4.38;
Godiva 14 oz Mint Medallion Ice Cream ($5.49) = Free;
Cesar refunds $7.49 for overcharges on Godiva & Stouffer.

Saturday, May 7, 2022, 5:30-8:04 pm
Mountain View: KGMZ 95.7 FM: NBA Playoff Game 3
Memphis Grizzlies vs Golden State Warriors at Chase Center

Grizzlies leads 18-8 starting 1st Quarter,
but Warriors wins 142-112; Ja Morant 34;
Curry 30; Poole 27; Thompson 21; Kuminga 18. Saturday, May 7, 2022, 6:40-7:40 pm
Mountain View: KNBR 104.5 FM: SF Giants beats St. Louis Cardinals 13-7 on Buster Posey Day; Flores hits grand slam in 1st

"2022 Kentucky Derby winner: Rich Strike (80-1) scores massive upset as biggest underdog champion since 1913" (Rich Strike had the longest odds among all 20 horses).

Sunday, May 8, 2022, 7:20-7:43 am
Mountain View: To bed at 1:30 am; Woke up @ 12:25 pm;
(11 hours sleep) Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:43 am—
ZATSAN = STANZA; ROPUSO = POROUS;
VIRRDE = DRIVER; PWNHEE = NEPHEW;
ZNEEES = SNEEZE; CFEEFT = EFFECT

Cartoon Answer— It was
Mother's Day, and each of her children
STN PS DRR EPE SNE EET = PRESENTED PRESENTS
29.26% of 434 responders had trouble with this answer. Sunday, May 8, 2022, 1:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Sunday or
need for grocery shopping, stayed home to work;
22nd Anniversary meeting Cathy at Foothill College
Middlefield Campus Computer Lab (May 8, 2000);
Poem: "Twosday 2-22-22"" & Number 22

Happy 22nd Anniversary to Cathy (22¢ U.S. stamps);
HTML: May 8-iPhone (birth flower, birthstone, Zodiac);
Happy Birthday: May 8 (5/8 Postmarks & 5/8 Journals);
"Happy 22nd Anniversary" poem (Hebrew alphabet).

Sunday, May 8, 2022, 3:40-4:11
Mountain View: 7 comic strips today for
Mother's Day, but best is "Mutts" (5-8-2022);

Loving, caring, comforting,
giving, wise, funny, patient,
selfless, warm, and fuzzy— ♥ Mom. Sunday, May 8, 2022, 4:11-4:32 pm
Mountain View: It's Mother's Day and I think of Mom,
how she shaped my life taking care of me in Shanghai

Mom's Birthday: October 30, 1908;
Poem: "A Good Heart" (12-25-2005);
Mom's Photo Board (assembled by Margaret).

Sunday, May 8, 2022, 6:00-7:21 pm
Mountain View: Poem: "Rich Strike Wins Kentucky Derby"
"At 80-1 odds, no one / gave Rich Strike a chance / to win
the Kentucky Derby / as he's never won a race before."

like lightning strike zooms
and bolts ahead of them both
in the most stunning upset
of the Kentucky Derby ever. Sunday, May 8, 2022, 7:22-8:12 pm
Mountain View: "Bay Area Hikes:
History of explosives at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline"
(By John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 5-8-2022, F7-F8)

Head to Point Pinole Regional Shoreline in
Richmond for fantastic views of the water,
a cliffside walk dotted with wildflowers & a history
lesson in explosives manufacturing and urban ruin.

Monday, May 9, 2022, 7:00-7:17 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:50 am; Woke up @ 12:20 pm
(11.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:52 am—
GTIFH = FIGHT; CNHIF = FINCH;
RYCLEE = CELERY; SRAOBB = ABSORB

Cartoon Answer— The business bird found
the perfect location in the tree for her
FIH FNC CER AOB = BRANCH OFFICE
19.59% of 1016 responders had trouble with this answer.
(Changed answer "Office Branch" to "Branch Office" 7:17). Monday, May 9, 2022, 3:05-5:15 pm
Mountain View: Left apt at 3:05 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:40-4:27 pm);
4:55 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave and walked home

Stouffer's Tuna Casserole 12 oz ($3.50 ) @ $2.26;
5.8 oz Dorot Sautéed Glazed Onions @ $3.99 = Free;
Godiva 14 oz Praline Cone Ice Cream ($5.49) = Free;
24 oz Maple Grove Farms No Sugar Maple Syrup @ $3.99;
32 oz Lucerne No Sugar Hazelnut Coffee Creamer @ $3.50.

Monday, May 9, 2022, 6:30-8:45 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Assignment #3;
Download images from Google Images to laptop;
Google Images: Remembrance; Google Images: Forgetfulness

Most images of "Remembrance" are related
to honoring Veterans who died in wars. Selected
"Remembrance Day" & removed "Day" in Photoshop.. Monday, May 9, 2022, 6:30-8:45 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Assignment #3;
Download images from Google Images to laptop;
Google Images: Remembrance; Google Images: Forgetfulness

Searching images of "Forgetfulness" was much easier.
Found drawing of 3 heads with cogs ("brain cells") dissipating. Typed "Forgetting" above heads in Photoshop.

Monday, May 9, 2022, 8:40-10:02 pm
Mountain View: KNBR 104.5 FM: SF Giants beats Colorado Rockies 8-5; Listened to KGMZ 95.7 FM: NBA Playoff Game 4
Memphis Grizzlies vs Golden State Warriors at Chase Center

Grizzlies leads Warriors for most of the game,
but Warriors wins 101-98 as Curry scores 32 pts,
with 10 points in free throws in the last minute. Monday, May 9, 2022, 10:02-11:30 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Assignment #3;
Download images from Google Images to laptop;
Google Images: Remembrance; Google Images: Forgetfulness

1. Download Photos from Google Images;
2. Select "Remembrance" & "Forgetfulness" Images;
3. Edit Images in Adobe Photoshop (Delete & Add Text).

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 7:55-7:59 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 3:30 am; Woke up @ 12:10 pm
(9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:59 am—
SHIKW = WHISK; XIYTS = SIXTY;
LHNIEA = INHALE; MSUREM = SUMMER

Cartoon Answer— She offered to help
her younger brother clean up his room to
WHS SIT IH MME = MESS WITH HIM
32.95% of 1047 responders had trouble with this answer. Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 2:30-4:00 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Tuesday or
need for grocery shopping; Stayed home to work;
LINC-405 Assignment #3; Download images from
Google Images to Google Drive & Google Photos

Use Google Slides to download
multi-images to Google Drive
so one image will not replace another;
Have not used Google Photos before.

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 2:00-3:00 pm
Steve Gould's May 10th 1:18 pm email with photographs;
Pleasant walk through Central Park with trees in bloom"
and "Arched bridge over creek"; MOMA paintings—

Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907);
Vincent Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" (1889);
Henri Rousseau's "The Dream" (1910);
Henri Matisse's "The Red Studio" (1911). Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 3:30-6:00 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Assignment #3;
Download images from Google Images
to Google Drive & Google Photos

Try to finish this assignment
and have questions for William Cavada
and Kim Randall in tomorrow's LINC-405
Skills Workshop & Q&A Sessions (6:00-7:00 pm).

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 9:26-11:06 pm
Mountain View: Steve Gould's May 10 email with photographs
of MOMA paintings inspired poem "Dream of The Starry Night"

In Matisse's Red Studio
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
are dancing the Boogie Woogie—
I'm wearing my mask to join them. Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 7:00-8:20 pm
Mountain View: Wrote 28 pairs for poem "Remembrance & Forgetfulness"; Added 4 more pairs to make a 32-stanzas poem

Remember magic, Forget the logic.
Remember courage, Forget the fear.
Remember the Spring, Forget winter frost.
Remember dancing, Forget standing still.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 7:55-7:59 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:40 am; Woke up @ 11:55 pm
(9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 8:30 am—
KANTE = TAKEN; NSUYN = SUNNY;
TOXCEI = EXOTIC; ZLARIE = LAZIER

Cartoon Answer— The African feline king's
son would eventually become king because he was
TN NN XOI LIE = NEXT IN "LION"
33.04% of 1123 responders had trouble with "LAZIER". Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 3:00-4:40 pm
Mountain View: Left apt at 3:00 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:35-4:06 pm);
4:23 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Ave and walked home

8 oz Sig Farms Fresh Spinach for Salad @ $2.09;
4 Sargento Sliced Cheese ($4.49) @ $1.99 = $7.96;
3 lbs Reser's Potato Salad ($8.99) @ 50% off = $4.49;
Godiva 14 oz Hazelnut Crunch Ice Cream ($5.49) = Free.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 5:00-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Before going to bed last night,
revised "Dream of The Starry Night" (1:40-2:30 pm);
Inserted Steve Gould's photo of 4 MOMA paintings

