May 27 ,1989 Saturday

Steve and I read some of Planet Commandos, the sequel to Planet Busters.  He loves it.  He says it has social commentary and regards it as good literature as well as entertainment.  Perhaps I shall continue that book.  Might as well.  I bought a metal bookcase from the lame brain down the street with the goddamned swastika tattooed on his arm.  I painted it white-- the bookcase, not the tattoo.  Now I seem to be in much better shape with respect to the space I have for books.  I cleaned up a little.  Steve and I went to Sunset Sports Center to buy him a new diving mask.  He didn't get one in the end.  ON the way back we went to JB's restaurant, where I ate a bunch of cantaloupe.  After that, we dropped in on the Hendershots.  Mike was digging a hole for a tree in the front yard.  They informed us that Marcus had to be put to sleep. 


May 28, 1989 Monday
It's memorial day.  Puddy woke me up early, but I got to sleep until about nine o'clock.  Steve and I went to the Hendershots for shiskebob, which I cannot spell.  I found a black rock in their yard and it is good for making arrowheads.  I also wrote a funny conclusion to chapter 6 in the book Planet Commandos.  It deals with Jenkins pulling the emergency brakes in a train. 


June 6, 1989

Steve and Sherry went to Mexico today.  I went to work and fooled around.  Still dieting, but I ate more than usual today.  I helped the neighbors move their stuff into the house.  I helped unload their truck.  They tend to use double negatives and a lot of "he don'ts". 
Mom and Dad called last night.  Mom gave me Greg Conner's number, and I called him to get some advice about the Laser 128 that I want to give to Mom.  He's a big Apple II freak.  He's got a super duper II GS and a piano keyboard that hooks up to it.  Whatever you play is instantly converted to sheet music and
memorized for later.
China is pretty close to a civil war because the 27th army went in and murdered all the students-- about 3000 or so it is estimated.  The 38th army may attack them.  One student conjectured that the strange movements of the 27th today (the army started marching out of the square, marching somewhere)  was an attempt to avoid being decimated by an air attack.  They were all bunched up in the square, you see.  Also some of the army is grouping itself into defensive positions as though they fear attack by another armed force. 
I'm watching a Sidney Poitier movie now;  one that I've never seen.  It's about a couple that buys an island. 
Sue Hendershot called up and invited me to dinner. 


September 9, 1989 Saturday

The damned dog woke me up at 8:30 AM.  She had slept in Steve's room, but she came in and scratched on my bed.
We played the guitars a little.  Sherry brought back Steve's car and went to sleep in Steve's room.  Steve and I took her back home and then went to look for gravel beds to look for fossils.  We got sidetracked and went to the Stadium Club and drank three beers apiece.  Mike Hendershot called because he wanted us to come over and play guitar with a friend of his who is one of those guitar aficionados.  We will go in an hour or so and play guitar. 

September 23, 1989 Saturday

I was sleeping soundly at ten AM when Steve woke me up.  He wanted to go garage saling.  Some Jesus freaks came by and we talked to them for about forty-five minutes.  We crucified the poor bastards.  They went into their rap on dead rats dated with carbon fourteen.  When they left The guy who could talk (the other guy never uttered a word) advised us to look pay attention if we ever heard about someone whose blood had been drained from his body rising again because he went to the Cathedral of Praise Church and this kind of miracle was going to happen in from three to ten years.  Mental illness is an ugly thing to behold.
We invited the Hendershots over for lasagna.  They came with Emily and we ate our foody woody.  It was delish. 

November 19, 1989 Sunday

I worked all day on the curriculum stuff.  Steve called at 8:30 AM or so and said he was coming over.  I got a call from Sherry at around three saying that Steve was buying a suit in Fiesta Mall and that he wanted to meet somewhere for a beer.  I had to go over to Kinko's copies to get some copying done of the modules for the project.  Since there was a small bar next to the copy place I told her to tell him to meet me there.  I went over and we drank some beer.  When I drove back I saw that that damned dog that killed Snuggles was getting out of a car.  I thought they were bringing the damned thing back.  I saw Ms Mayfield on the street and told her and she informed me that the dog had never left but was under the custody of someone more responsible than that deadbeat Mr. Glade. 
Steve and Sherry met the Hendershots at Chino Liquors and they invited us over to their house.  Sherry didn't come.  Steve and I brought Noodles. 

December 31, 1989 Sunday

We went to Hendershots' for New Year's.  Mom and Dad came.  We had fun.  Actually, I drank a bunch of rum and didn't feel too good the next day.  Mike drove me home because Steve took the car, and I wanted to stay.

January 6, 1990 Saturday

Last night, I went to Hendershots and drank the rest of that rum.  They had a movie by the same guys that made "Airplane."  We also played a word game called boggie or boggle or something.  It was a good game.  Today, the Hendershots and Steve and me and Mom and Dad went to Tianguis in Guadalupe.  I suggested it yesterday just because I thought it might be fun to have tacos there.  Everyone thought that there was going to be some sort of festival there.  I never said so.  We ate tacos.  I bought a belt.  My Spanish is not so hot lately. 


