Page 30

Go back to Mondrian & lock the door. Read about Trump in Time Mag. A fighter. Father was real estate developer.

10:30 Read Chap 6 of Bonfire. Intriguing

11:45 To bed. No Amit.

Wed Jan 25 '89

LA Sunny. Seattle 36-49

7:00 -----

Call Pac Stk Exch for directions

9:15 Head out via Sunset Blvd to Pac Stk Exch. Long trip, through East LA, East of 101.

10:00 Spend hour. Make notes. Discover there are 2 trading floors with options in SF.

11:00 Snack. Think more about worth of trading options.

11:15 Head out to Arrowhead/Big Bear. But didn't feel I was escaping at all, as from SF to Tahoe. Lunch at Spiros in Fontana. Indirect route. Bonfire. Loop around Arrowhead. Pretty small, cramped. Saw Chateau Du Lac, near Blue Jay. A lot like Medina, or Samamish, Thrifty Dog. East to Big Bear. Busy traffic. Think about how rare millionaires are. 1/1000? See Snow Valley. Cheap lodge, with used formica tables in bar & ratty arpet, but looks like quite a few runs & night skiing

4:30 Off to Big Bear Lake. Much more impressed. See snow summit. Many lifts but cheap lodges. Have hot choc, frangelica & whiskey. Two lodges.

5:45 Sea lake again just as it gets dark. Pretty big.

6:00 Dinner at Spag & Steak House. Consider going back tomorrow, so

I could see Big Bear Lake again, but only for 15 min & loop around

I could ski

but I have no ski pants, gloves, neck gator and I just went last Thursday besides not having my own equipment and no dry jeans to wear afterwards.

And I'd rather drive back when it's dark.

7:00 But I would like to see it & drive around it. Nothing pressing to do tomorrow morning in LA. A bit shy about driving mountain unknown roads at night, and it'd sound better to say I spent the night there, not just day trip. And I've drive so much today. And sort of want to see the drive back to Hwy 10 so check into Wishing Well Motel

8:00 Read Ch 34 & 35 of After Trade is Made. Discover beauty of shorting. Maybe I need not pay to "borrow" the stock?

10:45 -----

11:00 Read a bit more of Ch 7 Vanities. 11:15 To bed.