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5 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
By the end of January Lindy was out of my thoughts. We had gone our separate ways. I like to finish a story so I’ll mention now the last two times I saw her, years later. The first was a very strange encounter, or rather, half-encounter. I was wal...
4 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
dressing up I had many more ‘crazy nights’ with Lindy over the next two weeks, about every other night, as it would take one in between just to recover from the last twenty-hour escapade. But they’re all so similar in drunkenness and bar hoping an...
3 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Mike This is what follows: “Friday: Wake up with hangover, eat, shave, go back to lying down. Get up by noon, read, walk to Lindy’s house to retrieve the books I forgot there, playing with her child for almost an hour. I come back. Mike comes by a...
2 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
One sober date Now back to Lindy. I waited a few days then called and she invited me over to spend the night, even though she was sick with a mild cold. We had a brief affair which lasted about a month. But in the first days I was truly in love wi...
1 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Laurel After that night Mike started dropping by my place on an almost daily basis. He would bring his guitar and try to teach me to accompany him. He had been to the Berkeley school of music in Boston a short while (or so he claimed). He was a pa...
31 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Lindy Now I come to a remarkable night in my life, one that changed it. I still remember it clearly. I recorded most of it at the time but added details later, as it played in my thoughts and loomed in my imagination over the years as the most rid...
30 Jan 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Jim and his girlfriend and my ex. and son, taken seven years after the poker games began (my wife was the picture taker.) Before I finish with this poker crew I have to mention the one other addition who became a regular and never missed a game fo...
29 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Steve, six years after we first met I’ve been looking into the old journals and thinking how best to communicate this rich portion of my life, in many ways the richest in new experiences, on many levels. I’m trying to be linear in my chronology bu...
28 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Our ghetto job The jobs we had in those first three months were various and provided me an excellent education in the electrical field. The jobs ranged from mansions in the hills of Oakland to Section 8 housing in the worst slums. It covered new c...
27 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Bob's wife Just as I was settling into this new abode, the very first week there, I was unexpectedly offered the job which began my electrical career. A few months earlier Bones hooked up with a Jewish fellow, Bob G., who had a contractor’s licens...
