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Day	Date	Wha'ppened?	Birthdays	Remembrances
Saturday	05/01/2004 May Day!	HKD Workout with Leslie Party to celebrate Fiona Starsiak's 4th Birthday @ Chrissy Field, San Francisco Orchestra Baobab @ the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco	Marion Walter Jacobs AKA Little Walter (1930); Shirley Horn (1934); Judy Collins (1939); Rita Coolidge (1944); Mimi Fariña (1945); James Newton (1953); Ray Parker, Jr. (1954)	Lindley Armstrong 'Spike' Jones (1965, emphysema)
Sunday	05/02/2004	HKD Red-Belt workout with Duc RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database HKD Workout	Harry Lillis 'Bing' Crosby AKA Der Bingle (1903); Fred Lincoln 'Link' Wray, Jr. (1929);	George Wyle (2003, leukemia) - composer of many classic TV theme songs, including the Ballad of Gilligan's Island

Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Someday

Ting solo event

Randy solo event

Regular event

Celebrant Name (year)

Remembrant Name (details, year)

Saturday

05/01/2004

Maypole Dance
May Day!

HKD Workout with Leslie

Party to celebrate Fiona Starsiak's 4th Birthday @ Chrissy Field, San Francisco

Orchestra Baobab @ the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco

Marion Walter Jacobs AKA Little Walter (1930);
Shirley Horn (1934);
Judy Collins (1939);
Rita Coolidge (1944);
Mimi Fariña (1945);
James Newton (1953);
Ray Parker, Jr. (1954)

Lindley Armstrong 'Spike' Jones (1965, emphysema)

Sunday

05/02/2004

HKD Red-Belt workout with Duc

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD Workout

Harry Lillis 'Bing' Crosby AKA Der Bingle (1903);
Fred Lincoln 'Link' Wray, Jr. (1929);

George Wyle (2003, leukemia) - composer of many classic TV theme songs, including the Ballad of Gilligan's Island

Day	Date	Wha'ppened?	Birthdays	Remembrances
Monday	05/03/2004	Advanced HKD Workout	Pete Seeger (1919); James Brown (1933)
Tuesday	05/04/2004	Morning HKD Workout Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min HKD Workout with Lisa and Anne Marie	Ronald Levin Carter (1937);	Paul Butterfield (1987, alcohol/drug overdose)
Wednesday	05/05/2004	Cinco de Mayo!	William Samuel 'Blind Willie' McTell (1901); Virginia Wynette Pugh AKA Tammy Wynette (1942); Michael Palin (1943)	Reverend Gary Davis (1972, heart attack); Wilson Anthony 'Boozoo' Chavis (2001, recuperating from heart attack/stroke)
Thursday	05/06/2004	Morning HKD workout Lunch with Tim Kelly from ISS Dinner with Lisa, Lily, Hien and Anne Marie @ Hua-Hin Thai Restaurant, Berkeley When We Were Kings @ Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley		Kai Chresten Winding (1983, brain cancer)
Friday	05/07/2004	Morning HKD workout Lunch for JohnV @ Suraj, Redwood City	Bill Kreutzmann (1946)
Saturday	05/08/2004	TKD Promotional Exams Robert Greenburg Lecture on the Life and Music of Ferruccio Busoni, with Robert Woodward, piano @ Herbst Theatre (AM matinee), San Francisco; with mom. Baby Shower for Tiffany & Ed @ Kirsten's house, San Francisco	Madeleine Campiglia Read (1904) Mary Elfrieda Scruggs AKA Mary Lou Williams (1910) 'Papa' John Creach (1917)	Amos Leone 'Leon' Thomas, Jr. (1999, heart attack)
Sunday	05/09/2004 Mother's Day!	Ting's HKD 1st Dan Promotional Exam UCMAP Martial Arts Banquet @ VIP Palace, Oakland		Otis Blackwell (2002, heart attack)

Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

05/03/2004

Advanced HKD Workout

Pete Seeger (1919);
James Brown (1933)

Tuesday

05/04/2004

Morning HKD Workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

HKD Workout with Lisa and Anne Marie

Ronald Levin Carter (1937);

needle and spoon
Paul Butterfield (1987, alcohol/drug overdose)

Wednesday

05/05/2004

Cinco de Mayo stamp
Cinco de Mayo!

