Haikus: April 2023

HAIKUS: April 2023

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.

Saturday, April 1, 2023, 9:35-9:44 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:30 am;
Woke up @ 11:30 am (11 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 9:44 am—
IGDTI = DIGIT; NPOER = PRONE;
BFALFE = BAFFLE; GTLIPH = PLIGHT
Oven for baking off 3/18, working again (3 waffles)

Cartoon Answer— When their newspapers printed
the jumble upside-down on April 1, they
DII PRO FFE PLT = FLIPPED FOR IT
34.41% of 895 responders had trouble with this answer Saturday, April 1, 2023, 3:00-3:37 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 3:00 pm with Ann, Drive
to Valero Station (Midddlefield Road) for "Daily Post";
Shopping @ Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:15-3:37 pm;
and ride home; Gave Ann bag of newspapers; 64 oz Apple Cider;
4 Jumbo Croissants; Poem "Names for My Children"; LINC-405
Winter; Baudelaire "L'Albatros" translation French to English

Open Nature Almond Milk ($3.49) @ $2.38;
Lucerne Coffee Creamer Hazelnut ($3.99) @ $3.50;
2 Sparkling Water Mango-Pineapple @ 96¢ x 4 = $1.92;
4 Dole Pineapples Chunks 20 oz ($3.49) @ $2 x 4 = $8.00.

Saturday, April 1, 2023, 3:50-5:50 pm
Mountain View: Had cup of Pepsi Zero-Sugar Soda
while browsing Time Magazine (April 10-17, 2023);
Cover: El Mundo de Bad Bunny (pp. 38-41; 64)

"How Frank Gehry Changed Buildings—
and Cities— Forever" (pp. 52-55);
"Stop AI Labs for 6 Months";
"Saving the Seine" (pp. 46-51). Saturday, April 1, 2023, 6:00-7:30 pm
Mountain View: Mercury News included "Play Ball"
Magazine (70 pp.) in today's issue with many stories on
San Francisco Giants & Oakland A's 2023 Baseball Season

NEW RULES: (1) 10 seconds for pitch with bases empty;
20 seconds with runner on base; (2) 2 infielders on each side of 2nd base; (3) Pitchers limited to two pick-off attempts per player; (4) Bases increased from 15" to 18" on each side.

Sunday, April 2, 2023, 8:06-8:30 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 11:10 pm;
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 8:30 am—
RAOURP = UPROAR; ICAEPE = APIECE;
PELSNE = SPLEEN; TNCIEE = ENTICE;
BRYUGB = GRUBBY; TANMUU = AUTUMN

Cartoon Answer— The grizzly and the panda
don't look exactly the same but they did
RA AEC SLE ENE RBB AM = BEAR A RESEMBLANCE
17.66% of 419 responders had trouble with "AUTUMN" Sunday, April 2, 2023, 11:47-11:58 am
Mountain View: Woke up @ 11:00 am, after 12 hours sleep;
No "Daily Post" printed on Sunday; Stayed home to work;
Breakfast: Raisin-Date-Walnut Oatmeal, Wheat Germ, Yogurt,
16 Pineapple Chunks; Listen to 104.9 KDFC FM Radio (Playlist)
Bookmark interesting articles in Sunday's Mercury News

Richard Hickox directs Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra to Frederick Delius, "Walk to the Paradise Garden" (ending of opera "A Village Romeo and Juliet", 1907); CD (2016); (YouTube: Sir John Barbirolli; Sir Andrew Davis)

Saturday, April 1, 2023, 9:00-9:48 pm
Mountain View: "SCIENCE: Rock crystal sat in museum
for nearly 2 centuries— then they found it wasn't a rock"
(By Irene Wright, Yahoo News, 3-31-2023)

In 1883, what was believed to be a decorative crystal gemstone was cataloged & placed in mineralogy collection at Natural History Museum in London. Found in central India, the agate, as it was called, was almost perfectly spherical, around 6 inches across & a light pink color. Robin Hansen saw the agate was lined by a thin white layer, like an eggshell. Agate has infilled this spherical structure, which turns out to be a dinosaur egg. Paleontologists believe it's from a titanosaur, Earth's biggest dinosaur. Sunday, April 2, 2023, 8:06-8:30 am
Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: California Getaway: Wildflowers, condors and gorgeous Cuyama Valley"
(By Amber Turpin, Mercury News, April 2, 2023, F7-F8)

California's "Hidden Valley of Enchantment"—
an hour east of Santa Maria is the unpopulated, quiet magnitude of the natural landscape; visit to this area, especially during a spring wildflower season that's
expected to be a super bloom this year. No crowds,
no rush hour bustle— just serenity and delightful
surprises. Stop by these spots— Cuyama Buckhorn;
Carrizo Plain National Monument; Blue Sky Center;
Santa Barbara Pistachio Co.; Condor's Hope.

Sunday, April 2, 2023, 11:47-11:58 am
Mountain View: "TRAVEL— THE LIST:
The 10 best beaches in the world"
(By Marnie Hunter, CNN, Mercury News, April 2, 2023, F7)

1. Baía do Sanchoí Fernando de Noronha, Brazil; 2. Eagle Beach— Aruba, Caribbean; 3. Cable Beach— Broome, Australia; 4. Reynisfjara Beach— Vik, Iceland; 5. Grace Bay Beach— Turks and Caicos, Caribbean; 6. Praía da Falésia— Olhos de Agua, Portugal; 7. Radhanagar Beach— Havelock Island, India; 8. Spiaggia dei Conigli— Sicily, Italy; 9. Varadero Beach— Cuba, Caribbean; 10. Ka'anapali Beach— Maui, Hawaii. Tripadvisor's 10 U.S. beaches for 2023—:
1. Ka'anapali Beach— Maui, HI; 2. Siesta Beach— Siesta Key, FL; 3. Driftwood Beach— Jekyll Island, GA; 4. Hanalei Beach— Kauai, HI; 5. Ho'okipa Beach Park— Maui, HI;
6. Henderson Beach State Park— Destin, FL; 7. Cannon Beach— Cannon Beach, OR; 8. Coronado Beach— Coronado, CA; 9. Ogunquit Beach— Ogunquit, ME;
10. La Jolla Cove— La Jolla, CA. Sunday, April 2, 2023, 2:00-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Wikipedia's List of people with bipolar disorder
There are artists I'll be proud to be associated with as well as
3 U.S. Presidents & Isaac Newton (also Ludwig van Beethoven)

Alvin Ailey, choreographer; John Adams, 2nd U.S. President; Art Buchwald, humorist; Dick Cavett, TV journalist; Winston Churchill, statesman; Kurt Cobain, musician; Samuel T. Coleridge, poet; Carrie Fisher, actress; Connie Francis, singer; Glenn Gould, pianist; Ernest Hemingway, novelist; Frida Kahlo, painter; Vivien Leigh, actress; Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President; Gustav Mahler, composer; Edvard Munch, painter; Kim Novak, actress; Isaac Newton, physicist; Jane Pauley, TV presenter; Sylvia Plath, poet; Edgar Allan Poe, poet; Jackson Pollock, artist; Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President; John Ruskin, art critic; Robert Schumann, composer; Frank Sinatra, singer; Ted Turner, CNN founder; Vincent van Gogh, artist; Brian Wilson, musician, founder of Beach Boys; Virginia Woolf, writer. ("Bipolar Disorder People")

Monday, April 3, 2023, 8:58-9:16 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:10 am;
Woke up @ 2:00 pm (13 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 9:16 am—
TOHTO = TOOTH; NEFEC = FENCE;
DRLIDE = RIDDLE; RUTAME = MATURE

Cartoon Answer— She was very busy and
would look for missing wristwatch when she
TOH FEN IDE MTU = FOUND THE TIME
9.23% of 813 responders had trouble with "MATURE" Monday, April 3, 2023, 4:30-6:15 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 4:30 pm; Half-hour walk
to Valero Station (Midddlefield Road) for "Daily Post";
Shopping @ Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 4:555-5:38 pm;
Red Bus @ 6:00 pm to Montecito Ave 7 walked home (WINDY);
Mid-Pen Housing door locked; used swip key to open & pay rent

2.18 lb Red Seedless Grapes @ $1.48/lb; = $3.23;
Dreyers Kit Kat Ice Cream ($6.99) 1.5 qt @ $3.99;
2 Sea Pak Popcorn Shrimp @ $10.99 BOGO free = $10.99;
Cherry Strudels Bites 20 ct @ $5.99 - $2 off bakery = $3.99.

Monday, April 3, 2023, 7:30-8:50 pm
Mountain View: I had 13 hours sleep,
yet feeling lethargic, with no projects
to excite me and spur me onward—

Yesterday used "Mythical Creatures" format as template
for composing "Bipolar Disorder People"— (4:50-5:50 pm);
Bio-links on 56 selected people in Wikipedia (5:50-6:40 pm);
Photos of 10 people & 2 postage stamps of people I like
(6:55-8:48 pm); Took 4 hours to complete this project. Monday, April 3, 2023, 9:30-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Jagged edged ceramic eggs with plush bunny
inside sold at Safeway for $14.99; Told checkout clerk Shaikh that children could hurt themselves falling on these rough jagged edges.

While doing "Bipolar Disorder People" web page, made links on Bipolar Disorder: NIH; Mayo Clinic; Stanford Medicine; Harvard Medical School; Wikipedia; Symptoms & Treament (Cleveland Clinic); "Creativity and bipolar disorder" (2012); "Manic Depression and Creativity" (1998).

Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 6:52-7:00 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:00 am;
Woke up @ 12:30 pm (11.5 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 7:00 am—
OHYAO = YAHOO; LUTDA = ADULT;
LIPRAL = PILLAR; HATAYP = APATHY

Cartoon Answer— To purchase the penthouse
unit on the highest floor, they were willing to
YOO ADL PLR PAT = PAY TOP DOLLAR
32.95% of 965 responders had trouble with this answer Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 2:00-2:30 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Tuesday;
or need for shopping; Stayed home to work;
Find a project to excite me in finishing—
"Chinese Lunar Years: Animal Zodiac"
4 years done so far (project 1/3 complete)

Monkey Year;
Sheep Year;
Horse Year;
Snake Year.

Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 2:30-4:30 pm
Mountain View: "Chinese Lunar Years: Animal Zodiac"
Found the following Animal Lunar Years
partially complete; Need Bio-links to people

Rat Year;
Ox Year;
Tiger Year. Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 4:30-5:30 pm
Mountain View: Find a project in finishing—
"Chinese Lunar Years: Animal Zodiac"
when 7 years done (project 58.3% complete)

Time-consuming to do— (Hare, Dragon, Rooster,
Dog, Pig); Find people born in 12-years interval,
including those in January & February of Lunar Years.