My friend Steve Gould sends photos
of four paintings seen at MOMA
and I hear their conversations
as they talk to each other— Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 6:00-7:00 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Zoom Class— Skills Workshop
with William Cavada (6:00-6:30 pm); Q&A Session with
Kim Randall (6:30-7:00 pm); Mara MacDonald attended

Lesson today was making links
in Google Slides; Cavada made link
to the New York Times front page & image
of Senator Mitch McConeell press conference.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 7:40-8:15 pm
Mountain View: "Warhol's Marilyn at $195 Million, Shatters Auction Record for an American Artist" (By Robin Pogrebin,
NY Times, 5-9-2022); (Mercury News, 5-11-2022, A2)

The 40-inch-by-40-inch painting, a trophy given its vibrant colors and glamorous subject matter, eclipsed the previous high price of $110.5 million for a Basquiat skull painting
at Sotheby's in 2017 as well as Warhol's auction high for
a car crash painting that sold for $105.4 million in 2013. Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 8:15-9:00 pm
Mountain View: After Bly's poem "Courting Forgetfulness" and
my "Courting Remembrance", began poem "Remembrance & Forgetfulness" (5-4-2022) using Antonym Finder to pair opposites;

Arranged 32 stanzas of couplets in two columns—
Remember the Truth
Forget the falsehood.
Remember the Real
Forget illusions.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 10:00-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Steve Gould's May 11 email
@ 8:30 am included photo of a London article
on "The Lure of thr Cocktail Bar" (June 25, 1920)

You brought together the four paintings very creatively,
and your evocation of the boogie-woogie in the Red Studio
was very perceptive as the painting spent its some of its early
years hanging in a London lounge during the roaring 20s. Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 10:30-10:55 pm
Mountain View: When I saw Picasso's 1907 painting
"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" showing women with arms
raised, it reminded me of dancing the "Boogie Woogie"

Didn't know Boogie Woogie was an Afro-American
dance in the late 1920s; Got it mixed up with dancing
the "Hokey Pokey" in the gym as a third grader when
I didn't understand English, and girls pushed me around.

Thursday, May 12, 2022, 7:08-7:14 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:30 am; Woke up @ 1:15 pm
(11.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:14 am—
NIHEW = WHINE; IMLTI = LIMIT;
GASUYR = SUGARY; RTFEHA = FATHER

Cartoon Answer— When she saw that the stallion
was going to eat all the hay himself, it was the
WN LIT SA FAR = FINAL STRAW
11.92% of 898 responders had trouble with this answer. Thursday, May 12, 2022, 4:10-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Left apt at 4:10 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Station (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Metro";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 4:45-5:19 pm);
5:50 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave and walked home

Sig Sel Butterscotch Pudding (4 ct) ($1.59) @ $1.44;
International Delight Coffee Creamer ($3.99) @ $2.98;
Van de Kamps Crispy Fish Fillets 10 ct ($7.99) @ $5.21;
Godiva 14 oz Caramel Embrace Ice Cream ($5.49) = Free.

Thursday, May 12, 2022, 8:00-10:20 pm
Mountain View: Sent my poem "Remembrance & Forgetfuless"
to Steve Gould; He responded (May 12, 2022, 9:48 am): “I like
the poem, which could also be called 'The Optimist's Credo'”;
Cavada's LINC-405 Skills Workshop (5/11) was making links

Will link to recent record-breaking auction in art—
Warhol's "Marilyn" Sold for $195 Million" eclipsing
$110.5 million for a 2017 Basquiat skull painting &
$105.4 million Warhol's Silver Car Crash in 2013". Thursday, May 12, 2022, 8:00-10:20 pm
Mountain View: Pinterest sent email @ 2:14 pm of interesting
photos: "Wooden Willow Archer in the Forest"; "Straw Shaggy Dog" at Atlanta Botanical Garedens; "Driftwood Lion" by Jeffro Uitto; Wooden sculptures inspired poem "Savor these Sculptures"

Archer, Dog, and Lion,
all sculpted from wood—
in this year's art contest
hard to select which is best.

Friday, May 13, 2022, 7:02-7:06 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:30 am; Woke up @ 1:00 pm
(10.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:06 am—
LPXEE = EXPEL; RYNVE = NERVY;
DIAHOR = HAIRDO; DUNOFE = FONDUE

Cartoon Answer— To explain in detail
exactly how he lost so much weight, he
XP NE DO DUE = EXPOUNDED
17.69% of 1094 responders had trouble with this answer. Friday, May 13, 2022, 3:50-5:55 pm
Mountain View: Left apt at 3:50 pm; Bus #40 @ 4:21 pm to
Chef Chu's bins for "Daily Post" & "Palo Alto Weekly";
Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) 4:40-5:01 pm);
5:27 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy Stop and walked home

Sig Sel Cranberry-Raspberry Sparkling Water @ $1.10;
3 lb Reser's Deviled-Egg Potato Salad ($8.99) @ $5.00;
Godiva 14 oz Praline Cone Ice Cream ($5.49) = Free;
64 oz Signature Select Apple Juice ($2.99) = Free.

Friday, May 13, 2022, 5:00-6:40 pm
Mountain View: Mid-Peninsula Housing sent
two plumbers Kevin & Michael to fix the leak
on my bathroom ceiling; they found broken pipe

After seeing a puddle of water on
my bathroom floor, felt drips coming down;
used lots of paper towels to dry the floor;
phoned Jessica; she'll send plumbers over 5-7 pm. Friday, May 13, 2022, 6:00-7:30 pm
Mountain View: Today is "Friday 13", an unlucky day—
water leaking from bathroom ceiling; Mid-Peninsula Housing
sent notice of shutting off water (5-7 pm) to do urgent repairs

Friday the 13th occurs in any month that begins on a
Sunday; 2015 had a Friday the 13th in February, March,
and November; 2021 & 2022 had just one occurrence of Friday the 13th (August 13, 2021) & (May 13, 2022).

Friday, May 13, 2022, 7:50-9:40 pm
Mountain View: KNBR 104.5 FM: SF Giants beats St. Louis Cardinals 8-2; Listened to KGMZ 95.7 FM: NBA Playoff Game 6
Memphis Grizzlies vs Golden State Warriors at Chase Center

Warriors lost to Grizzlies by 39 pts 134-95 in Game 5;
Warriors leads 53-51 (half-time), 78-77 (3rd Qtr) in Game 6;
Intense game leads changing; Warriors win 110-96 (4th Qtr). Friday, May 13, 2022, 9:00-10:00 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Assignment #4;
Making Links: Warhol's "Marilyn" Sold for $195 Million"
eclipsing $110.5 million for a 2017 Basquiat skull painting

"It's possible she was assassinated": Joyce Carol Oates on Marilyn Monroe (anything she touched is like relics of saints) (By Iona McLaren, The Telegraph, UK, 4-22-2022).

Saturday, May 14, 2022, 6:00-6:15 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:50 am; Woke up @ 12:05 pm
(9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:15 am—
SSSYA = SASSY; INFLA = FINAL;
RMWARO = MARROW; LTELAR = TALLER

Cartoon Answer— A rapid increase
in the cost of jet fuel can cause
SAS FIA RRO AER = AIRFARES (TO) SOAR
40.68% of 976 responders had trouble with this answer. Saturday, May 14, 2022, 3:15-3:46 pm
Mountain View: Ann came at 3 pm to pick up bag of newspapers
& drove to Valero Station for "Daily Post" & "Peninsula News";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:15-3:46 pm);
4:06 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Ave and walked home

La Terra Fina Spinach-Artichoke Quiche ($12.99) @ $6.49;
32 oz Lucerne Lowfat Strawberry Yogurt ($3.49) @ $2.99;
Godiva 14 oz Hazelnut Crunch Ice Cream ($5.49) = Free;
64 oz Signature Select Apple Juice ($2.99) = Free.

Saturday, May 14, 2022, 5:15-5:45 pm
Mountain View: Steve Gould's May 14 email @ 4:55 am—
"Heard a wonderful performance of Beethoven's 6th Symphony
last night at Lincoln Center; Attached the program notes";
Beethoven described themes in the five movements (1808)—

1. Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the
countryside; 2. Scene by the brook; 3. Merry gathering
of country folk; 4. Thunder, Storm; 5. Shepherd's song.
Cheerful and thankful feelings after the storm. Saturday, May 14, 2022, 5:45-6:06 pm
Mountain View: "The Slowdown— 561: from "frank: sonnets"
by Diane Seuss" (By Ada Limón, NY Times, December 7, 2021)

I think a lot about beauty and awe. Its ethereal quality.
The thing we can't name. The overwhelm of the world.
I remember once a long time ago, sitting by the edge
of the dark blue Atlantic ocean in Cape Cod and thinking
of how much I wanted to become one with that vastness.
To be swallowed by what the world offered back to me.

