in 1904, from patent clerk third class, to patent clerk second class.  His request is turned down. [Source]



"There were KITTENS back there!" my host's wife exclaims as we drive down a country road outside St. Albans.  Injuries sustained from whiplash as my host reacts to the news are minimal.  We retrace our steps, metaphorically speaking, to a barn, where a litter gambols in a doorway.  I take pictures.  The ones of the kittens do not come out.

A new kitten was later acquired by host and family from the ASPCA.

Sometimes you have a dream so vivid you are instructed by your sleeping self to write down words or some phrase upon awaking.  I woke up this morning with: "eisch wein geweine."  Anyone? 

I have subsequently discovered that Brahms wrote "Das Grosse Geweine," that Eisch is a family of glass blowers, and Wein could be vine or Vienna.  "Weeping for Vienna" ?  "Wine Glass Weeping"?  The dream was vivid but complicated.

Made Gil go with me to "Pineapple Express" at the Arclight yesterday at the 11:40 am show, after breakfast at Canter's where loud discussion raged on Biden.  6 of us in the theater, two really really high dudes who loved it, then me and Gil and two guys in the back.  I laughed a lot.  I also owe Gil big time now. 

"Woke Up Laughing" by Robert Palmer is a song I have always been fond of, and was used in the movie at the end, and this morning I searched "Woke Up Laughing 1904" because I "woke up weeping" metaphorically speaking, and I have no idea how from that I found the reference to Einstein, but I did.  You never know.