Ben Oostdam's |
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Hawaii I I I - oh! early February, 1963 |
On Monday morning February 4, Burt was not working and had asked me to take him and his friends around; I bought ample cleaning supplies. Immediately after lunch, I started cleaning for an uninterrupted 8 hour shift, after which we had a house-warming party in the cleanest of the two apartments. Around midnight I sacked out as a proud new Waikiki landlord - was going to put up the other apartment for rent!
The rest of the week I spent only partly at the University, and the rest cleaning up, packing and forwarding, ironing and dating; on Friday I picked up airphotographs at Pack's and from John Cox of Towill at Merchant Street. I dropped in on Dick Greenbaum, who had also lived in Bangkok for a year and was some sort of SIO-Inman dropout who did not like Ted C. .
[Note added on Jan.9, 2003: just read in Elizabeth Shor's "SIO-Probing the Oceans, 1936-1976" that Ted also spent two months in Bangkok during NAGA (1959/61) teaching marine geology ...]
| At Don Johnson's diving shop I found that air cost a rather hefty $ 3 per bottle, and that diving buddies were hard to find. |
| That evening was full moon and I drove to Hanauma Bay for a nostalgic night-time dive. |
On Saturday, I did my correspondence, financial affairs and taxes and found that although I had some 1,500 dollars to my name, only $ 5 was available in cash. On Sunday, I proposed to a gorgeous blonde at the beach that she allow me to play with her puppy, "because it looked bored" ; good line, which greatly endeared me to her puppy. So after completing the International Market round around 9 p.m., I spent the remaining part of my cash on a solitary MaiTai in the Banyan Court - where the receptioniste recognized me as "a geophysicist" !