Saturday, May 14, 2022, 6:25-9:30 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Assignment 4: "Making Links"
1. Cavada's Link to NY Times May 11, 2022 & Download Photo;

2. Link to "Warhol's Marilyn Sold for $195 Million";
3. Previous Record-Breaking Artworks at Auction;
4. Joyce Carol Oates: "Marilyn Maybe Assassinated". Saturday, May 14, 2022, 9:30-11:26 pm
Mountain View: Replicate "Making Links" (HTML)
in Google Slides for LINC-405 Assignment 4—

Import photos & align two in each row;
Type text beneath the photos;
Place heading above the photos.

Sunday, May 15, 2022, 6:45-8:16 am
Mountain View: To bed at 3:10 am; Woke up @ 1:30 pm;
(10.5 hours sleep) Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 8:16 am—
CNUIDT = INDUCT; DCLOED = CODDLE;
LIFUAB = FIBULA; TGONET = GOTTEN;
GRINOI = ORIGIN; QUUIEN = UNIQUE

Cartoon Answer— She thought they
should jog up the hill, but he wasn't
NT CDE ILA GE ORI NE = INCLINED TO AGREE
48.94% of 611 responders had trouble with this answer. Sunday, May 15, 2022, 4:30-5:00 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Sunday
or need for grocery shopping, stayed home to work;
Safeway sends Free offer O Organic Snacking Nuts 8-10 oz
($6.49) Expires May 16; Emailed Rudy to download Free Offer
in Safeway's Just-For-U & pick it up; I'll do so on Monday 5/16

FREE for Rudy: 12 oz Coca Cola with Coffee ($2) = Free;
Godiva 14 oz Hazelnut Crunch Ice Cream ($5.49) = Free;
Lucerne 15 oz Butter Spread ($4.99) 2 Rewards = Free:
64 oz Signature Select Apple Juice ($2.99) = Free.

Sunday, May 15, 2022, 6:00-7:00 pm
Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: Where
to see Santa Cruz's 19 'Sea Walls' murals"
(By Jackie Burell, Mercury News, 5-15-2022, F3)

19 colorful, whimsical sea-inspired murals—
include "Beyond Boundaries," a mural by Oregon's
David Rice that highlights the decimation of the shark population. "The Last Salmon," by North Carolina
artist Brian "Jeks" Lewis, warns of overfishing
and rising sea levels. And Jimbo Phillips' eye-popping "Protect Our Oceans" all about plastic pollution—
and a heroic squid. Sunday, May 15, 2022, 6:00-7:00 pm
Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: Top 10 roller
coasters in the U.S. offer death-defying thrills"
(By Jackie Burell, Mercury News, 5-15-2022, F7)

1. Mako, SeaWorld Orlando, FL; 2. Phantom's Revenge, Kennywood, West Mifflin, PA; 3. Phoenix— Knoebels, Elysburg, PA: 4. Fury 325, Carowinds, Charlotte, NC;
5. Lightning Rod, Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, TN; 6. Steel Vengeance, Cedar Point, Sandusky, OH: 7. Montu, Busch Gardens Tampa, Tampa, FL; 8. The Voyage, Holiday World, Santa Claus, IN; 9. Millennium Force, Cedar Point, OH;
10. Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure, FL.

Sunday, May 15, 2022, 7:00-8:00 pm
Mountain View: "Super flower blood moon"
(By Gwendolyn Wu, Sam Whiting,
San Francisco Chronicle, 5-15-2022)

The window for the total eclipse is 8:30 p.m. to 9:54 p.m,
with the ensuing partial eclipse ending around 10:50 p.m.,
one of the rare times an entire total eclipse is visible
from the West Coast, said Andrew Fraknoi, the emeritus
chair of the astronomy department at Foothill College. Sunday, May 15, 2022, 7:00-8:15 pm
Mountain View: "Witness a Total Lunar Eclipse
on Sunday, May 15-16" (8:29-9:54 pm PDT)
(By Bob King, Sky & Telescope, 5-15-2022)

The full Flower Moon ducks inside Earth's shadow in a total lunar eclipse this month. Along the West Coast, the moon will rise fully immersed in Earth's shadow. While that may make it sketchy to see at first, as the sky darkens, dramatic views of a highly reddened Moon near the horizon.

Monday, May 16, 2022, 6:40-6:55 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:55 am; Woke up @ 12:40 pm
(10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:55 am—
WAAER = AWARE; NMISU = MINUS;
OBBANO = BABOON; FDEATE = DEFEAT

Cartoon Answer— Interstate 95 in
New England's largest state is a
AR MI ON DEA = "MAINE" ROAD
17.69% of 916 responders had trouble with "BABOON". Monday, May 16, 2022, 3:30-5:30 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 3:30 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 4:00-4:26 pm);
4:50 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave and walked home

Stouffer's Tuna Casserole ($4.49) @ $3.26;
64 oz Signature Select Apple Juice ($2.99) = Free:
Sig Sel Angel Food Cake ($2.99) - $2 Reward = 99¢;
Godiva Chocolate Strawberry Ice Cream ($5.49) = Free.

Monday, May 16, 2022, 5:40-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Spent 4 hours last night writing poem
"Flower Moon" with 9 photographs (8:57 pm-1:06 am);
Couldn't see lunar eclipse outdoors (8:29 pm & 9:54 pm PDT)

Let's celebrate this
May "Flower Moon" with
landing at Plymouth Rock
by Pilgrims on Mayflower ship. Monday, May 16, 2022, 6:30-7:30 pm
Mountain View: On Wednesday, May 11 around 5:40 pm,
met Hector H. Gonzalez-Banos walking his clumber spaniel
dog Wilber near by my apartment on Hackett Ave

On 4/25, walked by his house (276 Montebello Ave), was shocked Pepper Tree's Platonic Λ branch was chopped off;
Hector says Montecito Pines Condos's new gardeners on their block are not so caring as the old lady who retired.

Monday, May 16, 2022, 7:40-8:08 pm
Mountain View: Columbia Magazine (Spring/Summer 2022)
came in the mail today; Read "ALUMINI: The Tale of the Stowaway who Traded Antarctic Adventures for a Columbia Classroom" (By Laurie Gwen Shapiro); Admiral Richard Byrd's recommendation letter got Billy Gawronski into Columbia (1930); He loved poetry; cited William Henry Davies' "Dreams of the Sea":

I know not why I yearn for thee again,
To sail once more upon thy fickle flood;
I'll hear thy waves under my death-bed,
Thy salt is lodged forever in my blood. Monday, May 16, 2022, 8:15-8:48 pm
Mountain View: Columbia Magazine (Spring/Summer 2022)
came in the mail today; Read "Brain Games: How the Mind Performs Under Pressure" (What neuroscience and psychology can tell us about baseball— and ourselves) (By Paul Hond, pp. 24-29).
For decades, Columbia psychologists, biomedical engineers, and therapists have been probing the secrets of athletic excellence.

Gene Larkin: best known for hitting series-winning single,
and scored Dan Gladden from third base during the
10th inning in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series
as Minnesota Twins defeated Atlanta Braves 1-0.

Monday, May 16, 2022, 8:50-9:15 pm
Mountain View: After reading my "Schulz's Beethoven, Schroeder's Muse" (7-29-2009), Ann sends 5/16 email @ 8:24 pm with NPR article I've not read “The Good Grief Of Beethoven On Schroeder's Toy Piano In 'Peanuts'” (By Colleen Phelps, 2-19-2020)

At end of article, Claudio Arrau
performs second movement of
Beethoven's Sonata #8: Pathétique
Op. 13— so serene and soothing. Monday, May 16, 2022, 9:20-10:40 pm
Mountain View: Columbia Magazine (Spring/Summer 2022)
came in the mail today; Read "Brain Games: How the Mind Performs Under Pressure" (What neuroscience and psychology can tell us about baseball— and ourselves) (By Paul Hond, pp. 24-29).

Columbia's neurological tests on Babe Ruth
(Sept. 1921) showed he had better brain-eye-muscle
coordination than most humans; Gene Larkin had "flow"
when he got the hit to win 1991 World Series for the Twins.

