She's A-1

The world can judge me by my actions.  But, he added, taking her hand, you cannot conceive how attached I am to you, and how great a joy it is to me.
-Stendahl
"The Red and The Black"

Twenty-five years ago today:

September 9, 1986
Tuesday

I brought my big box of RICE CHEX cereal to work today for breakfast.

I prepared the schedules for the week. Steph thinks I short-changed myself a bit with how I scheduled myself. Oh well, I probably did but I wanted the section to appreciate me.

I had another test call. I achieved one-hundred percent on the call for the required objectives. Steph was pleased with my performance. Larry (Steph's boss) shook my hand today in appreciation of my test call results (GMAB-Give Me a Break).  So what…I know I do very well for my customers.

I telephoned Anne Alberti.
Anne asked, "Why don't you come over to my house to watch 'A Little Sex'."
I laughed. It's something I would have said.

I rode my bike for an hour and then I did go to Anne's place. I brought my 'A Little Sex' video and we watched it together. Her mom actually dropped by as we were watching the romantic-comedy. We drank wine-coolers, ate seedless grapes and munched on popcorn. I had a wonderful evening. There's something about Anne that turns me on. She's A-1 in my book.

It was a beautiful day today.

Anne and I shared some good kisses before I left her house.

I received a phone call at 2:15AM from some jerk named Robert (in Concord, CA). He wanted Data Works Telecommunications. His telephone number is 680-0101. He spoke to me until 4:45AM about a bunch of gibberish. He just went on and on in flirtatious ways.  He did have a nice sounding voice.  It seemed like a 'Dale Orlando' sort of hoax call to entice me.
I finally said, "I have to go."
I was sure that this mysterious Robert was an OBV (Obviously gay guy). I tried to sleep. I had an hour until I had to get up to be at work.

What inhibited him was the difficulty of phrasing politely something he wanted to say, but for which he could not really summon the wit.-Stendhal
"The Red and The Black"