Oct 25 - Another new maid named Linda

Wednesday, October 25, 1972 - Page 299
LOCATION: Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim

(12:50:00 AM 10/26/1972 Thursday)
Got in to work at 9:40 as I did yesterday (Left on 8:00 bus) -- It has been foggy in the morning for the past several days but this morning was the foggiest. Afternoons are hot & clear tho. Painted all day. A new maid was hired and she's been working since Monday. Her name's Linda too but she's plump & dumpy but has a reasonable personality. Left work at 6:00 and got to Newport & Coast at 7:15 where I told Mom to pick me up, and she did. Chunk was home to eat dinner -- he & Joe'd gone paddling again. We had dinner and watched T.V. He ate & left.

I got a letter from CRM Books. About a month ago I sent a coupon from Psych. Today for Anthropology Today. They sent the coupon back -- the price had changed. So I sent a check and will mail it tomorrow. That's all.

TOMORROW: Day 300... 66 to go

Oct 19 - Lots of Nu Navaho Flat White

Thursday, October 19, 1972 - Page 293
LOCATION: Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim

(3:40 AM Sun morn, Oct 22)
Went to work on the 7:00 A.M. bus. The rain last night washed off lots of gravel from the roofs and I started cleaning it up, but it took too long so Mike told me to go paint. Mary had finished all detail work in the first two rooms, and completed it in the last before she left. I finished painting the two rooms and the third had recently been painted with the same color (Nu Navaho White) so only the bathroom had to be completely repainted -- the rest needed only touching up. So the rooms were about finished. Mom came to pick me up and we drove along the RTD route so I could show her where to pick me up in Santa Ana if ever she had to.

TOMORROW: OUT: African Elephant - IN: King Elephant

Oct 14 - Drive-in double feature: Me, Zhivago

Saturday, October 14, 1972 - Page 288
LOCATION: Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Fountain Valley

(11:00 PM 10/15/1972)
I got up at 10:00 and got to work (mom drove me) by 11:00. Mark was working in the lobby. Mary & Linda were maiding. I painted all of room 203, and Mark & I put up the heavy stuff, and I left at 4:15. Mom drove me back home. She & me went to another movie -- "Dr. Zhivago" (an old classic), and "me, natalie" (a good movie I'd seen a coupla years ago a couple times). Got to sleep around 2:30 A.M.

Original 1965 Theatrical Release Poster

Original 1969 Theatrical Release Poster
(Al Pacino's 1st movie -- He appeared in one short scene)

TOMORROW: M*A*S*H theme invades my dreams

Oct 12 - Something Wicked Comes This Way

Thursday, October 12, 1972 - Page 286
LOCATION: Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim

COLUMBUS DAY

11:42:24 PM
Spent the entire day (9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M.) painting rooms. Am now working on 201, 202, & 203. We've gotta have 'em finished by Friday to stay on schedule so it's up to me to have them painted. Nobody was there but me, him, her and (from 4 to 5:30) Angela. Was the maid's day off. Linda starts tomorrow or Monday or something.

I got mom to pick me up at 7:30. Watched T.V. and took a bath (I was bespeckled with paint). Finished reading all the stories in Star Trek 7 (I've been reading it in transit and during lunch break -- by the way, didn't bother to take the break today. I never eat anyway).

Gotta find another book -- only one I could dig up was a Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes). I hope it's not his typical lousy writing. That's all for now.

Dust-jacket art by Gray Foy from 1962 first edition

Bradbury wrote the screenplay for the 1983 movie
Theatrical release poster by David Grove (wikipedia info)

TOMORROW: 1st Black President: James Earl Jones