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.

Saturday, October 1, 2022, 8:13-8:24 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:50 am; Woke up @ 8:00 am (7 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 8:24 am— KALOC = CLOAK; FARET = AFTER; WOSDIN = DISOWN; SOCOYH = CHOOSY Cartoon Answer— The new shoe store had just opened and was quickly gaining a LO FT DO HO = FOOTHOLD 29.04% of 861 responders had trouble with "DISOWN".	Saturday, October 1, 2022, 9:30-11:00 am Mountain View: Al Guzman picked me up @ 9:05 am, drove to Valero Gas Station bins (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post"; then to Bill's Café (3163 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto); and treated me for breakfast (Al had been to Bill's Café in San Jose, but it's his first time here in Palo Alto) Southern Scrambles: Country Sausage, scrambled eggs, Country Gravy, on top of a baked biscuit, Fresh hashbrowns, and coffee, ice water. Al had Meat Lovers Omelette & coffee.
Saturday, October 1, 2022, 11:00-11:55 pm Mountain View: After breakfast at Bill's Café, Al Guzman drove on Hwy 101 to his home in San Jose; After 10 minutes, he realized didn't bring my laptop to fix the Zoom access & drove back to my apt to get it As Student Coordinator at Foothill's Sunnyvale Campus, Al uses Zoom sessions to help students, so he was able to restore Zoom for my Wednesday LINC-405 class.	Saturday, October 1, 2022, 12:00-12:33 pm San Jose: Al has the same Canon PowerShot A590 Camera as I have; Brought my camera as well as "Camera User Guide" to fix two problems— Get rid of Flash when taking photos, and getting rid of "Date" appearing on all the photos Al got rid of the "Flash" option quickly; Went to Date Settings: 10-01-2022, 12:33 pm; But couldn't get rid of "10-1-2022" on photo.
Saturday, October 1, 2022, 12:55-3:35 pm San Jose: On his large-screen TV, Al has HBO to show Baz Luhrmann directs "Elvis" (2022) with Austin Butler (Elvis), Tom Hanks (Colonel Parker), Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Kelvin Harrison Jr., David Wenham, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Luke Bracey, Dacre Montgomery, Leon Ford, Gary Clark Jr., Yola, Natasha Bassett, Alton Mason; YouTube: (1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6); Film Reviews: (1; 2; 3; 4) Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" with its multi-screen presentation of the "King of Rock" captures teenage girls' hysteria over his performances.	Saturday, October 1, 2022, 4:10-4:40 pm Mountain View: Some Safeway specials saved for Al Guzman— 24 Chocolate Chip Cookies, 4 Blueberry Muffins, 64 oz bottle Apple Juice, 2 Kettle Potato Chips, 2 Pringles Potato Chips, 8 oz Honey Almonds, 16 oz Walnut Halves & Pieces; On 9/28 Al called Network Solutions, & renewed my WisdomPortal.com domain name & web hosting for 3 years @ $411, Paid with his MasterCharge card; I reimbursed him with $411 Fidelity check. Al Guzman brings me a gift from Costco— 800 sheets mega pack premium white ink jet and laser paper for my Epson ET-2720 printer.
Sunday, October 2, 2022, 10:47-11:22 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:40 am; Woke up @ 3:05 pm (13.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 11:22 am— DOICIY = IDIOCY; HBBOON = HOBNOB; INILCC = CLINIC; TONEED = DENOTE; SKYCTI = STICKY; GDEAAN = AGENDA Cartoon Answer— When they watched the senate filibuster on TV they saw IIC NO CNI NOT TI ANA = INACTION IN ACTION 36.05% of 861 responders had trouble with this answer	Sunday, October 2, 2022, 4:50-6:00 pm Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Sunday; Stayed home to work; While bookmarking Auster Butler's brilliant performance of "Elvis", YouTube sent some videos of original performances of "The King of Rock"— "Love Me Tender" (1970); "Unchained Melody" (1977); Heartbreak Hotel (1968); Polk SaladAnnie (1970) After Zahira Peña deducted $10 from my Wells Fargo Visa Debit Card and put $10 on wash.com Card for laundry on 9/29, will do my Wash ($1.75) and Dry ($1.25) on new system (6:42-8:45 pm).
Sunday, October 2, 2022, 6:00-7:00 pm Mountain View: "RELIGION: My First Yom Kippur in Exile" (By Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, NY Times, 10-2-2022) "Moscow's Chief Rabbi Shmarya Yehuda Leib Medalia shot by the Secret Police in 1938. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we had to support for the military. Being Moscow's chief rabbi for 30 years, my wife and I decided to leave Russia. Blowing the shofar, let us remember that it's the role of faith to counter evil, to fight for the basic human rights of liberty and life."	Sunday, October 2, 2022, 7:00-8:00 pm Mountain View: Rudy missed breakfast with Al & me on Saturday as well s the "Elvis" movie he liked to see Karen's Oct. 2 email: "pity that QE II did not make time to meet her penpal [Adele Hankey]. " Ann's Oct. 2 email: "hiked Saturday at Los Trancos Preserve (with San Andreas fault nature trail... and it was empty." Listened to KNBR 104.5 FM: last 2022 game at Oracle Park: SF Giants beat Arizona Diamondbacks 4-3 in 10th inning.
Sunday, October 2, 2022, 7:53-8:12 pm Mountain View: After washing laundry ($1.50), put load in Dryer: Hot Temperature, scanned wash.com Card for $1.25 (Balance $8.50), but machine wouldn't start. Asked a neighbor, but he doesn't know how to use this new system; After 20 minutes, repeated Card scanning (Balance $7.25) finally heard noise in Dryer for 45 minutes.	Sunday, October 2, 2022, 8:30-9:00 pm Mountain View: Woke up @ 10:30 am (9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 11:22 am; Still felt sleepy and went to bed again; Woke at 3:05 pm (13.5 hours sleep) Have lots of books to write— Why am I not focusing on these projects, but am happy going to bed and sleep?
Sunday, October 2, 2022, 10:00-11:00 pm Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: Top 10 immersive art experiences in the U.S." (By Jackie Burrell, Mercury News, October 2, 2022, F7) 1. Wonderspaces, Scottsdale, AZ; 2. Seismique, Houston, TX; 3. Superblue Miami, FL; 4. WNDR Museum, Chicago, IL; 5. Factory Obscura, Oklahoma City, OK; 6. House of Eternal Return, Santa Fe, NM; 7. ARTECHOUSE, NYC; 8. City Museum, St. Louis, MO; 9. Otherworld, Columbus, OH; 10. Flutter, Los Angeles, CA.	Sunday, October 2, 2022, 11:00-11:40 pm Mountain View: "Heavenly Buddha Mask" from Bali by Made Tresna is closest to "Smiling Moon Noh Mask" from Graphics Art Magazine (circa 1995) of 27 years ago inspiring poem "Why Is the Moon Smiling?" that I've totally forgotten the contents. Found a dozen images of the Sun & Moon; Write separate poem "Sun & Moon in Myth and Legends" contrasting Yang & Yin aspects— Day & Night; Hot & Cold.
Monday, October 3, 2022, 6:10-6:26 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 3:20 am; Woke up @ 1:35 pm (10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:26 am— SUAEM = AMUSE; ROMNI = MINOR; GRELIB = GERBIL; NATGME = MAGNET Cartoon Answer— They were traveling at 60 mph, and their chatty daughter was talking AUE MIN EIL MAT = A MILE A MINUTE 20.39% of 863 responders had trouble with "GERBIL".	Monday, October 3, 2022, 4:05-6:40 pm Mountain View: Leave apt @ 4:05 pm; Red Bus @ 4:50 pm; Fast walk through Wal-Mart & Trader Joe's parking lots to Fidelity Investments @ 5:04 pm (4 minutes too late); Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) 5:45-6:20 pm; Got "Daily Post" by Chef Chu's bins; 6:28 pm Bus #40 home Sig Sel Micowave Popcorns (3 packs) @ $1.99 = Free; Sig Sel Sparkling Drink Mango-Pineapple, 1 liter @ 96¢; Waterfront Bistro Coconut Shrimp, 9 oz ($8.99) @ $4.99; Sig Sel Chocolate Chips Pudding Ring @ $2.99 (50% off).
Monday, October 3, 2022, 7:45-8:15pm Mountain View: Ann's Oct. 3 email @ 7:42 pm— Lines [4-8] from Wordsworth "Tintern Abbey" she connects most strongly with her Saturday's Los Trancos earthquake vault hike: Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky. Also: "Saturday's Sporting Green section of the SF Chronicle, save it for me— there's a story about my cousin Gerald Gillum (stage name G-Eazy)... promised to mail it to my brother."	Monday, October 3, 2022, 8:30-9:30 pm Mountain View: "SPORTS: Q&A with G-Eazy: Roots ownership, Klay Thompson's friendship, Bay Area fandom" (By Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 10-1-2022) Before he became known worldwide as G-Eazy, before he sold more than 4 million albums, before he even recorded his first rap, Gerald Gillum was an Oakland kid who could expect at least one present each Christmas: 300-level tickets to a Golden State Warriors game. The 33-year-old rapper discussed his ownership stake in the soccer team Oakland Roots, his friendship with Klay Thompson, his Bay Area sports fandom and much more... I appreciate greatness. It's really inspiring knowing people like him [Klay Thompson].