Wednesday, April 5 2023, 7:47-8:22 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 5:20 am;
Woke up @ 12:20 pm (7 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 8:22am—
MAHES = SHAME; SBCAI = BASIC;
LAHHET = HEALTH; FCAYRT = CRAFTY

Cartoon Answer— After their nasty
divorce, she called her ex-husband her
HE BAI LT RFT = "BITTER" HALF
43.45% of 1038 responders had trouble with this answer Wednesday, April 5 2023, 2:00-3:30 pm
Mountain View: Rudy's phone woke me up @ 12:20 am;
He came by @ 2:00 pm; Gave him tub of buttered popcorn;
Google Map/Directions: 6 minutes trip to 935 Terra Bella Ave
Recycle took 40 minutes; Refund 33 bottles @ 5¢ = $1.65 for Rudy;
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 2:45-3:16 pm

Lucerne Swiss Cheese 8 oz @ $1.87;
Fresh Strawberries 16 oz ($4.99) @ $1.48;
1.02 lb Green Asparagus @ 99¢/lb = $1.01;
Tim's Dungeness Crab Potato Chips ($5.49) = Free.

Wednesday, April 5 2023, 6:00-7:27 pm
Mountain View: Gave Rudy free items from Safeway—
Smartwater Alkaline 33.8 oz $2.50; Lucerne Chocolate Milk Quart @ $1.99; Blueberries 6 oz @ $3.99; Tapioca Pudding & Orange-Strawberry Gels = $2.50; Pepsi Cola No Sugar 20 oz @ $2.79

The 3-way lightbulb lamp on my desk
is not working; Rudy dismantled it
and will fix the problem at his apt. Wednesday, April 5 2023, 7:30-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Spent 10 hours (2:40 pm-12:25 am)
yesterday composing "Rat Year People"
for years 1996, 1984, 1972, 1960, 1948
since Karen was born in the Rat Year

Tom Holland (6-1-1996), Prince Harry (9-15-1984),
John F. Kennedy Jr. (11-25-1960), Olivia Newton-John
(9-26-1948), Peggy Fleming (7-27-1948) born in Rat Year.

Thursday, April 6, 2023, 10:24-10:29 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:35 am;
Woke up @ 10:10 am (9.5 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 10:29 am—
ZOREF = FROZE; GTIEH = EIGHT;
CIPCIN = PICNIC; FIRTDA = ADRIFT

Cartoon Answer— With $1000 being the most that
could be won on the scratch-off game, it was the
RZ EG PNI ADR = GRAND PRIZE
8.54% of 952 responders had trouble with "ADRIFT" Thursday, April 6, 2023, 2:00-4:15 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 1:20; Bus #40
@ 1:50 pm to San Antonio Dental (530 Showers Drive)
for appointment with Dr. Mahroo Mofarrahi (2:00-3:27 pm);
Wal-Mart news bins at Showers Drive for "Daily Post";
4:01 pm Bus #40 to Central Xpwy Stop and walked home

Dr. Mahroo treated me for resin-based
composite (4 anterior) for tooth 27 ($251),
and core buildup & zirconia crown upgrade
on tooth 4 ($986); Paid $1247 Fidelity check.

Thursday, April 6, 2023, 6:00-7:03 pm
Mountain View: Rudy came by with fixed 3-way
light bulb lamp; With the lamp shade, it's not as
bright as the 10-watts 800 lumens light bulb lamp;
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 6:45-7:03 pm

Rudy came from VA Hospital hungry;
Made tub of buttered popcorn for him
with cold bottle 20 oz Pepsi No-Sugar Soda;
Gave him Whole 9-inch Cherry Pie ($12.99) free. Thursday, April 6, 2023, 7:30-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Al Guzman emailed 12:27 pm
on coming over my apt @ 9 am Saturday 4/8,
for breakfast outing & movie afterwards;
Rudy will join us instead of going to Lodi

Rudy was in Lodi and missed the Friday,
March 24 outings with Al Guzman and me—
lunch at Dinah's Restaurant and seeing premiere of
"John Wick, Chapter 4" at Shoreline Century Cinema 16.

Friday, April 7, 2023, 9:55-11:22 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 11:55 pm;
Woke up @ 9:40 am (9.5 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 11:22 am—
TUAEC = ACUTE; RANBO = BARON;
PUEPIL = PILEUP; MSIEIL = SIMILE

Missed Cartoon Answer— In the past, the idea
of streaming a movie digitally would have been
CTE RN LEU SII = UN-"REEL"-ISTIC
18.74% of 1478 responders had trouble with this answer Friday, April 7, 2023, 3:00-4:15 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 3:00 pm with Ann; Drive to
Chef Chu's news bins for "Daily Post" & "Palo Alto Weekly";
Gave Ann bag of newspapers & "Bipolar Disorder People"
web page printed on one-page @ 48% (too small to read):
Shopping at Safeway (635 San Antonio Road) 3:31-3:57 pm

Fresh Strawberries 16 oz ($4.99) @ $1.48;
3 Triscuits Crackers ($4.99) @ $1.67 = $5.00;
Sig Café Mashed Potatoes @ $4.99 (2 Rewards) = Free;
Green Onions @ $1.69; Gave Ann Cheesecakes @ $5.00.

Friday, April 7, 2023, 4:30-5:30 pm
Mountain View: "MUSIC: From East To West:
Remembering The Great Ravi Shankar"
(By Paul Sexton, Yahoo News, 4-7-2023)

As so often, George Harrison put it most profoundly.
"The first person who ever impressed me in my life was
Ravi Shankar", he said, "and he was the only person who
didn't try to impress me." Master Indian musician, who did more to introduce music & culture of his home land than almost any other, was born on April 7, 1920. ("Norwegian Wood"). Ravi mentored his daughter Anoushka, who emerged as a notable sitar player in her own right, and they toured together. Another daughter, Norah Jones, herself became a world-famous, multi-million-selling success.
Shankar remained active until very end of his life, playing
his final concert with Anoushka in November 2012,
just four weeks before he passed away at the age of 92. Friday, April 7, 2023, 5:30-7:30 pm
Mountain View: One of my 6 letters published by
New York Times Sunday Book Review (1964-1970)
was a quote of Albert Einstein from original source—

Goodreads cites "The World as I See It" (1949)—
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel,
is as good as dead and his eyes are dimmed."
• However, my 1963 copy of Einstein's "Ideas & Opinions" quoted it (pp. 8-11) with original in "Forum and Century", Vol. 84, pp. 193-194, 13th Essay "What I Believe" (1930);
Also: Living Philosophies (Simon Schuster, 1931) pp. 3-7;
NY Times told Theodore Remer that I'm the Einstein expert, & I found Einstein 1955 quote for him; he thanked me with his book "Serendipity & the Three Princes" (Nov. 1967).

Friday, April 7, 2023, 7:30-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Theodore Remer asked me where did
Einstein say "the mind takes a leap to higher consciousness";
Wandered to Cornell's Olin Library, browsed some Einstein
books; Einstein died April 18, 1955; Recalled last interview
in Life Magazine (May 2, 1955) & found the quote (pp. 61-68)—

"There comes a point where the mind takes a leap—
call it intuition or what you will— and comes out upon
a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it
got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap." Friday, April 7, 2023, 8:30-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Theodore Remer autograhed his book
"Serendipity"— "To Dr. Peter Chou— With appreciation
and best wishes" — Theodore Remer, Chicago, November 1967;
Based on his date, My original letter to the NY Times Book Review
probably appeared sometime on Sunday in 1996-1997.

Thanked the learned lawyer for anointing me
"doctorate" three years before I earned it in 1970;
On way to San Francisco 1976 ACS Meeting, phoned him
as plane stopped at Chicago's O'Hare Airport to say "hello".

Saturday, April 8, 2023, 8:32-9:00 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:50 am;
Woke up @ 8:30 am (8 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 9:00 am—
NAOPI = PIANO; MKIPS = SKIMP;
BRAGEL = GARBLE; DURETG = TRUDGE;
For Cartoon Answer, I had "Great Minkpurse"

Missed Cartoon Answer— The grocery store's
billboards were examples of a business with
PAN SKIM GRE TRUE = SUPER MARKETING
52.05% of 1241 responders had trouble with this answer Saturday, April 8, 2023, 9:16-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 9:00 am with Al Guzman & Rudy
for breakfast @ Papas & Eggs, 2070 Old Middlefield Road;
Valero's news bins for "Daily Post" & "Peninsula News";
Al drove to our next breakfast outing recommended by his wife's
friend who worked at United Airlines— 3Sixty, Hyatt Regency, 1333 Old Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame (Al didn't like the place)

Al Guzman treated us all—
I had Denver Omelette & Hashed Browns, water;
Rudy had Ham & Omelette & Hashed Browns, coffee;
Al had Meat Lovers Omellete & Hashed Browns, coffee.

Saturday, April 8, 2023; 11:50 am-2:42 pm (Movie fee: $12.50)
Mountain View: Al Guzman drove to Century Cinema 16
(1500 N. Shoreline Blvd) to see "Dungeons & Dragons" directed
by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley; with Chris Pine; Michelle Rodriguez; Regé-Jean Page; Justice Smith; Sophia Lillis; Hugh Grant; Chloe Coleman; Daisy Head; Jason Wong.

Never played the game "Dungeons & Dragons", but not necessary to enjoy this film that beat "John Wick Chapter 4" after 2 weeks on top (4/2) in audience; (YouTube: Trailer;
Dan Murrell Review; Jeremy Jahns; Mark Kermode);
(Movie Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes; IMDB). Saturday, April 8, 2023, 9:00 am
Mountain View: Showed Rudy my eyeglass case with distance glasses, lost it somewhere (in Al's car?); Lucky sat at C5 in Auditorium 12 at Century Cinema 16, near the screen that I can see the movie clearly with my reading glasses; Since Al treated me for breakfast and movie today, gave him two bags of groceries—

(1) Strawberries 16 oz (2) 3 Triscuits Crackers (Fire Roasted Tomato; Avocado Cilantro & Lime; Reduced Fat); (3) 4 Pringles Potato Chips; (4) Sig Sel 16 oz Peanuts Unsalted & Honey Roasted; (5) Walnut Halves; (6) Red Seedless Grapes
(7) Mediwiper Hand Sanitizing Wipes 80 ct.

Sunday, April 9, 2023, 6:39-7:17 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:00 am;
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 7:17 am—
CONKUR = UNCORK; COSTEK = SOCKET;
LOVEEV = EVOLVE; CILEPS = SPLICE;
FELSUU = USEFUL; CNLIEP = PENCIL

Cartoon Answer— The table for four
at the restaurant was perfect for the
UO SOC OE PCE FUL PL = COUPLE OF COUPLES
21.91% of 397 responders had trouble with this answer. Sunday, April 9, 2023, 2:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Woke up @ 12:25 pm, after 11.5 hours sleep;
No "Daily Post" printed on Sunday; Stayed home to work;
Breakfast: 4 Black Forest Ham, 2 Swiss Cheese, 8 Triscuits;
Bookmark interesting articles in Sunday's Mercury News
Sent Joyful Easter & Easter poems to friends & family members.

"Easter Eve at Stanford's Memorial Church" (4-19-2014);
"Easter Bunny Hunt" (4-9-2010);
Notes to Poem; "Easter Bunny Hunt" (4-18-2010);
46-year-old poem: "What Is Easter?" (4-4-1977).