William Samuel 'Blind Willie' McTell (1901);
Virginia Wynette Pugh AKA Tammy Wynette (1942);
Michael Palin (1943)

Reverend Gary Davis (1972, heart attack);
Wilson Anthony 'Boozoo' Chavis (2001, recuperating from heart attack/stroke)

Thursday

05/06/2004

Morning HKD workout

Lunch with Tim Kelly from ISS

Dinner with Lisa, Lily, Hien and Anne Marie @ Hua-Hin Thai Restaurant, Berkeley

When We Were Kings @ Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley

Kai Chresten Winding (1983, brain cancer)

Friday

05/07/2004

Morning HKD workout

Lunch for JohnV @ Suraj, Redwood City

Bill Kreutzmann (1946)

Saturday

05/08/2004

TKD Promotional Exams

Robert Greenburg Lecture on the Life and Music of Ferruccio Busoni, with Robert Woodward, piano @ Herbst Theatre (AM matinee), San Francisco; with mom.

Baby Shower for Tiffany & Ed @ Kirsten's house, San Francisco

Madeleine Campiglia Read (1904)

Mary Elfrieda Scruggs AKA Mary Lou Williams (1910)
'Papa' John Creach (1917)

Amos Leone 'Leon' Thomas, Jr. (1999, heart attack)

Sunday

05/09/2004

Mother's Day!

Ting's HKD 1st Dan Promotional Exam

UCMAP Martial Arts Banquet @ VIP Palace, Oakland

Otis Blackwell (2002, heart attack)

Day	Date	Wha'ppened?	Birthdays	Remembrances
Monday	05/10/2004	ITOPS Lunch with Ehren @ Max's Cafe, Redwood City Dinner with Lily, Lisa and Anne Marie @ Tachibana, Oakland Dessert and videos @ home with Lily, Lisa and Anne Marie	'Mother' Maybelle Addington Carter (1909); Donovan Philip Leitch (1946); Dave Mason (1947); Lowell Fillmore 'Sly' Dunbar (1952); John Simon Ritchie AKA Sid Vicious (1957); Paul Hewson AKA Bono (1960)	Shelby 'Shel' Silverstein (1999, heart attack) John Josephus Hicks, Jr (2006, internal bleeding)
Tuesday	05/11/2004	SF Bay Area ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction Presents a seminar with Ed Chi: "The Killer App of Wearable Computing: Wireless Force-Sensing Body Protectors for Martial Arts" @ the Palo Alto Research Center's George E. Pake Auditorium; with Michael Somoza Additional Notes from the BayCHI website	Israel Baline AKA Irving Berlin (1888); Carla Bley (1938); Eric Burdon (1941)	Lester Raymond Flatt (1979); Robert Nesta Marley (1981, brain cancer); David 'Noel' Redding (2003, natural causes)
Wednesday	05/12/2004	RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database HKD (Open Workout) Jordi Savall @ First Congregational Church, Berkeley Program Notes	Jesse Fuller (1896); Burt Bacharach (1928); Ian McLagan (1945) Steve Winwood (1948)
Thursday	05/13/2004	Tumbleweed Roller Hockey!	Ian Ernest Gilmore Green AKA Gil Evans (1912); William M. 'Red' Garland (1923); Ritchie Valens (1941); Mary Wells (1943); Steveland Hardaway Judkins AKA Stevie Wonder (1950)	James Robert 'Bob' Wills (1975, stroke)
Friday	05/14/2004	HKD (Open Workout) Hesperion XXI @ First Congregational Church, Berkeley Program Notes	Lou Henry Harrison (1917); John Symon Asher 'Jack' Bruce (1943); David Byrne (1952)	Keith Relf (1976, electrocuted while playing guitar in the bathtub); Chesney Henry 'Chet' Baker, Jr. (1988, autodefenestration while under the influence of heroin and cocaine); the Chairman of the Board, Francis Albert 'Frank' Sinatra (1998, heart attack)
Saturday	05/15/2004	Dinner @ Spettro, Oakland	Hugh Romney AKA Wavy Gravy (1936); Brian Peter George St. Baptiste de la Salle Eno (1948) Bob & Lori Jaffe's Wedding Anniversary (1993)	June Carter Cash (2003, complications following heart surgery)
Sunday	05/16/2004	RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database HKD (Open Workout)	Woodrow Charles 'Woody' Herman (1913); Wladziu Valentino Liberace (1919); Lorraine 'Betty' Carter (1930); William C. 'Billy' Cobham (1944)	Jean Baptiste 'Django' Reinhardt (1953, stroke); Sammy Davis Jr. (1990, throat cancer); James Maury 'Jim' Henson (1990, sepsis caused by bacterial pneumonia) Lawrence 'Ramrod' Shurtliff (2006, lung cancer)

Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

05/10/2004

ITOPS Lunch with Ehren @ Max's Cafe, Redwood City

Dinner with Lily, Lisa and Anne Marie @ Tachibana, Oakland

Dessert and videos @ home with Lily, Lisa and Anne Marie

'Mother' Maybelle Addington Carter (1909);
Donovan Philip Leitch (1946);
Dave Mason (1947);
Lowell Fillmore 'Sly' Dunbar (1952);
John Simon Ritchie AKA Sid Vicious (1957);
Paul Hewson AKA Bono (1960)

Shelby 'Shel' Silverstein (1999, heart attack)
John Josephus Hicks, Jr (2006, internal bleeding)

Tuesday

05/11/2004

SF Bay Area ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction Presents a seminar with Ed Chi: "The Killer App of Wearable Computing: Wireless Force-Sensing Body Protectors for Martial Arts" @ the Palo Alto Research Center's George E. Pake Auditorium; with Michael Somoza
Additional Notes from the BayCHI website

Israel Baline AKA Irving Berlin (1888);
Carla Bley (1938);
Eric Burdon (1941)

Lester Raymond Flatt (1979);
Robert Nesta Marley (1981, brain cancer);
David 'Noel' Redding (2003, natural causes)

Wednesday

05/12/2004

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD (Open Workout)

Jordi Savall @ First Congregational Church, Berkeley
Program Notes

Jesse Fuller (1896);
Burt Bacharach (1928);
Ian McLagan (1945) Steve Winwood (1948)

Thursday

05/13/2004

Tumbleweed Roller Hockey!

Ian Ernest Gilmore Green AKA Gil Evans (1912);
William M. 'Red' Garland (1923);
Ritchie Valens (1941);
Mary Wells (1943);
Steveland Hardaway Judkins AKA Stevie Wonder (1950)

James Robert 'Bob' Wills (1975, stroke)

Friday

05/14/2004

HKD (Open Workout)

Hesperion XXI @ First Congregational Church, Berkeley
Program Notes

Lou Henry Harrison (1917);
John Symon Asher 'Jack' Bruce (1943);
David Byrne (1952)

Keith Relf (1976, electrocuted while playing guitar in the bathtub);

Chesney Henry 'Chet' Baker, Jr. (1988, autodefenestration while under the influence of heroin and cocaine);

the Chairman of the Board, Francis Albert 'Frank' Sinatra (1998, heart attack)

Saturday

05/15/2004

Dinner @ Spettro, Oakland

Hugh Romney AKA Wavy Gravy (1936);
Brian Peter George St. Baptiste de la Salle Eno (1948)

Bob & Lori Jaffe's Wedding Anniversary (1993)

June Carter Cash (2003, complications following heart surgery)

Sunday

05/16/2004

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD (Open Workout)

Woodrow Charles 'Woody' Herman (1913);
Wladziu Valentino Liberace (1919);
Lorraine 'Betty' Carter (1930);
William C. 'Billy' Cobham (1944)

Jean Baptiste 'Django' Reinhardt (1953, stroke);
Sammy Davis Jr. (1990, throat cancer);
James Maury 'Jim' Henson (1990, sepsis caused by bacterial pneumonia) Lawrence 'Ramrod' Shurtliff (2006, lung cancer)

