Diary

Until I have tax statements from ML & Schwab & Vang I don't want to do budget, because I don't want to do taxes. Nor do I even want to do Net Worth Jan 1 '89. But I believe I've done as much cleanup & organization in preparation for taxes and finalizing 1988 as I can.

Remove Excel Net Worth Statements stapled to Pers Acct Statements of Net Worth & budget, Pers Acct statement with ANNOTATIONS in desk for help later in budgeting 1989

4:15 -----. Garbage (shreddings) out. Yay!

4:30 Decide that 1985 AMT stuff should be in bank box too...Fetch it.

Go through other tax stuff...nothing like this.

One less thing to keep in apt!

4:45 Go over newly printed report. Much better, which capitalizations correct.

I was thinking about privacy of my assets, to start with, on flight back from last LA trip. Maybe I can return soon...

Start shredding, 10 pages at a time...

Look over old budgets I'm going to put into bank box. Pretty irrelevant now. I'm just holding on to '88 Pers Acct Printouts and not the Excel Net Work Statements '88.

5:30 Create new disk for bank box only to hold old Net Work documents, showing MSFT. Put Estate Planning & Legend letter on too. Make backup & put both in Envelope for Box. Erase all these files from Accounts Disk which I keep in my Drawer, but keep 88.75 Proj, which I rename 88.75 Net and remove the Line about MSFT. Backup disk.

Pull Estate Planning stuff out of taxes box, and Microsoft Review stuff out of drawer, to put them into bank box tomorrow, too.

6:45 -----Watch another "Year Old" Comp Chron. About Mac World.

Finish shredding. Garbage out. Yay!

7:45 ---- What to do.

Too unexcited to start Net Work, or Big II.

8:00 Too PAC to Jacuzzi & steam.

Feels good, but yawn.

9:00 At home, leave msg for Kuharic.

Errands.

9:30 -----

10:15 Watch Murder She Wrote

11:15 To bed. One Amit.

Hard to get to sleep. Thinking bodily security. Another reason to move? Getting too secure? Tubs is a compromising situation. Blackmail? Destory Tubs card.

11:45 Back to bed

Tues Jan 17 '89

8:00 -----

9:00 Go to Shurgard to try to find Dec '87 prices to use as reference point for Big II, but decide just to use Dec 31 prices.

9:15 Using Jan 4 '88 WSJ, put prices for Dec 31 into Big II Rel Growth Columns.

Change 2 yr TRI projection column to 3 yr since they don't give 2 yr in the current issue or last issue. Also change comparison with H.Q. CP to

H.Q. CP - + bond

Ks - H.Q. CP

From Division of the same. Had to make columns wider. Squeeze!

Analyze spacing needed depending on digits, minus sign, dec pt, likeliness, etc

10:45 Enter figures for last week of year. Print out. Call Doreen for Crown Fit Appt. Make new BP for this quarter. Fill in first week. Print. Make quarter boxes in 1988. Change a couple column widths, pg 2. Print again.

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3:15 Update Industry Price Ranges. Print.

Guy from DH Blair NY calls. Be nice. Actually interest...but no cash...Create new quarter in industry price sheet. Add first week of year prices. Print. Finish looking over Mkt Logic. File. Backup & Archive.

All done but for Net Worth.

3:30 Take stack of stuff to Bank. Disks too. Look over ISO & NOSO, as I add to it. All notes on that stuff are there now. C'est passé.

Make list of stuff I now have in box.

Go home & zap old Oct Data Disk.

Start to look through all my stuff to see what I still have at home...

Bring Industry Price sheet up to date, Barron's.

4:30 Some more looking around to see what else needs to be done now, or moved.

Went through "Routine" document.

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6:00 More planning...clean up Diary.

6:30 Start Reports on semi/com/soft ind'y so I have basis to compare new Quarterly reports (next 2 months) against.

Done!

7:15 To Gym. Good legs workout. New music!

9:15 At home, create new year of VL binder, and put a few things in it.

Call Mom & Dad.

9:45 Mark M calls. Cut it short since I'd told Ben I'd call him back.

10:00 Talk w/Ben.

10:45 -----

11:30 To bed. One Amit.

Wed Jan 18 '89

7:30 -----

8:30 Read Muterts "Dialog Box"

Chuck arrives to scrape plaster.

9:00 -----

9:15 Head out to Honey Bear Baker. Quite busy already. Read about Quatron Windows. Pretty technical trading.

11:00 Leave for Library

11:15 Read about Mac vs Windows in MSJ. Pretty interesting.

See guy from TT '83, trying get soft job.

12:15 Pick up Infoworld.

Go to Cafe Casino to start it.

Lots of stuff, but I start to feel somewhat disoriented in its meaning to me.

Anyway, finish it at Library. Copy a bit.