Sunday, April 9, 2023, 3:30-4:30 pm
Mountain "THINGS TO DO: 5 Places
to See the Bay Area's Superbloom"
(By John Metcalfe, Mercury News, April 9, 2023, F7-F8)

Depending on the park, visitors may see colorful
California poppies, sand verbena, desert sunflowers,
evening primrose, popcorn flowers or desert lilies.
• 5 parks to visit to see wildflowers—
1. Mount Tamalpais State Park, Marin;
2. Diablo Range, East and South Bays;
3. Calero County Park, San Jose:
4. Coyote Hills Regional Park, Fremont;
5. Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District,
San Mateo & Santa Clara counties. Sunday, April 9, 2023, 3:30-4:30 pm
Mountain View: "TRAVEL— THE LIST:
The top 10 most visited US National Park sites in 2022"
(By Forrest Brown, CNN, Mercury News, April 9, 2023, F7)

1. Blue Ridge Parkway, 15.71 million;
2. Golden Gate National Recreation Area, 15.64 million;
3. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 12.94 million;
4. Gateway National Recreation Area, 8.73 million;
5. Lincoln Memorial, 7.83 million;
6. George Washington Memorial Parkway, 7.4 million;
7. Natchez Trace Parkway, 6.54 million;
8. Gulf Islands National Seashore, 5.69 million;
9. Lake Mead National Recreation Area, 5.58 million;
10. Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 4.89 million.

Sunday, April 9, 2023, 4:30-5:30 pm
Mountain View: "OP-ED: An AI moratorium
is not the answer to the technology's threats"
(By Jerry McNerney, Mercury News, April 9, 2023, A8)

Hundreds of technology leaders & researchers, including Steve Wozniak & Elon Musk, recently released a letter calling for a moratorium on artificial intelligence development, citing risk to human society. AI could be
used in fraud & other crimes. AI could manipulate political discourse causing social instability. AI could be used in autonomous weapons on & off the battlefield. And worst
of all, AI might develop an intelligence or consciousness
that would enable it to actively eliminate humans & other
life forms. Stopping AI would ask our descendants to live
lives similar to ours when much better may be possible. Sunday, April 9, 2023, 4:30-5:30 pm
Mountain View: "TRAVEL— THE LIST:
The top 10 most visited US National Park sites in 2022"
(By Forrest Brown, CNN, Mercury News, April 9, 2023, F7)

This list does not include Monuments and Memorials—
1. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 12.94 million;
2. Grand Canyon National Park, 4.73 million;
3. Zion National Park, 4.69 million;
4. Rocky Mountain National Park, 4.30 million;
5. Acadia National Park, 3.97 million;
6. Yosemite National Park, 3.67 million;
7. Yellowstone National Park, 3.29 million;
8. Joshua Tree National Park, 3.06 million;
9. Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 2.913 million;
10. Glacier National Park, 2.908 million.

Sunday, April 9, 2023, 5:30-7:11 pm & 9:11-9:48 pm
Mountain View: "RELIGION: CHRISTIAN HISTORY—
It's Easter Sunday, so here's a look at world's largest religion"
(By Kurt Snibbe, Mercury News, April 9, 2023, B13

31.2% of world's population is considered to be Christian. More than 45,000 Christian denominations globally & more than 200 in U.S. % of world's Muslim will rise from 23.2% in 2010 to 29.7% in 2050, & % of Christians will stay same at 31.5%. History: 4 BC: Birth of Jesus; 27 AD: Jesus begins ministry; 30 AD: Jesus crucified; 33 ad: Pentecost; 60 AD: New Testament Gospel made; 62 AD: Martyrdom of James; 67-68 AD: Apostles Peter & Paul martyred; 301: Armenia becomes world's first country to officially adopt Chrisianity as the state religion; 313 AD: Edict of Milan by Constantine, Christianity becomes a legal religion within the Roman empire; 325 Nicene Creed; 597: St. Augustine becomes first Archbishop of Cantebury; 1054 Great Schism: Eastern Orthodox & Western Catholic churches separate; 1095: Pope Urban II authorizes First Crusade to recover the Holy Land from Muslims; 1099: Crusaders conquer Jerusalem; 1189: Third Crusade led by King Richard the Lionheart of England 1266-73: Thomas Aquinas wrote Summa Theologiae; 1455: Gutenberg prints Bible; 1517: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses in Wittenburg, Germany, the beginning of Protestant Reformation; 1529: Church of England formed; 1534: Ignatius of Loyala founds the Jesuits; 1534: King Henry VIII becomes supreme head of the English church; 1536: John Calvin publishes his "Institutes of the Christian Religion"; 1609: Baptist Church founded; 1611 King James Version Bible published; 1738: Methodist Church founded; 1789: Episcopla Church founded; 1830: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints founded; 1869: First Vatican Council; 1906: Azusa Street revival, beginning of Pentecostal movement; 1950: Mother Theresa founds Missionaries of Charity; 2013: Pope Francis is first pope from the Americas. Sunday, April 9, 2023, 7:35-9:11 pm
Mountain View: On 4/4, spent 10 hours (2:40 pm-12:25 am)
doing "Rat Year People" for years 1996, 1984, 1972, 1960, 1948;
Took an hour 40 minutes to find Rat Year People in year 1936—

1936: Roger Miller, singer (1/2); Robert Wilson, Nobel physicist (1/10); Stephen E. Ambrose, historian (1/10); Barry Barish, Nobel physicist 91/27): Troy Donahue, actor (1/27); Samuel C. C. Ting, Nobel physicist (1/27); Alan Alda, actor (1/28); David Brenner, comedian (2/4); Burt Reynolds, actor (2/11); Jim Brown, football (2/17); Dean Stockwell, actor (3/5); Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court justice (3/11); Ursula Andress, actress (3/19); Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel author (3/28); Glen Campbell, country singer (4/22); Roy Orbison, rock singer (4/23); Jill Ireland, actress (4/24); Engelbert Humperdinck, pop singer (5/2); El Cordobés, matador (5/4); Albert Finney, actor (5/9); Glenda Jackson, actress (5/9); Bobby Darin, singer (5/14); Philippe de Montebello, MMA director (5/16); Dennis Hopper, actor (5/17); Tom T. Hall, country singer (5/25); Louis Gossett Jr., actor (5/27); Bruce Dern, actor (6/4); Kenneth G. Wilson, Nobel physicist (6/8); Kris Kristofferson, country singer (6/22); Hal Greer, basketball (6/26); David Jenkins, figure skater (6/29); Shirley Knight, actress (7/5); James Mirrlees, Nobel economist (7/5); Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer (8/1); Robert Redford, actor (8/18); Wilt Chamberlain, basketball (8/21); John McCain, politician (8/29); Andrew Grove, Intel CEO (9/2); Buddy Holly, rock singer (9/7);
Al Oerter, discus champion (9/19); Jim Henson, puppeteer (9/24); Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister (9/29); Václav Havel, Czech President (10/5); Michael Landon, actor (10/31); Roy Emerson, tennis (11/3); Virna Lisi, actress (11/8); Mary Travers, singer (11/9); Dick Cavett, talk show host (11/19); Abbie Hoffman, activist (11/30); David Carradine, actor (12/8); Pope Francis (12/17); Mary Tyler Moore, actress (12/29); Ray Nitschke, football (12/29).

Monday, April 10, 2023, 7:55-7:58 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:10 am;
Woke up @ 12:10 pm (10 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 7:58 am—
PENOH = PHONE; CERIP = PRICE;
MIYKSP = SKIMPY; SFOLIS = FOSSIL
Can't find distance glasses in my apartment

Cartoon Answer— To generate more business,
the bicycle wheel company hired a
ONE PRE SKP OSS = SPOKESPERSON
30.61% of 869 responders had trouble with this answer. Monday, April 10, 2023, 1:35-1:49 pm & 3:30-4:00 pm
Mountain View: Zee & Abraham from Mid-Pen Housing
came to apartment for preventive maintenance— inspected
smoke alarms, heater, installed second light bulb on ceiling
lights above the stove; Leave apt @ 3:00 pm; Half-hour walk
to Valero for "Daily Post"; Shopping at Safeway 3:30-4:00 pm;
4:15 pm Bus #40 to Montecito Avenue and walked home

Land-O-Lakes Black Forest Ham 16 oz @ $7.49;
Open Nature Almond Milk 64 oz ($3.49) @ $2.62;
CoffeeMate Hazelnut @ $3.99 - $2 off = $1.99;
Apple Strudels Bites @ $5.99 - $2 bakery = $3.99.

Monday, April 10, 2023, 6:30-8:31 pm
Mountain View: Doing "Rat Year People"
for Year 1924 (begins February 5, 1924)

Gloria Vanderbilt 2/20, Marlon Brando 4/3,
Eva Marie Saint 7/4, Marcello Mastroianni 9/28,
Truman Capote 9/30, Jimmy Carter 10/1, Rod Serling 12/25. Monday, April 10, 2023, 8:40-10:30 pm
Mountain View: Doing "Rat Year People"
for year 1912 (begins February 18, 1912)

Lawrence Durrell 2/27, Perry Como 5/18, Alan Turing 6/23, Woody Guthrie 7/14, Julia Child 8/15, Gene Kelly 8/23, John Cage 9/5, Michelangelo Antonioni 9/29.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 6:40-6:49 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:30 am;
Woke up @ 1:10 pm (11 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 6:49 am—
XILPE = PIXEL; TOARI = RATIO;
KCYRIT = TRICKY; BIOAHP = PHOBIA

Cartoon Answer— When the "river horse"
criticized his son about his weight, he was being a
PI TI RC PHO = "HIPPO-CRIT"
14.71% of 986 responders had trouble with this answer. Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 3:30-4:00 pm
Mountain View: No "Daily Post" printed Tuesday; Stayed home to work; Forgot to bring Monday's "Daily Post" to mailbox rack to share with Mid-Pen Housing neighbors; Breakfast: Wheat Germ, Raisin-Date-Walnut Instant Oatmeal, Srtawberry-Banana Yogurt, 48 Blueberries, Coffee

IRS tax due is Tuesday, April 18—
Need to get Federal 1040-SR and
California 540 Forms at Los Altos Library.
Should get back $1774.76 Withholding Tax from IRS.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 4:20-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Phoned Kaiser Pharmacy 1-650-903-2150
for Refiils on Metformin (out Friday, 4/14) & Humulin
3 vials (out in 2 weeks); both with Zero-Refiils;
Will need Dr. Liteh Chang's OK for refills,

Pickup at 555 Castro Street when ready;
Will go to Optical Center for lost distance glasses;
Don't know how much Kaiser Senior Advantage covers? Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 4:40-6:22 pm
Mountain View: Left apt 4:40 pm; Red Bus @ 5:00 pm
to Showers Drive; Bus #40 @ 5:27 pm to Hillview Ave &
San Antonio Rd to Los Altos Library (13 S. San Antonio Rd);
Bus #40 @ 5:50 pm to Central Xpwy & walked home 6:22 pm

IRS 1040 Instruction Booklets & 1040-SR Forms
& California 540 Instruction Booklets with Forms no
longer at Table near Front Door but by Reference Desk.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 8:42-10:00 pm
Mountain View: Doing "Rat Year People"
for Year 1900 (begins January 31, 1900)