Tuesday, May 17 2022, 5:08-5:29 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:30 am; Woke up @ 11:20 am
(10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 5:29 am—
ELTFE = FLEET; MYLIS = SLIMY;
RWLAPS = SPRAWL; GATUEO = OUTAGE

Cartoon Answer— Jerry Rice caught 197 TD
receptons from several quarterbacks over the
FET SIM SPA OAGE = PASSAGE OF TIME
30.98% of 1033 responders had trouble with this answer. Tuesday, May 17 2022, 3:30-4:45 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed on Tuesday
or need for grocery shopping; Stayed home to work;
Computer Room at Mid-Peninsula Housing closed for
2.5 year due to COVID-19 Pandemic is finally open

Rudy sends link (5/17) from his Data Analysis class—
Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool,
Gapminder, to present data in his TED Talk (Feb. 2006).
Countries more population, lower lifetimes & vice versa.

Tuesday, May 17 2022, 5:30-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Read more articles in Columbia Magazine
(Spring/Summer 2022); "Archival Revival" (The Rare Book
and Manuscript Library's new director Courtney Chartier
shares some of her favorites from the collection.) p. 13

1. Epigraphy stones (1-200 AD); 2. Choreographer and
dancer Arthur Mitchell's papers; 3. John Jay papers;
4. Amiri Baraka recordings; 5. Campus protests 1968;
6. Toni Morrison's files (Editor Random House 1967-1983). Tuesday, May 17 2022, 5:30-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Read more articles in Columbia Magazine
(Spring/Summer 2022); "BookTalk: The Examined Life"
American-studies professor Roosevelt Montás' book
"Rescuing Socrates" (By Jerry Kisslinger), p. 62

Montás tells how the great books changed his life
and why they matter for a new generation. Socrates
says "the unexamined life is not worth living"; He
opposed materialism, ambition, and political struggle.

Tuesday, May 17 2022, 7:00-10:09 pm
Mountain View: Postage stamps with 15 denomination—
Numeral 15: Thurn & Taxis 51 (8-1859); Germany 139 (8-1921)
Germany 540 (2-11-1946); Uruguay C63 Pegasus (5-23-1935)
Plane & Great Wall: China C1 (7-1-1921); China C11 (8-29-1932)

France 357 Mercury & Caduceus (12-8-1938);
Jugoslavia 434 Woman & Dove (11-29-1955);
Ryukyu Islands C9 Maiden Playing Flute (8-1-1957);
Statue Liberty: US 566 (11-11-1922); US C35 (8-20-1947). Tuesday, May 17 2022, 10:10-11:48 pm
Mountain View: 183 items for "Number 15" (4-23-2004)
for niece Emily's 15th birthday; Find interesting images
for grandniece Sophia's 15th birthday (6-3-2022)—
City of York Rose with 15 petals (Bred 1939)

Richard Phillips: "Numbers: Facts, Figures & Fiction"—
3 six-pointed stars in a pattern made from 15 squares;
Confucius said: "At 15, I had my mind bent on learning". (Analects, II.4.1-6); 3x3 Magic Square adds to 15 each row.

Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 4:54-4:59 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:00 am; Woke up @ 1:00 pm
(11 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 4:59 am—
RGEEV = VERGE; RAYRA = ARRAY;
WINUDN = UNWIND; ABOHIP = PHOBIA

Cartoon Answer— He planned to propose to his
girlfriend and went to the jeweler store to do some
GE RR NND POI = "PONDER-RING"
25.37% of 1076 responders had trouble with this answer. Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 3:35-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 3:35 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 4:05-4:39 pm);
4:50 pm Red Bus to Montecito Ave and walked home

64 oz Open Natural Almond Milk ($2.99) @ $1.99;
1.81 lb Seedless Red Grapes @ $1.48/lb = $2.68;
Sig Sel Blueberry Waffles 10 ct ($2.79) $2.49:
O Organic Pistachios 7 oz ($5.99) = Free.

Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Zoom class
with Gene Tognetti substituting for Will Cavada:
Had trouble sharing work done in Google Drive

In Shared Screen, Tognetti showed me
to click on photo of Cavada, Tognetti,
& Kim Randall, then the Share button. Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 6:30-6:48 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Zoom Q&A Session
with Kim Randall; She received my "Making Links"
which Tognetti helped me to share on Google Drive

Didn't have questions for Kim,
so we ended the session early to tune
in Warriors-Mavericks NBA Playoffs Game 1.

Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 7:00-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Listening to 95.7 FM
Golden State Warriors-Dallas Mavericks
NBA Western Conference Playoffs Game 1

Warriors beats Mavericks 112-87—
Luka Doncic scores 20; Curry 21,
Andrew Wiggins 19, Jordan Poole 19. Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 8:30-10:00 pm
Mountain View: More images on "Number 15"—
Green Bay Packers Quarterback Bart Starr uniform 15:
The earth rotates 15^o counterclockwise every hour.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile—
"At fifteen we become aware
of the happiness of a good man".

Thursday, May 19, 2022, 5:12-6:15 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:40 am; Woke up @ 11:50 am
(10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:15 am—
RSUTCO = SCOUT; KRIHE = HIKER;
ODIRNO = INDOOR; GHUTTA = TAUGHT

Cartoon Answer— When the U.S. Mint
stopped making the 20-cent coin, it felt
SCT HER NDO AGH = SHORT-CHANGED
59.88% of 1311 responders had trouble with this answer. Thursday, May 19, 2022, 2:00-4:15 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 2:00 pm; Red Bus to Showes Drive;
Wal-Mart bins for "Daily Post" and Metro; Bus #21 to CVS
for 2 CVS Vitamin C (500 mg) 500 tabs @ $17.99 BOGO free + $1.64 tax = $19.63; 4:01 pm Bus 40 to Central Xpwy, walked home

Met Henrick Fischer at CVS (seen 2/2020 ballroom dance);
Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rd) closing June 3—
Bulk bins empty (yesterday sold out @ 99¢/lb);
Bought 19 oz bag Raw Wheat Germ @ $2.99.

Thursday, May 19, 2022, 5:30-6:00 pm
Mountain View: "At House Hearing, Videos of
Unexplained Aerial Sightings and a Push for Answers"
(By Julian E. Barnes, NY Times, 5-17-2022)

Pentagon officials testified at a rare public hearing
about unidentified phenomena, and lawmakers
pledged to bring transparency to an investigation
of unexplained reports by military pilots and others. Thursday, May 19, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: When bookmarking (4-30-2022) Foster Museum's Artistic Director, Kristin Poole interviewing Tony Foster,
stumbled upon sculptor Kristine Poole & her artworks

About Kristine Poole (Bio & Resumé, 2022)—
"Passion doesn't have an expiration date"
"With focus and determination,
passions followed = passions fulfilled."

Thursday, May 19, 2022, 6:30-7:00 pm
Mountain View: Finding images on "Number 15"
Switzerland 147: William Tell's Son (1909);
Switzerland 172b: William Tell (1914);

Schiller's drama shown on Switzerland stamps—
William Tell splits apple on son's head with arrow.
3x3 Magic Square adds to 15 in each row. Thursday, May 19, 2022, 7:00-8:00 pm
Mountain View: Finding images on "Number 15"
Japan C24: Plane over Horyu-ji Pagoda, Nara (9-1-1951),
Jugoslavia 434: Woman & Dove (11-29-1955);

Found stamps with rhyming couplet—
15 yen stamp showing plane over pagoda above.
15 dinar Jugoslavia stamp with woman and dove.

Thursday, May 19, 2022, 8:00-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Finding images on "Number 15"—
15¢ Statue of Liberty: US 566 (11-11-1922); US C35 (8-20-1947);
15 centimos Spain 289 Country girls meet Don Quixote (5-1-1905)

Found stamps with rhyming couplet—
15¢ US stamps showing Statue of Liberty.
Spain stamp with country girls meeting Don Quixote. Thursday, May 19, 2022, 9:00-9:40 pm
Mountain View: Finding images on "Number 15"—
15 öre Sweden 269: Ships Sailing (4-8-1938);
Confucian Analects, II.4.1-6; China 741 Confucius (8-27-1947)

Found stamps with rhyming couplet—
15 öre Sweden stamp showing ships sailing.
Confucius said: "At 15, I had my mind bent on learning".