Monday, October 3, 2022, 9:44-9:49 pm Mountain View: Went to Service Coordinator Zahira Peña's office @ 4:05 pm; She emailed me the link to Mid-Pen Senior Resident Survey 2022 that took only 5 minutes to complete How often do you feel lonely? Never. How often do you feel that you lack companionship? Never. Have not attended any Mid-Pen Services group activity because of my writing projects are more important to me.	Monday, October 3, 2022, 10:10-10:30 pm Mountain View: Rudy's Oct. 3 email @ 2:56 pm; After attending CS F055C AWS Zoom class on Wednesday, Rudy went to Lodi, & missed meeting with Al & me Saturday. Nearly all 48 students had taken CS F055A & CS F055B Computer Engines in AWS (Amazon Web Services), so Rudy needs to find another class to take or study JAVA which he has forgotten to code. Asked about "Elvis" movie.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 6:32-6:42 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:20 am; Woke up @ 12:55 pm (11.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:26 am— MYDIL = DIMLY; VONWE = WOVEN; GMYOSG = SMOGGY; CBNEOK = BECKON Missed Cartoon Answer— He told his wife he was quitting cigarettes, but he was just IML WEN SOG BKO = BLOWING SMOKE 15.11% of 900 responders had trouble with this answer (I had wrongly "SMOKING BELOW")	Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 2:00-2:40 pm Mountain View: "Daily Post" not printed on Tuesday; Stayed home to work; Since Rudy left for Lodi after learning he can't continue with the CS F055C AWS class, his comfort zone is with his Aunt & Uncle, helping them in Lodi instead of getting stressed out at Foothill College Rudy is looking for another class to enroll in this Fall Quarter (Anthropology or Sociology), where like his computer classes, he is "on his hands and knees", I suggest he enroll in the 0 unit LINC-405 "Skills Workshop" class that I can help him.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 4:00-6:28 pm Mountain View: Wrote poem "Sun & Moon in Myth & Legends" with 12 images and couplets of 18 lines Sun and Moon— forever a pair, Masculine, Feminine— Yang & Yin. Always opposites— day & night, Not in fiction but true— hot & cold.	Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 6:40-7:45 pm Mountain View: "BASEBALL: Yankees star Aaron Judge surpasses Roger Maris with 62nd homer, logging greatest MLB power season since steroid era" (By Zach Crizer, Yahoo News, 10-4-2022) On Tuesday night, October 4, in the second game of a doubleheader in Texas, Judge jumped on a 1-1 slider from Rangers starter Jesus Tinoco, sending history over left field fence. Homer 62 landed in Section 31 at Globe Life Field.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 5:36-6:15 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 6:30 am; Woke up @ 2:15 pm (7.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:15 am— AGEEL = EAGLE; ONUDP = POUND; DINADC = CANDID; PMSCUA = CAMPUS Missed Cartoon Answer— The billboard installer was awake early because he had to be EA UN DD AMP = UP AND "AD 'EM" 15.24% of 971 responders had trouble with this answer	Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 4:30-6:00 pm Mountain View: Last day to pay $1183 October rent to Mid-Pen Housing before $25 fine; Too late to go to Fidelity Investments before they close at 5:00 pm; Half-hour walk to Valero (Midlefield Rd) for "Daily Post"; Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 4:50-5:18 pm Coca Cola Coffee, 12 oz @ $2.99 = Free; Land-O-Frost Black Forest Ham, 16 oz ($6.99) @ $4.99; 2 Imitation Crabmeat Chunk Style, 8 oz @ $2.00 = $4.00; 2 Spinach Artichoke Quiche @ $12.99 BOGO free = $12.99.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 6:30-7:18 pm Mountain View: Tried to log into LINC-405 "Skills Workshop" Zoom Session with Will Cavada without success; At 6:48 pm, was able to get into Q&A Session with Gene Tognetti; Last Wednesday's LINC-405 was at 6:30-8:00 pm Gene says there was no "Skills Workshop" last week; Q&A Session was 6:30-8:00 pm; LINC-405 is back on @ 6:00-6:30 pm for "Skills Workshop" & 6:30-7:00 pm for "Q&A" Session; Helped me delete 2 old emails in my InBox from Gene & Kim. Gene will do "Workshop" 10/26. "Skills Workshop" with William Cavada 10/12 & 10/19.	Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 7:45-8:30 pm Mountain View: "TECHNOLOGY: For Gen Z, TikTok Is the New Search Engine" (By Kalley Huang, NY Times, 9-17-2022) (Mercury News reprinted article, 10-3-2022, C9-C10) Need to find a restaurant or figure out how to do something? Young people are turning to TikTok to search for answers. Google has noticed. More and more young people are using TikTok's powerful algorithm, which personalizes the videos shown to them based on their interactions with content— to find information uncannily catered to their tastes.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 9:00-10:30 pm Mountain View: "OBITUARY: David Gottesman, a Wall Street power and a Warren Buffet partner, dies at 96" (By Robert D. Hershey, Jr. & Alex Traub, NY Times, Mercury News, October 1, 2022, B4) Although Gottesman creditd Buffett with making him a Wall Street billionaire, he could have scarcely been more different from that world-famous investor. He did not appear on TV, and presided over his privately held First Manhattan Co. with no advertising, no commentary, and no touting of favorite stocks. The company manages more than $20 billion for its clients. He met Buffett in 1963 & became friends.	Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 9:00-10:30 pm Mountain View: "SCIENCE: Bay Area space scientists build world's largest digital camera" (By Lisa M. Krieger, Mercury News, October 3, 2022, A1, A6) The SLAC camera is so powerful it could spot a golf ball from 15 miles away. The camera can spot objects 100 million times dimmer than those visible to the naked eye— A smartphone camera has about 20 million pixels. This camera has 3.2 billion. Unlike the new James Webb Space Telescope, now drifting in space at a location beyond the moon, this camera will live here on Earth, gazing out from the clear, dry skies of Chile's high Atacama Desert.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 10:30-11:55 pm Mountain View: "OBITUARY: Loretta Lynn, coal miner's daughter and country queen, dies at 90" (By Kristin M. Hall, AP, Mercury News, October 5, 2022, A8) Loretta Lynn, Kentucky coal miner's daughter whose frank songs about life & love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty & made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90. Academy of Country Music chose her as artist of the decade for 1970s. Won 4 Grammy Awards. "Coal Miner's Daughter" title of her 1976 book, was made into a 1980 movie. Sissy Spacek's portrayal of Lynn won her an Oscar & the film was also nominated for best picture.	Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 10:30-11:55 pm Mountain View: "SCIENCE: This Bay Area physicist and pioneer in quantum physics just won a Nobel Prize" (By Lisa M. Krieger, Mercury News, October 5, 2022, A1, A5) John Clauser of Walnut Creek proved that nature can send signals faster than the speed of light. Clauser of UC-Berkeley won a Nobel Prize in physics with Alain Aspect of France, and Anton Zeilinger of Austria, for their work on quantum information science. The scientists were cited for discovering the way that particles known as photons can be linked with each other even when they are separated by large distances. Quantum teleportation.
Thursday, October 6, 2022, 8:54-9:04 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 3:45 am; Woke up @ 12:45 pm (9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:04 am— VCICI = CIVIC; KTCHI = THICK; GHNELT = LENGTH; HINFSI = FINISH Cartoon Answer— One of the easiest ways for fleas to get from place to place is IC THK NG IIH = "ITCH-HIKING" 26.39% of 1099 responders had trouble with this answer	Thursday, October 6, 2022, 1:40-3:00 pm Mountain View: Rudy came from VA Hospital to my apt; Gave him Specials saved for him & free Coca Cola Coffee; Drove to Valero (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Metro"; Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 2:00-2:30 pm Gallon Value-Corner 1% Fat Milk @ $4.99 (Free for Rudy); 2 Dave's Killer Bread ($5.49) @ $1.44 = $2.88 (for Rudy); Fruit Coffee Cake @ $5.99 - $2 = $3.99 (Free for Rudy); 2 Sparkling Drink Mango-Pineapple @ $1.00 = $2.00; Open Nature Vanilla-Almond Milk, 64 oz @ $1.99.
Thursday, October 6, 2022, 6:00-7:00 pm Mountain View: Rudy & I went shopping at Safeway; Safeway didn't send me "Just-For-U" coupons on Wednesday until Thursday 10/6 @ 1:53 am Scanned through dozen of pages before finding Safeway's Specials Sig Sel Vegetables @ 47¢. Limit 5 cans on "Safeway Just-For-U".	Thursday, October 6, 2022, 7:00-8:40 pm Mountain View: Wrote poem "Why Is the Moon Smiling?" with 16 images and 9 triplet stanzas of 27 lines; Can't find similar poem written 27 years ago. The Moon is smiling because not the Sun but her companion the Earth has asked her to dance.
Friday, October 7, 2022, 8:54-9:04 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:45 am; Woke up @ 12:50 pm (12 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:04 am— BTEAA = ABATE; SULOY = LOUSY; CICHTE = HECTIC; SENENU = UNSEEN Cartoon Answer— If musicians Daryl and John bought a farm to raise grain, they might be seen AAT LO HI USN = HAULIN' OATS 36.28% of 1345 responders had trouble with this answer	Friday, October 7, 2022, 2:40-5:00 pm Mountain View: Leave apt @ 2:40 pm; Bus #40 @ 3:30 pm; to Ditmer's news bins for "Daily Post" & "Palo Alto Weekly" Went to Fidelity Investments (2580 West El Camino Real, Suite 9); Spoke to Rowell on bounced March 4, 2022 rent check #1902 of $1183 on Fidelity checking acount with $13,760.73: 4:15-5:00 pm Since I don't have my California ID card after my wallet was stolen (June 3), took Rowell awhile to verify my identity; Back records do not show that check #1902 was cashed; Suggests Mid-Pen Managers has my check & fined me $25.
Friday, October 7, 2022, 5:22-5:57 pm Mountain View: After Fidelity, took Bus #22 @ 5:22 pm to Walgreens (1905 W. El Camino Real) to use $10 Reward Coupon Ann gave me, but it expired yesterday, October 6; Lost Walgreens Reward Card when wallet was stolen (June 3) Walgreens not issuing physical cards anymore, everything is digital— my phone # is their ID; 2 bottles of Garlic Powder @ $1.79 = $3.58; 2 bottles of Ground Cinnamon @ $1.79 = $3.58.	Friday, October 7, 2022, 5:57-7:45 pm Mountain View: Bus #22 @ 5:57 pm to San Antonio Rd stop; CVS news bins out of "Daily Post": none for neighbors today; Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) 6:15-6:47 pm Bus #40 @ 7:30 pm to Central Xpwy Stop and walked home 4 cans of corn, peas, & green beans ($1.99) @ 47¢ = $1.88; Land-O-Frost Light Butter with Canola Oil ($5.99) @ $3.99; Sea Pak Popcorn Shrimp 18 oz ($8.99) @ $6.99; Breyers Mango Ice Cream 1.5 qt ($7.49) @ $4.99.
Saturday, October 8, 2022, 7:00-7:05 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:40 am; Woke up @ 12:55 pm (10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:05 am— GILOC = LOGIC; ILTTE = TITLE; WLAANM = LAWMAN; XFIEAT = FIXATE Cartoon Answer— With so many people on inflatables in the water, it looked like a LO IL LAA FT = "FLOATILLA" 21.98% of 910 responders had trouble with this answer	Saturday, October 8, 2022, 3:00-4:05 pm Mountain View: Ann comes to apt @ 3:00 pm to pick up bag of newspapers & poems "Why Is the Moon Smiling?", "Sun & Moon", Stanford Theatre 2022; To Valero for Daily Post & Peninsula News; Shopping at Safeway (580 Rengstorff Ave) 3:15-3:42 pm Red Bus @ 3:50 to Montecito Ave and walked home 5 cans of corn, peas, & green beans ($1.99) @ 47¢ = $2.35; 4 Michelina Fettucine Alfredo ($2.49) @ $1.25 = $5.00; Sig Sel Croissants (10 ct) @ $5.00 - $2 Reward = $3.00; 12 oz Stouffer's Tuna Noodle Casserole ($4.99) @ $3.00.
Saturday, October 8, 2022, 5:00-6:00 pm Mountain View: "Nobel Prize in literature goes to French author Annie Ernaux" (Swedish Academy said Ernaux, 82, was recognized for "the courage & clinical acuity" of her writing.) (CBS News, October 6, 2022) French author Annie Ernaux, who has mined her own biography to explore life in France since the 1940s, was awarded 2022 Literature Nobel Prize on Thursday Oct. 6.	Saturday, October 8, 2022, 6:00-7:30 pm Mountain View: Hunter's Moon; Haydn's Symphony 73: The Hunt; Thomas Hunt Morgan; Hunter Pence; Moon Goddess Artemis; Fox Hunting; Lascaux Cave Art; Hunter's Moon by Tree & Mountain; San Marino 724 Sagittarius Archer; Hunter's Moon 2022 Vancouver Paul de Kruif's 1926 classics "Microbe Hunters"; Hunt for God Particle (Higgs-Boson at CERN); Hunt for Extraterrestials; Hunt for Exoplanets.
