Diary

9:30 LETTER FROM CHUCK, RA IS [INC?] RENT. HE'S THE OWNER NOW... ENTER MASTERCARD, VISA, AM EXP INTO PERSONAL ACCOUNTANT, ALONG WITH IRA CASH, BOND INTEREST, AND SOME CASH & PAYABLES. 11:30 TO BED

FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 1987

7:45 GET UP, GO GET GROCERIES & DRY-CLEANED SUEDE JACKET WHICH IS DARKER NOW (AND COST $27.50) SO BE CAREFUL WITH IT FROM NOW ON. CALL SKI REPORTS. SOUNDS GOOD BUT DECIDE AGAINST GOING SINCE [side note]ALREADY TOOK OFF TUESDAY FOR CAR.[/side note] 1) STEVENS PASS SAYS SNOW TIRES ADVISED 2) [SNOQ?] PASS HAS COMPACT SNOW & ICE 3) AFTERNOON TEMP IN 20'S (COLD) 4) STILL COUGHING STUFF UP 5) FREEZING LEVEL 2000 ' WATCH DR. WHO [TAKES?] PEOPLE TO PASSED LIVES TO RELIVE BAD EXPERIENCES ON GOOD COMPANY. DR MORRIS HETMEN? 10:00 FINISH CASH & PAYABLES, CALLING DR. FAILLA'S OFFICE FOR HELP 11:00 THINK ABOUT ADJUSTING ACCOUNTS, TO MAKE MISC MORE STABLE. 11:15 TO BROADWAY. SEE DEE HILLS. ~ SKIING SUNDAY. BUY TRI GEL AND FISH MAKE & EAT LUNCH 12:30 [deletion] DECIDE TO REMOVE MV SALES TAX ACCOUNT & ADD SPECIAL ACCT FOR LARGE, UNBUDGETABLES. 1:00 GOTO WORK 1:30 WORK ON MISC RESYNC, EMAIL, ETC 2:30 DIG IN PC WORD 3.0'S *.H 4:00 [G1M?] & DINNER & CALL HENRY K ~ SKIING 6:00 MORE PC WORD 3.0'S *.H BUT FEELS FUNNY TO BE AT WORK FRIDAY NIGHT. QUEEZY GUT. 7:00 GO HOME. SET UP SPECIAL ACCT & TRY OUT ON '86. THEN FINISH UP DECEMBERS ACCOUNTING. AND CREATE 1987 ACCOUNTS, AFTER BACKING UP CURRENT DISK! 10:30 DO MAIL, ETC, CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP DRAW BATH, SHAVE LEGS, SHOWER 11:15 TO BED.

Sat Jan 17 '87 Cloudy, No Rain 8:30 Get up. After sleeping in, Do 2 loads of laundry. Talk w/ Bruno awhile. Dry out passanger side headlight. Read Merrill Lynch era news. Make + eat lunch. Glance over Microsoft Med/ Dent plan. Clear off desk + couch in den. 2:30 Mail bills + other responses. Go to Gap new UW. No 505S. Go to Gap Downtown. Phasing 505's. Nordstrom. Buy some preshrunk, light blue 50's + normal 501's. Cand had brought boot leg 505's atGap, socks at Bon. Coffee Grinder [yellow highlight] at Fredericks. (No hot-air popcorn poppers). Go home. Put stuff away. Mom calls. Launder new jeans + socks. Try out coffee grinder. Good... Mom calls again. 6:00 Make + eat dinnger. Salmon and Rice. I don't care for protein + vegetables only [underlined]. Moderify accounts layout somewhat. Put note under "money" in desk. [enclosed with {] Try on new 33 x 32 501's. Fit great around waist but too short! Make hemmed cutoffs out of these for summer. [Enclosed with {]. 8:45 Now fix up 1984 accounts. Change quite a few "Miscellaneous" to "Special": Parking violations, Gym fees, Housewares, plants, Drugs...As it print I get ready for skiing. Grocery shop too. 1983 + 1984 PRINTED FINE!! 10:30 Backup, shutdown. Go to bed. Rested well, but my mind was active. 1) Realized that to get view of Olympics + Downtown and be centrally located, my neighborhood is great, check condos across street. When finished. [yellow highhlight] 2) To save money + sales tax, buy a used boat this spring.