Friday, May 20, 2022, 5:30-5:52 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:15 am; Woke up @ 11:25 am
(9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 5:52 am—
OLIOG = IGLOO; HSSOL = SLOSH;
GONING = NOGGIN; APOUTI = UTOPIA

Cartoon Answer— The train was late, and their
final goodbye on the train platform was going to
GL SLS NO TOA = LAST SO LONG
34.58% of 1359 responders had trouble with "UTOPIA". Friday, May 20, 2022, 1:40-3:20 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 1:40 pm; Bus #40 @ 2:00 pm to
Chef Chu's news bins for "Daily Post" & "Palo Alto Weekly";
Shopping at Sprouts (630 San Antonio Rd) 2:15-2:49 pm;
3:06 pm Bus 40 to Central Xpwy Stop & walked home

2019 raincheck for 2 Cage-Free Chicken Eggs @ $1.88;
Sharlet didn't know how to subtract $1.88 from $3.49
& gave me them @ $1.00 each. She tells me that their
$1.99/item Sale is not today but maybe on weekends.

Friday, May 20, 2022, 4:15-5:00 pm
Mountain View: After telling Ann that I'm writing
"Number 15" poem for Sophia's 15th birthday (6-3-2022),
she sent May 19 email @ 9:11 pm on "Big Nose"
Francis the First crowned King of France in 1515.

France 1173 honored Francis the First with
stamp (7-1-1967); Crowned King in 1515;
Ryukyu Islands C9 (8-1-1957); 15 yen stamp
showing "Maiden Playing Flute" for a Queen. Friday, May 20, 2022, 5:00-5:30 pm
Mountain View: Composed 16 rhyming couplets for Sophia's
"Number 14" birthday (6-3-2021); Using more 15 denomination
postage stamps in writing "Number 15" poem for 15th birthday;
Have 7 couplets so far, need 8 more for 15 rhyming couplets

Uruguay C63 Pegasus (5-23-1935)
15 centimos stamp Pegasus carries
poets away; Quinceañera celebrates
Latino girls' 15th birthday.

Friday, May 20, 2022, 5:50-6:10 pm
Mountain View: "Sprouts Farmers Market closing
Fremont, Mountain View stores permanently"
(By Joseph Geha, Mercury News, 5-19-2022, B1, B3)

Grocer said it will permanently close both its Fremont store at 3900 Mowry Ave. in Fremont Plaza Shopping Center & its Mountain View store at 630 San Antonio Rd. in World Savings Plaza. The company did not cite a specific reason for the closures, though rising rents & competition from other nearby grocery stores may have triggered the decision. Friday, May 20, 2022, 6:00-8:00 pm
Mountain View: Listening to 95.7 FM
Golden State Warriors-Dallas Mavericks
NBA Western Conference Playoffs Game 2

Dallas Mavericks leads Warriors 10-2,
23-8, and 32-25 in first quarter;
Mavericks lead 72-58 at halftime,
Doric 24, Brunson 20, Curry 20;
Warriors beat Mavericks 126-117,
Curry 32, Looney 21, Poole 23.

Saturday, May 21, 2022, 7:25-7:30 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 5:00 am; Woke up @ 2:05 pm
(9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:30 am—
LMITI = LIMIT; MPIYL = IMPLY;
GNOREL = LONGER; WGLEGA = WAGGLE

Cartoon Answer— Mr. Nelson composed songs
like 'On the Road Again' in a way that wasn't
LII ILY LN WLE = "WILLIE" - NILLY
23.19% of 996 responders had trouble with this answer. Saturday, May 21, 2022, 4:40-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 4:40 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station for "Daily Post" (peninsula News" gone);
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 5:05-5:24 pm;
5:47 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Avenue and walked home

Sig Sel Tangerine Lime Sparkling Water ($1.19) @ 96¢;
64 oz Open Nature Vanilla-Almond Milk ($2.99) @ $1.99;
16 oz AHA Blueberry-Pomegranate Drink ($1.49) = Free;
Stop shopping to catch last Saturday Bus #40 @ 5:43 pm.

Saturday, May 21, 2022, 7:10-8:00 pm
Mountain View: Spent yesterday writing (10:10 pm-1:46 am)
"15th Birthday Poem" for grandniece Sophia's birthday (June 3)

Mercury with caduceus
is a healing priest—
Proverbs 15:15 "a merry
heart has a continual feast". Saturday, May 21, 2022, 8:00-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Columbia University friend Richard Hanauer's
May 20 email @ 6:14 pm "Patagonia adventure" has 18:40 video

Watched video (2:00-2:20 am) by Richard & Arlene
on their 2018 trip to Chile Fjords, glaciers collapse,
Cape Horn, southernmost city in the world, Ushuaia;
Iguazu Falls (Argentina-Brazil); Buenos Aires video (24:00).

Saturday, May 21, 2022, 8:30-9:00 pm
Mountain View: 147th Preakness Stakes
(By David Suggs, Sporting News, 5-21-2022)

José Ortiz aboard Early Voting (5-1) beats
Epicenter (6-5) by 1.5 length in 1:54.54 at Pilmico,
Creative Minister (10-1) 3rd, Filly Secret Oath (9-2) 4th.
Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike did not run in this race. Saturday, May 21, 2022, 9:00-9:30 pm
Mountain View: Wrote 5 more rhyming couplets
last night for "15th Birthday Poem"—

Quinceañera celebrates
Latino girls' 15th birthday.
Messier 15 Galaxy is
36,000 light-years away.

Saturday, May 21, 2022, 10:00-10:40 pm
Mountain View: "Roger Angell, Who Wrote About Baseball With Passion, Dies at 101" (By Dwight Garner, NY Times, 5-20-2022)

Angell described Willie Mays chasing down
a ball hit to deep center field as "running
so hard and so far that the ball itself seems
to stop in the air and wait for him." Saturday, May 21, 2022, 10:40-10:50 pm
Mountain View: Wrote 5 more rhyming couplets
last night for "15th Birthday Poem"—

Pegasus carries
thunderbolts for Zeus,
it creates springs for
the poets' juice.

Sunday, May 22, 2022, 12:00-1:46 am
Mountain View: After telling Karen about "Unexplained Aerial Sightings", she asked whether I believe in UFO; I've not seen UFO, but met NASA scientist Norman R. Bergrun who did (died 2018)

Bergrun invited me to his Los Altos Hills home (1986);
gave me hardcover of his "Ringmakers of Saturn";
told me he saw UFO on his porch with his wife;
says Saturn rings are "streamers" or UFO crafts. Sunday, May 22, 2022, 1:46-2:00 am
Mountain View: Wrote more couplets
last night on "15th Birthday Poem"
for grandniece Sophia's birtday (June 3)—

15 cents China
airmails showing
plane flying over
the Great Wall. (C1, C11)

Sunday, May 22, 2022, 10:15-11:24 am
Mountain View: To bed at 4:00 am; Woke up @ 3:00 pm;
(11 hours sleep) Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 11:24 am—
TRETEH = TETHER; SSALPH = SPLASH;
RFTEGO = FORGET; SKGATE = GASKET
RAITMU = ATRIUM; TIUSAH = HIATUS

Cartoon Answer— The books
near the top of the bookcase had
EHE LH FE GSE TM HIS = HIGH "SHELF" - ESTEEM
35.58% of 548 responders had trouble with this answer. Sunday, May 22, 2022, 6:00-8:37 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Sunday
or need for grocery shopping, stayed home to work;
KNBR 104.5 FM: San Diego Padres beats SF Giants 10-1;
Listening to 95.7 FM; Golden State Warriors-Dallas Mavericks
NBA Western Conference Playoffs Game 3 in Dallas

Warriors leads Mavericks 25-22 in 1st quarter;
Warriors leads Mavericks 48-47 in 2nd quarter;
Warriors leads Mavericks 78-68 in 3rd quarter;
Warriors beats Mavericks 109-100 in 4th quarter.

Sunday, May 22, 2022, 7:00-7:37 pm
Mountain View: Wrote rhyming couplet
on "15th Birthday Poem" for
Sophia's birthday (June 3)—

Margaret O'Brien born
on 15th day of the year.
Francis Scott Key saw
flag still standing there. Sunday, May 22, 2022, 7:40-8:08 pm
Mountain View: Ann's May 22 email @ 4:19 pm;
She enjoyed video of Richard & Arlene on their
2018 trip to Patagonia, Chile Fjords, Iguazu Falls

Ann got closer to the
Cuernos del Paine when
she went to Patagonia
on a Sierra Club trip.

Sunday, May 22, 2022, 8:10-9:30 pm
Mountain View: "BAY AREA HIKES: Biking to the Rosie
the Riveter museum is the perfect Bay Area day trip"
(By John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 5-22-2022, F7-F8)

Have a "riveting" time at this WWII fixture in Richmond, then enjoy fresh seafood and cocktails. The iconic poster of
a bandana-clad woman flexing her muscles while hollering "We Can Do It!" was likely based on a photograph of a real person, Naomi Parker Fraley, who worked near here at old Naval Air Station in Alameda. Sunday, May 22, 2022, 8:10-9:30 pm
Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: 9 Bay Area military
museums, submarines and Liberty ships to explore"
(By Jackie Burrell, Mercury News, 5-22-2022, F7)

1. USS Hornet, Alameda; 2. Red Oak Victory Ship, Richmond; 3. Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front, Richmond; 4. Fort Point, San Francisco; 5. National Cemetery, SF; 6. USS Pampanito, SF; 7. SS Jeremiah O'Brien, San Francisco; 8. Pacific Coast Air Museum,
Santa Rosa; 9. Nike Missile Site, Marin Headlands.