Adlai Stevenson II 2/5, Luis Buñuel 2/22, Erich Fromm 3/23, Spencer Tracy 4/5, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 6/29, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother 8/4, Margaret Mitchell 11/8, Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 10:30-11:45 pm
Mountain View: Doing "Rat Year People"
for Year 1888 (begins February 12, 1888)

Max Steiner 5/10, Irving Berlin 5/11, Chirico 7/10,
T. E. Lawrence 8/16, Maurice Chevalier 9/12, T. S. Eliot 9/26, Eugene O'Neill 10/16, F. W. Murnau 12/28.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 10:37-11:03 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:15 am;
Woke up @ 12:20 pm (10 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 11:03 am—
NALTS = SLANT; PNITE = INEPT;
KOICEO = COOKIE; RHODAI = HAIRDO

Cartoon Answer— The director's feedback
regarding the scene they'd just filmed was
SNT ET OKI HAI = HIS TAKE ON IT
49.58% of 1323 responders had trouble with this answer. Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 12:20-4:00 pm
Mountain View: José from Mid-Pen Housing
woke me up to install two missing panels on ceilings
of kitchen and bathrooms that were removed to patch
water leaks over a year ago; He'll come Friday to paint
over the panels so it fits well with the rest of the ceiling

IRS tax due is Tuesday, April 18—
Need to get Federal 1040-SR and
California 540 Forms at Los Altos Library.
Should get back $1774.76 Withholding Tax from IRS.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 5:20-7:00 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ @ 5:20 pm; Gray Bus
@ 5:35 pm to Middlefield Rd to Valero news bins
for "Daily Post" & "Metro"; Shop Safeway 5:50-6:17 pm;
Bus #40 @ 6:45 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home
(Too heavy to buy Navel Oranges 8 lb @ $5.99 Free for Rudy)

Fresh Donut @ 99¢ = Free (for Rudy);
Sparkling Water Mango-Pineapple @ 96¢;
Land-O-Lakes Black Forest Ham 16 oz @ $5.99;
Sliced Cinnamon Loaf Cake @ $5.99 - $2 bakery = $3.99. Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 8:00-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Bought Alan Leo's 1001 Notable Nativities: The Astrologer's 'Who's Who' (1917) @ $2.50 at Tony's American Brahmin Bookstore, Ithaca (1968); now $500 at Amazon.com; This book helped casting dozens of famous men's horoscopes in 1/2 hour instead of 4 hours. Stopped studying astrology after reading—

Buddha's disciples wanted to visit a famous astrologer
coming by, and Buddha said "Every day is propitious
for someone doing a good deed." That's when I worked
on purifying myself instead of studying horoscopes.

Thursday, April 13, 2023, 10:01-10:25 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:35 am;
Woke up @ 12:00 pm (10.5 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 10:25 am—
TRYID = DIRTY; ETLFE = FLEET;
ENTIYN = NINETY; LQASUL = SQUALL

Cartoon Answer— Most people accept
that the earth is round, but a few people
DTY FET INY ALL = FLATLY DENY IT
35.6% of 1014 responders had trouble with this answer. Thursday, April 13, 2023, 3:00-3:25 pm
Mountain View: Ann came to pick me up @ 3:00 pm;
Gave her newspapers, "How I Learned to Dance"
poem, and Apple Strudels Bites (20 ct);
Drove me to Kaiser Pharmacy (555 Castro St)
for Metformin (Free) & 3 vials Humulin ($15)

Went to Kaiser Optical Center
for appointment: Tuesday, 4/18 @ 1:15 pm
for eye exam & distance eyeglasses (lost 4/8).
Last appt in 2018; $440 credit for new eyeglasses.

Thursday, April 13, 2023, 3:58-4:09 pm
Mountain View: Ann drove to Valero Gas Station
(Middlefield Road) to Valero news bins for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:58-4:09 pm

2 Fresh Blueberries 6 oz @ $3.33 x 2 = $6.66;
Large bag Navel Oranges 8 lb ($6.99) @ $4.99;
Hormel Mashed Potatoes @ $5.99, 50% off = $2.99;
6 Sparkling Water Kiwi-Strawberry @ 96¢ x 6 = $5.76.
Thanks to Ann for driving me home with these heavy items. Thursday, April 13, 2023, 6:10-7:30 pm
Mountain View: Whenever I misbehaved, Mom said:
"You're evil because you were born in year of the snake";
Found my favorite people were also born in Snake year—

1929: Audrey Hepburn 5/4, Grace Kelly 11/12;
1905: Dag Hammarskjöld 7/29; 1869: Mahatma Gandhi 10/2, Henri Matisse 12/31; 1809: Felix Mendelssohn 2/3. Charles Darwin 2/12, Abraham Lincoln 2/12;
1749: Goethe 8/28; 1473: Copernicus 2/19.

Thursday, April 13, 2023, 7:45-8:40 pm
Mountain View: Doing "Rat Year People"
for Year 1876 (begins January 26, 1876)

Constantin Brancusi 2/19, Maurice de Vlaminck 4/4,
William Sealy Gosset 6/13, Maria Ouspenskaya 7/29,
Mata Hari 8/7, Bruno Walter 9/15, H. B. Warner 10/26,
Manuel de Falla 11/23, Pablo Casals 12/29. Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 8:55-9:40 pm
Mountain View: Doing "Rat Year People"
for Year 1864 (begins February 8, 1864)

Johan Halvorsen 3/15, Max Weber 4/21,
Richard Strauss 6/11, Walther Nernst 6/25,
George Washington Carver 7/12, Louis Lumière 10/5,
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec 11/24, Camille Claudel 12/8.

Friday, April 14, 2023, 11:10-11:42 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:10 am;
Woke up @ 1:30 pm (11.5 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 11:42 am—
RHAH = HARSH; RMONI = MINOR;
SIYEFT = FEISTY; UWNDIN = UNWIND

Missed Cartoon Answer— Giving a large inheritance
to the family might have been a mistake, but
HARH MIO EST UIN = TO "HEIR" IS HUMAN
77.54% of 1527 responders had trouble with this answer. Friday, April 14, 2023, 5:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Rudy came @ 5 pm after Wells Fargo;
Gave him tub of popcorn and can of Q Ginger Ale; Drive to
Chef Chu's bins for "Palo Alto Weekly" ("Daily Post" gone)
Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) 7:00-7:25 pm
Returned Oroweat Bread Posted @ $2.99 charged @ $5.00

Lucerne Chocolate Milk Quart ($3.79) @ $1.99;
Kellogg's Eggo Blueberry Waffles 12.3 Oz @ $2.49;
Forgot to bring Safeway Just-For-U coupons page for
organicgirl Salad Supergreens 5 oz ($4.49) = Free.

Friday, April 14, 2023, 8:00-8:20 pm
Mountain View: Picked up Just-For-U coupons page at my apt;
Drove to Middlefield Rd to Valero news bins for "Daily Post" &
"Peninsula News"; Shop Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff) 8:00-8:20 pm;
organicgirl Blend Salad Supergreens 5 oz ($4.49) = Free;
6 Free items for Rudy— 1/2 Navel Oranges 8 lb ($6.99) @ $4.99;
Michelinas Frozen Fettucini Alfredo 8.5 oz ($1.99) @ $1.29

3 lbs Macaroni Salad @ $5.00, 50% off = $2.50;
Sig Sel Honey Wheatberry Bread 24 oz @ $3.49;
Thomas' Banana Swirl Bread 16 oz ($5.79) @ $2.99;
Thomas' Swirl Cinnamon-Raisin Bread ($5.79) @ $2.99. Friday, April 14, 2023, 9:00-11:30 pm
"OP-ED: How United States can avoid a war with China"
(By Nicholas Kristof, Mercury News, April 14, 2023, A9)
We're again too complacent about risks of conflict ahead.
A reminder of risks came on Monday when China responded
to warm welcome given in the U.S. to Taiwan's president by
sending a record number of military aircraft near Taiwan.
.
Single biggest step U.S. could take would be to tackle American dysfunction: from addiction to child poverty
& our failed foster care system— and to invest in our education system so as to produce stronger citizens.

Saturday, April 15, 2023, 7:43-8:15 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:55 am;
Woke up @ 10:50 am (8 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 8:15 am—
NAXNE = ANNEX; UVAME = MAUVE;
CLADPI = PLACID; RAOLLF = FLORAL

Missed Cartoon Answer— Compared to the square and
rectangle, the arrogant triangle thought its shape was
ANE AUE PLD LRL = UNPARALLELED
55.56% of 954 responders had trouble with this answer. Saturday, April 15, 2023, 5:10-8:00 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 5:10 pm; Half-hour walk
to Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 5:40-6:27 pm
Forgot last Bus #40 5:44 pm Sat; Waited Hour 13 minutes;
Rolled cart home 7:40-8:00 pm in 20 minutes (record time)

2 Northern Chef Coconut Shrimp 9 Oz BOGO = $8.99;
Sig Café Scalloped Potatoes (2 rewards) ($3.79) = Free;
organicgirl Salad Peppery Mizuna ($4.49) = Free;
Sliced Cinnamon Cake @ $5.99 - $2 bakery = $3.99.

Saturday, April 15, 2023, 9:00-10:00 pm
Mountain View: "SCIENCE: 'Prehistoric
river monster' caught by fisherman in kayak"
(By Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, Yahoo News, 4-14-2023)

Robert Murphy had an hour-long battle on
the Upper White River to reel in the massive
spoonbill paddlefish. Arkansas Game & Fish
Commission officials referred to it as a
"prehistoric river monster". Though it was
shy of the 118-pound, 9-ounce state record,
the "remarkable catch" weighed 102 pounds,
officials said. He kept the 71.5-inch long fish
and has already tasted its roe, which is often
called "poor man's caviar". Saturday, April 15, 2023, 9:00-10:00 pm
Mountain View: "BASKETBALL: Klay Thompson's
revival: Fiery competitive nature ignited by doubters"
(By Madeleine Kenney, Mercury News, 4-15-2023, A1, A6)

Thompson started season poorly but rounded into form and carried Warriors for months with Steph Curry, Andrew Wiggins injured. Coach Steve Kerr singled Thompson out for eclipsing 300 3-pointers this season, something that has only been done by two other players in NBA history. For Green, there isn't a particular moment— such as Thompson's 54-point game in January— to pinpoint his career resurgence. It was "mind-boggling" to Thompson at the beginning of the season that he, Curry, Green and Andre Iguodala had the chance to join the five-ring club.

