How To Dazzle Them

Michelangelo Merisi's (aka Caravaggio) early work stunned his contemporaries because it seemed so real. He dazzled them. The quality of his bare skin on canvas sent people into delirium.
-as read in the book
"M-The Man Who Became Caravaggio"
by Peter Robb

I race too much. My brain races too much, so even if I’ve listened to everything somebody said, unless you show that you’ve digested it, people don’t think they are being well heard.
Sometimes you really don’t hear because you’re racing.
It’s just the way my brain works.

My brain is just chop, chop, chop, chop, chop.
And so, if you really want to get the best out of people, you have to really hear them and they have to feel like they’ve been really heard.
So I’ve got to learn to slow down and improve in that dimension, both to make me better and to make the people around me better.
-Steve A Ballmer,
Microsoft CEO, when asked by NY Times Adam Bryant
if there are areas you want to improve as a leader

May 17, 1984
Thursday
The ‘after work’ bicycle ride was energizing. I saw Ron, the windsurfer, on his bike. I didn’t talk to him. I just continued my invigorating ride and fled home.

I fed Ashley with the baby bottle while Sherri and her mom, Janet, looked on.
“My girlfriend, Kim, saw your picture and thought you were cute,” Sherri said.
“Oh really?” I questioned and changed the subject. Although, who knows?

PHOTO: Sherri Lewis-Armijo
with daughter, Ashley M Armijo

Michael Thoennes telephoned from San Francisco. I decided to go out and meet him at a place called ‘Hamburger Mary’s’ for a drink. I disclosed a little bit more about myself. It’s easy to do after a strong margarita. I gave him glimpses of my past on subjects/relationships like: Gladman, Lynne Major, Frank Vasconcellos, Howard Edelstein, George Jones, Tammy Duhr, Paloma Sanchez-Guerra. He freaked a bit on the Bill Helbush character for some reason.

We departed ‘Hamburger Mary’s’ by 11 o’clock. He invited me to a party on Sunday.
“I might be driving up to Eureka because my cassette player was fixed today,” I answered in hopes that he would understand.

The broken cassette player was no thanks to Paige LaBris of Sacramento (who broke it). Helen Wong suggested I send her a copy of the repair bill. I laughed.

There is still no word on my San Francisco Business Service Center job transfer.