Sunday, May 22, 2022, 9:30-10:22 pm
Mountain View: "George Carlin's comedic
journey takes the stage in HBO doc"
(By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press, May 20, 2022)

"The way George Carlin looked at the world and broke it down taught so many of us how to be comedians," said Judd Apatow. "He injected the software into our brains about how to think as a comic." HBO's "George Carlin" airs May 20. Sunday, May 22, 2022, 10:22-10:52 pm
Mountain View: Wrote couplet
on "15th Birthday Poem" for
Sophia's birthday (June 3)—

Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Verse 15—
"The Master doesn't seek fulfillment.
Not seeking, not expecting,
she is present, & can welcome all things."

Monday, May 23, 2022, 7:54-7:59 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 4:20 am; Woke up @ 1:35 pm
(9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:59 am—
SYHKU = HUSKY; LECRI = RELIC;
GHLIPT = PLIGHT; TSLEET = SETTLE

Cartoon Answer— His pajamas
had shrunk, so he was going to
HS EI PLG TTE = SLEEP TIGHT
20.21% of 861 responders had trouble with this answer. Monday, May 23, 2022, 1:00-1:40 am
Mountain View: "Levi's jeans: How they started, how they're made" (On May 20, 1873, Levi Strauss & Jacob Davis received patent
for riveted pants. This month marks their 165th bithday.)
(By Kurt Snibee, Mercury News, 5-22-2022, B17)

Jacob Davis received Patent #139,121; Name
501 is first used in 1890; Denim pants are
called "jeans" because many fabrics were
made in Genoa, Italy, and hence the name.

Monday, May 23, 2022, 4:10-6:40 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 4:10 pm; Red Bus @ 4:53 pm
to Showers Drive, Wal-Mart news bins for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) 5:15-5:55 pm;
6:24 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy Stop and walked home

Bunch of Green Onions @ $1.49 (Sprouts @ 99¢ sold out);
Rising Crust Spinach-Mushroom Pizza ($6.99) @ $2.19;
16 oz AHA Blueberry-Pomegranate Drink ($1.49) = Free;
64 oz Sig Sel Apple Juice ($2.99) @ $1.90 = Free. Monday, May 23, 2022, 7:15-8:20 pm
Mountain View: "21 Things You Might Not Know
About E.T. To Celebrate the Movie's 40th Anniversary"
(By Mara Reinstein, Parade Magazine, 5-22-2022, pp. 6-7)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Box Office: $792.9 million)

Elliott (Henry Thomas) befriends a wide-eyed
extraterrestrial accidentally stranded on Earth.
Gertie (6-year-old Drew Barrymore) becomes
a star after playing in her second movie.

Monday, May 23, 2022, 4:10-6:40 pm
Mountain View: "ASK MARILYN: Can You Solve This Math Problem?" (Marilyn van Savant, Parade Magazine, 5-22-2022, p. 5)

Say you have one cubic mile of water, and you
release it at the rate of 1,000 gallons a minute.
About how long would it take to drain entire
tank: (a) 2 weeks, (b) 20 weeks, (c) 2 years,
(d) 20 years, (e) 200 years, (f) 2,000 years?
Answer: (f) It would take more than 2,000 years!
Monday, May 23, 2022, 7:15-10:54 pm
Mountain View: "Levi's jeans: How they started,
how they're made" article with numbers for # collection

Jacob Davis received Patent #139,121;
Image: Patent #139121;
Name 501 is first used in 1890;
Image: 501 Levi Strauss Jeans Label;
450 million pairs of jeans sold in U.S.
each year; Image: Levi Strauss Jeans

Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 7:22-7:50 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 4:10 am; Woke up @ 3:40 pm
(11.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:50 am—
NHBCE = BENCH; PHGRA = GRAPH;
CUDEER = REDUCE; YNSGIA = SAYING

Cartoon Answer— He needed to find used parts
to repair his pickup truck's V-8, so they used a
ENC GAH REE SIN = SEARCH ENGINE
26.92% of 1159 responders had trouble with this answer. Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 5:30-6:00 pm
Mountain View: "Andrew Wiggins' insane dunk on Luka Doncic will forever change his reputation" (Had 27 points performance
in a 109-100 victory over Dallas Mavericks.)
(By Dieter Kurtenbach Mercury News, 5-24-2022, C1, C4)

Andrew Wiggins' highlight dunk over
Luka Doncic was just one play, but it
shows how far he has come as a player
& how close the Warriors are to another title.

Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 6:00-8:30 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Tuesday
or need for grocery shopping, stayed home to work;
Listening to 95.7 FM; Golden State Warriors-Dallas Mavericks
NBA Western Conference Playoffs Game 4 in Dallas

Mavericks leads Warriors 28-24 in 1st quarter;
Mavericks leads Warriors 62-47 in 2nd quarter;
Mavericks leads Warriors 99-70 in 3rd quarter;
Mavericks beats Warriors 119-109 in 4th quarter. Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 8:00-8:40 pm
Mountain View: "Biden vows to defend Taiwan"
(By Josh Boak, Aamer Madhaani & Zeke Miller,
Mercury News, 5-24-2022, A1, A5)
(JFK wouldn't defend Taiwan, Nixon would in 1960 debate)

U.S. would militarily intervene if China were to
invade island. Taipei cheered Biden's remarks,
with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Joanne Ou
expressing "sincere welcome & gratitude.".

Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 8:30-9:30 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Tuesday;
Free groceries specials for Rudy to pick up

15 oz Great Choice Sliced Pear in Juice = Free;
1 lb Gulf Pacific Long Grain Brown Rice = Free;
16 oz AHA Blueberry-Pomegranate Drink = Free. Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 9:30-10:00 pm
Mountain View: NY Mets vs. SF Giants Giants leading 8-2;
Tyler Rogers gave up 7 runs in 8th & Mets leads 11-8 (AP News)

Joc Pederson hits 3rd homer to tie game
11-11 in 8th; singled to tie in 9th 12-12
with 8 RBIs ; Crawford singled to win 13-12.

Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 6:41-6:47 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:30 am; Woke up @ 10:15 am
(10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:47 am—
RHILW = WHIRL; RNIKB = BRINK;
TCIXEE = EXCITE; GEEANT = NEGATE

Cartoon Answer— His wife and kids didn't
sleep well on the boat, and now he was caught
WHI RK EIT NAE = IN THEIR WAKE
51.34% of 1498 responders had trouble with this answer. Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 1:20-3:05 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 1:20 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Metro";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 1:55-2:25 pm;
2:52 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Avenue and walked home

3 Sweet Baby Ray BBQ Sauce ($3.49) @ $1.00 = $2.97;
32 oz Int. Del. Hazelnut Coffee Creamer ($3.99) @ $2.98;
16 oz Land-O-Frost Black Forest Ham ($6.99) @ $5.07;
8 oz Lucerne Sliced Swiss Cheese ($3.99) @ $1.99.

Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm
Mountain View: "BASEBALL: Paul Goldschmidt's stats in
15-game hit streak haven't been seen in MLB in 100 years"
(By Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 5-24-2022))

Paul Goldschmidt during his 15-game
hitting streak for St. Louis Cardinals:
28 hits, 12 doubles,
5 home runs, 22 RBI. Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm
Mountain View: NBA: Luka Doncic, Draymond Green
share priceless reaction to ball stuck on rim
(By Tom Dierberger, NBC News, 5-24-2022)

Green flicked up his first free throw.
It bounced several times on the rim
and against all odds, settled on
the back of the iron.

Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 6:00-7:00 pm
Mountain View: Foothill College LINC-405 Zoom class
Skills Workshop with William Cavada (6:00-6:30 pm),
and Q&A Session with Kim Randall (6:30-7:00 pm)

Cavada showed how to embed video
in Google Forms, Sheets, and Slides;
Shorten video with start & end times. Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 7:00-10:20 pm
Mountain View: Convert Happy Birthday June 3
on iPhone for Sophia in Photoshop to HTML
with links, using June 11 HTML iPhone as template

Birthday-June 3: Birthday Mates (7:10-8:15 pm);
Seven Historical Events on June 3 (8:15-9:56 pm);
Calendar, Birth Flowers, Birthstones, Zodiac (10:20 pm).