Saturday, April 15, 2023, 3:36-4:34 pm, 12:00-12:48 am
Mountain View: After reading Mercury News article (4-15-2023)
on Klay Thompson, noticed he has wisdom mudra posture
in his hands: 2-11-2023; 12-2-2022; 6-30-2019; 8-20-2018;
Gathered wisdom mudra posture in other famous athletes—

1) Steph Curry (5-1-2021) vs Houston Rockets;
2) Larry Bird, Boston Celtics, 3x NBA Champion;
3) Sandy Koufax, Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 No-Hitters;
4) Jack Nicklaus, 18 Golf Championships;
5) Tom Brady, Quarterback, 7x Super Bowl Champion;
6) Steve Young, Quarterback, 3x Super Bowl Champion;
Saturday, April 15, 2023, 10:30-11:30 pm
Mountain View: Time Magazine April 24, 2023: "The World's 100 Most Influential People": 1) Bob Iger, Disney CEO (p. 70); 2) King Charles III (pp. 82-83); 3) Sam Altma, Open AI (p. 67); 4) President Joe Biden (pp. 54-55); 5) Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary (p. 52);

6) Olena Zelenska, Ukraine 1st Lady (p. 48);
7) Elon Musk, Tesla CEO (p. 43);
8) Beyoncé, singer (p. 40);
9) Judy Blume, author (p. 29);
10) Austin Butler, actor (p. 26);
11) Michael B. Jordan, actor (p. 20)

Sunday, April 16, 2023, 7:07-8:00 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 5:00 am;
Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 8:00 am—
TRANYP = PANTRY; TRRVEE = REVERT;
MOSSCO = COSMOS; GONING = NOGGIN;
NEERKL = KERNEL; TINISS = INSIST

Missed Cartoon Answer— When the team owner
negotiated with the star player, she wasn't sure if he'd
NR RR SOS GGN EE II = RE-SIGN OR RESIGN
33.75% of 563 responders had trouble with this answer.
I had erroneously "RE-SIGN OR REGRET". Sunday, April 16, 2023, 4:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Woke up @ 2:00 pm, after 9 hours sleep;
No "Daily Post" printed on Sunday; Stayed home to work;
Breakfast: 8 Black Forest Ham, 2 Swiss Cheese, 8 Triscuits;
"Eat, Drink, Play" section missing in Sunday's Mercury News
today. Can I locate Travel articles without names of authors?

John Metcalfe's "Best hikes in the Bay Area you can get to using only public transit" (Mercury News 4-16-2023, F7-F8) & Jackie Burrell's "TRAVEL LIST: From Red Rock to Bellagio, the top 10 Las Vegas attractions offer an eclectic array" (Mercury News 4-16-2023, F7) .

Sunday, April 16, 2023, 2:43-2:49 pm
Mountain View: KDFC 109.9 FM; Bomsori Kim plays violin
as Giancarlo Guerrero conducts NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic
to Jules Massenet's "Thaïs: Meditation" (1894) (France 452)

A Cenobite monk, Athanaël, attempts to convert Thaïs,
an Alexandrian courtesan & Venus devotee, to Christianity,
but he's filled with lust for her, while she's pure of heart—
contrast between repressed religiosity & sexual freedom. Sunday, April 16, 2023, 7:10-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Could not find Wisdom Mudra pose
for star athletes— Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Wayne Gretsky,
Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul Jabbar; Found Bruce Lee

IRS tax due is Tuesday, April 18—
Got Federal 1040-SR & California 540 Forms
at Los Altos Library. Should do taxes today &
get back $1774.76 Withholding Tax from IRS.

Sunday, April 16, 2023, 7:25-9:37 pm
Mountain View: Connie told me to put last year's IRS 1040
& California 540 tax return forms in a shoe box so I
could refer to them in speeding up this year's returns

IRS 1040-SR form done from 7:25-8:52 pm
mailed to Ogden, UT with 1099 form for
$1774.76 Withholding Tax refund from IRS; CA-540
form done from 9:00-9:37 pm, mailed to Sacramento, CA. Sunday, April 16, 2023, 10:00-11:30 pm
Mountain View: Dinner of Northern Chef Coconut Shrimp;
1/2 Hormel's Mashed Potatoes: 1/2 Vine-Ripe Tomato;
Sliced Cinnamon Cake: Kit Kat Ice Cream: Almond Milk

IRS tax due is Tuesday, April 18—
Mailman comes to Mid-Pen Housing mailboxes
between 1-5 pm; Mailed IRS 1040-SR & CA-540 forms
in Outgoing box @ 1:30 pm for postmark on April 17.

Monday, April 17, 2023, 6:47-6:51 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:30 am;
Woke up @ 12:10 pm (11 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 6:51 am—
RDYAT = TARDY; VORGE = GROVE;
CAPTEC = ACCEPT; NJURIO = JUNIOR

Cartoon Answer— He'd initially misspelled
"Chevrolet," but it was fixed thanks to
TAR ROE CCT UO = AUTOCORRECT
27.53% of 937 responders had trouble with this answer. Monday, April 17, 2023, 4:15-6:00 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 4:15 pm; Half-hour walk
to Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 5:08-5:37 pm
Bus #40 @ 5:47 pm to Montecito Avenue and walked home
(Safeway Flyer: 64 oz Apple Juice & 6 oz Blueberries @ 99¢)

Sig Café Mashed Potatoes (2 rewards) ($4.99) = Free;
organicgirl Blend Salad Baby Spinach ($5.49) = Free;
Florida Natural Orange Juice Most Pulp 52 oz @ $2.85;
Stouffer's Tuna Casserole @ $2.49 coupon expired.

Monday, April 17, 2023, 7:56-8:00 pm
Mountain View: Listen to 104.9 KDFC FM Radio (Playlist)

Gustavo Dudamel directs Vienna Philharmonic to
Amilcare Ponchielli, "La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours" (1876); CD (2017); (YouTube: Gianluca Marciano;
Eugene Ormandy; Tulio Gagliardo Varas) Monday, April 17, 2023, 10:00-11:30 pm
Mountain View: Dinner: Gorton Potato Fish Fillets

1/2 Vine-Ripe Tomato;
1/2 Sig Café Scalloped Potatoes;
1/3 organicgirl Salad Peppery Mizuna; Ken's Sald Dressing;
Sliced Cinnamon Cake; Kit Kat Ice Cream: Almond Milk.

Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 9:00-9:38 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:00 am;
Woke up @ 11:00 am (11 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 9:38 am—
SHYUK = HUSKY; GDEAA = ADAGE;
DRTENO = RODENT; RMOIFN = INFORM

Cartoon Answer— The carousel had
to be stopped after a few kids began to
HUS DAE RO NOR = HORSE AROUND
20.39% of 819 responders had trouble with "RODENT". Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 12:45-2:00 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 12;45 pm with Ann;
Drive to Kaiser Optical Center (555 Castro St)
for 1:15 pm appt with Thanh Nguyen, OD for exam
& distance glasses; Gave Ann bag of newspapers,
organicgirl Salad Baby Spinach & Sliced Cinnamon Cake

Angela Pham showed darker Distance glasses ($229):
Reading glasses ($189); Delivery ($25) = $423 (free);
Eyes dilated for exam by Thanh Nguyen who found
I have cataract in both eyes, more so on right eye.

Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 5:08-7:37 pm
Mountain View: Searched for athletes with wisdom mudra pose—
Hank Aaron (5:08 pm); John Elway (5:20); Joe DiMaggio (5:39): Roger Federer (6:30); Mary Lou Retton (6:45): Nadia Comaneci (6:55): Bill Rogers (7:26); Roger Hornsby (7:37)

No wisdom mudra pose found for athletes—
Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Warren Spahn,
Nolan Ryan, Bob Gibson, Ted Williams, Ty Cobb,
Gordie Howe, Peggy Fleming, Jean-Claude Killy. Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 11:00-12:00 pm
Mountain View: With dilated eyes, less reading today;
Finding wisdom mudra images of athletes less stressful;
Emailed Rudy: Safeway's sales this week: Apple Cider @ 99¢; Blueberries @ 99¢; Oroweat 12 Grain Bread, 24 Oz @ $2.50

Dinner: Baked 2 Gorton Potato Crunch Fish Fillets;
1/2 Vine-Ripe Tomato; 1/2 Sig Café Scalloped Potatoes;
1/3 organicgirl Salad Peppery Mizuna; Ken's Dressing;
Sliced Cinnamon Cake; Kit Kat Ice Cream: Almond Milk.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 7:05-7:43 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:00 am;
Woke up @ 1:30 pm (13.5 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 7:43 am—
TURFI = FRUIT; SUYOL = LOUSY;
COSLIA = SOCIAL; RAFITF = TARIFF

Cartoon Answer— The manufacturing plant
was in full operation, and everything was
FRT OSY SCA TAI = SATISFACTORY
49.4% of 1413 responders had trouble with this answer. Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 3:40-5:30 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 3:40 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Metro";
Shop at Rengstorff Safeway 4:15-4:52 pm; Bus #40 @ 5:12 pm to Montecito Ave & walked home; (Can't get organicgirl Salad Baby Spinach & Sig Café Mashed Potatoes free due to one-time use)

Fresh Blueberries 6 oz ($3.99) @ 99¢
Sig Sel Apple Cider 64 oz ($3.49) @ 99¢
4 Stouffer's Tuna Casserole ($4) @ $2.49 x4 = $9.96;
Apple Strudel Bites 20 ct @ $5.99 - $2 off bakery = $3.99.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 6:02-6:30 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Skills Workshop with Kim Randall
Gene Tognetti & Will Cavada not in as usual today;

Last LINC-405 class on 3/29: Cavada demonstrated in
Google Sheets doing Average, Minimum, Maximum,
& Sum after placing numbers in cells A1:C3.
Will do Dürer's Melencolia: Magic Square of Jupiter. Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 7:30-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Since Kim had no lesson plan, told her
I'll do Cavada's last lesson on 3/29 with 4x4 Magic Square—

Horizontal rows: A1-A4, B1-B4, C1-C4, D1-D4 = 34;
Vertical columns: A1-D1, A2-D2, A3-D3, A4-D4 = 34;
Quadrants: A1-B2, C1-B2, A3-B4, C4-D4, B2-C3 = 34;
Sum of all squares: A1-D4 = 34 + 34 + 34 + 34 = 136.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 8:24-10:30 pm
Mountain View: 1st assignment for LINC-405 Spring 2023:
"4x4 Magic Square Summation in Google Sheets"

Three images downloaded—
4x4 Magic Square of Jupiter;
Dürer's drawing of Magic Square;
Dürer's 1514 engraving "Melencolia I". Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 10:30-11:20 pm
Mountain View: Pinterest sends photos of Einstein;
Saved those showing him in wisdom mudra pose—

Einstein & Kurt Gödel;
Einstein & Hendrik Lorentz;
Le Corbusier Meets Einstein;
John Wheeler walking with Einstein.

Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:04-7:12 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:00 am;
Woke up @ 1:25 pm (11.5 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 7:12 am—
DATMI = ADMIT; NIYAR = RAINY;
CORECS = SOCCER; TNDOUL = UNTOLD

Cartoon Answer— The cost of building new
telescopes to advance the study of astronomy is
AMT RAI SOC NOL = ASTRONOMICAL
18.17% of 952 responders had trouble with "UNTOLD". Thursday, April 20, 2023, 3:40-5:30 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 3:40 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Metro";
Shop at Rengstorff Safeway 4:15-4:52 pm; Bus #40 @ 5:12 pm to Montecito Ave & walked home; (Can't get organicgirl Salad Baby Spinach & Sig Café Mashed Potatoes free due to one-time use)

Fresh Blueberries 6 oz ($3.99) @ 99¢
Sig Sel Apple Cider 64 oz ($3.49) @ 99¢
4 Stouffer's Tuna Casserole ($4) @ $2.49 x4 = $9.96;
Apple Strudel Bites 20 ct @ $5.99 - $2 off bakery = $3.99.