3:00 Look for Byte '88 August about Multifinder Revealed, but cant find it.

3:15 Head home. Parking ticket ticks me off. But at least I've got some cookies. At home, look for that Byte Issue & find old one & read ~ Multifinder in it. And also find Aug '88 has special Mac Section so I've got it...

Lie down. All this is not for home comp'g. I DON'T NEED MULTITASKING.

Put stuff away

Move furniture back, after Chuck's painting.

4:30 -----

Go check boat. Little mildew, not bad. Wanna do aerobics, but out of gym clothes. Go anyway, forgot towel. Check group anyway. Not bad but not inspiring.

Go home. What a crappy day...

6:00 -----

Think. Glass of wine to cool pain. Who will I work with? Doing what?

7:45 Get ready & go to Sunbrella.

Decide Friday to LA, since I won't want to work out on day I arrive.

8:45 At home, [pink highlight] change flight to Friday. Reserve Mondrian + Budget. [/end highlight] Shower

9:30 [pink highlight] Call Mark [Monterferins?][/end highlight]

10:15 [pink highlight] Ben calls[/end highlight]

11:00 To bed. One [Amit?].

THU JAN 19

7:00 [yellow highlight] York leaves msg. MSFT earned 85¢[/end highlight] ----[pink highlight] Decide to go ski. Sunny Day.[/end highlight] Bleach curtains on front door. Try to put 'em up. They dont quite fit. [pink highlight] Call Meg ~ house lien. No point. She tells me stuff. I call Mom + Dad + tell 'em.[/end highlight]

11:15 [pink highlight] Leave to pikcup Ben. Pretty wired feeling. But Ben is stable + talkative. We have good trip. Eat Turkeys + Index[/end highlight]

2:00 Just before 2pm we buy 2-10 tickets. Do a few simple runs. Yawn. Go up to top of Big Chief but Ridge Chain has just closed. Disapp'd. Ski down Big Chief + take bad spill. Very rocky [?] snow. Chunky. But go over to Brooks. Yawn. [pink highlight] And then start doing Barrier, which was a lot of fun. Infer, drink + snack, as dusk sets. More good skiing, at night, at Barrier[/end highlight]

7:45 [pink highlight] Potato + Brocolli Got 3 complements of Oly Sports Jacket.[/end highlight]

8:30 Drive back. Nice drive, with Ben telling about trip[s?] to Africa.

10:30 At his place, unload. Have ice cream. [pink highlight] Got "Life after Life" present.[/end highlight] Go home. SHower

1:15 To bed. No Amit.

FRI JAN 20 '89

very easy wake up. [J/O?].

7:15 ----[pink highlight] Watch tail end of Inauguration. Reagen leaving White House. Remember seeing him in JAN '81 while in Santa Fe. Now is it time for me to return to Calif?

10:15 [yellow highlight] Call York. Thank for MSFT earnings report. [/end highlight]

10:30 Pay bills. Answer mail.

11:00 Go through financial mail.

2 EWA's (yawn)

2 Hulberts (good)

Barron's (Mutual Choice Scorecard)

Merrill Lynch on Oracle.

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12:45 Lunch. Read January Skeusen. Ok.

Watch this week's Comp Chron.

Do I need:

Big screen: mostly for desktop pub, graphics, CAD

Color: for photo-realism

Fast processor: for graphics intensive work

Big disk

No

So it's ok just to keep 512ke.

I don't need hypercard or QuickBasic.

Probably just get Mac SE30 for speed, and more memory, but small screen's ok.

2:15 Look at December writing on diversification vs taxes.

2:45 ----

3:00 To P.O. Stop mail. Going to LA seems so expensive. Zits too, need new clothes.

3:15 To Princeton Ath Club. Chest. Ok music.

5:00 Home via gas station. Oil too.

5:30 -----

Think about what I'm trying to achieve. I should probably put my personal life at a higher priority, but does this mean I should go to LA? If I just want to read, perhaps I should go someplace closer, cheaper. Realize I need someone, or do I. Maybe I just need self-respecting activities for Saturday night, where I fit in

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7:00 Dinner & CNN Inaugural coverage. Profiles of George, Barbara, Cabinet; Reagan's comments.

8:00 More thoughts. Specifically, on work/living. Emphasis should be on my interest which is finance, but my skill is programming. My assets allow me justification to study software for finance, specifically applications for understanding and for computing. What GOAL: work for finance house.

8:30 WSW & 3 gurus on Bush's workd to do

9:00 Shower

Consider going to PDX instead, but do that when I have time to see kids as well. Start packing.

9:45 Leave msg for Ken Gordon.

Reservations. Calendar.

Try to decide whether to take

Stock Marker Probability - not well written.

After Trade is Made - Yes, well written, authoritative

11:00 To bed. No Amit.

Restless Sleep.

12:45 Wakeup. Go back to sleep.