Thursday, May 26, 2022, 7:21-7:51 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:20 am; Woke up @ 12:25 pm
(10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:51 am—
FRUGF = GRUFF; SOIEP = POISE;
TPYAAH = APATHY; DRNEOT = RODENT

Missed Cartoon Answer— The young horse
was bought by a family that was happy to
UF POI PTY RON = PONY UP FOR IT
31.22 of 1153 responders had trouble with "RODENT". Thursday, May 26, 2022, 2:40-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 1:20 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:10-3:43 pm;
3:50 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Avenue and walked home

4 Planter's Honey-Roasted Peanuts ($5.49) @ $1.99 = $7.96;
3 Sweet Baby Ray BBQ Sauce ($3.49) @ $1.00 = $2.97;
8 oz Lucerne Sliced Provolone Cheese ($3.99) @ $1.99;
64 oz Signature Select Apple Juice ($2.99) = Free.

Thursday, May 26, 2022, 6:00-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Boston Celtics beat Miami Heat 93-80 in Game 5;
Listening to 95.7 FM; Golden State Warriors vs. Dallas Mavericks
in NBA Western Conference Playoffs Game 5 at Chase Center

Warriors leads Mavericks 28-23 in 1st quarter;
Warriors leads Mavericks 69-52 in 2nd quarter;
Warriors leads Mavericks 94-84 in 3rd quarter;
Warriors beats Mavericks 120-110 in 4th quarter. Thursday, May 26, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Yesterday asked William Cavada when
is Krause Center open? He says Tuesday & Thursday
from 12:30-7:30 pm; Wednesday from 12:30-4:30 pm

William Cavada tells Kim Randall and me
at yesterday's LINC-405 Q&A Session
that Krause Center's Makerspace
made him the Program Director.

Thursday, May 26, 2022, 6:00-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Time Magazine (June 6-13) came early today;
"Zendaya" by Denis Villeneuve (director of Dune): "To me,
Zendaya is a thousand years old. She has already lived many
lives before this one. And yet, she is as young as springtime."

"Volodymyr Zelensky" by Joe Biden;
"In President Zelensky, the people of Ukraine
have a leader worthy of their bravery and resilience." Thursday, May 26, 2022, 7:00-8:00 pm
Mountain View: Continue to work on "Birthday-June 3"—
Checked my archive of "Dates" & found no postmark of "June 3";
Finding postmarks is fun and frustrating, as one may search
through hundreds of stamps before stumbling on right cancel.

(6-3-1860) U.S. U6 Pony Express Cancellation;
(6-3-1953) Great Britain 313 FDC QEII Coronation;
(6-3-2009) U.S. U668 Seabiscuit, Swan Lake, MT Cancel.

Thursday, May 26, 2022, 8:30-9:30 pm
Mountain View: After breakfast of Quaker Instant Oatmeal Strawberry-Banana read trivia on back of box for # collection

Average strawberry has 200 seeds.
Over 100 billion bananas
per year are eaten globally. Thursday, May 26, 2022, 10:00-10:45 pm
Mountain View: Time Magazine (June 6-13) came early today;
"Andrew Garfield" by Martin Scorsese (Osccar-winning director)

When Andrew Garfield came to audition,
I could see right away that he understood
the character of Rodrigues in my 2016 film Silence.

Friday, May 27, 2022, 10:42-11:22 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:40 am; Woke up @ 3:10 pm
(12.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 11:22 am—
THHIC = HITCH; TNNIH = NINTH;
LBTALE = BALLET; BCPLIU = PUBLIC

Cartoon Answer— Being a ram and
smashing horns so often was becoming a
ITH NNT BAET PUI = PAIN IN THE BUTT
17.45% of 1049 responders had trouble with this answer. Friday, May 27, 2022, 5:35-7:35 pm
Mountain View: Left apt @ 5:35 pm; Bus #40 @ 5:50 pm
to Chef Chu's bins for "Daily Post" & "Palo Alto Weekly";
Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) 6:40-7:08 pm;
7:23 pm Bus #40 to Central Expwy Stop and walked home

12 oz La Choy Chow Mein Noodles ($2.99) @ $2.69;
12 oz Lemon Perfect Lemon Water @ $1.99 = FREE;
Bitchin Sauce Spinach-Artichoke @ $5.99 = FREE;
64 oz Signature Select Apple Juice ($2.99) = FREE.

Friday, May 27, 2022, 9:00-9:55 pm
Mountain View: Pinterest sent interesting photos
and videos May 26 @ 8:00 pm; "Dog & Ducklings"
video inspired poem on this subject.

Follow me— I'll bring you home to Mom.
Five ducklings trailing behind puppy they trust.
Mama dog surprised at feast puppy brought home.
Puppy says "They're my friends— we can't eat them." Friday, May 27, 2022, 10:30-11:00 pm
Mountain View: No June 3 entries in Helen Luke's Journals (2001);
No June 3 entries in The Journal of Eugène Delacroix (1961);
Goethe's Italian Journey (1968) has June 3, 1787 entry in Naples

Kniep said to me: "You have been so kind
and good to me that I shall remember you
all my life, and I want to offer you
this as a symbol of my gratitude."

Saturday, May 28, 2022, 6:21-6:44 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 4:20 am; Woke up @ 1:55 pm
(10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:44 am—
SEYZT = ZESTY; LRIDL = DRILL;
ABOBOM = BAMBOO; EOCTPI = POETIC
(No time for breakfast; just time to shave)

Cartoon Answer— At 7'4" tall and 500 pounds,
clothes shopping for Andre the Giant was a
ZES RLL BAMB POEI = SIZABLE PROBLEM
46.28% of 1467 responders had trouble with this answer. Saturday, May 28, 2022, 3:00-4:10 pm
Mountain View: Ann came at 3:00 pm to pick up bag of
newspapers + "Dog & Ducklings" & "Birthday-June 3";
Drove to Valero Station for "Daily Post" & "Peninsula News";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:10-3:42 pm;
3:55 pm Red Bus to Montecito Avenue and walked home

1 liter Sig Select Orange Creme Sparkling Water @ $1.10;
12 oz Lemon Perfect Lemon Water @ $1.99 = FREE;
64 oz Signature Select Apple Juice ($2.99) = FREE;
7 oz Bitchin Sauce Original @ $5.99 = FREE.

Saturday, May 28, 2022, 4:45-5:15 pm
Mountain View: "How to delete
what Google knows about you"
(By Larry Magid, Mercury News, 5-26-2022, C7-C8)

Google have a page (myactivity.google.com/myactivity)
that will report and let you delete your Google activity. Google Chrome keeps a history of sites you've visited. Clicking History from 3-dot menu in upper right & delete. Saturday, May 28, 2022, 5:30-6:00 pm
Mountain View: "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses Stanford students, offers condolences after Texas mass shooting" (By Aldo Toledo, Mercury News, 5-28-2022, B1, B4)

"Every day we have to not just put a question to ourselves,
but find the answer to it: who matters most? and why?"
Zelensky said. "This is the most important question to me."
(Stanford had 225 Ukranian students in its history.)

Saturday, May 28, 2022, 8:00-11:30 pm
Mountain View: Didn't eat breakfast this morning
after waking up late @ 1:55 pm (Blood sugar: 85 mg/dl)

No coffee, but had Men's Multi-Vitamins,
2 Vitamin C (500 mg), Vitamin D3 (1000 IU),
Magnesium Citrate (420 mg); 32 ml Humulin;
Sig. Sel Rising-Crust Spinach-Musroom Pizza;
Diced 3 green onions and 8 Pimento Olives;
3 slices Black Forest Ham; Baked 28 minutes;
Deviled-egg Potato Salad; Honey-Roasted Peanuts;
Cup of Almond Milk, Cup Lemon Water;
Godiva Ice Cream: Chocolate-Strawberry.
Saturday, May 28, 2022, 11:30 pm-12:30 am
Mountain View: "Strongest & Fastest Fighters"
(13,562,063 views): Wu Kuang's iron hand

Amandeep Singh of India 50 record;
Ninja Giga Uguru kickboxing master;
Ong Bak: Thai Warrior Movie (2003)
Martyn Ford, 320 lb 6'8" body builder;
Shaolin Shifu Yan Lei: Kung Fu & Qigong;
Anzor Skala lifts car and crushed by car:
Muhamed Kahrimanovic smashed 97 cans in 60 seconds;
Kickboxer Pavel Trusov: made 334 punches in 60 seconds:
(Clicked Links & Sources for names of all fighters shown).

