Diary

Put stuff away. 9:00 Bob arrives. Walk to B'way and to Harvard Exit to see RoboCop. Pretty far fetched, but simple too A fun, no brainer, except concepts of conflict internally programmed Good ending - CEO says "You're fired" so Robocop could take action. 11:30 Walk home. Have a couple Chivas and talk in philosophical abstractions for a while. Love + death. Symbolism. Location of meaning. Media vs message. Good talk. 1:30 Drive Bob home to Madison Park.

SUN, AUG 2 '87 (SUNNY ALL DAY) 6:30 Wake up early. Too restless to sleep. Misc. Load of laundry too. Call Mom + Dad + Emily Call Bob to return wallet. 9:00 To work, via Bob's Bugs Lunch at Wendy's Printing bugs. 3:30 Leave for Body Nautilus but due to lack of desire to be inside presence of guy who hurt my shoulder. presence of Don Titus, Tom Thompson, Scott S[?]ee + other social guys I decide I'd rather go running now, also being desirous of some aerobic exercise and desire to not strain my shoulder doing Lat Pulls, Military Press, and of course shrugs. SO I'M SKIPPING TILL TUES AT PUMPHOUSE. 4:15 Go to Val Park for a run, for half hour. Then walk around Park. Nice. Go home. Shower. Make + eat Pesto Pasta and have some champagne, reading newspaper. 6:15 Back to work and resolve 3 bugs: fixed 2 one was already fixed Only one left, whcih I need help on. 12:00 Finish filling out Office Change form 12:30 Start to look at fUpdateCol/RowHdr flag use. 1:15 Leave, go home, to bed

MON, AUG 3 '87 (SUNNY 8:30 GET UP. POSTPONE CHIRO TO AFTERNOON 9:45 BACK TO MICROSOFT TILL RELEASE HAPPENS. TONY'S MAKING DEBUGGING VERSION ON MY MACHINE, SO USE HIS TO FINISH MY ANALYSIS OF fUpdate Col Row Hdrs, and talk with Tony about it. 1:00 Lunch with Tony, Cliff, and Brad V. Good Mexican place at Crossroads. 2:00 Misc post-release clean up. Test Scott's change. Fine. Update Raid. Diff & backup + print a bunch. 6:45 Dinner at Wendy's. Stop at Safeway. 7:45 Make release to summer guys. Download + print email. Regroup. 11:15 Leave. Glass of champagne at home. J/O with Butch Barnes. 12:30 To bed

TUE, 8/4 '87 SUNNY ALL DAY - MID 80'S 7:30 Get up. Misc. 9:00 Go to Pioneer Sq for haircut at Chaika's. 10:30 Back at home, misc, WSJ. 11:00 Pay Monthly bills. Do Last 3 days mail. Take out garbage. Order book from Lib Comp Sci on Parallel Distrib Proc's 12:00 Make + eat lunch, reading Infoworld. Misc 1:00 To Microsoft. Email. Misc. Look at Rickda's "mouse dragging split" hang. Pretty reproducible. Talk with Randall + with Luther. Luther had Chart bug but David's gone. 2:45 At gym, think about Rickda's bugs. Dinner at Bellevue Wendy's. 6:15 At Microsoft, experiment on Rickda's, Discover it has different EGABIOS. Email to Rickda. Email to Tael + Rick k ~ printer bugs + WORD 3.1 9:30 Look over July 6 - Aug 2 to count work time and put together "New feature" list, but there's nothing in the list but stuff in RAID. 12:00 Regroup 12:15 Leave. Put stuff away. Write up today. A little Champagne. Feeling like I can get a bunch done tomorrow.

