My Grandmother's Journals: August, 1998

Grandma in China in 1988.

Welcome to the daily life of a frugal, persnickety, and extremely independent woman in her 80s: Every day my grandmother wrote down when she woke, what she had for breakfast, any movie she went to see, any mail and calls she received, then what she read and watched on TV before bed.

 

In 1998, she was living alone in a mobile home park in Santa Cruz, Calif., but I wouldn't describe her as lonely. In fact, I never knew her to live with another person or even a pet after she raised my mother as a single mother in Southern California in the 1940s and 50s. (I wrote more about her life in this post.) 

She lived close to the famous surfing spot Pleasure Point, and nearly every day she walked to those cliffs to watch the ocean and anyone surfing it. 

When she died, I took her ashes to those waves with one of her friends, and we each dropped some ashes at the sand. A moment after I dropped mine, a surfer emerged from the water where I stood. 

That was cool. 

In August of 1998, my grandmother tried Apple Jacks and quickly went back to Corn Flakes, was admiring the new stairs her next-door neighbor had built for him, and learned her cholesterol was far too high – from eating too much fast food, no doubt!

July entries.

Saturday, Aug. 1, 1998

Awake 8:30. Usual.

Walked on East Cliff. Still foggy.

To Longs. Woman did not know how to work BP machine.

To Rite Aid, no single blades.

41st donut. No crumb or plain.

Orchard had blades.

Tennis 1 p.m. “Mercedes Benz.”

Bed, read a bit.

 

Sunday, Aug. 2, 1998

Up 7:30. Breakfast, shower/hair.

Longs, BP. Got stamps, more pads.

To bank for balance.

To show, “Smoke Signals.” Liked it.

Home, fixed lunch. Justine called, said she on way down.

J arrived 2:30 p.m., talked. To show again.

Bit later, she got pissed at Pizza My Heart. Left about 6:30 p.m.

TV: Tennis, Dateline: Surfers at Waimea, Mavericks. 50 foot waves. Mark Foo died.

 

Monday, Aug. 3, 1998

Social Security paid on 2nd?

Awake early, slept good.

Usual breakfast, called for 401K brochure.

Drug Emporium BP, Trader Joe’s, food.

41st donut.

Home, tennis. Very hot. 

Worked on pictures, also slides in bottom  drawer, most of day.  

Cooled off at six, breeze.

TV: AMC, The 5 Million Year Earth.

Tuesday, Aug. 4, 1998

Slept 11:30 to 4:30 a.m. 5 hours! 

Ate Apple Jacks. Not as good as flakes.

Sorted purses in box. Put airplane pullover in small bag. 

Longs, BP good.

Coffee at mall. Drug Emporium for TV Guide.

Home, workers in street. Fix drain or gutter?

Mail: Bill from Sears, State Farm.

Stayed in all day. Did nothing. Papers, etc.

Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1998

Awake 6:45, up 8.

Worked in yard til 9:10. Dumped pansies, heat too much.

Kmart: Ate breakfast, bought petunias.

Home, put flowers in pot, cleaned top of cabinet.

12 p.m. news. Wrote Carla, Justine (sent article).

To Live Oak. Vivienne there, she moved to my table. She went to lecture at Capitola Book by Peter Coyote, he signed her book. 

Home, read papers.

TV: News, Patriot Games.

Thursday, Aug. 6, 1998

Not good sleep. Usual breakfast.

Rite-Aid for trail mix, McDonald’s for coffee.

To show, “Parent Trap.” Sorta good.

To Wendy’s, children. Sitters?

TV: Geraldo, Law & Order, Morse. Taped “Breach of Conduct,” Peter Coyote.

Bed, better sleep.

 

Friday, Aug. 7, 1998

Awake 8:30. Usual.

Walked on cliff, then Longs. Got three boxes of Corn Flakes.

Home. Some washing, ironing, some tennis.

Ran tape of “Breach of Conduct.” 