Saturday, October 8, 2022, 9:00-9:30 pm Mountain View: "The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winners are fighting against dictatorial regimes" (By Ananya Bhattacharya, Yahoo News, 10-7-2022) 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to one person & two organisations: Human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, Russian human rights organisation Memorial, & Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties.	Saturday, October 8, 2022, 9:30-11:40 pm Mountain View: Hunter's Full Moon is tomorrow, Sunday, October 9 @ 4:54 pm EST; Wrote poem "Hunter's Moon" using "Harvest Moon" poem as template Poem has 14 images and 11 triplet stanzas of 33 lines celebrating the November Full Hunter's Moon; Placed last 3 images at bottom instead of at right.
Sunday, October 9, 2022, 7:40-7:59 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:40 am; Woke up @ 2:30 pm (12 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:59 am— DSNIPGR = SPRING; CSMTAO = MASCOT; GAULEE = LEAGUE; PRILEP = RIPPLE; COMSOH = SMOOCH; RUPUSE = PURSUE Cartoon Answer— The Emperor showed off in front of his wife in order to SPI MS EE RP SM RSE = IMPRESS (THE) EMPRESS 18.46% of 482 responders had trouble with this answer	Sunday, October 9, 2022, 4:15-5:00 pm Mountain View: Woke up @ 12:30 pm, still sleepy, back to bed & woke up at 2:30 pm (12 hours sleep); No "Daily Post" Sunday; Stayed home to work; Steve Gould's email (10/9, 11:20 am) "Loved your poem about the Yin-Yang relationship of sun and moon!" Karen's email (10/9, 2:05 pm) "Thank you for today's email." Steve & his wife with friend visited Maine; Sent 9 photos— "Troll" by Danish artist Thomas Dambo; "4 Views of Monhegan Islands"; "4 photos Alpaca Farm", Llama cousins from Andes.
Sunday, October 9, 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm Mountain View: "TRAVEL: Head for Area 51 and a jaunt along Nevada's Extraterrestrial Highway" (By Nora Heston Tarte, Mercury News, October 9, 2022, F7-F8) Nevada's route 375: known as Extraterrestrial Highway— from Las Vegas, where a 90 minute drive north to the E.T. Stop by these places: The Mizpah Hotel, The Clown Motel, Best Western Hi-Desert Inn, Little A'Le'Inn, Alien Research Center (supersized greeter), E.T. Fresh Jerky; Not Allowed: Area 51 Military Base.	Sunday, October 9, 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: 10 most haunted places in Western U.S. includes a Bay Area gem" (By Jackie Burrell, Mercury News, October 9, 2022, F7) 1. Bodie, CA; 2. Honolulu International Airport, HI; 3. Hotel Monte Vista, Flagstaff, AZ; 4. Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah, NV; 5. Pittock Mansion, Portland, OR; 6. Red Onion Saloon, Skagway, AK; 7. RMS Queen Mary, Long Beach; 8. The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, CO; 9. Whaley House, San Diego; 10. Winchester Mystery House, San Jose)
Sunday, October 9, 2022, 7:00-9:00 pm Mountain View: #51 in Numbers Collection— Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles is a 1998 book by David Darlington. Area 51 has also given birth to a feisty guerrilla subculture bent on exploding secrecy surrounding this mysterious spot. Area 51 is a 2015 science fiction horror film directed & shot by Oren Peli. Plot: 4 teenagers sneak onto the military base using signal jammers, night vision goggles, & Freon-laced jumpsuits. They found a cavern-like structure beneath Area 51 with sleeping aliens, one awakens & chased them, abductng them in an alien spacecraft. They escape as Reid's camera falls & plummets to the ground.	Sunday, October 9, 2022, 9:00-10:00 pm Mountain View: "BASEBALL: Guardians' Oscar Gonzalez hits walk-off HR in 15th for 1-0 win" (By Mike Gavin, Yahoo News, 10-8-2022) Cleveland Guardians rookie Oscar Gonzalez led off the bottom of the 15th with a walk-off, series-clinching home run for a 1-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 2 of American League Wild Card series, longest scoreless game in MLB postseason history. Rays struck out 20 times, Guardians 19 times; Combined 39 strikeouts is MLB record. #39 in Numbers Collection— Previous record: 37 strikeouts by Cincinnati Reds & Atlanta Braves (21 by Reds pitchers, 16 by Braves pitchers) during Game 1 of their Wild-Card Series, won 1-0 by the Braves in 13 innings, on 9-30-2020.
Sunday, October 9, 2022, 10:58-11:07 pm Mountain View: KDFC 104.9 FM: Daniel Hope plays violin and conducts Zurich Chamber Orchestra in Tomaso Albinoni's "Adagio in G minor" (18th century); (YouTube: 1; 2; 3) Remo Giazotto claims he found fragment amidst bombed debris in Saxon State Library, but said later the whole composition was his.	Sunday, October 9, 2022, 11:29-11:32 pm Mountain View: KDFC 104.9 FM: Milos Karadaglic plays guitar as Paul Watkins conducts English Chamber Orchestra in Anonymous "Romance" featured in 1952 film "Forbidden Games"; (YouTube: 1; 2; 3) Haunting music seen in 1952 film "Forbidden Games" by René Clément with adorable 5-year-old Paulette (Brigitte Fossey).
Monday, October 10, 2022, 7:09-7:13 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 3:45 am; Woke up @ 12:35 pm (9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 7:13 am— NYOME = MONEY; GEALI = AGILE; NLIMEG = MINGLE; ROPYST = SPORTY Cartoon Answer— After he was arrested and read his rights, the mime chose to MNE AIE INL SRT = REMAIN SILENT 19.51% of 897 responders had trouble with this answer	Monday, October 10, 2022, 3:15-4:55 pm Mountain View: Leave apt @ 3:15 pm; Haf-hour walk to to Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post"; Shopping at Safeway (580 Rengstorff Ave) 3:45-4:28 pm Red Bus @ 4:40 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home; Got 47¢ Vegetable Cans & Pringles Potato Chips for Rudy 5 cans of corn, peas, & green beans ($1.99) @ 47¢ = $2.35; 4 cans Pringles BBQ Potato Chips ($2.49) @ $1.49 = $5.96; Triscuits Avocado, Cilantro, & Lime ($4.99) @ $3.79; Lucerne Creamers No Sugar Hazelnut ($3.99) @ $3.50.
Monday, October 10, 2022, 6:30-7:30 pm Mountain View: "DRAMA: Suzan-Lori Parks is all over the place" (Michael Paulson, NY Times, Mercury News, October 9, 2022, A2) Suzan-Lori Parks is drawn to archways. She lived above a McDonald's on 6th Avenue— the Golden Arches. Then she moved out by Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza, with its triumphal Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch. Now she lives in an apartment overlooking the marble monument honoring the nation's first president at the entrance to Washington Square Park. It's very symbolic", Parks said. "I'm always orienting myself to arches." Arches are gateways, portals between one world and another, and Parks is endlessly thinking about other worlds. In 2002, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama. Her plays "Topdog/Underdog", "Sally & Tom", "Plays for the Plague Year", can be seen now, with "The Harder They Come" staged early next year. "She occupies pretty hallowed air: She's the one who walks among us", said playwright Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, who teaches playwriting and performance studies at Yale. "She's reigning empress of the Black & weird in theater", he said, "And she really is the most successful dramatist of the avant-garde working today."	Monday, October 10, 2022, 7:30-9:15 pm Mountain View: After reading Suzan-Lori Parks' interest in archways, realized the four arches on my Home Page G.A. Gaskell, Dictionary of l Scriptures and Myths (1960)— Arched Gateways: A symbol of mental qualities which open the way to knowledge. Abode of Self on the higher planes of atma, buddhi, manas, is the perfection of all virtues, mental qualities & aspirations. Within the soul is all beauty and excellence. No duality is apparent; there are no opposites, therefore no conflict takes place. J.C. Cooper, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols (1978)— Arch: Vault of the sky; also the yoni. Passing through an arch in initiation ceremonies is being born again, leaving behind old nature. In Graeco-Roman symbolism, represents sky god Zeus/Jupiter and in Rome, triumphal arch was used for military victory. Jean Chevalier & Alain Gheerbrant, Penguin Dictionary of Symbols (1969)— Archway: Related to twofold symbolism of square & circle like the niche, combines spatial elements of cube & chalice. Archway is a triumph over the banalities of the material world. Archway soaring up to its keystone proclaims the lasting triumph of the upward striving of the unconscious over the clogging flesh.