Thursday, April 20, 2023, 9:30 am
Mountain View: Phone call from San Antonio Dental
(530 Showers Drive) that I have appt @ 2:00 pm Friday

On April 6, Dr. Mahroo treated me for
zirconia crown upgrade on tooth 4 ($986);
the crown is now ready for placement
(Forgot all about this appointment). Thursday, April 20, 2023, 2:01-2:14 pm
Mountain View: KDFC 109.9 FM; Richard Edlinger conducts Capella Istropolitana to Tomaso Albinoni's "Adagio in g" (1708)

Remo Giazotto (1910-1998) claimed discovering
Albinoni's fragment in Saxon State Library in Dresden,
after bombing in March 1945, however he never produced
the fragment, and may have composed it by himself (1958).

Thursday, April 20, 2023, 4:15-5:45 pm
Mountain View: Leave apr @ 4:15 pm; Half-hour walk
to Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post";
Shop at Rengstorff Safeway 4:15-4:52 pm; Bus #40 @ 5:12 pm
to Montecito Ave & walked home; [Got organicgirl Salad Baby
Spring Mix ($4.49) & Sig Café Mashed Potatoes ($4.99) free]

Fresh Blueberries 6 oz ($3.99) @ 99¢;
Sig Sel Apple Cider 64 oz ($3.49) @ 99¢;
Sargento Swiss & Gouda Cheese @ $1.99 x 2 = $3.98;
2 Stouffer's Swedish Meatballs ($4) @ $2.49 x 2 = $4.98. Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:30-9:36 pm
Mountain View: Watch scores & listen to Playoffs (95.7 FM)
between G.S. Warriors & Sacramento Kings at Chase Center;
Kings leads 2-0; Draymond Green suspended for Game 3;
Kurtenbach wonders "The Warriors' dynasty is on life support"
(Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4-17-2023)

Must win at home— 1st Quarter: Warriors 29 Kings 20;
2nd Quarter: Warriors 53 Kings 41;
3rd Quarter: Warriors 84 Kings 70;
4th Quarter: Warriors beats Kings 114-97.

Thursday, April 20, 2023, 8:48 pm
Mountain View: After seeing photo of Einstein walking with
John Wheeler at Princeton, that I sent her, Ann emailed (8:48 pm)
that the same site had 439 photos of Einstein in their IAS archives

When teaching "The Wisdom Mudra & Albert Einstein" at
WPI (January 14-16, 1980), had 12 photos showing Einstein in wisdom mudra pose; Doubled Einstein mudra photos in 2015, but lost my USB on 8-28-2016, with those jpg images. Thursday, April 20, 2023, 11:30 pm-12:20 am
Mountain View: Dinner: Bake 22 minutes @ 400 ^oF
Northern Chef Coconut Shrimps, add Hawaiian sauce;
Pringles Ranch Potato Chips with Spinach Dips

1/3 organicgirl Salad Supergreens;
Ken's Asian Sesame Salad Dressing;
Wishbone Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing;
Sliced Cinnamon Cake; Kit Kat Ice Cream: Almond Milk.

Friday, April 21, 2023, 10:53-11:06 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 1:15 am;
Woke up @ 10:50 am (9.5 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 11:06 am—
VKOEE = EVOKE; VALEG = GAVEL;
IDAVEN = INVADE; MSEMUR = SUMMER
(Breakfast: 8 Black Foresr Ham, 2 Swiss Cheese, 9 Triscuits)

Cartoon Answer— After she accidentally ripped
her sister's favorite sweater, she sewed it to
EK AE NAD SMM = MAKE AMENDS
14.43% of 797 responders had trouble with this answer. Friday, April 21, 2023, 1:18-4:40 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 1:18 pm; Red Bus @ 1:49 pm
to San Antonio Dental (530 Showers Drive); Dr. Mahroo placed
zirconia crown on tooth 4; half-hour to remove temporary crown
(2-3 pm); Chef Chu's bins for "Palo Alto Weekly" & "Daily Post";
Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) 3:30-4:08 pm;
Bus #40 @ 4:26 pm to Central Xpwy Stop & walked home

Fresh Blueberries 6 oz ($3.99) @ 99¢;
Sig Sel Apple Juice 64 oz ($3.49) @ 99¢;
Custard Eclair @ $5.00 - $2.00 off bakery = $3.00;
Land-O-Frost Black Forest Ham 16 oz ($7.49) @ $5.99.

Friday, April 21, 2023, 8:45-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Shop at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) 3:30-4:08;
Last week Safeway Friday Specials had Oroweat 12 Grains Bread & Buttermilk Bread for $5.00 instead of $2.99 which Rudy returned;
This week Safeway had them for $2.50 each which I got for Rudy

4 Custard Eclairs @ $5 - $2 off bakery = $3;
I've not tasted eclairs in years,
so this will be a treat for dessert. Friday, April 21, 2023, 9:22-10:45 pm
Mountain View: Dinner: 1/3 organicgirl Salad Supergreens;
Ken's Asian Sesame Salad Dressing; Wishbone Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing; Sliced Cinnamon Cake;
Kit Kat Ice Cream: Almond Milk.

Dr. Mahroo told me not to chew on the right side;
Will have 1/2 Mashed Potatoes that's soft
and Stouffer's Spinach Soufflé (also soft).

Saturday, April 22, 2023, 8:43-9:00 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 11:35 pm;
Woke up @ 11:45 am (12 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 9:00 am—
HRIST = SHIRT; MCWAA = MACAW;
KCRIEB = BICKER; ZGBEOA = GAZEBO

Cartoon Answer— Audiences in Las Vegas
attend Mac King's show to watch him
SHI MCW IKR GAO = WORK HIS MAGIC
29.9% of 883 responders had trouble with this answer. Saturday, April 22, 2023, 2:15-4:05 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 2:15 pm; Walk half-hour to
Valero (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Peninsula News";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 2:45-3:41 pm;
Red Bus @ 3:50 pm to Montecito Avenue and walked home;
Sig Sel Belgian Waffles 6 ct @ $5.49 = Free (Just-For-U coupon)

Blueberries 6 oz @ 99¢; Apple Cider 64 oz @ 99¢;
Sig Sel Pound Cake @ $5.99 - $2.00 off bakery = $3.99;
Sargento Cheese (Swiss, Provolone, Pepper Jack) @ $1.99;
Sig Sel Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream ($5.49) @ $2.79.

Saturday, April 22, 2023, 6:30-7:30 pm
Mountain View: "BUSINESS: Teens
can now use Meta Horizon Worlds"
(By Larry Magid, Mercury News, April 21, 2023, C7-C8)

To help reduce risks, my nonprofit, ConnectSafely,
has a Parent & Guardian Guide to Meta Horizon
Worlds. You can find all of these resources
at connectsafely.org/horizon/. Saturday, April 22, 2023, 7:30-8:00 pm
Mountain View: "Google doodle for 'Earth Day 2023'
depicts action plan for greener future"
(By Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao, msn.com, 4-22-2023)

The Doodle featured on Saturday, made entirely
from leaves, illustrated a range of actions we can
take in our daily lives that can collectively make a
significant impact towards protecting the environment.

Saturday, April 22, 2023, 8:08-8:30 pm
Mountain View: "MUTTS Comics"
by Patrick McDonnell (Saturday, April 22, 2023)

To reconnect with nature is key
if we want to save the planet.
— Jane Goodall * HAPPY EARTH DAY. Saturday, April 22, 2023, 8:30-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Recall poem written 10 years ago—
"Earth Day 2013" (4-22-2013); "Notes" (4-24-2013)

But today is Earth Day and I should
feel more humble, honor this home—
bend down low and kiss the Earth.

Sunday, April 23, 2023, 10:04-10:42 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:00 am;
Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 10:42 am—
DEFARO = FEDORA; TORPOU = UPROOT;
SSQUHA = SQUASH; PNGUUL = UNPLUG;
SWERHD = SHREWD; QWUASK = SQUAWK

Missed Cartoon Answer— For the
NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, a regular game
FER ROT QUA ULU SRE SQA = EQUALS FOUR QUARTERS
51.6% of 810 responders had trouble with this answer. Sunday, April 23, 2023, 12:50-3:30 pm
Mountain View: Watch scores & listen to Playoffs (95.7 FM)
between G.S. Warriors & Sacramento Kings at Chase Center;
Kings & Warriors tied 2-2; Draymond Green back for Game 4;
Warriors beats Kings in Game 3, 114-97 with Curry
scoring 36, and Kevin Looney grabbing 20 rebounds

1st Quarter: Kings 32 Warriors 31;
2nd Quarter: Kings 69 Warriors 65;
3rd Quarter: Warriors 102 Kings 92;
4th Quarter: Warriors beats Kings 126-125.

Sunday, April 23, 2023, 2:30-3:30 pm
Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: Cascade Mountain
High: Exploring Oregon's Crater Lake National Park"
(By Ben Davidson, Mercury News, April 23, 2023, F7-F8)

Nestled high in Oregon's Cascade Range, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in North America— 1,943 feet— and is famous for its intensely blue waters. It formed 7,700 years ago when Mount Mazama, a 12,000-foot-tall volcano, experienced the largest eruption in North America in the past 640,000 years and subsequently collapsed, forming a volcanic caldera, which then began to fill with rainfall & snowmelt. It holds a
whopping 4.9 trillion gallons of water. Crater Lake National Park; Crater Lake Lodge; Crater Lake Trolley; Ride the Rim. Sunday, April 23, 2023, 2:30-3:30 pm
Mountain View: "THE TRAVEL LIST:
America's top 10 national park lodges in the West"
(By Jackie Burrell, Mercury News, April 23, 2023, F7)

"Lodge: An Indoorsy Tour of America's National Parks"
by Max Humphrey & Kathryn O'Shea-Evans; 5-* reviews)
1. Ahwahnee, Yosemite; 2. Crater Lake Lodge, Crater Lake, OR; 3. Curry Village, Yosemite; 4. El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon, AZ; 5. Lake McDonald Lodge, Glacier, MT;
6. Lake Quinault Lodge, Olympic National Park, WA;
7. Inn at Death Valley, Death Valley, CA; 8. Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone, WY; 9. Paradise Inn, Mount Rainier, WA; 10. Zion Lodge, Zion, UT.

Sunday, April 23, 2023, 4:00-4:30 pm
Mountain View: "MUTTS Comics"
by Patrick McDonnell (Sunday, April 23, 2023)

Let us try to recognize
the precious nature of each day.
— His Holiness the Dalai Lama Sunday, April 23, 2023, 6:03 pm-12:43 am
Mountain View: "Athletes with Wisdom Mudra Pose"
Found 6 basketball players with wisdom mudra

After seeing 4 photos of Klay Thompson
in wisdom mudra, found Steve Curry, Larry Bird,
Kevin McHale, Jeremy Lin, George Mikan in similar pose.