Day	Date	Wha'ppened?	Birthdays	Remembrances
Monday	05/17/2004 General release of the World-Wide Web from CERN (1991)	JEL AKA Jeffrey Logan; Holger Czukay @ the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco	John Lenwood 'Jackie' McLean (1932); Henry St. Clair Fredericks AKA Taj Mahal (1942); Jesse Winchester (1944); Bill Bruford (1948); Eithne Ní Bhraonáin AKA Enya (1961);	Lawrence Welk (1992, pneumonia); Johnny 'Guitar' Watson (1996, heart attack); Tony Randall (2004)
Tuesday	05/18/2004	60th Birthday Dinner for M.P.Mom @ Bacar, San Francisco	Joseph Vernon 'Big Joe' Turner (1911); Kai Chresten Winding (1922); Rick Wakeman (1949)	Gustav Mahler (1911, heart failure); Horace Swaby AKA Augustus Pablo (1999, myasthenia gravis); Elvin Jones (2004, heart failure)
Wednesday	05/19/2004	Lunch with Drew @ Quizno's, Redwood City RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database HKD (Open Workout)	Cornelius 'Sonny' Fortune (1939); Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (1945); Jeffrey Hyman AKA Joey Ramone (1951)	Coleman Randolph Hawkins (1969, pneumonia)
Thursday	05/20/2004	Tumbleweed Roller Hockey! James Brown@ the Mountain Winery, Saratoga; Garrett Kamps' review from the SF Weekly; Robert Eleda's blog post.	John Robert 'Joe' Cocker (1944)
Friday	05/21/2004	The Kronos Quartet celebrates their 30th Anniverary with a performance of 'Visual Music' @ the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts Theatre, San Francisco; Program Notes; Steve Winn's review from the SF Chronicle; Georgia Rowe's review from the Contra Costa Times; (still more info and pics from another event participant!)	Thomas Wright 'Fats' Waller (1904); Christian McBride (1972)
Saturday	05/22/2004	Benefit for Spencer Dryden @ Slim's, San Francisco; emceed by Wavy Gravy and musically organized by Pete Sears, featuring: Nick Gravenites and Friends (Greg Elmore, David Freiberg, Pete Sears, et al); David Nelson and Friends (with separate sit-ins from Peter Rowan and Bob Weir); the Flying Other Brothers (appearing alone and together with Bob Weir, Pete Sears, Barry Sless and Warren Haynes), and yet others unnamed here. Alan Shekter's review from Jambase.org; Randy's incomplete attempt at a setlist.	Herman Sonny Blount AKA Sun Ra (1914); Bernie Taupin (1950)
Sunday	05/23/2004	RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database HKD (Open Workout) Mitsuko Uchida and Mark Steinberg @ Herbst Theatre, San Francisco; Joshua Kosman's review from the SF Chronicle; Michelle Dulak's review from San Francisco Classical Voice.	Robert Moog (1934); Famodou Don Moye (1946) MPM (1944) Dennis & Laurie Ponos' Wedding Anniversary (1987)	Joseph Anthony Passalaqua AKA Joe Pass (1994, cancer); Hamza el Din (2006, complications from brain surgery)

Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

05/17/2004

www stamp
General release of the World-Wide Web from CERN (1991)

JEL AKA Jeffrey Logan;
Holger Czukay @ the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco

John Lenwood 'Jackie' McLean (1932);
Henry St. Clair Fredericks AKA Taj Mahal (1942);
Jesse Winchester (1944);
Bill Bruford (1948);
Eithne Ní Bhraonáin AKA Enya (1961);

Lawrence Welk (1992, pneumonia);
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson (1996, heart attack);
Tony Randall (2004)

Tuesday

05/18/2004

60th Birthday Dinner for M.P.Mom @ Bacar, San Francisco

Joseph Vernon 'Big Joe' Turner (1911);
Kai Chresten Winding (1922);
Rick Wakeman (1949)

Gustav Mahler (1911, heart failure);
Horace Swaby AKA Augustus Pablo (1999, myasthenia gravis);
Elvin Jones (2004, heart failure)

Wednesday

05/19/2004

Lunch with Drew @ Quizno's, Redwood City

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD (Open Workout)

Cornelius 'Sonny' Fortune (1939);
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (1945);
Jeffrey Hyman AKA Joey Ramone (1951)

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (1969, pneumonia)

Thursday

05/20/2004

Tumbleweed Roller Hockey!

James Brown@ the Mountain Winery, Saratoga;
Garrett Kamps' review from the SF Weekly;
Robert Eleda's blog post.