Sun, Jan 18 '87 8:15 Leave to pickup Dee, then Henry. Talk about lots, incl Fit for Life. Kenry doesn't think its sound. Protein ddiets help to lose weight! Since it tales more energy to digest, reason I lost weight last summer was not cutting protein, but calories in general. [yellow highlight] Breakfast at Index Cafe. 11:30 Park car, one of the last spots. 12:00 Buy lift tickets + ski all day. Use tye mill a lot. Less foggy. Lunch. Henry's got so many stories, ski into the evening. Barrier was the run I remember. Hasn't been there since sprong '82. Finished on the Peg slope. 6:30 Drinks at bar. Try to find car. 8:00 Head home. Beite Midlier '78. Talk w/ Deeabout burroughs. 10:00 Arrive home. Put stuff awau. Walk last part of "Out On A Limb". Showers feel great. 11:00 J/O + go to bed. Funny that I prefer sex with myself over others.

Mon, Jan 19 '87 8:00 Get up. Misc. Cereal + fruit. Talk with mom. Write in here. 9:45 Finish adjusting old accounting to new scheme. Do it now so I can have printouts if I need them. And so I can put copy into dafety box. Print out 1985, do 1986 printing too. 12:30 Make + eat lunch. Check over 1986 printout + make a few changes on Mac, but don't printout. Do a few things to 1987, and then back to 1983 to print starting balances and lists of all [underline] accounts. Looks great! Backup my disks. Shutdown. Prepare "bank archive" but bank is closed due to the M.L. King Day. 3:00 Call NMI to get another $40 for contracts. Clean up my desk. Misc.

3:30 Out to Gap for 34 x 33 shrink to fit 501s. But they don't carry odd size lengths. Down to Nordstrom & buy 'em & shirt too. To Fredericks for wool bed liner, and flannel sheets & Godiva orange liqueur chocolate sauce.

5:45 Make & eat dinner, washing new jeans go to work, stopping for gas & wash. Mail, email, resync.

8:45 Go home. Racing...

9:15 Watch conclusion of "Out on a Limb"

Tues, Jan 20 '87

7:45 Get up.

9:30 Go to work, but realize I'm being railroaded into it, and not keeping my life clean. I should take pers acct disk to bank at least...so go back home

9:45 Work out new W-4 basing it on the 1986 figures produced yesterday.

10:30 Take pers acct disk to bank with only my stuff (not Bob's) on it, bring home oldest bank archieve and erase it, as usual.

11:00 Decide which jeans to keep. Take out garbage. Put Goodwill stuff in bag. Unpack Stanford calendar for office.

11:30 Snack & go to Goodwill & The Gap to return 33 x 32 boot cut pants in exchange for 34 x 33 501's.

12:30 Lunch, finishing SF gay mags and looking at Dec HBO/SHO to see if I missed anything & whether it's worth it & yes it is. Just watch!

1:15 Go to work & do paper work.

2:30 Read Amiga in old Sep '85 great. comp. Making notes as I go.

3:45 Update WWSPEL & DIFF while reading about Atari St.

5:00 Relax and decide to go home to settle out domestic stuff today as I started to, before studying WPX.

6:00 Stop at Crown Books. There are no Atari magazines, but 5 for Commo including one just on Amiga.

However, I think that has to do with ratio of Commodore 64's to Atari 400/800's. January "Compute!" buyer guide to paint programs showed 3 times as many for Atari ST as for Amiga.

But it seems that the dominant one is still in dispute, from reading article in one magazine, so I look at books. About equal number on Atari ST as on Amiga...(No Atari 400/800 books...) It seems they may both have their niche in what they do well.

Atari is cheaper, and doesn't have graphics coprocessor or Microsoft basic, but does have Dri Gem, Logo and Basic. (Maybe that's why we don't like Tramiel). And runs at 15% faster clock. And supposedly has good RGB monitor. But can't use it hi-res. And supposedly more software (quality?).

Amiga has better graphics due to its graphics coprocessor, which makes it faster for graphics, despite slower clock. It can do 16 colors even in 640 x 400! It is somewhere between 520 ST & 1040 ST having "only" 512K, but internal disk, and power supply.

In short, the Atari 520 ST is a very poor mans Macintosh, while the 1040 is a chintzy guy's Macintosh, which may someday get a graphics coprocessor.

But the Amiga is a true home computer since it is advanced video and audio capabilities. And it has the power supply inside, and disk too. And Microsoft has endorsed it by means of Amiga Basic & an MS-Press book. It's fine to compare these two, but the upshot is that the ST does nothing more than the Mac, in fact less, but it costs less. The Amiga adds recreational features, key for home buyers, but that market is weak, at least now at current prices.