Dec 29 - Pinochle, pinochle & more pinochle

Friday, December 29, 1972 - Page 364
LOCATION: San Francisco

Got up at 3:00 or 4:00. Mom left to get Jain. Will did the dishes. I amused myself for a while -- played chess with Will & lost too often. Jim arrived around 5:00. I watched T.V. alot & made designs on a grid. Time passed, and around 8:30 Carol & Roark showed up. We all played a long time -- first everyone in 7-handed pinochle -- Winners stayed at the big table to play 2-partner pinochle (I was a winner) and the others (Roark, Jim, Mom) played cutthroat pinochle on the small card table. Then (tho I won as a partner of Jim) everyone (Carol & Roark, Mom & Jain, & sometimes Will) played pinochle.

ORION, the 1971 Parker Brothers "game system"

I played Orion (Algol = Demon Star) with Jim and beat him alot. He crashed, and I observed the card players, then Carol bowed out with Jain to do the dishes, and Me & Roark, & Mom & Will played. Jain finished the dishes and became a partner of Will in a new game in which Roark & Mom were partners. Carol read a magazine. I came to bed at 5:30, with a headache. Beer, cake, ice cream, potato chips, arm wrestling.

72's NEWS
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashes into the Everglades in Florida, killing 101 of 176 on board.

TOMORROW: Boring Saturday reruns

May 28 - Holiday weekend

Sunday, May 28, 1972 - Page 149
LOCATION: Newport Beach, California

11:50:50 PM
Goddup at about 1:30 P.M., sleeping through a visitation by Jordan who was in a fairly serious auto accident on the 24th, so mom tells me. That'll teach him to drive. It was hot today -- a record braking 96 mark of the merc today for LA. And, it being a holiday, there was the usual gathering of tourists wandering about our quaint little village.

Mom was determined to clean the place up, so I removed and replaced the flourescent lights in the living room; removed, cleaned, broke, and replaced the long narrow strips of fogged glass concealing those lights; I cleaned what remained of the ceiling; and I decapitated the legs off of the old table that used to be in the living room (yes, I know I used 'decapitated' wrong). During all of which Mom & I played five games of chess, three of which I won.

Larry phoned looking for dad, though his whereabouts by me were unknown. I'm now on 48 in "Thother," and on 109 in "Mansrisetocivilizationasshownbytheindiansofnorthamericafromprimevaltimestothecomingoftheindustrialstate." Moving right along, ...... Mom just baked a cake, and today, we et corn on the cob and broiled steaks. And watermelon. I'm still hungry however. So what. (No, I'm not going to put a question mark after that.) Tis now 12:04:45 A.M. --- DNE EHT ---

[TIME-OUT: In the past-entry for April 24, a note dated for today, "Sunday morn, May 28, 1972 -- 12:46:55 A.M." (more sensibly described as "Saturday nite, May 27") mentioned a color pencil drawing that is currently attached to the entry for May 26, page 147. Are you confused? So am I. Sometimes TIME can give me a big headache.]