Mail: Brochure from government: “Consumer Info.”

TV: News, Poirot, Midsomer Murders.

Slept deep 11:45 to 12:30, not good sleep after.

Saturday, Aug. 8, 1998

To Longs, more Corn Flakes, fanny pack.

Walked on cliff.

Home noon but tennis delayed by auto race.

Ironed, watched TV: News, part of “Sunset Grill,” part of “The Shadow.”

Sunday, Aug. 9, 1998

Watered, fertilized lawn.

Showered/hair.

To show, “Cousin Bette.” Not great. Many outdoor shots at Musee Carnavalet.

Home, lunch. Worked on Larry’s pictures til 6 p.m.

TV: 60 Minutes, Toni Morrison; Siskel & Ebert, X-Files.

 

Monday, Aug. 10, 1998 

Awakened 5:15 by noise. Heavy equipment being delivered?

Longs, Xerox, BP. Good.

Coffee McDonald’s.

Slipped on rocks at upper end of 41st, fell on right knee. Tore jeans, skinned knee but not too bad.

Mail: Letter from Mina, check from State Farm.

TV: News, Rivera, Three Tenors.

Tuesday, Aug. 11, 1998

Slept good. Rib pain not a factor.

To bank, deposited $23.20 from State Farm.

Drug Emporium, BP and TV Guide.

Hot, then breeze up. Side hurts, leaving knee to air.

TV: Old Morse on A&E 

No sleep til 3 a.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 12, 1998

Wakened at 7:10 a.m. 5.4 quake near Hollister, some damage in grocery stores.

Longs for BP, calcium.

Albertsons for lettuce, peaches, bread.

Wrote Prudy and Mimi. Took to post office.

Mail: Visa bill, books from Mina, letter with article.

Thursday, Aug, 13, 1998

Slept good. Took 1 mg melatonin and aspirin. Ribs hurt in a.m.

Awake 8:15. Usual breakfast. Listened to Ronn.

Drug Emporium, BP. Got diuretics and Iodine.

To mall, coffee.

To show, “Ever After.” Good.

Watched news, read papers. Put electric pad on ribs, seems to help. Put iodine solution on knee.

TV: Frost, new one to me. Law & Order also.

 

Friday, Aug. 14, 1998

To Sears, got bra. 38C.

To Drug Emporium, BP. Two times.

To show, “The Avengers.” Not great. “Fantasy.”

Highway traffic terrible.

Mail: New Yorker.

TV: Golf, news, “The Usual Suspects.” Good!!

Saturday, Aug. 15, 1998

Awake 7. Usual.

Washed car, watered lawn, walked on cliff.

Fog, chilly. Not crowded.

Talked to Ellie. Freda to Maine, family reunion.

Home, golf and tennis.

Write Mina.

Papers, golf and news.  

Sunday, Aug. 16, 1998

Awake 7, but still feel need to rest??

To Drug Emporium, BP, cookies, trail mix.

Looked for new donut place, car wouldn’t start. Young man — surfer? — in red pick-up suggested it was the alternator.

Tennis: Davenport over Hingis.

Few small chores.

Monday, Aug. 17, 1998

Changed bed. Shower/hair.

Longs. BP, more Corn Flakes.

News, lunch, wrote letter re: George.

To Longs for Xerox. Got ice cream!

TV: Clinton speech, Geraldo. Had Alan Dershowitz, shaved his mustache, wasn’t polite!!

TV: Law & Order, Penn and Teller.

Got clothes ready for wash.

Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1998

To laundry, only one person there.

Looked for new donut spot. 

Home, Ronn Owens on C-Span. Watched 9-10.

Wrote letter re: George to Mary.

To show, “Negotiators.” Good.

TV: Morse, X-Files. Bed.

Yes, melatonin.

Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1998

Up 9, awake 7:20. Usual breakfast.

Drug Emporium, BP, TV Guide, etc. 

Looked for knit cap at Gott’s, Penney’s, Kmart. Got two at Ross, also a jacket.

