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Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Someday

hummingbird

Ting solo event

Randy solo event

Regular event

Celebrant Name (year)

Remembrant Name (details, year)

Sunday

02/01/2004

HKD Red-Belt workout with Duc

HKD Workout

Clark Gable (1901);
Terry Jones (1942);
Sonny Landreth (1951);
Dennis Brown (1957)

Herb Caen (1997, lung cancer);
Ramon 'Mongo' Santamaria (2003, stroke)

Monday

02/02/2004

Randy sees the Dentist for his new crown

Advanced HKD Class

Stanley Getz (1927);
Graham Nash (1942)

needle and spoon
John Simon Ritchie AKA Sid Vicious (1979, Heroin O.D.);
Lou Henry Harrison (2003, heart attack);
Eric Von Schmidt (2007)

Tuesday

02/03/2004

Morning HKD workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

UC Open Planning Meeting

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809);
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson (1935);
Dave Davies (1947)

plane crash
"The Day the Music Died": Buddy Holly,
Jiles Perry 'the Big Bopper' Richardson
and Ritchie Valens (1959, plane crash);
Al Lewis aka Grandpa Munster (2006)

Wednesday

02/04/2004

Nitecat's BD dinner @ Yoshi's Jazz House and Restaurant, Oakland

McCoy Tyner @ Yoshi's Jazz House, Oakland;
with Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Charnet Moffett and Eric Harland;
Promo article from the SF Chronicle.

Adolphe Sax (1894);
Louis Jordan (1975, heart attack);
Wladziu Valentino Liberace (1987, AIDS);
Kenneth 'Jethro' D. Burns (1989, bone cancer);
James Louis 'J.J.' Johnson (2001)

Thursday

02/05/2004

Morning HKD workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

Al Kooper (1944)

Al Kooper (1944)

Friday

02/06/2004

Morning HKD workout

Midori & Robert McDonald @ Herbst Theatre, San Francisco; with mom?
Reviews from the SF Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News.

Robert Nesta Marley (1945);

Reggie Scanlan (1953)

Carl Dean Wilson (1998, lung cancer);
Humphrey Fortescue Osmond (2004, coined the term psychedelic)

Saturday

02/07/2004

HKD Workout with Leslie

Robert Greenburg Lecture;
Alexander String Quartet @ Herbst Theatre (AM matinee); with mom.

TKD Referee's Seminar

UC Open Press Demo

Dinner @ Frjtz with TC & Kaoru, Jeff & Sandra

Fred Hersch @ Herbst Theatre, San Francisco; with TC & Kaoru, Jeff & Sandra

James Hubert 'Eubie' Blake (1887);
'King' Curtis Ousley (1934);
Solomon Johnson AKA Earl King (1934)

Eddie Jones AKA Guitar Slim (1959, pneumonia)

Sunday

02/08/2004

HKD Red-Belt workout with Duc

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD Workout

Dinner @ Bonsai, Oakland w/Duc, Sally & Michelle

Dessert @ Mariko, Oakland w/Duc, Sally & Michelle

Neal Cassady (1929);
Floyd Dixon (1929)

smoking gun
Charles Weedon Westover AKA Del Shannon (1990, suicide);
James Oscar 'Jimmy' Smith (2005, natural causes)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

02/09/2004

Beatles with Ed Sullivan
the Beatles US debut on the Ed Sullivan show (1964)

"The 2nd Annual Winter Jam" with the Dead @ the Warfield Theater, San Francisco

William John 'Bill' Haley (1981, brain tumor)

Tuesday

02/10/2004

Morning HKD workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

John Scofield, Larry Goldings & Jack deJohnette @ Yoshi's Jazz House, Oakland

Wednesday

02/11/2004

Dinner @ Thaiphoon, Palo Alto

David Finckel & Wu Han @ Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University, Palo Alto

Pop Tse's American Birthday! (1933)

RIP
John Arthur 'Jaki' Byard (1999, murdered)

Thursday

02/12/2004

Morning HKD workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

Peabody Trio @ Herbst Theatre, San Francisco; with TC
Joshua Kosman's SF Chronicle Review

Ray Manzarek (1939);
Steve Hackett (1950)

'Screamin' Jay Hawkins (2000, aneurysm)

Friday

02/13/2004

Photo from an earlier performance of the opera Siroe

Morning HKD workout

Evening HKD workout

Venice Baroque Orchestra performing Handel's Siroe @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley
Program Notes; Joshua Kosman's SF Chronicle Review

