Diary

Have coffee. 6:15 Put together strategy binder for finances + time, with appropriate divisions, to house all the miscellaneous ideas that are cluttering my couch [side note] Just one binder, dark blue one [ end side note] 7:15 Make + eat dinner. Call Michael F ~ waterski Sunday 8:00 Start to put together notes in binder... From lots of post-its, legal paper + index cards 12:00 Finished. Feels good to have it organized, bt my stomach feels queasy. Relax + go to bed.

SAT, JUL 11 '87 Sunny 80º 7:15 Get up. Misc. QFC. 8:45 Go through WST clippings I've saved in the couch recently and tape to paper + put into binder. Go through bookshelves and put some clippings and articles into scrap book. Go through desk folders and do the same thing. Added benefit is that it trims down those folders, so they fit in desk. 12:30 GOOD, CLEAN, SLEAK FEELING. Set VCR to record Silverado. 12:45 Make + eat lunch. Start inyo visual display of quant info again, and realize 1) It needs to be taken seriously 2) I should understand PC Works charting so put if off for now. 1:30 Consider what to do... I won't go to Pump House after waterskiing + sun tomorrow, and I'd to do a little Microsoft. 1:45 But first look at OC books to see if I could discard them. No, I can't, so don't feel I need to pass through them for investment ideas. 2:00 To Microsoft. 2:30 Misc. Email. Resync. Memo to Tony on what I added for this release.

3:45 Gym. Just awful: RPLZ music, and straight hi-school guys, so bad. Dinner at Bellevue Wendy'sStop at Redmond Safeway. 6:45 Misc. 7:15 Read Works documentation. Decide not to pursue any great skill with DB or Reports. But do see if chart tutorial exists. 8:30 Misc 8:45 Head home but stop at Medina Park for a great sunset, and then stop at that house... What a view! Olympics Bridge from a height. Lights twinking on Laurel West. Just incredible. Call about it tomorrow. Head home. 10:00 Too late for Todd + David's party. Go to QFC via Ritz. Coffee Dove Bar. 11:15 To bed.

SUN, JULY 12 '87

6:45 Get up. Look over "Inside Info" (by bottom line). Has estate stuff so put it in that stack. Read some EWA + research REC'N (tax). Look at old multiple listings book that Ann Thronson gave to me. Has house I saw last night at $720k. Incredible. Discard garbage + old newspapers. Misc. 10:00 Nothing I want to do today on investments. Microsoft. Planning my future, cleaning, etc. 11:15 Go to Michael Failla's for boating. Craig (lawyer) came along. Fun. But kept towel over his head a lot! Protection from sun. Anyway we showed off to [?]. Picked ip Bartle jaymes, Buggles [?] over to Meydenbauer but too small. Fun to be before everyone else. Had a drink + chit chated After arriving sent [?] Then waterskied. Craif on one. Then me. Two trips. Very cold at first, but then got used to it, still not as fun as snow, by far.

[sidenote] Michael wore PJ bottoms, t-top and John Lennon glasses! [end sidenote]

OVER SOME FUN CHOPPY WATER

OVER TO MEDINA TO SEE HOUSE - - NEXT TO NEW CONSTRUCTION ANOTHER STRIP OF LAND BELOW HOUSE.