Ate lunch at Kmart. Woman sat with me. Nice, lives on Soquel Road.

Dinner Live Oak. Sat with Vivian, we swapped fone numbers in case of movie.

TV: Geraldo, Gov. Cuomo; some Discovery; Sherlock Holmes.

Bed 9:30. Crossword, etc.

Sleep 10:30. No melatonin.

Thursday, Aug. 20, 1998

Awake 5, back to sleep. Then groggy, some dizziness.

Drug Emporium, BP, paper towels,

Donut/coffee on Ocean Street. Library closed!

Home, learned of bombing in Sudan.

Balanced fone bill, charged 51 cents for late charge. Called, still investigating.

TV: Law & Order, Touch of Frost.

Friday, Aug. 21, 1998

Up 6:45. Watered lawn, put fertilizer on some of it.

Breakfast, usual.

Talked to Lois and Oscar, to mall for coffee.

To library, checked Cisco, got a book by Iris Murdoch.

Wrote Mina and Dianne Feinstein.

Cleaned out basket. 

Bed 8:30, slept 2 hours, then read.

 

Saturday, Aug. 22, 1998

Usual breakfast. Vacuumed.

Some yard work, talked to Ellie. 

To Kmart, got lawn fertilizer. Ate lunch.

Home, tennis. Agassi won.

TV: USA movies, Black Rain and Dead Again; Charlie Chan, news.

Sunday, Aug. 23, 1998

Usual. Typed up 1997 trip.

Tennis, football: 49ers vs. Miami 

To Kmart for gas, lunch. Ate carrot cake and ice cream!

TV: 60 Minutes, old segment. Terrorist serving 1,117-year sentence.

Bed early. Read Murdoch.

 

Monday, Aug. 24, 1998

Awake 8:30. Usual. Got paper.

Ate burrito at Carl’s. !Cholesterol!

To Sears, paid bill. Check to H for $510.

Mailed plastic bag from Liverpool to Mina.

Shower/hair.

Phil made new steps for Larry.

Read book, some TV: X-Files.

 

Tuesday, Aug. 25, 1998

Read Jackson’s Dilemma until 2 a.m.

Up 10 a.m. but weak, motor skills uncertain.

Put heat on, took antihistamine.

Ate usual breakfast 11 a.m. Some better.

BP higher.

Drug Emporium, got antihistamine, TV Guide.

Talked to neighbors.

Bed early

 

Wednesday, Aug. 26, 1997

Up 7 a.m.Feel  better.

Phil made two stairs for Larry. Very nice, with hiding place underneath.

Taped AMC, three “Paris Shows.”

Read, watched PBS, Islands.

Bed, sleep tea, aspirin, milk, toast, melatonin. Sleep finally 2 a.m.

Thursday, Aug. 27, 1998

Up 8. Usual breakfast. Fog.

Longs, BP still high. 155/82. Got maxi-pads and pineapple.

To library and bank.

Home, called bank, balanced OK.

Mail: Letters from Prudy and Myra.

Ran tape, “Paris Sizzles.”

TV: Frost, Law & order.

Friday, Aug. 28, 1998

Cholesterol test.

Very little sleep??

Up 8:15. Usual breakfast, chores. Out at 10.

Drug Emporium for BP, trail mix and crackers.

Longs for test, not good. He said to get an exam, cholesterol too high.

Kmart for lunch after walk on cliff.

Mail: Card from Haydee, bank statements.

Balanced statements, fone still has not been paid.

Watered lawn. Nice weather.

Saturday, Aug. 29, 1998

Up 8:15, rested til 9.

Usual breakfast.

Longs, BP and Xerox. BP high, 160.

To Drug Emporium, BP 140.

To show, “Pi.” Black and white, very unusual.

Home, read papers, finished tape of Doris Day.

Watched part of “So this is Paris,” with Tony Curtis.

Took lots of sub lingual melatonin, slept good!