John Robert 'Joe' Cocker (1944)

Friday

05/21/2004

The Kronos Quartet celebrates their 30th Anniverary with a performance of 'Visual Music' @ the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts Theatre, San Francisco;
Program Notes;
Steve Winn's review from the SF Chronicle;
Georgia Rowe's review from the Contra Costa Times;
(still more info and pics from another event participant!)

Thomas Wright 'Fats' Waller (1904);
Christian McBride (1972)

Saturday

05/22/2004

Benefit for Spencer Dryden @ Slim's, San Francisco;
emceed by Wavy Gravy and musically organized by Pete Sears, featuring:
Nick Gravenites and Friends
  (Greg Elmore, David Freiberg, Pete Sears, et al);
David Nelson and Friends
  (with separate sit-ins from Peter Rowan and Bob Weir);
the Flying Other Brothers
  (appearing alone and together with Bob Weir, Pete Sears, Barry Sless and Warren Haynes),
and yet others unnamed here.
Alan Shekter's review from Jambase.org;
Randy's incomplete attempt at a setlist.

Herman Sonny Blount AKA Sun Ra (1914);
Bernie Taupin (1950)

Sunday

05/23/2004

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD (Open Workout)

Mitsuko Uchida and Mark Steinberg @ Herbst Theatre, San Francisco;
Joshua Kosman's review from the SF Chronicle;
Michelle Dulak's review from San Francisco Classical Voice.

Robert Moog (1934);

Famodou Don Moye (1946)

MPM (1944)

Dennis & Laurie Ponos' Wedding Anniversary (1987)

Joseph Anthony Passalaqua AKA Joe Pass (1994, cancer);
Hamza el Din (2006, complications from brain surgery)

Day	Date	Wha'ppened?	Birthdays	Remembrances
Monday	05/24/2004	Going-Away Lunch for Jim @ Yokoyama Japanese Restaurant, Redwood City Dinner @ Fresh Choice	Archie Vernon Shepp (1937); Robert Allan Zimmerman AKA Bob Dylan (1941); Roseanne Cash (1955)	Elmore James (1963, heart attack); Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington (1974, lung cancer and pneumonia); Harold Eugene 'Gene' Clark (1991, bleeding ulcer) Jimmy McGriff (2008, heart failure)
Tuesday	05/25/2004		Pieter Zeeman (1865); Miles Dewey Davis, III (1926); Wallace Roney (1960)	Aleck Ford Miller AKA Sonny Boy Williamson II (1965, heart attack); Roy Brown (1981, heart attack); Warren Harding 'Sonny' Sharrock (1994, heart attack); Desmond Dacres AKA Desmond Dekker (2006, heart attack))
Wednesday	05/26/2004	Dinner with Garth @ La Bodeguita del Medio, Palo Alto	Levon Helm (1940); Stevie Nicks (1948); Lenny Kravitz (1964)	William Edgar 'Little Willie' John (1968, pneumonia)
Thursday	05/27/2004	Tumbleweed Roller Hockey! Leslie Wirpsa's Birthday Dinner @ Kensington Bistro, Kensington	Herman Parker, Jr (1932); Ramsey Lewis (1935); Dee Dee Bridgewater (1950);	Luciano Berio (2003, undisclosed causes)
Friday	05/28/2004	HKD (Open Workout)	Aaron Thibeaux 'T-Bone' Walker (1910); Cecil Bustamente Campbell AKA Prince Buster (1938); Gladys Knight (1944); John Fogerty (1945)	Mary Elfrieda Scruggs AKA Mary Lou Williams (1981, cancer)
Saturday	05/29/2004	Drive south along Hwy 101 to the brand new Embassy Suites in Lompoc Watch the sunset @ Vandenberg Beach, Vandenberg Air Force Base Dinner @ Texas Cattle Company, Lompoc Cosmic Bowling @ Lompoc's Ocean Lanes Entertainment Center		John Cipollina (1989, emphysema)
Sunday	05/30/2004	Hiking in Nojoqui Falls County Park, Gaviota Drive to Goleta/Santa Barbara to meet up with Bob Vogel at his place Rollerblading with Bob Vogel for a couple miles along the open space trail from Goleta Beach County Park, Goleta, to Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, and then back again. Smoothies with Bob Vogel and Jeff Loomis @ Blenders in the Grass, Goleta Dinner with Bob Vogel and Jeff Loomis @ the Natural Cafe and Juice Bar, Goleta Jeff shows off his brand new blue Prius	Melvin Jerome 'Mel' Blanc (1908); Benjamin David 'Benny' Goodman (1909);	Paul Emil Breitenfeld AKA Paul Desmond (lung cancer, 1977); Herman Sonny Blount AKA Sun Ra (complications from several strokes, 1993); John Kahn (heroin O.D., 1996)
Monday	05/31/2004 Memorial Day!	Mural-viewing in Lompoc Visit to Lompoc's La Purisima Mission Hiking in the Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve, Guadalupe Drive back home along Hwy 101	Albert 'Tootie' Heath (1935); John Henry Bonham (1948)	William Thomas 'Billy' Strayhorn (1967, cancer)

Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

05/24/2004

Going-Away Lunch for Jim @ Yokoyama Japanese Restaurant, Redwood City

Dinner @ Fresh Choice

Archie Vernon Shepp (1937);
Robert Allan Zimmerman AKA Bob Dylan (1941);
Roseanne Cash (1955)

Elmore James (1963, heart attack);
Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington (1974, lung cancer and pneumonia);
Harold Eugene 'Gene' Clark (1991, bleeding ulcer) Jimmy McGriff (2008, heart failure)

Tuesday

05/25/2004

Pieter Zeeman (1865);
Miles Dewey Davis, III (1926);
Wallace Roney (1960)

Aleck Ford Miller AKA Sonny Boy Williamson II (1965, heart attack);
Roy Brown (1981, heart attack);
Warren Harding 'Sonny' Sharrock (1994, heart attack);
Desmond Dacres AKA Desmond Dekker (2006, heart attack))

Wednesday

05/26/2004

Dinner with Garth @ La Bodeguita del Medio, Palo Alto

Levon Helm (1940);
Stevie Nicks (1948);
Lenny Kravitz (1964)

William Edgar 'Little Willie' John (1968, pneumonia)

Thursday

05/27/2004

Tumbleweed Roller Hockey!

Leslie Wirpsa's Birthday Dinner @ Kensington Bistro, Kensington

Herman Parker, Jr (1932);
Ramsey Lewis (1935);
Dee Dee Bridgewater (1950);

Luciano Berio (2003, undisclosed causes)

Friday

05/28/2004

HKD (Open Workout)

Aaron Thibeaux 'T-Bone' Walker (1910);
Cecil Bustamente Campbell AKA Prince Buster (1938);
Gladys Knight (1944);
John Fogerty (1945)

Mary Elfrieda Scruggs AKA Mary Lou Williams (1981, cancer)

Saturday

05/29/2004

Drive south along Hwy 101 to the brand new Embassy Suites in Lompoc

Watch the sunset @ Vandenberg Beach, Vandenberg Air Force Base

Dinner @ Texas Cattle Company, Lompoc

Cosmic Bowling @ Lompoc's Ocean Lanes Entertainment Center

John Cipollina (1989, emphysema)

Sunday

05/30/2004

Hiking in Nojoqui Falls County Park, Gaviota

Drive to Goleta/Santa Barbara to meet up with Bob Vogel at his place

Rollerblading with Bob Vogel for a couple miles along the open space trail from Goleta Beach County Park, Goleta, to Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, and then back again.

Smoothies with Bob Vogel and Jeff Loomis @ Blenders in the Grass, Goleta

Dinner with Bob Vogel and Jeff Loomis @ the Natural Cafe and Juice Bar, Goleta

Jeff shows off his brand new blue Prius

Melvin Jerome 'Mel' Blanc (1908);
Benjamin David 'Benny' Goodman (1909);

Paul Emil Breitenfeld AKA Paul Desmond (lung cancer, 1977);
Herman Sonny Blount AKA Sun Ra (complications from several strokes, 1993);
needle and spoon
John Kahn (heroin O.D., 1996)

Monday

05/31/2004

Memorial Day!

Mural-viewing in Lompoc

Visit to Lompoc's La Purisima Mission

Hiking in the Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve, Guadalupe

Drive back home along Hwy 101

Albert 'Tootie' Heath (1935);
John Henry Bonham (1948)

William Thomas 'Billy' Strayhorn (1967, cancer)