Message 765

Yesterday I read some more of The Economist. In the evening Mimi and I watched a DVD of the Japanese movie Departures. She lived in Japan for a while so it was especially interesting to her. It was the second time watching it for me, and I still think it is a wonderful and beautiful movie. If you have not seen it, I highly recommend it.

Message 764

Yesterday Mimi and I had lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant in San Jose. For dinner we ate pizza on the sidewalk at Amici's in Menlo Park. This morning she joined us at Starbucks and met Helen and Jim and Dave and Joan. Dave still looks terrible, but at least he is feeling good enough now to get out of bed. I started reading The Economist yesterday, but did not get very far. In the evening Mimi and I watched a DVD of the Chinese movie Shanghai Triad. It is one of my favorites, and she had never seen it.

Message 763

Yesterday I had breakfast at Heidi's Pies with Reggie, Henry, Vanessa, and Mimi Greer. I was surprised that Vanessa joined us because she had planned to be in Petaluma. I met Mimi a week ago on POF and have seen her several times since. She is a 61-year old Vietnamese woman who escaped with her parents and siblings when the North Vietnamese took Saigon. In the afternoon I worked some more on my memoirs. In the evening I watched the commentary for episode 2 of True Blood Season 2. I also finished reading the new Science.

Message 762

Yesterday I returned to writing my memoirs for the first time in a couple of weeks. I was able to get quite a bit done. In the evening I watched the first two episodes of True Blood Season 2 on Disk 1. It is quite good and keeps up the standard set in Season 1. I think I may eventually watch Season 1 again sometime, because I had forgotten a lot of it. I also started reading the new Science.

Message 761

Yesterday I read some more of the book Half the Sky. It is very good. The DOW is now down below 10,000, about where it was when, several years ago, I shifted everything I had in the market to the TIAA fund. Although I have been drawing the required minimum distribution ever since, it has not lost any significant value, so I am living on the interest.

Message 760

Yesterday I finished reading The Economist and read some more of the book Half the Sky. In the evening I watched a DVD of the movie Fling. It had a good (but unknown to me) cast, but the story concept was so absurd that I give it only 2.4 stars.

Message 759

Yesterday I read some more of The Economist and took it easy. It was a very hot day, so I had to turn off my computer to keep it from burning out the processor. At 4:30 PM I drove to San Mateo to keep cool in the air-conditioned car. Julian cooked spaghetti and bread and salad and peach pie which I had requested for my father's day dinner, but we had it a week late because we had all gone out to lunch the previous Sunday to celebrate Father's Day. In the evening I watched Miss Marple and read some more of The Economist. Because Charlie Rose is not on Sundays, I again turned in early.