Sunday, Aug. 30, 1998

Up 8. Usual breakfast.

Wrote to Haydee, Dianne Feinstein, with copy to White House.

Watched golf, ironed t-shirts.

To Longs to copy letters, lost 2nd sheet of H’s.

Back to Longs with Larry, got ice cream bar.

TV: Siskel & Ebert, 60 Minutes, X-Files.

Monday, Aug. 31, 1998

Awakened 6. Alarm set.

Read papers. Shower/hair.

Kmart, BP, lunch. Got 3 Dinty Moores.

Home, worked on cruise pictures until 4.

Tennis: Seles and Agassi won.

TV: Poirot, bio of Prince Phillip.

 

September entries.

My Grandmother's Journals: March, 1998

I have a bag of small notebooks my grandmother recorded her days in: When she woke, what she ate, any movie she went to see, any mail and calls she received, then what she read and watched on TV before bed.

 

In 1998, she was 82 and living alone in a mobile home park in Santa Cruz, Calif., but I wouldn't describe her as lonely. She was an extremely independent, frugal and persnickety woman whom I never knew to live with another person or even a pet after she raised my mother as a single mother in the 1940s and 50s in California, Calif. (I wrote more about her life in an earlier post.) 

 

 

The photo at right shows my grandmother and mother in the late 1940s. I don't know anything about that stroller, but I do know that dog wasn't theirs!

 

 

 

My grandmother loved the ocean, and lived close to the famous surfing spot Pleasure Point. Nearly every day she walked to the cliffs above the ocean, checking out the waves and seeing if anyone was surfing. When she died in her late 90s, I took her ashes to those waves with one of her friends, and we each dropped some ashes at the sand. A moment after I dropped mine, a surfer emerged from the water where I stood.   

That was cool. 

February entries.

Sunday, March 1, 1998

Took melatonin tablet (1 mg) last night, slept OK.

Awake 6:30, back til 8:30. Usual breakfast.

CBS 9 a.m., "Face the Nation." Arnold Specter feels Starr is going too far.

Tennis 10 a.m. Sampras won, some great shots.

Walked to mall, bank, home.

Worked on pix.

TV: 60 Mins, "Women in White."

Monday, March 2, 1998

Awake 4:30, up 7:30. Usual breakfast.

To Drug Emporium.

To county building, looked for clue to street. Got two deeds, no easement mentioned.

Home, called Justine. She can’t come, having M&M for dinner.

Fixed tuna.

Mail:Letter from Mina, had to get tested for HIV and Hepatitis. Lab tech broke a vial containing Mina’s blood.

TV: News, Frasier, A&E “Egypt Discoveries.”

Tuesday, March  3, 1998

Awake 6:30. Usual breakfast. Chores.

Dillon called. Tomorrow, 11 a.m.

Put tax records in shed.

To Drug Emporium, got TV Guide, osteo-bio.

Walked cliff, nice weather.

Ate BK, chicken san.

Home, worked on fotos.

TV: News, Frasier, X-Files.

Bed 9, no sleep. Read papers.

 

Friday, March 20, 1998

Awake early, 5:30.

Worked cutting up the Jasmine, then pulled some weeds from 9 to 10 a.m.

OSH: Checked in nursery for Carmel Creeper. Only 5 gal cans there. $16.99

Home, lunch. 

Put “umbrella” plant outside, moved “snake” plants around.

Repotted Christmas cactus.

Wrote girls.

Saturday, March 21, 1998

Awake 7. Tea, etc.

Drug Emporium, BP.

Post Office, mailed letter to girls, Andra.

Looked for typewriter ribbons, too high. 

To Sears, got ribbons and correction tape. Also brown tights.

To Scotts Valley, ice cream!

To show, “Primary Colors.”

Home, some TV, read papers.

Called Mina, talked to Larry.

Sunday, March 22, 1998

Slept good, two Melatonin pills.

