Dec 11 - Bus ticket punch designs

Monday, December 11, 1972 - Page 346
LOCATION: Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim

7:30 PM

Got up and on the bus at 9:00 A.M. My "Southern California Rapid Transit District 10-ride interurban ticket good for travel between any two points where one-way adult fare is 46 cents, from 'Greyhound Lines - West,' Santa Ana, Calif, Dec 4-1972, Void 30 days after date stamped (for Individual use Only) 051280, Form 10-46-T" has only 2 rides left and they'll pro'ly be used up tomorrow.

Before I "surrender" it, I wanted to mention the diversity of the patterns of punches used by the bus operators -- in eight rides, only one pattern was repeated, that was this design: [half moon]. Other designs on the punched card are: [sketches of various examples], and finally, that old standby, O. So much for my thesis.

I got to work by 10:45 and worked procrastinatingly on the new rooms, 110, 111, 112. L&M bought an X-mas tree for the lobby & I set it up for them. I left at 3:00. It was a very cold day, in the hi 40's or low 50's. San Fran got an inch of snow a couple days ago. My coat's in the cleaners till Tuesday, so I had to wear a T-shirt, a sweat shirt, my gym shirt and my long-sleeved brown turtle neck shirt. I was warm enough.

Got home at 5:00, and finished Star Trek 8, all 170 pages. Now I'm faced with the pro'lem of finding a new book to read. Mom went to play bridge as usual. I think I'll get to sleep early today. G'night.

8:00 PM
Oh! I almost forgot -- They're tromping on the moon again. The LEM touched down today at about noon, our time. They'll be there for three days. --

TOMORROW: Great TV: Live from the Moon & The Snow Goose

Dec 04 - Dreaming of Jeannie

Monday, December 4, 1972 - Page 339
LOCATION: Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim

(4:30 PM 12/9/1972)
Woke up at 9:30 & got the 10:00 bus. Rained hard from morning to about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, then it stopped, getting very windy, and the wind cleared away the clouds. I worked on the rooms (229, 230) and started to paint them. Got off work at 3:45, got the RTD at 4:15, and was home at 6:15. I bought a 10 ride pass that morning. Got off the OCTD to go to Sav-on to buy 2 batteries for the transistor radio I keep at the motel, a Mad magazine, and Star Trek #8, the new book I'll read after I finish the book on dinosaurs.

Watched T.V. -- Mom was gone to play bridge. I watched "I Dream of Genie," "Stand Up & Cheer," "Laugh-In," a special on the next 30 years of space flight inspired by the Apollo XVII flight on the 6th, a half hour of a Peter Fonda movie "The Hired Hand," and "The New Bill Cosby Show." Chunk called -- said he thinks he found the pro'lem [with my motorcycle] but needs a $12.00 tool to fix it. Mike has one (it's to unscrew bolts) but his brother had borrowed it and din't have it. So Chunk's going to buy one cause he needed it anyway.

Barbara Eden of "I Dream of Jeannie" -- this rare photo features a clear view of her actual belly button which was strictly forbidden by censors on her NBC TV show. The original sitcom aired from September 1965 to May 1970, so in 1972 I must have watched a syndicated rerun. (wiki info)

TOMORROW: Big Computer Convention in Anaheim

May 15 - Back Bay sunbathing

Monday, May 15, 1972 - Page 136
LOCATION: Newport Beach, California

(1:11:11:APPROX A.M. 5/16/1972)
Got up at 10:30. No mail. Paddled out to the area mentioned on May 10, but the tide had come up so high, water covered it a couple inches deep. So I wandered around (having more mobility, since I now have shoes), and I found a skull of some kind of rodent -- there were a lot of big holes scattered over the high sandy ground. Eventually I found a slight depression and I proceeded to tan my hide again. I read "Childhood's End" while sunning, and I'm now on page 110 (exactly half way through).

It was fairly fair, but low thin clouds moved in sporadically until the skies were quite overcast by 5:00 P.M. I got home at about a quarter to 6:00, having left at a quarter to noon. George Wallace got shot today. Chunk is in Oxnard now, and will be coming back 2morrow nite. Mom went to play bridge, as usual on Mondays. I watched "Laugh-In," then "Fantastic Voyage" (which I'd seen bout 6 years ago), then the Dick Cavett show (which won an Emmy last nite). Finly got the dishes done. It is now 1:23:00, the end.

Fantastic Voyage Theatrical Poster, 1966

--- 1:26:20 --- I just captured a rather large fly (about -- Boy! It almost got away there -- about 2 centimeters long). I'm playing the fiendish li'l kid, cause I now have the fly embedded in "Wilhold Glu-Bird White Glue with Orthonol" to preserve it (I don't have any amber handy). I saw at least a dozen dead jellyfishes on a Back Bay beach! Animals are dumb!