WED AUG 5 '87 (CLOUDY)

8:30 Get up. Misc. Take Audi in for brake lining and look at Seat heater. [?] Stop at QFC for a few things and eat cereal at home. WSJ. Misc. Extra hands says around 1 - 1:30. 10:30 Do yesterday's mail. 10:45 Fill out Arbitron Ratings. Do some Laundry. Pay Times + Amer Expr. 12:00 Make + eat lunch. Finish laundry (Dry it) + put away. Take letters to mail + buy stamps 1:15 Errands. Film Stop 1. 4 Get a gold coin, into a safe 5 2 Bartell. 3 Hillcrest Pharmacy for Minoxidil. 6 Shop at QFC, getting box for recyclables. Extra Hands was here. Put away laundry 3:30 Try calling Dan Donahue. Sort through newly received Fin'l letters Especially sort out Skousen + Schabacker. 4:00 Go to Bagel Deli for coffee + read Skousen letter. No score card so I cannot judge performance. It's sort of interesting, but not for $95 a year. 5:15 Go pick up car at Audi. More fun to Drive Seems less sluggish + brakes are firm now. Make + eat dinner. Finish Skousen July + August letters. Probably cancel subscription. 7:30 Put stuff away. Do today's mail. Arrange to tan at 8:00. Go for it. 9:00 At home again, write up ideas on Competition in Investing. And read Mutual Fund Investing. It should be cancelled too. Nothing new. 11:00 Look at IRS Tax Law changes. Still no mention of change in length of "Long Term," so I guess it's 6 months. 11:15 Go over miscellaneous financial mail. Mostly discard. Read Hulbert newsletter + Dessauer ad. Once again, it got a great risk reward ratio, but didn't beat Mutual Shares. So I'm satisfied. 12:00 Get ready for bed.

THU AUG 6 '87 CLOUDY MOSTLY

8:00 Get up. Look at yesterday's work a bit. 9:15 Chiropractor. Sebrena giving massage. Strange. 10:00 Gym workout. Some very well-fit woman gives me workout advice. Interesting look. 12:00 Stop at QFC for fresh fish - salmon Make + eat lunch. 1:00 Add sheet to blue book on which newsletters to hold + what to cancel. And also add sheet on why I don't need to follow this anymore. No more newsletters or research. 1:45 To Microsoft Work on Rickda's mouse bug. Turn out to be Import Hardware running with some strange switches. Dinner at Kirkland Wendy's. Feeling pretty depressed - no fun lately. Decide on vacation to River at EOM. Resync, etc. Look at first of new printing bugs 11:00 Go home. Plan timing of vacations 11:45 To bed

FRI AUG 7 '87

7:30 Get up. Misc. Do yesterday's mail. Plan Russian River. Call F[?]s. 9:15 To Microsoft. Misc. Start on printing bugs Lunch at Bel Sq Sea Galley. More print bugs. Dinner at Wendy's More print bugs. 11:30 pm Leave. To bed, at home

SAT AUG 8 '87

7:45 Get up. Misc. Do yesterday's Mail. 9:30 Call Vic I[?] at John G[?] 9:45 To Gym, pretty good workout. Not cerebral, so insensitive to 20 year olds + bubblegum music. 12:30 Shower Eat turkey at Yankee diner, while reviewing the 1985 writeup of my investment studies of last 1982 and early 1983. 1:30 Where to lay in the sun. 1:45 End up at Volunteer Park. Finish that 1985 Diary, reading its review of 1982+3. Think. 3:45 Come home + put diary away. Look at BJ Group stuff and put it on stack with other investment advisers. Put Zweig mgt services there too, along with Fidelity, T Rowe Price, etc. 4:30 Look at Elliot Wave Theory and put it with other books on Psychology, Spiritualism and Philosophy. Misc. Call Bill Farrell. 4:45 Shower 5:00 Leave for MS, but see myself doing Printer test on a gorgeous Sat night versus making Herb + Almond Rice w/shrimp. So I drive thru Madison Pk. + Hillside Dr. 5:45 Call Bob. Brief chat. Make + eat dinner. Organize fin'l newsletters for next w[?] Could only read one tonite. Take out garbage. Misc. 7:15 Go to Myrtle Edwards Park. At first pretty bleak with bright sun, but after sunset, it was wonderful. In one direction, mountains + natural light In the other, city and city lights. Warm land air vs cool Salty air. Small beach. Trains. PI Globe. Bums. 9:15 Head home via Broadway. 9:30 Call Bill F. Hiked today. 10:15 What to do tomorrow? Dan D vs. San Juans vs Three Fingers.