After tea, worked in yard. Got leaves cleaned up. pulled some weeds.

Talked to Ellie, she in pain. To emergency, nerve.

Fertilized plants.

Golf: Ernie is big! 220 lbs.

To Nob Hill, very busy.

To Longs, BP out.

Home 4 p.m. Ate yogurt, potato.

TV: Moguls of Hollywood, good. Titanic, X-Files.

Monday, March 23, 1998

Awake 6. Tea, etc.

Drug Emporium for BP.

To Kmart 10:30 for breakfast. Got plant and steer manure. $.89

Looking for oil SAE20: Kmart, Sears, Thrifty, Albertsons, Longs and Lucky.

Finally found man who gave answers: Can use 3 in one, or 30. But no-detergent, The detergent can spark a fire!

Put fertilizer on all parts of lawn, grass cut. Rained softly.

Oscars tonite.

Tuesday, March 24, 1998

Awake 7. Tea, etc.

Correction tape wrong.

To Drug Emporium. BP, TV Guide, card for Justine, cough drops.

41st for donut/coffee.

To Palace Stationery. No correction tape?

Back to Sears, got tape.

To Travel Agency re Tahiti.

To Carol's, returned book.

Broke rear right light, backed into garbage at harbor parking.

TV: News, Frasier.

Bed 10:30. Good sleep.

Wednesday, March 25, 1998

Awake 7, up 8. Tea, etc.

Chores.

To Sew, Sew Maria’s. Got blouse, pink.

Walked on cliff. Talked to polite man, called me “ma'am.”

To Drug Emporium, got paper. Told girl about string.

To McDonald’s, coffee.

Home, sewed nightgown neck. 

TV: Frasier, Cybill.

Bed 9:30, crossword.

Thursday, March 26, 1998

Awake 6, slept til 9:15.

Tea, cereal.

10 a.m., ESPN. Venus Williams over Martina Hingis.

Hingis took toilet break after 2nd set, was “boo'd” after.

To Scott’s Valley, Doctors on Duty, paid $8.07 for flu shot. 

To show, “Man in Iron Mask.” They cut Depardieu “frontal nude.”

Mail: Got check, $14,038.70.

TV: Frasier, Mystery. 

Friday, March 27, 1998

Up 7, tea, cereal. Bank 9. Deposited check.

Home, tennis.

To Kmart, lunch. Turkey dinner.

To library, looked up capital gain stock dividend/splits.

To Wherehouse, got 2 videos. ($1.50). Already saw them.

Saturday, March 28, 1998

Awake 7. Heat, tea, etc.

To Safeway, no cereal sale.

To Nob Hill, got their corn flakes.

Home,  called Mina.

Tennis: Venus over Anna Kournakova, very good. Both tired from yesterday.

Few chores, then 41st coffee/donut.

To show, “Love and Death on Long Island.” Great!

Mail: Note from Justine. She and Karen are talking of going to Paris.

 

Tuesday, March 31, 1998

Awake 4:45, again 8:15. 

Chores. Raining. 

Mailed “Mosaic of Memories” to Gary and Joan, also mailed letter card to Mimi.

Kmart, no TV Guides yet.

41st, coffee/donut.

Albertsons, home.

Mail: Letter from Stimson.

Rained most of night.

April entries

My Grandmother's Journals: February, 1998

With her grandfather on Treasure Island in 1939.

I’m a bit obsessed with the dairies my grandmother kept: When she woke, what she ate, the movie she went to see, any mail and calls she received, then what she read and watched on TV before bed.

 

I find the details of her days fascinating, not only because I’m curious about the minutia of most people’s lives, but because the journals I only discovered after her death finally let me feel close to a woman I could not connect with when she was alive.

For most of the years she kept her journals, she lived alone in a mobile home park in Santa Cruz, Calif., but I wouldn't describe her as lonely. She was an extremely independent, frugal and persnickety woman whom I never knew to live with another person or even a pet. (I wrote more about her life in an earlier post.) 