Sunday, April 23, 2023, 6:03 pm-12:43 am
Mountain View: "Athletes with Wisdom Mudra Pose"
Rounded up 31 photos of athletes with wisdom mudra

7 baseball players, 3 football players, one soccer player,
5 Olympic Gold medalists, tennis player, golfer, boxer,
marathon runner, race car driver, martial arts fighter. Monday, April 24, 2023, 1:50-3:00 am
Mountain View: 1/3 organicgirl Salad Baby Spring Mix;
Asian Sesame & Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing;

1/3 Sea Pak Popcorn Shrimps;
1/2 Sig Café Mashed Potatoes; Custard Eclair;
3 scoops of Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream.

Monday, April 24, 2023, 6:50-6:56 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 3:30 am;
Woke up @ 1:45 pm (10 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 6:56 am—
YOMMM = MOMMY; VARNE = RAVEN;
NNAAAB = BANANA; DELHNA = HANDLE

Cartoon Answer— Words like "hostile,
vicious, malicious, rude, etc."—
MM EN AN AE = MEAN MEAN
15.62% of 1018 responders had trouble with this answer. Monday, April 24, 2023, 7:15-7:54 pm
Mountain View: Rudy's 4/24 email @ 11:25 am—
He's at Palo Alto VA Hospital's Radiology Dept;
Will see physical therapist @ 3:30 pm; told him
to come by afterwards; Trip to Chef Chu's bins
or CVS news bins for today's "Daily Post"

Shopping at Safeway (645 San Antonio Rd) to get
Rudy Free Apple Pie @ $6.99 - $2 bakery = $4.99;
Blueberries 6 oz @ 99¢; Apple Cider 64 oz @ 99¢;
organicsgogirl Baby Spinach & Arugula 5 oz ($4.49) = Free.

Monday, April 24, 2023, 10:30-11:07 pm
Mountain View: "ASTRONOMY: Northern Lights
Are Seen in Places Where They Normally Aren't"
(By Livia Albeck-Ripka & Derrick Bryson Taylor,
NY Times, April 24, 2023)

The lights, driven by a large burst of energy from the sun, illuminated an unusually wide area across North America
& Europe and may be visible again on Monday night. The phenomenon, known as aurora borealis or northern lights, occurs when particles emitted by the sun collide with particles that are already trapped around Earth's magnetic field, and can often be seen from parts of Iceland, Canada and Alaska. These bursts are also known as coronal mass ejections. In 1872, an article in New York Times described
a sky glowing so intensely that "many persons supposed a great fire was raging back of Brooklyn." In 1941, hundreds
of onlookers gathered on the boardwalk of Rockaway Beach, N.Y., to view the phenomenon, and in 1929, many readers
of The Times called the paper to report the dazzling sight. Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12:00-12:46 am
Mountain View: "TECHNOLOGY: In A.I. Race,
Microsoft and Google Choose Speed Over Caution"
(By Nico Grant & Karen Weise, NY Times,
Mercury News, April 24, 2023, C7-C8)

In March, two Google employees, tried to stop Google from launching an AI chatbot, believing it generated inaccurate & dangerous statements. Similar concerns were raised at Microsoft by ethicists. They wrote that AI technology behind a planned chatbot could flood Facebook groups with disinformation, degrade critical thinking & erode factual foundation of modern society. The companies released their chatbots anyway. Microsoft was first, in February to reveal an AI chatbot woven into its Bing search engine. Google followed six weeks later with its own chatbot, Bard. That competition took on a frantic tone in November when OpenAI, a San Francisco startup working with Microsoft, released ChatGPT, a chatbot that has captured public imagination and now has 100 million monthly users.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 8:01-8:13 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:40 am;
Woke up @ 2:35 pm (12 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 8:13 am—
HSSUI = SUSHI; NITEW = TWINE;
RPDYOA = PARODY; NRGUDO = GROUND

Cartoon Answer—
The moody staircase was having its
SUS WN PAD OND = UPS AND DOWNS
19.29% of 964 responders had trouble with this answer. Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 4:40-6:11 pm
Mountain View: Karen's 4/25 email @ 4:26 am
on teaching art at local library in NYC; If it's drawing, find
books for suggestions; If it's art history, I'd share these topics—
1. Michaelangelo's brain in "God Creating Adam" (1512);
2. Raphael's "Transfiguration" (1520) & epilepsy boy

3. Masculine (Picasso) & Feminine (Matisse) in
20th Century Art; 4. Serenity in Paintings of Vermeer;
5. Astronomical Precision in Van Gogh's "Starry Night";
6. Claude Monet's "Waterliles" (1926) when he was blind.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 5:51-7:00 pm
Mountain View: 4/25 Email from Melli O'Brien
@ 5:51 pm "The one distinction that changes everything"
14-minutes Video (Episode #33 on "Mental Strength")
"Pain in life is inevitable, but suffering— that is optional."

Pain is any unpleasant physical sensation. Any unwanted
emotions or experiences we might have. Suffering is the
unhelpful thoughts we have about our primary experience.
Move away from thoughts & see three things around you. Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 7:15-8:00 pm
Mountain View: Ray Kurzweil's 4/24 email @ 2:57 pm
AI Newsletter: Opinion on request for 6 month delay on large language models that go beyond GPT-4; Ray Kurzweil is Chief Engineer at Google & author of "The Singularity is Near" (2005)

Those agree to a pause may fall far behind corporations or nations that disagree. I participated in Asilomar AI Principles Conference in 2017 & was actively involved in creation of guidelines to create AI in an ethical manner.

Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 7:08-7:15 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 11:15 pm;
Woke up @ 11:55 am (12.5 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 7:15 am—
CEOGK = GECKO; NLCAA = CANAL;
DTARSN = STRAND; LAHXEE = EXHALE

Cartoon Answer— The Roosevelt dime replaced
the Mercury dime after the mint approved the
GEC CA TAN XHE = EXACT CHANGE
20.39% of 1020 responders had trouble with this answer. Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 1:22-1:57 pm
Mountain View: Listen to 104.9 KDFC FM Radio (Playlist)
Michael Tilson Thomas directs San Francisco Symphony to
Ludwig van Beethoven, "Symphony #5 in c 67": (1808); CD; (YouTube: Michael Tilson Thomas; Leonard Bernstein;
Gustavo Dudamel; Herbert Von Karajan)

Most famous 4 notes in music—
Beethoven's 5th Symphony
dun-dun-dun-DUN!
telling us to wake up!

Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 4:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Mailbox full today— Two packages from
Kaiser Optical Center: New Reading Glasses & Distance Glasses;
Kaiser Summary for March 2023 (I paid $0; Kaiser Permanente
paid $31.67 for Glipizide, Simavastatin, Lisinopril);

Wells Fargo April 17 Statements:
Checking: $172.74; Savings: $382.45;
Mercury News bill increased fees—
$81.21 for 20 weeks of home delivery. Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 3:00-3:45 pm
Mountain View: Ann came by @ 3:00 pm; gave her bag of
newspapers; "Athletes with Wisdom Mudra" printed @ 58%;
Drive to Valero (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Metro";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 3:15-3:34 pm

8 Sparkling Water Kiwi Strawberry @ 89¢ = $7.12
Sig Sel Creamy Mashed Potatoes 14 oz @ $4.99 = Free;
5 Yoplait Yogurt 6 oz @ 33¢ x 5 = $1.65 - 50¢ off = $1.15;
Hormel Loaded Mashed Potatoes @ $5.99, 50% off = $2.99.

Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 3:00-3:45 pm
Mountain View: Gave Ann Free Safeway groceries—
64 oz bottle Apple Cider; 15 oz bottle Wish-Bone Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrettes Salad Dressing; 20 ct Apple Strudel Bites;
Organic Girl Baby Arugula Salad

Ann waited for me after
shopping at Safeway, bringing
home 3 bags of heavy groceries. Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 6:00 pm
Mountain View: LINC-405 Skills Workshop & Q&A
Zoom Sessions that meet on Wednesday 6:00-7:00 pm,
met yesterday on Tuesday, April 25 that I missed;
Don't know lesson taught as no tape of session available

This is the 3rd week of Foothill College
Spring Quarter, and I just have
one assignment done so far.

Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 7:00-7:30 pm
Mountain View: Mid-Pen Housing notice on
free movie on Thursday, 4/27, 1:00-3:00 pm—
"Grease" (1978) with John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Rudy likes musical movies; Emailed him on seeing this film

Rudy's VA Hospital appt on Friday 4/28
changed from Friday to Thursday 4/27
at 10:30 am & physical therapy @ 3:30 pm;
Looks like he'll miss the "Grease" movie. Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 7:27-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Watch scores & listen to Playoffs (95.7 FM)
between G.S. Warriors & Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center;
Kings & Warriors tied 2-2; Warriors needs to win Road Game
to advance in NBA Playoffs

1st Quarter: Kings 36 Warriors 33;
2nd Quarter: Warriors 60 King 56;
3rd Quarter: Warriors 99 Kings 90;
4th Quarter: Warriors beats Kings 123-116.

Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 8:30-9:30 pm
Mountain View: "Einstein with Wisdom Mudra Pose"—
Einstein Photographed; Einstein Writing; Einstein Writing 1925

Einstein & Isidor Rabi;
Einstein & Neils Bohr;
Einstein at Cal Tech 1931. Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 10:00-11:30 pm
Mountain View: 1/3 organicgirl Salad Baby Spring Mix;
Asian Sesame & Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing;

Stouffer's Tuna Fish Casserole;
1/2 Creamy Mashed Potatoes; Slice Pound Cake;
3 scoops of Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream.

Thursday, April 27, 2023, 9:27-9:33 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:15 am;
Woke up @ 10:45 am (10.5 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 9:33 am—
MRFEA = FRAME; CEUNO = OUNCE;
EWYTAS = SWEATY; DALIRA = RADIAL

Cartoon Answer— The Roosevelt dime replaced
the Mercury dime after the mint approved the
FM ON WET DIA = DAWN OF TIME
17.63% of 845 responders had trouble with "RADIAL". Thursday, April 27, 2023, 1:00-3:00 pm
Mountain View: Mid-Pen Housing Community Room—
Free musical movie "Grease" (1978), directed by Randal Kleiser
with John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing,
Didi Conn, Jeff Conaway, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Annette Charles; Reviews: 1; 2; 3; 4; YouTube: Trailer; Song; Movie

Songs in the movie:
"Grease"; "Sandy";
"Hopelessly Devoted to You;
"You're the One That I Want".

Thursday, April 27, 2023, 4:08 pm
Mountain View: "MOVIES: Harry Belafonte,
activist and entertainer with a "rebel heart", dies at 96"
(By CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, April 25, 2023)

Harry Belafonte, the dashing singer, actor and activist who became an indispensable supporter of the civil rights movement, has died at 96 of congestive heart failure. He found a mentor and friend in Paul Robeson, calling him his "moral compass". He was friend of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sings: "Scarlet Ribbons" on Ed Sullivan Show (3-29-1964). Thursday, April 27, 2023, 4:30-5:15 pm
Mountain View: Rudy came after his VA Hospital visit;
Gave him 6 small bags of popcorns from "Grease" movie;
Drove to Kaiser Pharmacy (555 Castro St) for 3 boxes One Touch Delica Plus Lancets & 3 boxes One Touch Verio Test Strips (Free)
Drove to Valero Gas Station (Middlefield Road) for "Daily Post"

Shop at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 5:45-6:09 pm—
Lucerne Sweet Cream Creamer 32 oz ($3.99) @ $2.87;
Authentic Asia Shrimp Wonton Soup ($4.99) @ $3.99;
Flav R Pac Cut Green Beans 10 oz ($2.79) @ $1.47.

