| Saturday, October 3, 1964: Worked fast at the office and got home by 13:00. Mercia had done a good job cleaning the house and preparing for the picnic. We went to the beach with Rosemarie and her children, Gigi who giggled about "wiwis in the waweter" and little Eric. We ate plenty of fine meat, and got home by 18:00. Mercia was tired and went to bed, while George - in a melancholy mood - and I went for an exptensive Greek dinner with plenty of wine. |
| Sunday, October 4, 1964: The sun was already high when Rachel and Geezee rang us out of bed. We picked up little Gigi and took her to the pool where Rosemarie joined us for coffee. The water was cold, but we still contracted sun-burn. I read some statistics stuff about evaluation, and took Mercia up the mountain later that afternoon, a nice climb with fine view and an encounter with an intrepid turtle. We then went for a drink with "Tannie" and played some chess before turning in pretty early. |
| Monday, October 5, 1964: Enjoyed the feared Washington letter, just before the Rockeater crew came in for debriefing and post-cruise meeting. I went home at 17:00 but went back in the evening after a call from Dave who was upset about our planned "large scale sample" and held forth about it till 23:00. |
| Tuesday, October 6, 1964: Took Mercia to Rosemarie's where Erik had flown in Monday, on his birthday. Then off to the office all day and an interview call with Holland for radio-operator, so that I was an hour late for the evening's post-birthday party at Eric's, which was also embellished by a red-head model, Patsy and her joking boyfriend. Eric referred to quarrels with shore party and problems with navigation off CDM. |
| Wednesday, October 7, 1964: Mercia went along and I dropped her at the Doctor's - apparently she went shopping all day after that and turned up at the office at 17:00 dead tired. I had a busy day with discussions about the Tidal project, Rockeater 1965 program(me), drill-tests and vibro-corer (Jack Mardesich) and visits of Anglo's Drs. Guest and Gaines. Mercia was upset about people breaking into our house but our wise landlord De Leon poured us some drinks and kept Mercia talking while I got repeated cross-calls from Dave and Jack (no such things as conference calls yet..) about the planned tests. |