Accomplishments

“Everybody remembers fairy tales in their own way.”
-Facing Windows,
2004 motion-picture

Twenty-five years ago today:

June 14, 1986
Saturday

Mom and I cleaned my pad today. Then we went to OLE’s Waffle Shop for breakfast to celebrate our accomplishments. It was nice. I gave her a special Anniversary Card.
“Make sure you show it to Dad,” I said.
She smiled.
Mom and Dad were married twenty-nine years ago (tomorrow) on June 15, 1957 at the Cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales in Oakland.  The church was built in 1893.

I went bicycling and had apparently caused an accident. There was some gal who was going much too fast and hit a brick wall at the end of Shoreline Drive. It was a combination of this gal seeing me and being startled by me. She was going much too fast.

I was in a hurry. I got ready and drove out to get Ron Leoni at the San Francisco Airport. It was an easy arrangement. I ended up giving Ron a quick drive-by tour in to San Francisco via Lombard Street, Coit Tower, Fisherman’s Wharf, The Castro District and Market Street. It was a good, fun-filled drive thru.

Then I drove over the Golden Gate Bridge in to the area of Novato where we had dinner at a place called VALENTINO’s (perfectly Italian). Our waitress was named Julie. It was a good meal. Ron was his usual pleasant, appreciative self.

After dinner I drove back into The City and dropped by Café San Marcos for a brief drink. The next stop was my house in Alameda.

Then there were sighs, the deeper for suppression
And stolen glances, the sweeter for the theft,
And burning blushes, though for no transgression…
-Don Juan, Canto I, Stanza 74
From Lord Byron’s comical, satiric and romantic epic (1819-1824)