Friday, April 28, 2023, 9:05-9:16 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 2:00 am;
Woke up @ 1:05 pm (11 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 9:16 am—
GTIRE = TIGER; ENQEU = QUEEN;
SSULTY = STYLUS; LRAYAP = PARLAY

Cartoon Answer— When the new oak and
maple talked to each other, they exchanged
TER EEN STS PALA = "PLEASANT-TREES"
24.41% of 845 responders had trouble with this answer. Friday, April 28, 2023, 3:00-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 3:00 pm; Red Bus @ 3:23 pm
to Showers Drive Wal-Mart news bins for "Daily Post";
Bus #40 @ 3:30 pm to Chef Chu's bins for "Palo Alto Weekly";
Walk to Whole Foods Market to use restroom; Bus #40 @ 4:13 pm
from Showers Drive to Central Xpwy Stop and walked home

No shopping today at Rengstorff Safeway
since Warriors-Kings Playoff Game 6
starts at Chase Center @ 5:00 pm;
Don't want to miss this pivotal game.

Friday, April 28, 2023, 6:00-6:30 pm
Mountain View: After bookmarkng Einstein & Neils Bohr walking,
Ann looked up etymology of Einstein's & Bohr's surnames— Bohr, from North German Bahr, bear. Einstein, One Stone. and elements named after them— Bohrium-107 & Einsteinium-99

Neils Bohr has interest in Chinese Philosophy—
Yin-Yang symbol in Danish Order of Elephants (1947);
Cites "Buddha & Lao Tzu" in "Atomic Physics" book;
Bohr in Hakini Mudra with Jawaharlal Nehru (not on web). Friday, April 28, 2023, 5:17-7:52 pm
Mountain View: Watch scores & listen to Playoffs (95.7 FM)
between G.S. Warriors & Sacramento Kings at ChaseCenter;
Warriors leads Kings 3-2; Can Warriors close out Kings today
to advance in NBA Playoffs? No, Kings controlled entire game.

1st Quarter: Warriors 25 Kings 23;
2nd Quarter: Kings 46 Warriors 38;
3rd Quarter: Kings 90 Warriors 80;
4th Quarter: Kings beats Warriors 118-99.

Friday, April 28, 2023, 8:00-10:25 pm
Mountain View: "BUSINESS: How I nearly
fell for a frightening 'virtual kidnapping' scam"
(By Larry Magid, Mercury News, April 28, 2023, C7-C8)

I was impacted by a scam phone call this week that didn't cost me money or expose my data, but took an enormous emotional toll, including 20 minutes of terror. Writing this column a day later, I'm still anxious, and frankly, a little embarrassed that I believed the scammer when he said he had kidnapped my wife. My wife drove to San Francisco to visit a friend; At 12:37 pm, my cell phone rang with a caller ID that, at first glance, looked like it was my wife. Caller said he was member of a drug cartel and that he had my wife with him in San Francisco. He told me that she will be OK as long as I bring $5,000 to a Walmart parking lot in San Jose. I put him on speaker and dialed 911 from my desk phone. I didn't say anything to the 911 operator, but knew that they would hang on and listen to the call. with police listening to ransom call; Spoke to kidnapper for just over 11 minutes, and he finally hung up on me, probably because he realized I was not going to comply. Phoned my wife, she was fine and never in danger. Did research on virtual kidnapping and found an FBI website described nearly identical tactics used on me. Friday, April 28, 2023, 8:00-10:25 pm
Mountain View: "EDUCATION: This Palo Alto
college counselor has a story to tell"
(By Martha Ross, Mercury News, April 18, 2023)

Article reprinted in Peninsula News, April 28, 2023, p. 3— In Irena Smith's memoir about working on the front lines of America's college admissions mania, the Palo Alto-based independent college admissions counselor recalls how she made a ninth-grader cry. Smith told the boy and his mother that he shouldn't count on getting into Stanford, despite his good grades and vow to do whatever he could to be accepted. As Smith writes in "The Golden Ticket", she worked in Stanford's admissions office for four years and knew that the staff read most applications with "an eye to turning students down." Indeed, data reported in February shows Stanford's acceptance rate for its class of 2026 was a record low 3.7%. "HYPS" schools (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford) are the ones students want to get in. Teen suicides from 2009 to 2015 that ended lives of 10 Palo Alto Unified School District students. From November to March, she and colleagues pored through tens of thousands of essays to find around 2,000 students to make up Stanford University's next class..

Saturday, April 29, 2023, 8:45-8:49 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 12:45 am;
Woke up @ 1:44 pm (13 hours sleep);
Solved Jumble & Cartoon Puzzle @ 8:49 am—
LYTES = STYLE; NSYUN = SUNNY;
FICTEN = INFECT; SUYBIL = BUSILY

Cartoon Answer— The comedy club
was being audited because the IRS suspected
SYE SUNN INF BUS = FUNNY BUSINESS
9.85% of 751 responders had trouble with "INFECT". Saturday, April 29, 2023, 3:30-4:30 pm
Mountain View: Leave apt @ 3:30 pm; Half-hour walk to
Valero (Middlefield Rd) for "Daily Post" & "Peninsula News";
Shopping at Safeway (580 N. Rengstorff Ave) 4:17-4:50 pm;
Google's Red Bus left 4:55 pm as I rolled my cart to bus stop;
Bus #40 @ 5:02 pm to Montecito Ave and walked home

Sig Sel Creamy Mashed Potatoes ($4.99) = Free;
Sig Sel Fruit Cup Watermelon 12 oz ($3.99) @ $3.23;
Lucerne French Vanilla Creamer 32 oz ($3.99) @ $2.87;
Cherry Strudel Bites 20 ct @$5.99 - $2 off bakery = $3.99

Saturday, April 29, 2023, 7:00-8:00 pm
Mountain View: Rudy likes to use Bengay Ultra Strength Non-Greasy Topical Pain Relief Cream, 4 oz @ $7.74; Got 4 coupons
$2 off (expires 5-27-2023) for him from "Peninsula News" today;
More Free items for Rudy from Mid-Pen Housing— Hunt's Pasta Sauce Chunky Vegetables 24 oz: Mama Ginelli's Beef Ravioli 15 oz:

1 can Mother Maid Pinto Beans:
3 cans Value Corner Soup Chicken Noodle;
2 cans Value Corner Soup Condensed Tomato;
2 bags Gulf Pacific Long-Grain Brown Rice 1 lb. Saturday, April 29, 2023, 8:00-9:00 pm
Mountain View: Neils Bohr's book "Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge" not available at Santa Clara Libraries, Mountain View Library, Palo Alto Mitchell Park Library, Foothill College Library to find photo of Bohr in Hakini Mudra pose; Need to scan photo of Bohr & Nehru from my "Wisdom Mudra & Einstein" book

After sending emails on Bohr's quote yesterday,
received responses from physicists David Cheng
and Huai-Han Kung, chemist Steve Gould,
computer programmer Frank Peter, & Karen.

Sunday, April 30, 2023, 7:40-9:07 am
Mountain View: Went to bed @ 11:40 am;
Solved Jumble Puzzle @ 9:07 am—
RYUGEN = GURNEY; VATROC = CAVORT;
DRUTEG = TRUDGE; DNIREH = HINDER;
THORET = HOTTER; SMPAHI = MISHAP

Missed Cartoon Answer— To better
understand addition, their teacher wanted them to
GU VOT UG HIE HTT MIS = GIVE IT "SUM" THOUGHT
45.55% of 641 responders had trouble with this answer. Sunday, April 30, 2023, 12:50-3:30 pm
Mountain View: Wake up @ 12:55 pm (11 hours sleep)
Watch scores & listen to Playoffs (95.7 FM) between
G.S. Warriors & Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center;
Kings & Warriors tied 3-3; 1st Round Final Playoff Game 7;
Curry scores 50; Arline phoned @ 1:40-2:40 pm for chat

1st Quarter: Kings 31 Warriors 30;
2nd Quarter: Kings 58 Warriors 56;
3rd Quarter: Warriors 91 Kings 81;
4th Quarter: Warriors beats Kings 120-100.

Sunday, April 30, 2023, 3:45-4:15 pm
Mountain View: "THINGS TO DO: Here's everything
you need to plan a road trip through the beautiful Southwest"
(By Jenny Peters, Mercury News, April 30, 2023, F7-F8)

Places in the "Wild West" you have to see, all so close
to California— 1. Nevada: Ghosts, gold and Red Rock;
2. Utah: Hoodoos, arches and more; 3. Arizona: Sunrise, sunset and a flyover at the Big Hole; If you go: Red Rock Canyon; National Parks; Monument Valley. Sunday, April 30, 2023, 4:15-5:40 pm
Mountain View: "THE TRAVEL LIST:
10 fascinating theme parks that have closed forever"
(By Joe Yogerst, CNN, Mercury News, April 30, 2023, F7)

1. Berliner Spreepark, Germany; 2. Mimaland, Malaysia;
3. Camelot Theme Park, UK; 4. Six Flags, New Orleans;
5. Nara Dreamland, Japan; 6. Jardin de Tivoli, France; 7. Pripyat Amusement Park, Ukraine; 8. Yongma Land, South Korea; 9. Cypress Gardens, FL; 10. Ho Thuy Tien, Vietnam.

Sunday, April 30, 2023, 6:10-9:48 pm
Mountain View: 20 photos: "Einstein with Wisdom Mudra Pose"—
Einstein Writing; Einstein with Chalk; Einstein with Millikan; Einstein with Indian Headdress; Einstein with Hat: Einstein Walking;
Einstein & Child in Back: Einstein & Ship Captain; Einstein Reading

Einstein Writing with Dante on Desk; Einstein by Bookcase;
Einstein in Chair; Einstein & Pen; Einstein at Desk & Wife;
Einstein & Wife on Ship; Einstein & Elsa 1921; Einstein
& Elsa 1931; Einstein at Blackboard: Einstein & Visitor;
Einstein's last photo; Lincoln in double wisdom mudra pose.
(Numbers: 50 points by Curry as Warriors wins Game 7) Sunday, April 30, 2023, 10:00-11:00 pm
Mountain View: "BASKETBALL: Stephen Curry scores
Game 7-record 50 as Warriors eliminate Kings"
(By Field Level Media, Reuters, Yahoo News, 4-30-2023)

Curry set a Game 7 scoring record with 50 points & Warriors kept their championship-repeat dreams alive with a 120-100 road win over Kings. Curry's 50 points were 3 more than he'd ever scored in a playoff game, & two more than the 48 Kevin Durant put up against Bucks in Nets Game 7 loss in 2021 Eastern semifinals. Curry made 20 of his career-high 38 shots overall & 7-for-18 on 3-point tries.