 

Close to her mobile home was the famous surfing spot called Pleasure Point, and nearly every day she walked to the cliffs above the ocean to watch the waves and surfers. So when she died, I took her ashes to those waves with one of her friends, and we each dropped some ashes at the sand. A moment after I dropped mine, a surfer emerged from the water where I stood.  

That was cool.

 

 

In February of 1998, my grandmother was not traveling, just dutifully typing letters to all her pen pals, many of whom she met abroad, staying current with the news and sports, and dutifully heading to Trader Joe's to buy me gingko biloba!

January entries.

 

Sunday, February 1, 1998

Awake 7, Tea, etc. Crossword.

Raining hard.

Called Justine. Raining hard there, no driving.

Talked of her father and of meeting in San Jose, museum.

To Aptos for show, “Wag the Dog.” Late, will rent it. 

To Safeway, electricity out. 

To Albertsons, they said not to club (cashier).

Home, paid rent. 

TV: Last of Reckless, taped Jazz program.

Couldn’t sleep til 3 a.m.

 

Monday, Feb. 2, 1998

Awake 9:30, Tea, etc.

Dressed and to Drug Emporium for paper, BP. Got TV Guide.

Raining hard.

Mail: Credit Union, bill for waste allowance.

Rained almost all night, plastic wind shield blown off. Rivers rising.

Called Justine. She looks at Napa River, from 2' across to 10' across. 

 

Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1998

Awake 7:45 a.m. Tea, etc. 

Many roads closed, power outages. Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Jose considered emergency areas. Hwy 101 closed south of Salinas.

Carport at No. 1, Bebe's, blown down (part way), worker finished it. 

Her roof blew away (part way) last year.

Paid Gottschalk's, to Post Office for stamps.

To Kmart, got shirt for Lutz. Got shirt for me at Gottschalk’s.

TV: “Silent Witness.”

 

Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1998

Awake 5 a.m., back to sleep until 9:30. Chores.

Drug Emporium, BP, got “Relaxing tea.”

Post office, mailed package to Lutz.

Walked cliff. 

Got coffee/donut. Showed pictures of Bali.

Mail: Check from State Farm, insurance card.

To bank to deposit check.

Mr. Sanchez came over, cut bush.

Took Larry to doctor. 

Some TV. To bed, tired.

Up 1 a.m, washed some items.

Thursday, Feb. 5, 1998

Slept 4-9, good! Ready 10:30.

Trip to Capitola Beach. Wind bad!

To library, looked for table. Nothing. Finished “The God Hustlers.”

Ate at Burger King.

Mid-County does not want stockings.

Home, readied tapes for Mina; Science Odysessy.

WIND UP.

Some TV. Frasier, two segments. 

Caught up with papers. Bed late.

 

Friday, Feb. 6, 1998

Up Late. Radio: Ronn on Clinton again. Bad joke day.

Wrote to Andra/Lutz, wrapped videos for Mina.

Wrote Mina, note to Justine

Donut/coffee at 41st. To Longs, copied letters.

To Post Office. Home 3:30.

TV: News, Frasier, Law & Order, Ted Koppel: Blair/Clinton.

 

Saturday, Feb. 7, 1998

Awake 7:56. News, tea, etc.

To post office 9:45. Mailed letters to Mina, Justine.

Looked at Capitola Beach. Disaster. Police tape at edge of sidewalk.

Home, read papers. Wind wild.

Fire engines 1:30. Trees?

TV: Placido Domingo, Met production, 1984.

Taped: Woody Allen’s “Husbands and Wives.”

Watched: Ghost, Strangers in Good Company. (Good).

Ran “Husbands,” sewed.

 

Sunday, Feb. 8, 1998

Tea, raining hard.

Ran tape of In Good Company, 1/2 hour.

To cliff, to sea. Watched a bit. New construction looks good.

Instead of a show, home. Raining.

Put out garbage, had mail. Letter from Masonic home.