Monday, October 10, 2022, 9:30-10:00 pm Mountain View: Consulted ten Symbolism books in my library, found "Archways" in 3 books mentioned above; On web— Archway Symbolism & Meaning; Arch in Tarot; Arch 9 Archway Symbolisms— Renewal; Rebirth; A New Beginning; Change; Transformation; Growth; Progress; Adaptability; Flexibility.	Monday, October 10, 2022, 10:00-11:20 pm Mountain View: Recall Archways around the world— Arch of Septimius Severus (Roman Forum); Arc de Triomphe (Paris); Kintaikyo Wooden Arch Bridge (Iwakuni City, Japan) Entrance Gate: UC Berkeley; Entrance Harvard University; Roman Arches: Columbia University Avery Building; Cornell University: Baker Tower Residence Hall; Arches to Stanford University Memorial Church.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 6:12-6:17 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:40 am; Woke up @ 10:30 am (9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:17 am— NYOME = MONEY; GEALI = AGILE; NLIMEG = MINGLE; ROPYST = SPORTY Cartoon Answer— After he was arrested and read his rights, the mime chose to MNE AIE INL SRT = REMAIN SILENT 19.51% of 897 responders had trouble with this answer	Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 12:40-1:12 pm Mountain View: Rudy came at 12:15 pm; Leave apt @ 12:30 pm; Shopping at Safeway (580 Rengstorff Ave) 12:40-1:12 pm; Got 47¢ Vegetable Cans & Free $5 Croissants (10 ct) for Rudy; From my cupboards: Cup of Noodles with Shrimps (6) for $1.50; Rudy will give me ride Wed. 2 pm to iSmile Dental 3:30 pm appt. 2 Sig Sel Sparkling Drink Kiwi-Strawberry @ 1.10 = $2.20; 5 cans of sweet corn & sweet peas ($1.99) @ 47¢ = $2.35; Sig Sel Croissants (10 ct) @ $5.00 - $2 Reward = $3.00; Land-O-Frost Black Forest Ham, 16 oz ($6.99) @ $4.99.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 3:38-4:00 pm Mountain View: Suzan-Lori Parks: "I'm always orienting myself to arches." Web Links to Arches where she lived— She lived above a McDonald's on 6th Avenue— the Golden Arches. Then she moved out by Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza, with its Brooklyn Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch. Now she lives in an apartment overlooking the marble monument honoring the nation's first president at the entrance to Washington Square Park Arch.	Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 4:00-5:00 pm Mountain View: Complete Concordance to the Bible: New King James Version— 15 "archway" citations in Ezekiel 40— Ezekiel 40:24 "behold gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the archways"; Ezekiel 40:26 "Seven steps led up to it, and its archway was in front of them; and it had palm trees on its gateposts, one on this side and one on that side." (photo)
Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 3:38-10:00 pm Mountain View: Wrote poem "Archways" 12 images (3:38-8:37 pm) & 10 stanzas of 40 lines Just realized the four archways on top of my Home Page at WisdomPortal— gateways to the imagination, leading to inspiration, insights, and illumination.	Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 10:30-11:30 pm Mountain View: Dinner of SeaPak Popcorn Shrimp (1/3 content baked in oven for 15 minutes at 450oF) Boiled broccoloi, cauliflowers, & carrots; Dessert of Croissant with Breyer's Mango ice cream; Cup of Cinnamon Apple Sauce.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 7:41-7:44 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:15 am; Woke up @ 11:55 am (10.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:17 am— VOCEL = CLOVE; RNOFT = FRONT; TBINET = BITTEN; LAMSNO = SALMON Cartoon Answer— The author converted her basement into a place to write, and the resut was a CLE RT BE SAL = BEST "CELLAR" 19.87% of 906 responders had trouble with this answer. (Rudy made soup with Michelina Fettucine Alfredo).	Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 2:05-4:10 pm Mountain View: Rudy came at 2:05 pm; Drove me to iSmileDental (970 W. El Camino Real) for Dr. Kimberly Kim to insert back a tiny screw that fell out; it held implant teeth #19-21 in place; No novocaine injections used today; Her assistant Floria told me 2 screws were used plus dissolving sutures for implants (Columbo) Rudy waited for me at iSmile Dental, read his book for F22 GIST F012 Intro Geospatial Technology. Half-hour walk around apt complex after return; Told him "GOAT" = "Greatest Of All Time"— Jerry Rice in football & Wayne Gretzky in hockey.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm Mountain View: LINC-405 "Skills Workshop" with William Cavada (missed 9/28 No Zoom & 10/5 Late to class @ 6:30 pm that started at 6 pm) Cavada showed how to place a video folder in Google Drive, rename files & folders, and options of sharing files with others.	Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 6:30-7:05 pm Mountain View: LINC-405 "Q&A" Zoom Class Session with Kim Randall, Gene Tognetti and William Cavada also tuned in, but no students) The three instructors didn't receive the 8 assignments for LINC-405 Spring 2022; Re-send them Summary Page what I had done.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 7:30-9:30 pm Mountain View: "US record for heaviest pumpkin is set in Bay Area weigh-off" (By Olivia Wynkoop, San Francisco Gate, 10-10-2022) Travis Gienger from Anoka, MN, stands behind his winning pumpkin at the 49th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, CA. His Rhino Gourd weighed in at a staggering 2,560 pounds on Oct. 10. With first-place prize set at a whopping $9 per pound, massive gourd raked in $23,040 for Gienger. Since April, Gienger grew the pumpkin from a seed from current world's heaviest pumpkin, a 2,702-pound gourd grown in Italy (2021). (Numbers: 2560, 2702)	Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 9:30-10:30 pm Mountain View: "OBITUARY: Angela Lansbury, star of film, stage and 'Murder She Wrote' dies at 96" (By Daniel Lewis, NY Times, Mercury News, October 12, 2022, A3) Lansbury won 5 Tony Awards for NY stage performances, from "Mame" in 1966 to "Blithe Spirit" in 2009, at age 83. Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in "Gaslight" (1944) at age 18, and as a dance hall girl in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1946). Lansbury would capture biggest audience of her career in 1984, when casted as mystery writer & amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher on 12-years CBS series "Murder, She Wrote." The show was huge hit with 30 million viewers.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 10:30-11:32 pm Mountain View: Today is the 24th anniversary of my web site WisdomPortal.com began on Columbus Day, October 12, 1998 Admired Columbus for his adventurous spirit exploring the New World, symbolic of my work at WisdomPortal sharing new ideas and inspiration.	Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 10:30-11:32 pm Mountain View: Was not aware back in 1998 about Cruelty of Columbus on Native Americans; With this new knowledge, will honor Columba (Dove) instead of Columbus. WisdomPortal honors Delacroix's illumination of God on October 12, 1822 and October 12, 1862— 40 years apart, as 40 is symbol of transformation.
Thursday, October 13, 2022, 5:44-6:12 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:40 am; Woke up @ 1:25 pm (10.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:12 am— NALTS = SLANT; LCROO = COLOR; SLOTCE = CLOSET; RLIAYF = FAIRLY Missed Cartoon Answer— The quality of this particular transparent form of quartz was SLA CLR CET ARY = CRYSTAL CLEAR 50.36% of 1247 responders had trouble with this answer. (I surmised wrongly "CLEARLY CARTS").	Thursday, October 13, 2022, 3:30-5:00 pm Mountain View: Leave apt @ 3:30 pm; Half-hour walk to to Valero (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post" & "Metro"; Shopping at Safeway (580 Rengstorff Ave) 4:15-4:36 pm Red Bus @ 4:46 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home; Zahira gives me 2 cups Smoothies (Strawberry & Passion Fruit) 2.30 lbs Red Seedless Grapes @ $1.69/lb = $3.89; 4 Lucerne Cheese (Swiss, Provolone) @ $1.99 = $7.96; 4 Quaker Instant Oatmeal (Mixed Fruit) @ $1.69 = $6.76; 2 Imitation Crabmeat Chunk Style, 8 oz @ $2.00 = $4.00; (Open Nature Vanilla-Almond Milk @ $1.99 now $3.99).
Thursday, October 13, 2022, 7:40-8:10 pm Mountain View: After receiving my poem "Archways", Ann's 10/11 email had link to "World's giant natural arches" in China and Utah that I've never seen. All the archways in my poem are man-made from my travels and on college campuses, while Ann's arches were made in Nature.	Thursday, October 13, 2022, 7:40-8:10 pm Mountain View: Karen's "Dog treat" email on Oct. 13: "Check this out, Peter" YouTube Is he playing "Two-Card Monte" with his dog? This is a very funny video!— What can we learn from the dog's reaction that similar to human beings?
Friday, October 14, 2022, 9:18-9:40 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:10 am; Woke up @ 12:25 pm (12 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:40 am— TEUAS = SAUTE; WRHLI = WHIRL; PORUTO = UPROOT; DEAROF = FEDORA Cartoon Answer— They are very similar in size, but the planets Venus and Earth are SAT WRL PR DOA = WORLDS APART 40.42% of 1101 responders had trouble with "FEDORA".	Friday, October 14, 2022 2:40-4:20 pm Mountain View: Leave apt @ 2:40 pm; Red Bus @ 2:50 pm to to Chef Chu's bins for "Daily Post" & "Palo Alto Weekly"; Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) 3:15-3:51 pm; Bus #40 @ 4:03 pm to Central Xpwy and walked home; (4 Bags too heavy to venture to Rengstorff Safeway). Azumaya Firm Tofu, 1 lb ($3.29) @ $2.00; Sig Sel French Fried Onions, 6 oz @ $4.49; 7-Up Slim Cans 6 pack @ $5.23 = Free for Rudy; 3 lbs Reser's Potato Salad ($9.99) @ $5 (for Rudy).
Friday, October 14, 2022, 4:45-6:07 pm Mountain View: Friday Specials Reser's Deviled-Egg Potato Salad ($9.99) @ $5.00 sold out at San Antonio Rd Safeway; Leave apt @ 4:45 pm; Gray Bus @ 5:07 pm to Valero Station (Middlefield Road) for "Peninsula News"; Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 5:15-5:35 pm; Red Bus @ 5:45 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home (Got a lot of free Safeway specials for Rudy, but he has not come by my apt to pick them up.) Lucerne Sliced Swiss Cheese. 8 oz ($4.49) @ $1.99; 3 lbs Reser's Deviled-Egg Potato Salad ($9.99) @ $5.00; 7-Up Lemon-Lime Cans, 6 pack @ $5.23 = Free for Rudy.	Friday, October 14, 2022 7:00-8:30 pm Mountain View: "SPORTS: How Kevon Looney became Warriors' moral compass in Draymond Green crisis" (By Shayna Rubin, Mercury News, October 13, 2022, C1, C3) (Draymond Green's pending return to Warriors comes with plenty of questions. Has he mended trust he broke when he punched Jordan Poole last week in practice? "Looney is incredible," Steve Kerr said. "This guy has so much wisdom. He's so quiet that you may not realize he's become the moral compass of our team.") "A special human being. Special. He was a key instrument in everything we've done last week to try to get things back on track. I'll ride with Loon forever. He's a special man."
Friday, October 14, 2022, 9:00-9:30 pm Mountain View: Karen told me about Tony Foster and his watercolors at The Foster Museum 940 Commercial Street, Palo Alto; She's in NYC, and I forgot to register for his talks that are full. "Exploring the Green River: A Conversation with Tony Foster and John Muir Laws" (Oct. 14, 2022, 7:00 pm) & "A Conversation with Tony Foster: John Muir's High Sierra" (Oct. 16, 2022, 3:00-4:30 pm), with Anne Baxter.	Friday, October 14, 2022, 9:00-10:15 pm Mountain View: I love John Muir and have web pages on him— Mountains of California (5-5-2018); Sacred Summits: John Muir's Greatest Climbs (5-15-2018); Emerson & John Muir (12-31-2003). Would love to meet artist Foster who followed Muir's footsteps. Tony Foster's "John Muir's High Sierra: A Watercolour Diary" (1986-87). He hiked the 211-mile trek of the Sierra Nevada throughout the Yosemite & Sequoia National Parks. He painted 41 watercolors on this backpacking journey.
Friday, October 14, 2022, 10:00-11:00 pm Mountain View: Since I downloaded images of arches recently, Pinterest sent colorful image at 9:28 pm today of Peacock Room in Sammezzano Castle, Reggello, Tuscany Ann emailed 10/13: "favorite is garden arch trellis with flower vines growing on it." Reminded me of Trellis at Gamble Garden, Palo Alto (1-1-2008); Semi-circle Bay Tree, Hidden Villa (11-22-2013).	Friday, October 14, 2022, 11:00-11:55 pm Mountain View: Arches from Hikes in the Bay Area— Lovers Lane Archway, First Street, Livermore (3-3-2019); Neptune Arch Doorway, Filoli Garden (2-21-2019); Arch Wooden Bridge, Hakone Gardens (7-4-2019); Arch Entrance to Courtyard, Santana Row (12-2-2018); Aspen Arch: Los Alamitos Creek Trail, SJ, (1-1-2009); Arching Bay Trees, Hidden Villa, Los Altos (11-22-2013).