'Tennessee' Ernie Ford (1919);
Peter Tork (1942);
Peter Gabriel (1950)

Al Lewis aka Grandpa Munster (2006)

Saturday

02/14/2004

St. Valentine's Day!

st. valentine

HKD workout with Leslie

TKD Kids Class

TKD Sparring Class

Tutoring in Menlo Park

Valentine's dinner @ Toshi Sushi, Montclair Village

Merl Saunders (1934);
'Magic' Sam Maghett (1937)

Sunday

02/15/2004

HKD Red-Belt workout with Duc

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD Workout

Dinner @ Flipper's Gourmet Burgers, Montclair Village, Oakland

Nathaniel Adams Coles AKA Nat King Cole (1965, lung cancer);
Marion Walter Jacobs AKA Little Walter (1968, street fight);
Michael Bloomfield (1981, drug overdose);



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

02/16/2004

Archery @ the Bow Rack, San Pablo

Salvatore 'Sonny' Bono (1935)

Walter 'Brownie' McGhee (1996, stomach cancer)

Tuesday

02/17/2004

Morning HKD workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

UC Open Planning Meeting

Giordano Bruno (1600, burned at the stake for heresy);
Thelonius Sphere Monk (1982, stroke)
Ray Barretto (2006)

Wednesday

02/18/2004

Give Blood @ Stanford Blood Bank, Palo Alto

Archery @ the Bow Rack, San Pablo

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra @ Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, UC Berkeley

Yoko Ono (1933)

Thursday

02/19/2004

Morning HKD workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

Black Belt candidates meeting with Dr. Min

William 'Smokey' Robinson (1940)

Shot!
Lee Morgan (1972, murdered)

Friday

02/20/2004

HKD Ski Trip
Skiing/Snowboarding @ Heavenly

Walter Becker (1950);
Randy Wolfe AKA Randy California (1951);
Kurt Cobain (1967)

Saturday

02/21/2004

HKD Ski Trip
Skiing/Snowboarding @ Sierra at Tahoe

Andrés Segovia (1893);
Eunice Kathleen Waymon AKA Nina Simone (1933);
Jerry Harrison (1949);
Vince Welnick (1951);
Mary Chapin-Carpenter (1958);

Bruce Hart (2006) - composed lyrics to the 'Sesame Street' theme

Sunday

02/22/2004

HKD Workout

Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1810);
Luis Buńuel Portolés (1900);
Ernest Kador, Jr AKA Ernie K-Doe (1936)

Andy Warhol (1987, heart attack);
John Aloysius Fahey (2001, heart disease/kidney failure)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

02/23/2004

Advanced HKD class

HKD practice with Leslie

Johnny Winter (1944)

Tuesday

02/24/2004

Morning HKD workout

Lunch with Emmanuel @ Mime's Cafe, Redwood City

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

HKD practice with Lisa & Anne Marie

Nicky Hopkins (1944)

John Peter Chatman AKA Memphis Slim (1988);
'Papa' John Creach (1994, heart failure);
Don Knotts (2006);
Leroy Jenkins (2007, lung cancer)

Wednesday

02/25/2004

Archery @ the Bow Rack, San Pablo

George Harrison (1943)

Thursday

02/26/2004

Morning HKD workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

TKD Workout

HKD practice with Lisa & Anne Marie

Antoine 'Fats' Domino (1928);
John R. Cash (1932)

Cuauhtemoc, last King of the Aztecs (1525, executed);
Major Merriweather AKA 'Big Maceo' (1953, heart attack);
Booker T. Washington 'Bukka' White (1977, cancer);
Othar Turner (2003)

Friday

02/27/2004

Morning HKD workout

Lunch with Jean-Cristophe @ Seasonal Sushi, Redwood City

Takács String Quartet @ Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University, Palo Alto; with TC promotional page

Mr. Fred McFeely Rogers (2003, stomach cancer)

Saturday

02/28/2004

Off to Colorado for a week of snow-sporting fun with Harsha!

SFO to DEN
then CMX to the Christie Lodge in Avon, CO, driving through a heavy snowstorm along I-70.

Dinner @ Outback Steakhouse, Avon, CO; with Harsha, Brad and Shalise

John Aloysius Fahey (1939);
Brian Jones (1942)

needle and spoon
Howie Epstein (2003, heroin O.D.)

Sunday

02/29/2004

Skiing/Snowboarding @ Beaver Creek; with Harsha, Brad and Shalise

Dinner @ Main Street Grill, Edwards, CO; with Harsha, Brad and Shalise

Greg Muck (1968)




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