Read some letters. Pauline died, family asking for pix.

Olympics: Watched skating, snowboarding. 

 

Monday, Feb. 9, 1998

Awake finally 9 a.m.

Chores. Tea,  etc.

Drug Emporium: BP OK. Got TV Guide, cookies.

To show, “Replacement Killers.” Lots of digital TV scenes.

Mail from Mina, Northern Trust.

Worked on pix, Pauline.

TV: X-Files, news. Still houses full of mud.

 

Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1998

No sleep til 4 a.m. Awake 9:45. Usual.

Longs: BP, pix, cans of food, paper towels.

Gas at Beacons, 1.289/gallon.

Ross, got black ? JC Penney, got silver mylar table cover.

Home 3:15 p.m. News, mended pants, buttonhole.

Worked on gathering info for Pauline’s relatives.

Shower/hair.

Ran part of Jazz tape, watched “Bad Boys,” Will Smith, Martin Lawrence as plain clothes detectives; some funny, some dumb.

Bed. Melatonin, slept good.

 

Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1998

Up 9. Tea, etc.

Donut and coffee at 41st.

Stationery store, got paper clips, round fasteners.

Walked on cliff. Beautiful weather.

Mail: Long letter from Mina.

TV: Soul Man, Frasier, some Olympics. Skiing. Picabo Street got gold. Also man from Tiburon.

 

Thursday, Feb. 12, 1998

Up 7:30. Tea, etc.

Packed vitamins, 10 bags. 

Some chores.

McDonald’s for coffee.

To Longs for pix.

Library, 250 cars crash in Italy.

To Wendy’s for lunch. Got salad.

Mail: Letter from Carla.

TV: Jim Lehrer hour. Olympics.

 

Friday, Feb. 13, 1998

Couldn't sleep. 8:30, Larry out hammering.

Sunny today. Out 10:30.

Donut, coffee, paper, BP.

Bank, deposited in Justine’s account.

Home, wrote to both girls.

To show, “Afterglow.” Julie Christie, Nick Nolte. Good.

TV: Olympics, some reruns, Frasier.

Saturday, Feb. 14, 1998

Awake 8:30. Tea, etc. Out 10:30.

Drug Emporium, BP OK.

Read paper in car. Raining hard.

Burger King, home.

Tennis: Sampras won, replayed Agassi. Good tennis.

Papers, news. Worked on federal taxes. Must do cap gains.

Olympics: Men's skating. Todd fell.

Sunday, Feb. 15, 1998

Up 7:30. Tea, etc.

To show, “The Apostle.” Well done. 2 hours, 10 mins.

Home 2 p.m. Tennis match.

Dinner here, called Mina. She called back, talked long.

TV: News, ran end of “A Little Romance.”

Joan McCoy called to see if I’m OK.

 

Monday, Feb. 16, 1998

Awake 7:30. Not much sleep. Listened to “Leaves of Grass” cassette.

Rain let up a bit.

To Longs, Xerox broken. Got muffins.

To Kmart for lunch. Raining hard.

Home, read paper, wrote letter to Prudy.

Called Justine 3:30 p.m.

TV: Olympics, ice dancing. Russia 1-2, France 3. Ist coach had gorgeous sable coat. Where does money come from?

 

Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1998

Awake 6:30, up 7:30. To laundromat 9:15.

Coffee and donut at 41st. 

No rain, then real rain. Caught in rain, got pants and sox wet! Hope no cold!

Finished and mailed letter to Mimi.

Olympics, women's hockey won gold. Nikki Stone, gold in aerials.

Radio: Strong Clinton speech at Pentagon, Ronn agrees.

 

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1998

Awake 6:30. Tea, etc. Sun out.

To Trader Joe's, Drug Emporium, BP; Longs, Albertsons.

Walked on cliff, lovely day.

Home, Oscar and Lois walked by with Lois' sister. Lois in therapy.

Mail from Justine, she needs gingko.