Saturday, October 15, 2022, 8:52-9:12 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:25 am; Woke up @ 1:10 pm (11 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:12 am— TDEPUN = UPEND; VNLEO = NOVEL; SFLISO = FOSSIL; MAOFSU = FAMOUS Cartoon Answer— When the new laundromat had a grand-opening party, everyone had UD NO FSL FAO = LOADS OF FUN 18.41% of 706 responders had trouble with this answer.	Saturday, October 15, 2022, 3:30-4:30 pm Mountain View: Leave apt with Rudy @ 3:30 pm to Valero Gas Station bins (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post"; Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 4:00-4:21 pm. Rudy says Merriwest Credit Union pays on Checking accounts so he'll transfer funds from Wells Fargo paying just 0% 2 Sig Sel Sparkling Drink Mango Pineapple @ 1.00 = $2.00; Gallon Value Corner 1% Fat Milk, @ $4.99 (Free for Rudy); 2 Jumbo Cookies ($5) @ $1.97 = $3.94 (Free for Rudy); 7-Up Lemon-Lime Cans, 6 pack @ $5.23 (Free for Rudy).
Saturday, October 15, 2022, 5:00-8:00 pm Mountain View: Writing poem "Archway to Heaven": Downoad images— Sagittarius Constellation; Crescent Moon; Vatican City 548: Noah's Ark (issued 4-23-1974); Japan 499: Rainbow (issued 8-20-1960) My "Archways" poem has only man-made ones, and Ann's "World's giant natural arches" links are made on Earth by Nature, I wondered if there are arches in heaven. Archer Sagittarius says "Yes!"	Saturday, October 15, 2022, 8:00-9:00 pm Mountain View: 3 screen shots to construct "Archways" poem (390x1000 pixels) of 11 man-made arches plus 4 arches on my web site Wisdomportal.com Fairy Bridge, Guangxi, China; Landscape Arch, Devils Garden, Utah; Aloba Arch, the Ennedi Range of Chad; Yunmentum Natural Bridge, Guizhou, China.
Sunday, October 16, 2022, 5:22-5:51 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:50 am; Woke up @ 12:55 pm (10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 5:51 am— OLIAGE = GOALIE; TINOON = NOTION; CLLOAE = LOCALE; PRAAEP = APPEAR; GNOREL = LONGER; BFIALU = FIBULA Cartoon Answer— The bowling alley formed a new bowling league, and players were ready to GL TIO LA ER LNG BL = GET (THE) BALL ROLLING 18.3% of 388 responders had trouble with "FIBULA"	Sunday, October 16, 2022, 1:30-2:30 pm Mountain View: Woke up @ 12:55 pm, No "Daily Post" Sunday; Stayed home to work; Bookmarked 7 interesting news articles in Friday-Sunday issues of SJ Mercury News; Obituary: Bruce Sutter & Robble Coltrane; Kiku Sushi; Hay Maze; Bay Area Halloween; Metaverse: VR; 2022 Economics Nobel Prize; Heard on KNBR 104.5 FM: Atlanta Falcons beat SF 49ers 28-14; "10 Questions: Ada Limón, New U.S. Poet Laureate, Talks About Poetry's Role in Recording the Pandemic, Her Favorite Nature Spots & Last Thing That Made Her Cry" (By Olivia B. Waxman, Time, October 31, 2022, p. 80)
Sunday, October 16, 2022, 4:20-5:10 pm Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: Corn mazes? Nah, for this Halloween try a Bay Area hay maze" (By John Metcalfe, Mercury News, October 16, 2022, F7-F8) Get stalked by a Minotaur and test military-grade fruit cannons. Visit: Mickelson Pumpkin Patch; San Francisco Zoo; G&M Farms; Arata's Pumpkin Farm; Spina Farms Pumpkin Patch.	Sunday, October 16, 2022, 4:20-5:10 pm Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: Halloween Celebrations Around the Bay Area" (By Brittany Delay, Mercury News, October 16, 2022, F7-F8) List of all the spooky events happening in the Bay this Halloween. Visit: Sandbox VR— Deadwood Valley; Squid Game Immersive Experience; Terror Vault— The Summoning; Tricks & Treats at California's Great America; Winchester Unhinged; Spooky Halloween Science.
Sunday, October 16, 2022, 7:30-8:20 pm Mountain View: Jack Mullen phoned, feels better now after his bouts with COVID-19; Busy with elections, supporting Trump's agenda & Republican candidates Jack wants to see old movies at Stanford Theatre, but they're doing more renovations now; Checked their schedule: October 21-23: "The Bandwagon" (1953) 7:30, plus 3:45 Sat/Sun; "42nd Street" (1933) 5:50, 9:35 pm	Sunday, October 16, 2022, 8:20-9:40 pm Mountain View: Ann's 10/16 email on madrone trees forming a giant trefoil arch on her hike, made me search Google Images "Trees forming an arch" (160 photos)— Bamboo Arch Λ Trees, Altai, Siberia; Arched Oak Tree; Apple Trees; Arched Trees; UK Arched Trees; Arched Tree Trunk; UK Apple Trees; Arched Acacia Trees, Nakuru-Molo; Mount Cameroon Arched Tree; NJ Arched Sarpinus betulus.
Monday, October 17, 2022, 6:44-6:49 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:00 am; Woke up @ 12:20 pm (10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:49 am— FHYET = HEFTY; AWACM = MACAW; KROMES = SMOKER; DARREH = HARDER Cartoon Answer— With so many unmarried players at the club, the head pro was becoming a HET MCA MK AR = MATCHMAKER 8.05% of 783 responders had trouble with "MACAW".	Monday, October 17, 2022, 3:35-4:55 pm Mountain View: Leave apt @ 3:35 pm; Bus #40 @ 3:48 pm; Bus #21 @ 4:15 pm; CVS (850 California St) @ 4:31 pm to buy 4 Duracell 2032 batteries $16.35; Kaiser Pharmacy (555 Castro St); Consultant Sandra Lee contacts my physician Dr. Liteh Chang for new One Touch Verio Flex meter for blood test Old Duracell 2032 batteries (expires 2024) didn't work; New Duracell 2032 batteries (expires 2027) didn't work; Got Meter on 8-13-2020; Sandra says "Don't waste money buying batteries. You need a new Blood sugar testing meter."
Monday, October 17, 2022, 4:55-7:15 pm Mountain View: Leave Kaiser @ 4:55 pm; Bus #51H @ 5:15 pm past El Camino Real; Bus #22 @ 5:25 pm to San Antonio Road for 1 "Daily Post" at Ditmer (gone at Chef Chu's & CVS bins); Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) 6:00-6:35 pm. Bus #40 @ 6:59 pm to Central Xpwy Stop & walked home 1.83 lbs Red Seedless Grapes @ $1.69/lb = $3.09; Quaker Instant Oatmeal: Raisin-Dates-Walnut @ $1.69; 2 Jumbo Cookies ($5) @ $1.97 = $3.94 (Free for Al); 7-Up Lemon-Lime Cans, 6 pack @ $5.23 (Free for Al).	Monday, October 17, 2022, 7:30-10:00 pm Mountain View: Arching Swords at West Point Military Weddings, (1; 2; 3; 4) since archways symbolize "a new beginning"; Arching swords at Naval weddings in Annapolis (1; 2; 3; 4); Want to write a poem about "Arching Trees", but many photos have commercial logos over images unless you pay for them Arched Branches (dreamstime); City Park Apple Trees (dreamstime); Arched Bamboo Trees (dreamstime); Forest Path between Trees (dreamstime).
Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 8:58-9:08 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 5:10 am; Woke up @ 2:10 pm (9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:08 am— REETX = EXERT; SIJTO = JOIST; CANEYG = AGENCY; SIFUNO = FUSION Cartoon Answer— His obsession with doing all his own auto repairs was a XT OI AN FI = FIXATION 13.58% of 965 responders had trouble with "AGENCY".	Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 4:40-5:01 pm Mountain View: Kaiser email @ 8:43 am order ready for pickup (Didn't see until after breakfast 4:00 pm); Kaiser Pharmacy (555 Castro Street) @ 5:31 pm; (Door closed @ 5:30 pm— one minute too late); (Wasted time on web on Kaiser closing time) Dr. Liteh Chang OKs new One Touch Verio Flex meter for blood-sugar test which I couldn't do the last two days.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 5:01-7:00 pm Mountain View: Leave Kaiser @ 5:31 pm; Red Bus @ 5:45 pm near El Camino Real; Bus #22 @ 5:56 pm to Showers Drive; Bus #40 @ 6:29 pm to Middlefield Rd; Monday "Daily Post" at bins; Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 6:45-7:00 pm. Bus #40 @ 7:22 pm to Montecito Avenue and walked home Lucerne Sliced Smoked Gouda Cheese @ $1.99; Quaker Instant Oatmeal: Raisin-Dates-Walnut @ $1.69; 2 Jumbo Cookies ($5) @ $1.97 = $3.94 (Free for Rudy); 7-Up Lemon-Lime Cans, 6 pack @ $5.23 (Free for Rudy).	Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 9:30-10:40 pm Mountain View: Today is Professor Harold A. Scheraga's 101st birthday (10-18-1921 to 8-1-2020). He was my chemistry doctoral mentor at Cornell (1963-1970); Composed poems "Memories of Professor Harold A. Scheraga" (9-22-2020) and "Memories of Miriam Scheraga" (2-5-2020) when they passed on. So many fond memories of them during my times in Ithaca studying at Cornell; they were like my parents when Dad & Mom passed to the other shore.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 6:31-6:48 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:30 am; Woke up @ 11:40 am (10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:48 am— ARFDU = FRAUD; DWHIT = WIDTH; CCSAUT = CACTUS; NIOCCI = ICONIC Cartoon Answer— After the kite was invented, people didn't take long to FAD WTH CCT IONI = CATCH WIND OF IT 33.49% of 1069 responders had trouble with this answer.	Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 2:35-4:00 pm Mountain View: Leave apt @ 2:35 pm; Bus #40 @ 2:48 pm; Red Bus @ 3:05 pm to Mountain View Train Depot 3:15 pm; Stopped at U.S. P.O. (211 Hope St); Nothing in P.O. Box 390707; Walked to Kaiser Pharmacy (555 Castro Street) @ 3:30-3:45 pm; for new One Touch Verio Flex Meter (approved by Dr. Liteh Chang) Linda at Kaiser Custom Service helped setting the Date & Time on my new Meter for "Dot" to appear in order to test for blood sugar— 144 mg/dl after breakfast.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 4:36-5:30 pm Mountain View: Went to CVS (850 California St) @ 4:36 pm to return 4 Duracell C2032 batteries for $16.35 refund; Fanita (Fya) gave me back $16.35 I paid in cash on Monday. Saw Bus #21 going down California Street; Walked two blocks past Bryant St for Bus Stop (4:45 pm); Waited 10 minutes for Bus #21 to Rengstorff Ave (5:05 pm); Bus #40 @ 5:19 pm to Central Xpwy Stop & walked home.	Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 6:00-7:00 pm Mountain View: Zoom class LINC-405 "Skills Workshop" with William Cavada (6:00-6:30 pm) and "Q&A Session" with Gene Tognetti (6:30-7:00 pm); Cavada tuned in In today's "Skills Workshop" Cavada showed how to use Voice Typing (Works in Chrome but not in Safari browser); Language Translation (Esperanto), & Citations; Cavada's birthday is 10/26, so Gene will do "Skills Workshop".
Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 8:30-9:45 pm Mountain View: "Pillars of Creation are 'overflowing with stars' in latest image from James Webb Space Telescope" (By Brian Lada, Yahoo News, 10-19-2022) The Pillars of Creation became famous in 1995 after the Hubble Space Telescope captured images of towering clouds of cosmic dust & gas located 6,500 light-years away from Earth in the Eagle Nebula, or Messier 16. Now, the celestial spectacle has been given new life by James Webb Space Telescope. Some of the pillars are about five light-years tall, meaning that if a spaceship could travel at the speed of light, it would take five years to travel the length of the pillars.	Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 9:45-10:30 pm Mountain View: Mid-Peninsula Housing sent flyer on free movie "Hocus Pocus 2" (premiered 9-30-2022) on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 1:00-3:00 pm at Old Community Room (N Building) Since I had trouble placing videos in folders in Google Drive, made links in HTML instead— 1) Dog Treat: "2-Card Monte" (10-13-2022) 2) Yankees Aaron Judge's 62nd Homer (10-4-2022) 3) Austin Butler Stars & Sings in "Elvis" film (6-24-2022) 4) Elvis Presley Sings "Love Me Tender" (Las Vegas, 1970) 5) Draymond Green Punched Jordan Poole (10-6-2022) 6) "Romance" in Forbidden Games (René Clémente, 1952).
Thursday, October 20, 2022, 6:57-7:09 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:15 am; Woke up @ 10:35 am (9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:48 am— SIPEO = POISE; KLENT = KNELT; VCRAAI = CAVIAR; KNITYS = STINKY Cartoon Answer— It was easy to see the airport as they approached because it was now PIE NEL IA STN = IN "PLANE" "SITE" 25.56% of 943 responders had trouble with "CAVIAR".	Thursday, October 20, 2022, 3:25-5:35 pm Mountain View: Leave apt @ 3:25 pm after movie "Hocus Pocus 2" Tried to catch Bus #40 "Hocus Pocus 2" @ 3:36 pm (Rengstorff Ave & Montecito Ave), but it came @ 3:34 pm (missed by 20 steps); Half-hour walk to Valero (Middlefield Rd): "Daily Post" & "Metro"; Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 4:10-4:52 pm. 5 Yoplait Light Yogurt (94¢) @ 39¢ = $1.95; 2.49 lb Roma Tomatoes ($2.99/lb) @ 84¢/lb = $2.10; 2 Sig Sel Cut Green Beans 16 oz ($3.49) @ $1.18 = $2.36; 7-Up Lemon-Lime Cans, 6 pack @ $5.23 (Free for Rudy).
Thursday, October 20, 2022, 1:10-3:10 pm Mountain View: Mid-Peninsula Housing showing free movie "Hocus Pocus 2" (premiered 9-30-2022) on Thursday, Oct. 20 at Old Community Room (N Building); Hosted by Zahira Peña; Anne Fletcher directs "Hocus Pocus 2" (2022) with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Sam Richardson, Doug Jones, Whitney Peak, Belissa Escobedo, Lilia Buckingham, Tony Hale, Hannah Waddingham, Froy Gutierrez, Kornbread Jeté YouTube: (1; 2; 3; 4); Film Reviews: (1; 2; 3; 4) Sequel to 1993 film Hocus Pocus, with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, & Kathy Najimy replaying the trio of Salem witches they did 29 years ago.	Thursday, October 20, 2022, 7:54-8:40 pm Mountain View: Columbia Magazine sent email 10/20 @ 11:03 am on their Oct. 18 issue "A Columbia Halloween" (Vampires, ghosts, haunted houses, telekinetic prom queens: seven short, shivering alumni tales.) "Allen Ginsberg makes no bones about his love of skeletons"; Ginsberg and Bob Dylan visited the grave of former Columbia Lions halfback and literary bum Jack Kerouac in Lowell, MA. There, Ginsberg recited a passage from a Kerouac poem, speaking of "Streets where phantoms / Hastened out of sight..." "There's something spooky about DeWitt Clinton"— NYC mayor, NY State governor, US Senator, and 1812 presidential candidate; Columbia 1786 & died broke.
Thursday, October 20, 2022, 9:20-10:30 pm Mountain View: Columbia Magazine sent email 10/20 @ 11:03 am with article "Alice in Columbialand" (By Paul Hond, Columbia Magazine, Fall 2009). Celebrating the legacy of the "real" Alice in Wonderland. On April 29, 1932, Alice sailed to NY, reflected on those lovely lines of Murray Butler's that still stirred her heart: "It gives me great pleasure to advise you, in entire confidence, that the Trustees of Columbia University have voted to confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, in recognition of the place which your name occupies in English literature and of the remarkable contributions to that literature by Lewis Carroll to which your personality gave rise."	Thursday, October 20, 2022, 9:20-10:30 pm Mountain View: Before "Hocus Pocus 2" movie at 1:00 pm, read article "Alice in Columbialand" (By Paul Hond, Columbia Magazine, Fall 2009). On Wednesday, May 4, 1932, her 80th birthday, Alice arrived at Morningside Heights. In Low Rotunda, which was still a reading room, a throne had been erected so that "Queen" Alice, she of Through the Looking Glass, could have her photo taken with Dr. Murray Butler. Tribute continued inside University gymnasium, where 2000 people came. A large decorative panel was constructed, featuring a menagerie of Carrollian characters, with Alice in the middle, holding a flamingo. Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (née Liddell), Columbia '32HON died two years later.
Friday, October 21, 2022, 5:50-5:58 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:45 am; Woke up @ 10:40 am (10 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:48 am— TNAHK = THANK; VOHCA = HAVOC; DUTIME = TEDIUM; RFIBOD = FORBID Cartoon Answer— James Cameron reached the Pacific's deepest point on his own, which is THA HAO TDM FOR = HARD TO FATHOM 33.66% of 1209 responders had trouble with "TEDIUM".	Friday, October 21, 2022, 1:05-2:30 pm Mountain View: Leave apt @ 1:05 pm; Half-hour walk to Valero (Middlefield Rd): for "Daily Post" & "Peninsula News"; Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 1:30-1:56 pm; Red Bus @ 2:15 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home; (Friday's Special Reser's Potato Salad @ $5 reqired Digital Coupon) Sig Sel Cherry Strudels (24 ct) @ $5.99 - $2 = $3.99; Lucerne Creamers No Sugar French Vanilla @ $3.50; 7-Up Lemon-Lime Cans, 6 pack @ $5.23 (Free for Rudy); Returned 3 lbs Reser's Deviled-Egg Potato Salad @ $9.99.
Friday, October 21, 2022, 6:30-7:20 pm; 9:35-11:05 Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: Lloyd Bacon directs "42nd Street" (1933) with Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, Ginger Rogers, Ned Sparks, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins, Edward Nugent, Robert McWade, George E. Stone, Toby Wing; choreographed by Busby Berkeley with complex geometric patterns YouTube: (1; 2; 3; 4); Film Reviews: (1; 2; 3; 4) Got to this movie 40 minutes late; Saw entire movie (9:35-11:05 pm) to see Ruby Keeler's tap dancing.	Friday, October 21, 2022, 7:30-9:25 pm Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minelli directs The Band Wagon (1953)— with Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, James Mitchell, Robert Gist; (YouTube: "Shine on Your Shoes", Smoky Faust scene; "Dancing in the Dark", "New Sun in the Sky", and especially "Girl Hunt Ballet"); (Film Reviews: 1. Newsweek essay; 2. Rotten Tomatoes Reviews: Critics: 100%, Audience: 82% 3. AFI catalog; 4. imdb) This is my 5th favorite musical movie which I'm now seeing for the fourth time as great films need to be seen again & again.
Saturday, October 22, 2022, 6:36-6:43 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:45 am; Woke up @ 10:30 am (9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:43 am— CUYYK = YUCKY; KANKC = KNACK; TAACLU = ACTUAL; MEEYL = MEDLEY Cartoon Answer— The shaggy-haired ox learned to speak and wsa now a YY KK ATA EY = YAKETY-YAK 17.41% of 804 responders had trouble with "ACTUAL".	Saturday, October 22, 2022, 3:00-4:05 pm Mountain View: Ann comes @ 3:00 pm for bag of papers; Gave her poems "Hunter's Moon", "Archways", "Archway to Heaven", "Pondering on Poetry"; Valero (Middlefield Rd): for "Daily Post"; Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:15-3:45 pm; Red Bus @ 3:55 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home Forgot Pepperidge Farms Milano Cookies @ $2.99; 3 lbs Mustard Potato Salad ($8.99), 50% off @ $4.49; Lucerne Coffee Creamers No Sugar Hazelnut @ $3.50; Fage Blended Strawberry Yogurt, 5.3 oz @ $1.89 = Free.
Saturday, October 22, 2022, 1:30-2:00 pm Mountain View: Rudy came by my apt telling me he went to Meriwest Credit Union (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) for their 1-year 3.64% CD, depositing $10,000; I don't have funds for their CDs. Gave Rudy free 6 pack 7-Up drinks & 2 bags popcorn Rudy is so occupied with his course "F22 GIST F012 Intro Geospatial Technology", that he can't spare 4 hours to see great musical films "Band Wagon" & "42nd Street".	Saturday, October 22, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm Mountain View: Since Last Bus #40 is @ 6:21 pm on Saturday: and 5:46 pm on Sunday, I went to Stanford Theatre movies on Friday to catch the last Bus #40 @ 10:15 pm home; However got to movies 40 minutes late, & took 11:22 pm Bus 322 at Palo Alto Train Depot getting to Rengstorff Ave & El Camino Real @ 11:39 pm; walked faster & got home @ 12:12 am, 33 minutes walk instead of an hour when I'm tired.
Saturday, October 22, 2022, 6:52-11:55 pm Mountain View: Realized that the film "42nd Street" seen yesterday was not a sexual but a spiritual movie, inspiring the poem "Pretty Legs in Movie 42nd Street" When the camera panned through those dancer's legs— "Platonic Lambda Λ" I tell myself, "Soul of the Universe".	Saturday, October 22, 2022, !0:00-11:55 pm Mountain View: While searching for photos of Ruby Keeler dancing in "42nd Street", came across 1984 TV interview done 51 years later Ruby, Carol Cook, Nana Visitor (Ruby, 24 in 1933) Ruby was 75 years old in interview with cast of stage actress Carole Cook & Nana Visitor, and they tapped danced a storm— amazing!
Sunday, October 23, 2022, 9:12-9:29 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 4:35 am; Woke up @ 1:35 pm (9 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:29 am— RTUPNI = TURNIP; DALSIN = ISLAND; YSEERG = GEYSER; LHUEMI = HELIUM; MEETRP = TEMPER; YERKTU = TURKEY Cartoon Answer— Reading that Aconcaqua was the tallest mountain in two hemispheres TRN SAD EE HEI TPE RKE = "PEAKED" HER INTEREST 25.58% of 520 responders had trouble with this answer	Sunday, October 23, 2022, 1:35-4:30 pm Mountain View: Woke up @ 1:35 pm, No "Daily Post" Sunday; Stayed home to work; Apt felt chilly; Themostat set to 60o, Temperature was 67o; Raise thermostat to 77o; Heat coming on; Had cup of hot wild ginseng tea to warm me up; Emails: Rudy (free soda), Ann (ballet), Steve Gould (Platonic Λ); Heard on KNBR 104.5 FM: Kansas City Chiefs beat SF 49ers 44-23 Do LINC-405 assignments from William Cavada's "Skills Workshops"— Placing Videos in Folders; Restricting Access; Sharing with KCI Instructors; Voice Typing; Language Translations; Citations.
