Remembering Baby Huey

"You put too much strain on your mind.
You have to condition yourself."
-as heard while watching
KYLE-XY, Season II

Does anyone remember "Baby Huey" like I do?
Before you watch your next movie take five minutes to watch this cartoon:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDHpJwlJ9wE&feature=PlayList&p=A120DCB49E3CA7A5&index=22&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL

Twenty-five years ago today:

November 19, 1984
Monday

This morning I ran into my old friend who resembles actor/comedian Marty Feldman on the BART train. He lives in Fremont and works at the Union Railroad. He is talkative and funny. What a nice chap.

While at work, Carl sat next to me (he is the one who had been away on disability). He talks a lot…and very loudly. He’s like a big baby boy. The cartoon Baby Huey comes to mind but he has a very fit, muscular upper torso (unlike Baby Huey). He is really very nice. I like sitting next to him because he brings out certain points for me to practice that I do tend to forget about. Carl was kind enough to switch my noon lunch hour for his one o’clock lunch hour. I didn’t even ask. He volunteered.

I enjoyed a sandwich and yogurt at the Health Food Store. I sat outside on Market Street. The sun was out and it felt good. It was nice sitting alone, watching the passers go by. I practiced my ‘Friendship Formation’ collegiate study, taking note of who noticed me (via eye contact) and simultaneously who I noticed.

Barbara Reynolds and I shared our last break together. We had an interesting chat about work and the people in our office. She went off about how she really liked Joe Sandford. She said that Tom and David ‘suffice’ as her tub mates but did not elaborate. She missed Joe and Brenda from the old office in Downtown Oakland.

“I notice you and Cyndy Chow seem to be getting along better,” Barbara said.
It is true and a plus that we are getting along but the frown on my face must have been something else after hearing the way Barbara laughed aloud.

I called mom and she invited me to come by the house for her homemade ‘salmon patties’ for dinner. My stomach growled at the time.

I had my Patelco Credit Union teller card encoded, making up my very own secret PIN number: 0526 (for my birthday).

After dinner at mom’s house I rummaged through the junk mail and more pre-approved credit cards that I immediately threw into the garbage.

I am thinking of calling Jennifer Andres tomorrow. She is the one who works at IBM.

I was thinking of Aubrey, my thirteen year old buddy (not in that way!).

Jim is still in my thoughts and Jeffrey Burr is ‘fading fast’. I am wondering about Chris Cordellos’ latest “going ons” but then again…his telephone is disconnected!

Paloma crossed my mind a couple of times. Her semi-stern and opinionated ways ‘turn me off’. I really do foresee a future in ‘us’. And so, her rough edges are just as well.

Mike and Suzy Miller crossed my mind this last weekend. They’re both so caught up in their Christianity these days. It makes me feel limited in being free and able to do whatever.

I telephoned Karyn Kossoff tonight. She was talking to her girlfriend, Joann, in New York about the pictures she took of all of us at Barnaby’s when she was visiting. I really love Karyn’s New York accent. We discussed the possibility of a movie tomorrow night when I suddenly remembered about my 6pm Vidal Sassoon appointment.

“Fatal Vision”, a movie about a fellow who supposedly murdered his family is out in the theaters now. I was in no mood and felt like going to bed now. I would rather see a new movie called “Falling In Love”, starring Meryl Streep and Robert de Niro. It starts on Wednesday.

I received a surprise phone call just as I hit the pillow. It was Danny Garcia from Walnut Creek, CA. It is funny because I thought of him recently (while I was writing Christmas cards). After the formalities of asking how each of us were doing the real reason he called was revealed.
“Oh Mike,” Danny said cheerfully, “I saw Chris at ‘The Hub’ bar in Walnut Creek with a ‘dark’ boy a few weeks back.”
“That was probably, Clay, a Coast Guard friend of his.”
“Are you still seeing him?”
“No, we pretty much broke it off and I’m not seeing anyone,” I said as I started to realize that I was not truly committed to any one person at this point. I did know that I really did not want to become in any way involved with Danny (except as friends). I wonder if he was fishing for ‘me’ with ‘him’.
“I’m working at a new salon in Alamo now called Chez Noel.”
Danny’s nice. It was good catching up on the latest.