THE ROUNDED THE TIP OF M. ISLE AND UP TO SEWARD PARK. SURE LOOKS DIFFERENT, ESP SEEING M. ISLE THAT PARENTS CAN SEE, BUT UP CLOSE. IT'S ALL BUILT UP NOW!! TOO CHOPPY TO WATER SKI. FUN TOOK IT EASY. VERY PLEASANT, RELAXED. 2:00 WENT BACK TO GET GAS + OVER TO KIRKLAND, BUT HARD TO FIND RESTAURANT. 3:15 ATE AT MOSS BAY, SALADS + CARROT CAKE AND PEANUT BUTTER PIE. STARTING TO FEEL QUIET. HAD A TOKE. 4:30 SAT IN SEAT WHERE WATER WOULD SPLASH ON ME, AND COULD SEE THE SPARKLES ON THE WATER. ENJOYED THE QUIET WHILE MOVING. ONE MORE TOKE, BUT NOT MUCH EFFECT. THEN BACK PASSED THE 520 HIRISE MADISON BEACH, SEA TENNIS CLUB. 5:15 PUT BOAT AWAY. CRAIG LEAVES. MICHAEL + I GO TO B'WAY. GRACIES. HE'S SO INTO BIZARRE, REVOLUTIONARY STUFF IT'S NOT REALLY INTERESTING AFTER A WHILE. 7:30 AT HOME. PUT STUFF AWAY. GETTING GROGGY. J/O WITH CUTE PICTURE IN INTERVIEW. TAKE A SHOWER. WRITE UP TODAY. IT WAS FUN + ENJOYABLE, AND I'M GLAD CRAIG CAME ALONG. WOULD'VE BEEN LOST JUST WITH MICHAEL. IT WAS THE BEST WAY TO SPEND THIS DAY, BUT NOT SUPER, NOT LIKE '79 I ENJOY SKIING SO MUCH MORE. THAT'S SO ODD, ISN'T IT? SKIING HAS SO MUCH MORE CHARACTER. I'M GLAD I DID TODAY, BUT I'M ALSO GLAD IT'S NOT MY BOAT, SINCE I'D FEEL OBLIGATED TO USE IT + I'M SET FOR 2 WKS NOW ANYWAY. MAYBE GO UP VICTORIA OR SAN JUANS SOON. BUT DONE WITH LAKE WN AWHILE. THAT'S WHY I CAN'T SEE HAVING A BOAT UNLESS I HAD LOTS OF FRIENDS HERE, LIKE MICHAEL DOES. 8:00 NO GO TO JUGS. SWEAT BOX ON HOT DAYS HAVE 1/3 COFFEE DOVE BARS. 8:15 SILVERADO. BUT TV SIGNAL WAS NOT SO GOOD AND MOVIE WAS SLOW.

8:45 So watch end of Aliens which I'd started earlier this week. Still a bad picture. After the movie I diddled with cabled and fixed the picture and watched the very end again. In the process I discovered how to get a good picture on bedroom TV for channel 5: disconnect "pay" cable from switch box in living room. And this also greatly improves reception on kitchen TV! Mom + Dad call. Went to L'Worth.

11:45 To bed.

MONDAY JULY 13 '87 7:00 Get up. Foggy headed still. 8:00 Read over Feb 27 '87 WST special report on personal taxes. Make some clippings + paste 'em. Good to be jettisoning all these old things cluttering couch. 9:15 Misc. 9:30 Get ready for gym. Coffee AND dexatrim. 10:00 Had a very good workout. No fuzzy ennui + no hunger that I usually get from coffee alone. 12:00 Shower. Go home. Do mail. 12:30 Read "Income + Safety" ad, while doing lunch. Not critical. Misc. 1:15 Email to Microsoft Write summer help progress report. Resync, etc. Called about everygreen PT House. $745K! Talk with summer help. Help em out. Setup to MBBT w/David FR a charts Email to Bruce Jacobsen n sample works 6:15 Leave. At home, look at tech in workplace special. June 12 report in WST. Make + eat dinner. Balance CMA + cash on pers acct. 9:00 Pay some bills. Go mail em. Misc. 9:45 Read more osiz prog guide. Chap 2-18. Mom + Dad call. Saw house today. Vic calls. 11:30 To bed.

TUES JULY 14 '87 6:45 Get up. Oliver North Slide Show. Good summary by Sen. McClure of testimony to this point. 8:15 Start Laundry. Read Chap 19-21 of Prog Guide OS/2 Read Chap 1 of Prog Ref Shift Laundry. Make Coffee. 9:15 Start Chap 2 of Prog Guide to see what would be fun to play with. Does it intrigue me? Read about third of Chap 2 Shift Laundry Finish DOS (not KBD, Mon, or VIO) routines in Chap 2, a total of about 300 pages in Chap 2 12:00 Unload laundry, last load (#3) Make + eat lunch. Read WSJ. Misc. 1:00 To Microsoft. Email. Meet with David [?] to go over [?] bugs with summer help. Work on misc matters, bugs Dinner at Rax. Put [?] color into [?] init 9:15 Print out a bunch of Omega Documents Couldn't "net use f: \\biff filesys saab" So I just used the ones I'd copied in May 11:30 Got ready to leave 11:45 Go home. To bed

WED, JULLY 15 '87

7:00 Got up. Misc. Put away yesterday's 3 laundry while watching Adm Poindexter. Start washing sheets. Do yesterday's mail, todays WST. 8:45 Look over Hulbert Fin'l Digest. See notes I made in June issue. 9:30 Unload laundry. Make coffee. Set up to re-record Aliens. Get ready to go to Gym 10:00 Leave for gym. Good strong workout. Shower 1:00 Go to lunch at Bellevue Sea Gallery. Good buffet, cute waiter. Drop newspapers at Recycling bin.