Sunday, October 23, 2022, 5:49-7:46 pm Mountain View: LINC-405 "Placing Videos in Folder" in Google Drive (Google Slides); Presentation Slide; 6 Videos; 6 Images; Title above; Text below: Images— 1) Dog Selects Treat (Video); 2) Aaron Judge Hits 62nd Homer (Video); 3) Auster Butler Stars in "Elvis" Film (Video); 4) Elvis Presley Sings "Love Me Tender" (Video); 5) Draymond Green Punched Jordan Poole (Video); 6) 5-Year-Old Paulette Stars in "Forbidden Games" (Video).	Sunday, October 23, 2022, 8:00-8:30 pm Mountain View: "OP-ED: Look who just clobbered China's chip industry" (By Farhad Manjoo, Mercury News, October 23, 2022, A13) Biden's sanctions prohibit China from buying the best American chips and the machines to build them. Semiconductors are one of the few sectors for which China still depends on rest of the world; the country spends more money importing microchips each year than it does oil.
Sunday, October 23, 2022, 9:00-10:45 pm Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: Perfect day trip to Emeryville, from restaurants to murals and Pixar" (By John Metcalfe, Mercury News, October 23, 2022, F7-F8) Classic cars, Pixar, windswept views and new public art make a 2022 visit lovely. Visit: Fantasy Junction; Sea Walls murals; The Compound Gallery; 36th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition; Public Market; Honor Kitchen; Townhouse; Trader Vic's	Sunday, October 23, 2022, 9:00-10:45 pm Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: The world's coolest neighborhoods for 2022" (Mercury News, October 23, 2022, F7) 1. Colonia Americana, Guadalajara, Mexico; 2. Cals de Sodrè, Lisbon, Portugal; 3. Wat Bo Village, SlamReap, Cambodia; 4. Ridgewood, NYC; 5. Mile End, Montreal; 6. Bardo Logan, San Diego; 7. Shimokitazawa, Tokyo;; 8. Cliftonville, Margate, U.K.; 9. Barrio Yungay, Santiago, Chile; 10. Cours Julien, Marseille, France.
Monday, October 24, 2022, 8:14-8:36 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 3:00 am; Woke up @ 3:00 pm (12 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 8:36 am— RNIDK = DRINK; KVOEE = EVOKE; BAHBYS = SHABBY; GTUFOH = FOUGHT Cartoon Answer— When it comes to dealing cards in poker, the playing cards are shuffled DRN EE AB FOH = BEFOREHAND 39.18% of 1151 responders had trouble with this answer	Monday, October 24, 2022, 5:00-6:25 pm Mountain View: Had restful 12 hours sleep (3:00 am-3:00 pm); Quick breakfast: coffee, 3 blueberry waffles, butter & maple syrup; Bus #40 @ 5:12 pm to Valero (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post"; Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 5:25-5:50 pm; Red Bus @ 6:15 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home 2 Sig Sel Cut Green Beans 16 oz ($3.49) @ $1.18 = $2.36; 2.44 lbs Sig Sel Red Seedless Grapes @ $1.39/lb = $3.42; 7-Up Lemon-Lime Cans, 6 pack @ $5.23 (Free for Rudy); Fage Blended Blueberry Yogurt, 5.3 oz @ $1.89 = Free.
Monday, October 24, 2022, 7:40-8:30 pm Mountain View: Today is the 77th anniversary of the United Nations' birthday (San Francisco); Dad was China's diplomat & took us to NYC's U.N. to see King Paul & Queen Frederica of Greece (2-11-1953), as well as President Dwight David Eisenhower making "Atoms for Peace" Speech (12-8-1953).	Monday, October 24, 2022, 7:40-8:30 pm Mountain View: Today's "Frank & Ernest" comics (10-24-2022) by Bob Thaves is just right for Rudy— “Quit clowning around, Ernie, that's "Java Man" and you know it!” Rudy loves coffee, and even buys Java Coffee ice cream; his email is rudjava@yahoo.com— "Java Man".
Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 5:50-5:54 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:10 am; Woke up @ 11:55 am (9.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 5:54 am— GEMAO = OMEGA; CAYTH = YACHT; RAYTOR = ROTARY; GRIWNI = WIRING Cartoon Answer— After the wedding reception, the happy couple was anxious to go on MEA CAH RTRY WRI = THEIR "MARRY" WAY 20.98% of 963 responders had trouble with this answer	Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 2:00-3:50 pm Mountain View: Coffee & Terra Chips; Went to Mid-Peninsula Community Room (Bldg N) for free slice of Pepperoni Pizza & Fruit Punch (2:00-2:50 pm); Talked to Mona; Half-hour walk to Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:30-3:50 pm; Red Bus @ 4:15 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home Bird's Eye Voila Garlic Shrimp, 21 oz ($8.99) @ $4.99; 2 Gorton Fish Fillets (10 ct) @ $11.49 BOGO = $11.49; Pepperidge Farms Cookies ($5.49) @ $2.99— Brussels; Chessmen; Orange Milano; Sausalito Macadamia Nuts.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 5:00-6:45 pm Mountain View: Leave apt @ 5:00 pm; Bus #40 @ 5:25 pm to Showers Drive; Walk to Lam's Hair & Nails Salon (2464 W. El Camino) $15 haircut (#1 crewcut) 5:43-6:00 pm; Bus #40 @ 6:30 pm to Central Xpwy Stop and walked home Last haircut here was March 25 (exactly 7 month ago); Half-hour wait for Bus #40: Got Monday's "Daily Post" at news bins near Lam's to read & Veggie Garden's menu.	Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 7:00-10:00 pm Mountain View: Shower & Shampoo Hair (7:00-8:00 pm); Al Guzman's email (8:34 am) "#1 Dog Selects Treat" Video "That was funny!"; Karen's email (2:52 pm) "Tony Foster's Video"; Rudy's email (3:39 pm) "that makes me a cool java man" (comics) Ann's email (9:07 pm): Likes my suggestion of interlibrary loan of Werfel's poems; She found Poems Franz Werfel Nov 11, 2018, Franklin Classics Trade Press.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 5:28-5:35 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:40 am; Woke up @ 12:05 am (10.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 5:35 am— GIDTI = DIGIT; YEFOR = FOYER; NANLAU = ANNUAL; THRETO = HOTTER Cartoon Answer— To see if his wife would be interested in buying a boat, he needed to DIT FOE AAL HTE = FLOAT THE IDEA 35.68% of 1124 responders had trouble with this answer	Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 2:40-4:00 pm Mountain View: Leave apt @ 2:40 pm; Half-hour wait at Rengstorff & Montecito Stop for Gray Bus @ 3:10 pm to Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post"; Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:20-3:45 pm; Red Bus @ 3:50 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home 4 Planter's Peanuts, 16 oz ($5.49) @ $1.99 = $7.96; 2 Bags Snicker's Mini-Bars ($5.49) @ $1.99 = $3.98; Land-O-Frost Black Forest Ham, 16 oz ($7.49) @ $5.82; Lucerne Creamer Pumpkin Pecan @ $3.99 (Rewards) Free.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 6:00-6:35 pm Mountain View: Zoom class LINC-405 "Skills Workshop" with Gene Tognetti: Demonstrated placing video in Google Slides— "Jack Bruce concert" (Christmas 2002) and his video "Seagull & Boat in Monterey Bay" Cavada's birthday today, so he's not doing LINC-405 Skills Workshop; Kim Randall not doing Q&A Session.	Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 7:00-8:37 pm Mountain View: Expanded texts to 6 "Videos in Folder" in Google Slides— Dog Treats; Aaron Judge's 62nd Homer; Auster Butler's "Elvis" Film; Elvis Sings "Love Me Tender"; Draymond Green Punched Jordan Poole; 5-Year-Old Paulette in "Forbidden Games" After finishing "Videos in Folder", shared assignment with LINC-405 instructors, William Cavada, Kim Randall, & Gene Tognetti.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 9:01 pm Mountain View: After Ann located Poems Franz Werfel, I found the book on Amazon.com: hardcover $22.95, paperback $5.97 (last copy); Ann wrote— "I bought the book you found for $5.97 on Amazon and it's due to arrive next Wednesday."	Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 10:40 pm-1:44 am Mountain View: Listed Assignment #1 "Videos in Folder" for LINC-405 (Fall 2022) and composed the Google Slide version in HTML, that took three hours to complete (took screen shots of the video to put by Image) Easy to copy & paste texts from Google Slides to HTML; Harder to format images of the videos.
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 5:20-5:24 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 5:30 am; Woke up @ 1:00 pm (7.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 5:24 am— GMETOP = TEMPO; SITOH = HOIST; ODSWIM = WISDOM; NUNESK = SUNKEN Cartoon Answer— When she asked when the clock would be repaired, he said TEO OI SOM NN = NO TIME SOON 30.42% of 1325 responders had trouble with this answer	Thursday, October 27, 2022, 2:30-4:00 pm Mountain View: Rudy came @ 2:30 pm after Palo Alto VA Hospital to see ENT Specialist; Wanted a cold drink; Gave him can of 7-Up Lemon-Lime No Sugar soda; Went to Valero Station (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Metro"; Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:00-3:42 pm; 4 Planter's Peanuts, 16 oz ($5.49) @ $1.99 = $7.96; 2 Rainbow Chips Cookies (18 ct) ($4.99) @ 99¢ = $1.98; 2 Sig Sel Sparkling Drink Mango Pineapple @ $1 = $2.00; Sig Sel Fruit Danish (6 ct) @ $5 - $2 = $3 (free for Rudy).
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 8:00-9:00 pm Mountain View: “MOVIES: Dwayne Johnson is a natural in predictable 'Black Adam'” (By Mark Kennedy, Mercury News, October 21, 2022) Why he hasn't had a starring role in a DC or Marvel superhero flick until now is astonishing. Black Adam is more than a match for all of them combined. He can fly, move as fast as The Flash, catch rockets, deflect bullets & harness his own bluish electricity. Other superheroes in DC pantheon aren't sure about the new guy, released from his 5,000-year-long tomb, to avenge modern evil.	Thursday, October 27, 2022, 9:00-10:30 pm Mountain View: "ORGANIC POEMS: San Jose Poets Unite for Outdoor Literary Event at SJSU Garden" (By Gary Singh, Metro, 10-26-2022, page 4) Public garden where poets ate pizza and drank lemongrass-flavored water at 372 E. San Salvador, between 8th & 9th streets, San Jose; Emcee was Mike McGee; Anne Cheilek read "Excerpts from a War Vocabulary", text by Ukrainian refugee. English Professor Alan Soldofsky read a few poems from his In the Buddha Factory including one "New Century Hotel", a place he stayed at in China.