Sunday, May 29, 2022, 8:05-8:40 am
Mountain View: To bed at 2:20 am; Woke up @ 2:20 pm;
(12 hours sleep) Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 8:40 am—
LNEAGC = GLANCE; REVIDT = DIVERT;
MISPRH = SHRIMP; SNIECC = SCENIC;
YNWOAH = ANYHOW; SYPRAT = PASTRY

Cartoon Answer— After they cleaned up when
Michelangelo was done painting the ceiling, it was a
LE IRT SP CEI NH PA = "PRISTINE" CHAPEL
42.51% of 494 responders had trouble with this answer. Sunday, May 29, 2022, 4:30-5:00 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Sunday
or need for grocery shopping, stayed home to work;
After sumptuous dinner last night, blood sugar was 110 mg/dl;
Surprise email from Elisa @ 9:19 am on 9-year-old grandniece
"Lilly's first YouTube performance!"

Lilly Lubin playing "Etude I" by Paul Sheftel—
Musicale Spring International Music Festival 2022.
Sent "9th Birthday Poem" to Lilly on March 5;
She's talented as her Mom who played the piano well.

Sunday, May 29, 2022, 5:00-5:50 pm
Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO— Liquid Aloha:
Hawaii's 14 best lobby lounges and bars"
(By Ben Davidson, Mercury News, 5-29-2022, F7-F8)

1. Maui: Birdcage Bar, Hotel Wailea; 2. Lobby Lounge, Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea; 3. Maui: Kai Bar, AC Hotel Wailea; 4. Botero Lounge, Grand Wailea Hotel & Spa; 5. Sandbar, Sheraton Maui; 6. Kauai: Stevenson�s Library & Seaview Terrace, Grand Hyatt Kauai; 7. Island of Hawaii: Luana Lounge, Fairmont Orchid; 8. Copper Bar, Mauna Kea Beach Hotel: 9. Oahu: Kani Ka Pila Grille, Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach; 10. Lewers Lounge, Halekulani Hotel; 11. Veranda, Kahala Hotel & Resort; 12. O'Bar, 'Alohilani Resort; 13. Oahu: Off The Lip, Turtle Bay Resort. Sunday, May 29, 2022, 5:00-5:50 pm
Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: Tripadvisor's
hottest new U.S. hotels include a Bay Area marvel"
(By Jackie Burrell, Mercury News, 5-29-2022, F7)

Tripadvisor's 2022 Traveler's Choice awards continued their rollout with top 25 hottest new hotels from coast to coast—
list that includes Bay Area's own Ameswell Hotel at No. 6.
1. Lyle Washington DC; 2. Pendry Manhattan West in New York City; 3. Belvada Hotel in Tonopah, Nevada; 4. Bottleworks Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana; 5. Under Canvas Lake Powell-Grand Staircase in Big Water, Utah; 6. Ameswell Hotel in Mountain View; 7. Pendry West Hollywood; 8. Blossom Hotel Houston, Texas; 9. Colton House Hotel in Austin, Texas; 10. Arlo Midtown in NYC.

Sunday, May 29, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: "The Only Living Pay Phones in New York"
Free article: (By Ann Chen & Aaron Reiss, NY Times, 5-27-2022)

As a curious crowd gathered in Times Square on Monday,
a power saw cut through base of a pay phone on southwest corner of 7th Avenue & 50th Street. According to the city's news release, this was "the final New York City public pay telephone". In early 2000s, there were around 30,000
public street pay phones registered with the city. Sunday, May 29, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Giants beats Reds 6-4; Longoria's 3-run HR in 8th; Boston Celtics vs. Miami in Playoff Game 7

Kurtenbach rooting for Miami Heat win
since Warriors beat Heat twice this season;
Celtics leads Heat 32-17 in 1st Quarter;
Celtics leads Heat 55-49 in 2nd Quarter;
Celtics leads Heat 82-75 in 3rd Quarter;
Celtics beats Heat 100-96 in 4th Quarter;

Monday, May 30, 2022, 5:57-6:03 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:35 am; Woke up @ 1:20 pm
(11 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:03 am—
NANYO = ANNOY; NLUKP = PLUNK;
PLTOEP = TOPPLE; MCONOM = COMMON

Cartoon Answer— The construction of a
555-foot-tall obelisk in Washington, D.C. was
ANN LU TOE MM = MONUMENTAL
6.99% of 672 responders had trouble with answer.
(Only 6 minutes to solve today's Jumble Puzzle) Monday, May 30, 2022, 3:46-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Bus #40 runs on Sunday/Holiday schedule
on Memorial Day; No "Daily Post" printed today to pick up;
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 5:00-5:25 pm;
Last 5:48 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy Stop and walked home

32 oz Lucerne Lowfat Peach Yogurt @ $2.99;
Sig Select Mango-Pineapple Sparkling Water @ $1.10;
12 oz Lemon Perfect Mango Water @ $1.99 = FREE;
64 oz Signature Select Apple Cider @ $2.99 = FREE;
7 oz Bitchin Sauce Spinach-Artichoke @ $5.99 = FREE.

Monday, May 30, 2022, 7:00-7:30 pm
Mountain View: "MOVIES: "Top Gun: Maverick somehow soars above the hype" (By Randy Myers, Mercury News, 5-26-2022, G6)
(Tom Cruise & director Joseph Kosinski have done it, concocted a sequel that is a vast improvement over the film that preceded it— 1986's iconic mega-blockbuster Top Gun.)

"Top Gun: Maverick is a thrilling ride" (By Mark Kennedy, Daily Post, May , 26, 2022, pp. 36-37) More than 30 years after Cruise smirked his way to the cocky heights of the
'80s as the maverick Navy pilot codenamed Maverick,
he effortlessly picks up the character in a new chapter of
Top Gun that is an absolutely, thoroughly enjoyable ride—
a textbook example of how to make a sequel. Monday, May 30, 2022, 7:00-7:30 pm
Mountain View: Frustrating listening to KNBR 104.5 FM: Logan Webb struck out 10; Longoria hits homer top of 9th to give Giants lead 3-2, but Kyle Schwarber ties game bottom of 9th with homer;
Left apt 3:46 pm for shopping; After return, learned Curt Casali homers in 10th for SF Giants to beat Philadelphia Phillies 5-4

Rudy emails May 29 @ 2:12 pm with link to Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (1936) introducing children to orchestra's instruments (Peter: Strings, Bird: Flute, Duck: Oboe, Cat: Clarinet, Grandfather: Bassoon, Wolf: French Horns). Rudy emails 5/30 @ 9:23 am & phones 7:00-7:30 pm on falling behind his "Database Analysis" class; Will come tomorrow @ 10:00 am to pick up Free goodies saved for him.

Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 7:05-7:16 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:05 am; Woke up @ 9:05 am
(8 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:16 am—
MOLIB = LIMBO; LSDAA = SALAD;
NLDAAS = SANDAL; DHOSAW = SHADOW

Cartoon Answer— The rock
formatios in the Scottish highlands are
LIO SLD SAL SHA = AS OLD AS (THE) HILLS
25.99% of 1039 responders had trouble with answer.
(11 minutes to solve today's Jumble Puzzle) Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 10:40-12:00 am
Mountain View: Rudy came @ 10:35 am; Drove to
Shop at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 11:00-11:45 am;
8 ears of Sweet Corn @ 15¢ = $1.20 (Free for Rudy)

2 lbs Smuckers Strawbrry Jam @ $8.99 (Free for Rudy);
2 Gallon Value Corner 2% Lowfat Milk @ $3.59 = $7.18;
2 Tangerine Lime Sparkling Water @ $1.10 = $2.20;
12 oz Lemon Perfect Mango Water @ $1.99 = FREE;
64 oz Signature Select Apple Cider @ $2.99 = FREE;
8 oz Bitchin Sauce Chipotle @ $5.99 = FREE.

Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm
Mountain View: Rudy used an electricity tester
to fix lamp on my desk; Had 4 light bulbs 60 watts;
only one was good; Switch was loose & needs replacement

Had breakfast after Rudy left—
Quaker Strawberry Instant Oatmeal
wheat germ, nuts & seeds, dried cranberres,
Mandarin orange, 3 tbsp lowfat peach yogurt. Tuesday, May 31, 2022, 3:00-6:00 pm
Mountain View: For LINC-405 class, do "Embedded Videos"
in Google Forms, Google Sheets, Google Slides, that
William Cavada demonstrated in Skills Workshop on 5/25

Video of Joc Pederson's 3 homer game on May 24;
Video of Wiggins' dunk; Green's basketball stuck on rim;
Video of 3 Bears on waterfalls waiting for sockeye salmon;
Video of Cary Grant in Hitchcock's North by Northwest.