To TJ's, got two gingko & echinacea. 

TV: Olympics.

Foned Dillon.

 

Thursday, Feb. 19, 1998

Awake 6:30, some news. Dillon called.

Dressed 9 a.m. To post office, mailed GB & E to Justine.

Breakfast Kmart.

To library, returned Leaves of Grass. 

Home, news. FBI arrested two men in Law Vegas with white substance. "Media" reports allege anthrax.

Wrote Sy and Stimson. 

Left message on Justine's machine.

TV: Frasier, X-Files.

Read French.

 

Friday, Feb. 20, 1998

Up 7. Tea, etc. Expected Dillon, no. Waited til 10.

Walked on cliff. Mary there.

Got donut and coffee.

Talked to Ellie, was ill. Goes to VA Wed for tests.

Home. News, ate some veggies.

To show, “Zero Effect.” Crowded! Funny, clever.

Home 5 p.m. News, ate tuna steak, Betty Crocker potatoes.

Mina called. Chatted a bit re Kwan/Lipinski.

Bed after Olympics.

Saturday, Feb. 21, 1998

Awake 8:30. Chores.

Drug Emporium for paper.

41st for donut/coffee. Thorton died.

Home. Finished fed taxes, read paper.

Justine called. Received vitamins.

TV: Taped some skating, watched “Clear and Present Danger.”

Bed 12:30, no sleep til 2 a.m. 

Sunday, Feb. 22, 1998

Tea, etc. Chores, shower/hair.

Announced on CNN that Saddam agreed to inspection.

Mall: Paid JC. Penney, bought book.

Ate at Burger King. Got two videos at Wherehouse.

Home 3 p.m. Ran “Jade,” part of others.

Part One of Oprah Winfrey presents, “The Wedding.”

Monday, Feb. 23, 1998

Up 8:30. Tea, etc. Some slack in rain.

Returned videos, mailed state tax forms, got paper.

To Lucky, then library. 

To Longs for Xerox, paper jammed.

Home, Frasier. Some “sleeping.”

Tuesday. Feb. 24, 1998

Dinner Live Oak, Bingo.

up 7:30. Tea, etc. Drug Emporium.

Walked on cliff.

Coffee at 41st.

Home, wrote to Mina. Some work in garden.

Read some.

 

Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1998

Up 7:30. Tea, etc.

Drug Emporium, got some vitamins.

Gasoline, Trader Joe's. Coffee at mall.

Mail: Received card from Andra. Lutz got shirts.

Talked to Ellie, told Myra.

Wrote Justine about Dr. Edell.

To post office. Cold.

Some TV. Frasier, Dharma & Gregg. Ronn (Owens) said was his favorite. I thought no. Tries too hard?

Finished papers.

Bed to read Elliot R's book, got sidetracked to Leonardo Da Vinci.

That time I met Dr. Dean Edell in Mendocino County in 2014!

 Thursday, Feb. 26. 1998

Awake 7:30. Tea, etc. Ready by 9:15.

To Safeway. Bath tissue, bananas, potatoes.

Got paper at Kmart, also cough drops. 

Walked on cliff. Beautiful day.

Mail: Bank statement. Balanced OK.

TV: Frasier, PBS Mystery "The Ice House." Good.

Bed, finished book. Good sleep.

 

Friday, Feb. 27, 1998

Awake 6:30. Ready 9:15.

Longs: BP, paper, pears.

Coffee at mall. 

Home 11:15. Papers, rested.

Kmart for lunch.

Albertsons: Cereal, soy milk up 10 cents.

Mail: Letter from Joan. 

Crossword, papers.

TV: “Stargate.”

Slept deep, funny dreams. 

 

Saturday, Feb. 28, 1998

Awake 6:30. Usual tea, read a bit.

Longs, xeroxed Visa bill. 

Library, little work. Man there!

To show, "Dark City." Not great, but good special effects.

Home 3:30, dined.

Tennis, Sampras won.