Friday, October 28, 2022, 5:23-6:23 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:00 am; Woke up @ 12:55 pm (12 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle in an hour @ 6:23 am— TNGUS = STUNG; CLYEC = CYCLE; JAINDO = ADJOIN; SBULEH = BUSHEL Cartoon Answer— Their current topic was resulting in an argument and was STG CCE AJN BUHE = SUBJECT (TO) CHANGE 67.48% of 1553 responders had trouble with this answer	Friday, October 28, 2022, 3:20-5:45 pm Mountain View: Leave apt @ 3:20 pm; Red Bus @ 3:50 pm to Showers Dr. for "Daily Post"; Bus #22 to San Antonio Rd Chef Chu's bins for "Palo Alto Weekly"; CVS for Vitamin D3; Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) 4:45-5:13 pm; Bus #40 @ 5:27 pm to Central Xpwy Stop and walked home Reser's Potato Salad (3 lbs) ($9.99) @ $6.00 (for Rudy); Sig Sel Green Seedless Grapes, 2 lbs ($6.99) @ $2.77; Sig Sel Cheesecakes, 16 oz ($10.99) @ $5 - $2 = $3.00; Lucerne Creamer Hazelnut @ $3.99 (2 Rewards) = Free.
Friday, October 28, 2022, 4:00-4:20 am Mountain View: Only 4 gels left of Vitamin D3 300 soft gels bottle opened on 11-23-2021; Went to CVS (2630 W. El Camino Real to buy 2 bottles 300 soft gels Vitamin D3 (2000 IU) @ $20.49 + $1.87 tax = $22.36 BOGO Free Told checkout lady Deborah that I lost my California ID when my wallet was stolen at their store; She would not accept my Photo ID Card with VTA #, so paid in cash $22.36 today.	Friday, October 28, 2022, 4:22-4:30 pm Mountain View: Wells Fargo (2600 W. El Camino Real) Teller William Epstein served me today; $40 illegal payment at Shell Station in July restored by Fraud Department in Oct. 18 Statement; Deposited $60 to checking account & $60 to savings account. Getting up late (12 hours sleep) at 1 pm, with banking and shopping activities made me miss two musical movies at Stanford Theatre— "An American in Paris" (5:25 pm) & "Gigi" (7:30 pm).
Saturday, October 29, 2022, 9:28-9:38 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:45 am; Woke up @ 12:35 pm (12 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:38 am— YMHET = THYME; PAATD = ADAPT; LCNIPE = PENCIL; CSYILK = SICKLY Cartoon Answer— There was a rumor going around that she was a witch, and she wanted to TE DP IL SIL = "DISPELL" IT 15.89% of 818 responders had trouble with this answer	Saturday, October 29, 2022, 3:00-4:05 pm Mountain View: Ann comes @ 3:00 pm for bag of newspapers; Gave her bag of Halloween treats, 7-Up soda & tray of cookies; Stopped by Valero Station for "Daily Post" & "Peninsula News"; Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:15-3:44 pm; Red Bus @ 3:50 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home SeaPak Popcorn Shrimp, 18 oz ($9.99) @ $6.99; Land-O-Frost Black Forest Ham, 16 oz ($7.49) @ $5.82; Sig Sel Blueberry Waffles, 12.3 oz (10 ct) ($2.99) = Free; Lucerne Creamer Pumpkin Pecan @ $3.99 (Rewards) Free.
Saturday, October 29, 2022, 5:15-6:00 pm Mountain View: Time Magazine (Nov. 7, 2022 issue) came today; "The People's Conductor" by Ed Leibowitz (pp. 66-69) (For fiscal year 2018-19, NY Philharmonic took in $24.8 million in concert sales, while L.A. Philharmonic realized $93.9 million.) Under Gustavo Dudamel's aegis for the past 13 years, L.A. Philharmonic has spread classical music's unifying power well past its traditional confines— across divides of income, class, color, gender, and age. When virtuoso pianist Yuja Wang teams up with Dudamel, they performed the full cycle of Bartók's piano concertos.	Saturday, October 29, 2022, 6:00-6:30 pm Mountain View: "OBITUARY: Rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis dies at 87; 'Great Balls of Fire' singer also had scandalous personal life" ((By Hillel Italie, AP, Mercury News, 10-29-2022, A3) "Great Balls of Fire", a sexualized take on Biblical imagery that Jerry Lee Lewis initially refused to record, & "Whole Lotta Shakin'" were his most enduring songs & performance pieces. In 1986, along with Elvis, Chuck Berry and others, he made the inaugural class of inductees for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and joined Country Hall of Fame in 2022.
Saturday, October 29, 2022, 6:30-7:45 pm Mountain View: "OBITUARY: Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97" (By Hillel Italie, AP, Mercury News, 10-29-2022) Winner of National Book Award in 1998 for the anthology "This Time", and often compared to Walt Whitman because of his lyrical and sensual style, and his gift for wedding the physical world to the greater cosmos. Gerald Stern was named New Jersey's first poet laureate (2000-2002); Ezra Pound & W.B Yeats were among poets he read closely.	Saturday, October 29, 2022, 7:45-8:45 pm Mountain View: Gerald Stern's poems at Poetry Foundation; Poetry Archive; Poets.org; "Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye" (2010) I love how he lived in the desert. I'm looking at the skull of Georgia O'Keeffe. I'm kissing Stieglitz good-bye. He was a city, Stieglitz was truly a city in every sense of the word; he wore a library across his chest; he had a church on his knees. I'm kissing him good-bye; he was, for me,...
Sunday, October 30, 2022, 6:21-6:37 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:00 am; Woke up @ 1:30 pm (12.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:37 am— RFDAARI = AFRAID; MOINEC = INCOME; GOLONA = LAGOON; LYTSSU = STYLUS; TFACEF = AFFECT; PLUXED = DUPLEX Cartoon Answer— If Costner's 1989 baseball movie had featured zombies, it could have been called RA IME LO SS FFC DE = FIELD OF "SCREAMS" 19.27% of 410 responders had trouble with this answer	Sunday, October 30, 2022, 1:35-4:30 pm Mountain View: Woke up @ 1:30 pm, No "Daily Post" Sunday; Too late to go & see two musical movies at Stanford Theatre— "An American in Paris" (5:25 pm, 9:35 pm) 6 Oscars & "Gigi" (3:20 pm, 7:30 pm) 9 Oscars. With 15 Oscars between them, this double feature at Stanford Theatre: greatest # of Oscar winnings; Heard on KNBR 104.5 FM: SF 49ers beat LA Rams 31-14. Do LINC-405 assignments from William Cavada's "Skills Workshops"— Voice Typing; Language Translations; Citations. Use poem "Pretty Legs in Movie 42nd Street" in Google Drawngs.
Sunday, October 30, 2022, 4:25-8:30 pm Mountain View: Wrote poem "Dog Selects a Treat" Taking screen shots of 6 images of Dog playing "2-Card Monte" with his owner— Poem has 32 lines of 8 stanzas with Grimm's Fairy Tale of "Fisherman and His Wife" on "Bigger and Better".	Sunday, October 30, 2022, 9:00-10:30 pm Mountain View: Could not use Google Drawings to reproduce poem "Pretty Legs in Movie 42nd Street" done in HTML; Will need help from Cavada on Wednesday Q&A Session. Google Drawings good for "All Seats Full" poem in Spring 2022, but can't do it now. Used Google Slides to insert horizontal & vertical images, but can't format text size.
Monday, October 31, 2022, 6:40-6:47 am Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:45 am; Woke up @ 1:15 pm (10.5 hours sleep); Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 6:47 am— YHMETE = THEME; YORFE = FOYER; OMSOHT = SMOOTH; DMRADE = MADDER Cartoon Answer— Sleepy Hollow's infamous horseman dressed up for Halloween TEE FOR OOTH MAD = FROM HEAD TO TOE 43.4% of 1030 responders had trouble with this answer	Monday, October 31, 2022, 5:05-6:15 pm Mountain View: Leave Apt @ 4:00 pm; Red Bus @ 4:30 pm to Showers Drive Wal-Mart news bins for "Daily Post"; Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) 5:05-5:36 pm; Sig Sel Blueberry Waffles (10 ct) ($2.99) = Free (Sold Out).; Bus #40 @ 6:00 pm to Central Xpwy and walked home 4 Planter's Peanuts, 16 oz ($5.49) @ $1.99 = $7.96; 2 Bob Evans Mashed Potatoes 24 oz @ $4.00 = $8.00; Sig Sel Cherries Strudels, (24 ct) ($5.99) 50% off = $2.99; Lucerne Creamer French Vanilla @ $3.99 (Rewards) Free.
Monday, October 31, 2022, 3:05-3:35 pm Mountain View: Books to read for Halloween— Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Bram Stoker's Dracula Here are four horror stories to read to children on Halloween for some scary treats on this night.	Monday, October 31, 2022, 4:40-4:54 pm Mountain View: Bottle of Folgers Instant Coffee opened 8-24-2022, down to one teaspoon, used half for coffee this breakfast; CVS (2630 W. El Camino Real); Yuban Instant Coffee ($10.49) on sale @ $4.99 all sold out; Folgers Instant Coffee @ $9.29 with online discount coupons & $2 off shopping coupon = $3.99.
Monday, October 31, 2022, 7:37-8:30 pm Mountain View: Images for Halloween poem— Skeletons; Witch's Cauldron; Scary Pumpkin; Ghosts; Vampire Bats; Winchester Mystery House; Linus Pumpkin Patch Skeletons are rattling, ghosts & ghouls tattling, scary scenes on Halloween.	Monday, October 31, 2022, (Ann's email @ 6:49 pm) Mountain View: Ann explored some online text generators, including a poetry generator— She used their AI Haikus Generator. Typed "cirrus" & got a nice 5-7-5 syllables haiku— Cirrus, you have flown no sign of land below you now you go higher.
Monday, October 31, 2022, 7:46 pm-12:50 am Mountain View: Wrote poem "Halloween Treats 2022"— with 11 images (4 horror books), 8 rhyming stanza of 32 lines Started poem with scary stories from Poe, Irving, Shelley, & Stoker, ending on happier note with Great Pumpkin.	Monday, October 31-Nov. 1, 2022, 1:15-1:30 am Mountain View: Tried Ann's AI Haikus Generator, Typed "Halloween" & got haiku with title "Halloween is coming"— Annual, scary it means it is halloween trick or treat, dead things.
Monday, October 31-Nov. 1, 2022, 1:44-2:30 am Mountain View: 5 hours writing poem "Halloween Treats 2022" with aid of Rhyming Dictionary after placing 11 images on page Late dinner of SeaPak Popcorn Shrimp, Deviled-Egg Potato Salad, Non-fat Milk, Slice of Cheesecake and Mango Ice Cream.	Monday, October 31-Nov. 1, 2022, 1:30-1:35 am Mountain View: AI Haikus Generator's regenerated "Halloween haiku": title "Trick or treat" is better than first one Happy halloween the moon is shining brightly it's a scary night.

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