Diary

4:00 Safeway for snacks 4:15 More swap tuning of print code 6:45 Gohome via QFC + Liquor store. Since I'm out of Chivas Regal. Make dinner. Eat it while I 8:00 Watch first hour of Ruthless people 9:00 Golden Girls Birthday. Ga

9:45 To Microsoft

10:15 Misc. Look at Raid, resolving 1 "by design" bug.

11:15 Scrolling benchmarks

1:00 Lunch at Shakeys

1:45 Misc

2:15 Meeting w/Jeffru, Luther & Scottra ~ MSKEY

2:30 More scrolling benchmarks

3:45 Ssync DOSENV on Jeffru's XT, which had been the shared XT, and had a hell of a time getting back on the net. Decided not to put RAID & WINDOWS on their XT's due to size, slowness & ugliness CGA

Ssync luther's XT too

6:00 Misc. Raid ssync mine.

Put new debugging Works & CBT onto assistants machines.

7:15 Leave for home

Make & eat quick dinner.

Misc. Mail. Veg out.

8:30 Shower. Read Beef It about leg exercises. Reolved to do 20 reps of medium weight on "smith machine" & go low, and do hack squats front of thights.

Read forward, preface & intro to Turbo Prolog. Think ~ systems products and my exit from them 1981-1983.

Tues Sept 15 '87

7:00 J/O. Get up. Misc. WSJ.

8:45 Finish thinking about systems work

Big year for MS was 1985

Cobol 2.0

C 3.0

Windows

Xenis

But I'm glad I did Pers Acct in 84-84, even if it was a dud.

But Works is first high potential product I've worked on in many years, after Atari Basic, Cobol, Sort, Pers Acct.

7:30 Get ready for gym & go. Shower at gym.

11:45 At home, sew button on short. QFC. Lunch. Read Aug 31 EWA.

1:15 To Microsoft.

1:45 Misc stuff. Mail, email, ssync, etc.

3:00 To work on Tandy DMP130 printer bug. Spend all afternoon on it except for a half hour on setup.

7:00 Dinner at Wang's

7:30 More work on printer bug. It's just so tech! Yuk! Totally uncreative! The only reward is getting to see in more detail how it works. Finally get Word 3.1's opinion on how it should work. Need to trace Works actions tomorrow.

10:45 Leave. Misc.

11:30 To bed

Wed Sep 16 '87

Cloudy morning sunny aft

7:00 Get up. Misc. WSJ. Yesterdays mail. Throw out shower curtain. Prepare for Extra Hands.

9:00 Misc. Hans ~ hair dryer. Dick T ~ SF.

9:45 To MS via All That Jazz to look at shower curt. Also stopped at Bartells & QFC, and looked through Wellingford Center.

11:15 At MS, finish DMP130 printer bug. Misc administrative stuff. Another techy, uncreative day.

5:45 Leave for chiropractor

6:15 Chiro appt. Home for dinner (salmon).

8:00 Tan at Body. Shower.

9:00 Home to change clothes.

To Bob's to help set up TV, VCR, cable.

Chat with Gary Vaughn.

Bought duplex at 28th & Cherry.

Watch porno too.

Discuss when to go to Lopez Island.

11:00 Leave. Hard getting to sleep. Someone running compressor. Called 911 to report.

Thu Sep 17 '87 Sunny but just 49 morning 7:15 Get up. Misc. WSJ. Mail. Lopez? Load of laundry. Lakeside Magazine. 9:30 Pay bills. Other stuff on desk too. 10:00 To gym, pumphouse. Good doing 20 reps of Smith machine followed by 4 sets of back squats. 12:00 Lunch of Yankee Diner. Slow service. 1:00 To Microsoft. Work on bugs. ANOTHER PURELY TECH'L DAY. 7:30 Dinner at Wendy's. 8:00 Work on Printer OOM bug. Finish it. 11:00 Go home

Fri Sep 19 '87 Partly Cloudy, Sunny 72 7:00 Get up. Misc. Mail. WSJ. 8:45 to MS 9:00 Check out Scott's corrections to bugs. And give to summer guys. Go over the SS print + SS disp notes and see it those are nk. Fine. 12:15 Lunch with group at crossroads. 1:30 Misc. checking on PA's bugs. Update Raid. Do my video config posts in all but UGA. Everything looks ok. 5:00 To summer savings for cash. Gas + Wash. Go home. Get mom's message. Have a scotch + water. Call Dan D. 6:45 Leave for pavour for dinner since they've leaving for Rome TSK Monday, Good Chicken stuffed w/ crab + shrimp. 8:30 Watch Golden GIrls rerun. 9:00 Naill Lanpoon Vacation, Chevy Chase. Imagine coca. Dad howled. 11:00 News. 11:15 Head home. 11:45 To bed.

Sat Sep 19 '87

Sunny

7:30 Get up. Misc. Consider Lopez. I feel awkward commiting to go.

1) What if I want to do walkathon

2) What if it rains

3) Need to do Lakeside homecoming Fri

4) Going away on "odd" weekend.

5) Two whole days there.

Load of laundry

But Bob needs to know, since he must plan his patients & help. I feel better about going Sat morning and maybe continuing to Victoria after

9:45 To gym. Nobody to talk with. OK workout. Tingling in shoulder diminished

11:45 To QFC. Lunch pasta & veg. Call Mom & Dad ~ descaling coffeemaker

1:15 No Microsoft. No bugs for me. No mail either. Misc. Do my config tests on VGA. Bug: chart uses font having dots in zero. Put that into Raid.

3:15 To Fred Meyers for shower curtain and coffee maker cleaner. Go home. Feels good to have Works be done and in such good shape. But I feel like I should be out in sun.

4:30 Hydrotherapy & massage at Dans. Nice & relaxing. John comes by. Long massage.

6:45 Shower & gome home to see UCR Golden Girls. And have a snack.

7:30 Back to Dan's to go to eat Chinese. Then out to Seven Gables "Dog's Life" sold out. Walk to Univ Ave & get ice cream before going in to see La Bamba. Pretty good & cute movie. Patsy Cline like. Drive to P.O. & cruise downtown. Go back to Dan's office for car. Go home. Relax. Think. Put up new sh. curt

1:00 To bed, but keep thinking about how great Works is, and what to do not that it's done.