Diary

6:00 Read ML on Oracle.

Jan 30 EWA...Feshbach's shorting.

February CMA Financial Insights...Yawn.

Dinner

MFF Performance Almanac. Yay!

Groups funds based just on Growth, Income.

813 Equity funds.

Nothing new to do...

Intel Buy recommendation from ML.

ML's "Assessing Inv Climate" Greensheet 2/3/89

Skousens "Best High Income Investments"

Consider Public Service of New Mexico.

All done with financial reading, except AAII & Gulf & Western

8:30 WSW, more economics...

9:00 Look at my old '78 Tech Analysis Book.

It seems so naive & immature...

Read about short selling though. Says growth 35 times!

Use VL to look for some, the best. So easy.

But before I make it a habit, I want a home & family.

9:30 ----

9:45 Call Meg. Tells me ~ Paul.

10:30 ----- Reconsider LA. Decide tomorrow

10:45 SNL

11:45 -----

12:15 To bed. Day off Amit.

Sat Feb 18 '89

8:00 -----

Meg calls again to say thx for deposit, and to check I'd still give it if she marries.

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Reconsider LA

Don't do rerun of last trip -- leaving on Sat'day.

Weak reason: Sunday to be cloudy & 60.

Wanna do gym here, not in LA first day.

I should do new "Routine" separating

bookkeeping: Pers Acct, budgeting etc in Seattle

finance: strategy, comparisons in LA (because I discovered this during last trip.)

10:00 -----

11:00 Work on a routine and library/archives that separates

bookkeeping

planning & strategy.

Lunch at home.

Very exciting. Butterflies (and gas) in stomach.

Looks like I can do LA, and spend wk/mo in SEA.

5:15 Dinner

6:00 Print out for safekeeping.

Look over January to see if I can really do all but Pers Acct & mail, in LA.

Back up "Routine"

7:00 To PAC. Ok legs workout. I'm a bit tired.

Go home.

Finish Golden Girls.

9:30 Clean up print out a bit.

10:00 Chap 18 & 19 of Bonfire

11:00 Think ~ Routine. Add a couple notes.

11:30 SNL

12:00 To bed.

Sun Feb 19 '89

8:30 -----

Print out old "Routine" Nov '88, for posterity.

Call Mom & Dad. Mom's gotta be off feet, so I don't suggest going out to dinner.

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Look over new "Routine." Fix a bit & formats.

Print again. Look it over. Terrific.

Backup.

11:30 Look over "Stock Market Probability." A few notes made on inside front cover. Awful style. Pretty useless. A few points of interest...Put it away.

Lunch.

1:30 Waiting for dryer (since laundry busy this morning), read journal about last LA trip, to end of January.

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Read Early Feb Bottom Line.

1:45 Go for a run.

Shower. Clip nails.

Look at Investor IQ score. High now than '83.

Maybe read it sometime.

But what to take to LA to read?

Dan Univ Chg. Only one chap/mo in Nov & Dec.

Started "What Doc Ordered" in Jan, but only 6 pgs.

So postpone awhile longer?..

Intelligence: Eye/Brain/Computer

No reading since Oct 24.

But given my learning since October, perhaps I should go over these on developments & development.

Also Byte Dec 88 on Export Systems. Mac World too.

I wish I didn't have to decide. Wish I could just have it in LA & leave it there.

5:30 Recycle.

Realize I wrote paper July 2 '88 dishing AI, and this was just before I began my period of learning math of fin'l competition. So take that paper & Psych of Investing too. The theme is AI, export systems, learning, comp'n.

5:45 Dinner & SNL. Reserve #228 tomorrow.

6:30 Trying to reserve Mondrian, I discover they're sold out till Sunday, and Hyatt and Beverly Hilton until March 5th!

Mt Baker Hwy - snow tires required

Avalanche hazard in Cascades is high.

Mom calls.

What to do? I wanna go somewhere nice.

Look at Routine to see overhead of having 2 apartments.

8:15 Out to see Neighbors Tea-Dance. Empty

Walk down to Eagles. Empty.

See read 4-door Jeep Cherokee.

Realize maybe I should just get a room at Sorrento when I need to read.

Go home.

Chuck left msg inquiring about Betamax.

So I call, talk, & inquire ~ garage for rent.

Go outside to take look. $5 will be fine.

Call Sorrento. Too expensive $120-150.

Go check it out perhaps. Also reserve Crown Plaza.

9:30 Revise "Routine" to sound more like strategic planning base is not absolutely L.A. but wait...that's the only possibility.

So I decide to leave it alone.

10:00 Back out to Neighbors. Busy. Music not bad. 2 wines

Down to Eagle. Meet some guy w/grass. 2 7-ups.

Back to Neighbors. Ken G, long hair, with book. I didn't wanna go home, or tubs. Feeling my zzzs. Fine.

Steve Siegel...

12:30 On way out, meet Lance Smith. Drive home. Tea. Hot.

But it was very spartan. But he was tall & fun.

2:00 To bed. One Amit. Good sleep.