March 23, 1990 Friday

I got up and cleaned up a bit.  Then, I went to Tempe Butte and smacked open rocks for three hours.  It was rough work.  I got a suntan in the first hour and then decided to put on my long-sleeved shirt with my T-shirt over my head Arab style.  I found very little this time, and I got some blisters for my pains.  There is one interesting thing that could be a leaf, but I don't know.  Also, a lot of pieces of fossilized wood.  Nothing much else.  It was a tremendous amount of exercise.
Steve and I went over to Garcia's happy hour.  We had a couple of beers and ate all their free tacos.
I went over to the Hendershots.  Steve and Sherry came over after a while.  We ate and yucked it up.


May 5, 1990 Saturday

Mom and Dad decided to stay here another day.  We went to Rosita’s.  I went to the Hendershot’s house at night.


May 13, 1990 Sunday

I went to see the Renault.  It was a new engine, all right.  The thing was a real nightmare to try to drive.  I hated it.  I liked the station wagon design, but it was a heap.
It was over by Hendershots, so I went over to their house.  They wanted to buy a new car too, so we all went to a used car lot on Arizona Avenue.  I test drove a Subaru that I liked.  All those cars are overpriced and beautifully reconditioned cosmetically.  I was seriously considering  buying the Subaru until my head cleared.  We went to another used car lot a block away.  I decided there that I wanted a 1986 K-car station wagon.  Now my head has cleared.
I ate dinner over at Hendershots.  We had hamburgers grilled on their Smoky Joe@.  They were delicious.

July 31, 1991 Wednesday

I’m still missing Keycaps on my computer, but I can get it back.  Yesterday, I went to Sherry’s friends store and bought a 20-dollar cow skull.  I hung it up.  It is ten miles to the store.  It also rained that day, I believe.  Today I rearranged Steve’s room, and it looks great.  Steve went to Flagstaff today.
Dad and I went to Gallagher’s.  I had wings and beer.  I also found that they had Karaoke night tonight, so I called Mike Hendershot, and we went there.  I sang, “Mack the Knife.”  I did a pretty good job.  You read the words on the screen and the music plays behind you.  You get to sing in your own booth drinking beer, and so there is little pressure.  Jesus it was fun. 
I also worked on my ESL Writing Lab today on Hypercard. 
I took Noodles out and we walked in the short staple cotton fields.  Noodles chased a roadrunner.  There was also a jackrabbit there.  I collected a bunch of river stones and fixed up the display case that I had got from the exact same place several months earlier.  Looks good now in my Coyote Room.  I fixed up the musical instruments there so I can call it the Rock Music room because of all of the rocks and fossils there, you see. 


September 11,1991 Wednesday

I saw Sue Hendershot on the top of the parking structure today.  She is pregnant.  We chatted.  I went to work and did some stuff.  I don’t have to work very hard because I don’t have all that much to do.  Jesus what a deal. 
Dad and I watched Dinosaur on TV.


November 10, 1991 Sunday

It was raining when I got up.  Fat chance to go fossil hunting as I had planned.  Mom called and said it was raining up there in Flagstaff so not to come up if I didn’t want to.
I went to Steve’s and we worked on some cartoons.  We ate some pizza and drank beer.  Sherry called Jan to come over but he couldn’t because he had to work.  She then called the Hendershots and they came over after a while. I went over to Dad's house and we had a real good time watching a show on TV.


 January 1, 1993

Went to Hendershots the night before to celebrate new year's.  I climbed up on the roof.  There were rockets popping around in the sky.  Dad was with us. He drove me home.  Sonny had stayed home with Wes.  I fooled with Hendershot's IBM with windows.  The mouse didn't work very well.


February 8, 1992 Saturday

I went to the Greek Food Festival and Steve and Dad went and Dad didn't bring a coat.  It has been raining.  But today it cleared up.  My African Daisies weren't really hurt by the rain. 
We took the little shuttle into the Festival and I bought a half a chicken to eat and drank some beer.  The chicken was five bucks, but the American beer was only a buck for a sixteen-ounce glass.  The Hendershots met us there.  Steve and Sonny and I went over to his house and got Sherry and headed over to Hendershots.   I was left at Hendershots and Steve drove her home and returned later.  We had fun telling jokes.  Later, we watched the Hendershots' video of Paul McCartney "Unplugged," which is an acoustic show his band put on.  'Twas very nice.


February 29, 1992 Saturday

What did I do Saturday.  I know that I went to Gallagher's and had a pitcher of beer late in the day and went home.  I thought the Hendershots might like to go to Karaoke night at the pub, so I called them but they were busy. 
I slept with Noodles out in the back yard in my sleeping bag.  Noodles stuck it out with me.  She loved woofing and leaving the sack and then returning.


December 24, 1992

I went over to Steve's and the Hendershots were there. 

September 29, 1997 Monday

I can't seem to get anything done at work. PINK SUNSETS are back. The hurricane that was supposed to bring terrible rain didn't. Places around the state got some and there were some amazing floods.
Jan Kegelman gave me some of her father's war stories. Jesus, it was hairy being pilot of one of those thunderbolts.
I had the Hendershots over for dinner two days ago (Saturday night). Steve and Sherry and Sonny came too. I danced to the St. Louis Blues before everyone came over. The next morning my shoulders were very sore. Anyway, I cooked a three-pound London broil that I had maranaded in beer, soy sauce, pepper, garlic, onion and oregano for hours. It was delish even though I drank too much and played a record and let it cook longer that I should have. Sonny and Emily and Julie I caught playing trampoline on my bed. Noodles had a good night because everyone made a fuss over her and she got to eat steak. I had ranch style beans and Sue Hendershot brought noodles. We had a ton of beer and wine.