Mon Feb 20 '89

8:30 -----. Call Ramada SF--5th & Mkt $155...

10:00 Divide Mondrian LA bag into 2 parts.

Put desk/work stuff in briefcase, and put kitchen stuff away in kitchen, since I haven't cooked at Mondrian last 2 times.

Get stuff together to go to Crown Plaza.

Go look at Jeeps. Red 4-door on its way.

Got full brochure.

Check in to Crown Plaza. So simple decor.

12:00 Start reading MacWorld Dec '88.

12:45 Lunch at Cafe Casino.

Finish Dec 88 MacWorld articles of interest

1:45 Read chap 4 of Eye, Brain, Computer on "Learning." Just another complex pattern matching mechanism, but with high level items: analogies, descriptions, concepts.

Perceptions & neural nets a bit.

Human ability is pretty mysterious and doesn't help designing machines that learn?

Make a note to try to see why I continued...

Studying AI, specifically

Weizenbaum

Rober Ping Pong

Bye Brain Computer

after writing July 2 '88 memo dishing AI

3:30 Read Dec 88 Byte.

Special section on Macintosh (not much), and in depth on "Groupwave"

I just don't seem to have much interest in these matters. Perhaps it's because non of these articles show problems & solutions in real life, but are simply descriptions & speculations, with not much intellectual depth. I'm so glad I don't subscribe to Byte & MacWorld...

And very happy I didn't take any of today's reading to LA & try to do it there.

Glad I'll be able to put it away & forget it...

5:15 Dinner downstairs since Pasta & Co, Gold Coin are closed for the Holidays. Read Dec Tufts.

Holiday Inn really is pathetic

Personnel are overly friendly.

Music is very soporific

Furniture in room is cheap, formica wood.

Door is very heavy and hard to open.

Finish Dec Tufts.

6:15 Read Jan UCB wellness letter.

6:45 -----

7:00 Leave for SMB Md Pk. Not great mood.

After chest my neck muscles hurt!

8:00 Go home. Put stuff away from today.

Pull books from living room shelf on robotics, to put them with others (Heathkit) in storage.

9:00 Mom & Dad call.

Go through July-October to see when I read parts of

Computer Power & Human Reason 7/10-8/9

Mind's I - just the intro 8/14 & 15

Tech Leader's - 9/7 & on vac'n & Sep 29 finish both.

Robot Ping Pong - on vac'n & Sep 29 finish both.

Eye Brain Computer 10/6, 7, 10, 19, 24

Day Univ Changed. 9/30, 10/1-4, 10, 19, 24, 11/26, 12/28

Very glad I'm at home, not LA, so I can read my diary & underline & put an end to AI, again.

Put Mgt Edge software down on shelf with management books, like "Tech Leaders."

Put away Sculley's Odyssey on mgt shelf too.

And put viruses back on shelf with computer books.

Went through Pers Acct "Work training" 86-88 to see if I'd missed anything I bought...

Is there anything I may still want to read?

Visual Display of Quant Info.

Mind's I

World of Mathematics

Interactive Multimedia

None AI!

Age of the Smart Machine. Too erudite?

12:30 ----- Skip day of Amit.

Tues Feb 21 '89

8:00 -----

Good thoughts about AI & start to write some notes about it and relationship to Vis Disp of Quant Info.

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Glad I at least got bench press & incline done last night. Still hurt a bit.

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Called Chuck to get garage #2.

10:00 Write Chip birthday card & Mark Thompson Canada card.

Drop books & Mac Basic compiler at storage.

To Crowne Plaza.

11:15 Read Chap 6 "Language & Communication" in Eye, Brain, Computer.

Lunch at Black

Finish chap 6, Skimming sections semantics pragmatics

1:30 Read Jan 87 Byte (last magazine, yay).

Mathematics requires > 1 meg.

3:00 ----

3:15 Chap 7 of EBC, "Expert Systems"

3:45 Look over ch 8 & 9 on vision.

Not my cup of tea...skip.

I will read epilog later, at home, tonite

4:00 Had enough of this place today. Leave.

Pickup mail at P.O. (Sat & today's)

Stop at storage to see if manual mentions explicit differences between compiler & interp.

Yes. I suppose I feared even minor changes, last year so I had reason not to compile Pers Acct.

At home, looking at QuickBasic doc'n, it's not explicit, but looking at a statement like DEFINT shows the difference between interp & comp.

So I ahve the same reluctance to use QuickBasic.

5:00 Do mail. Not much excess!

5:30 Look at old Value Line stuff, and they gave me 10% discount off $660!

5:45 No Comp Chron yesterday (holiday).

Dinner.

Make backups of disks of VL data.

But only once since I need labels & more disks.

7:00 Start EBC epilog, but too fuzzy, I am.

7:15 Go to SMB to steam, to do something for body.

Off to Crowne Plaza to read Jan 89 Tufts.

J/O too.

Think about getting Mac SE/30, to keep VL data on hard disk, but even then I'd want to have copies of master data disks on floppy.

Go home. Put staff away.

Gather up AI stuff to take to Crown Plaza tomorrow