Nothing Much Else Happened: December 30, 1978

Today was a really bad day. It's too bad I had to end a perfectly good end-of-the-year with this. I ahd to do my magic show for Dan Kramon without Sean. Unfortuneately, it is the worst show I've ever done — mainly because of the audience! They were dead through the whole thing and didn't clap or laugh through the whole thing. It was absolutely the worst thing that could happen to a magician. When I called up Sean after the show, he was shocked and apalled at what had happened.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: December 29, 1978

Today was good enough to be a highlight day, but I think I have enough highlight days for one year. Lisa came with her parents and picked me up around 8:30, and we made our way across the western coast to San Diego. We stopped off at one place and made some good scores in miniature golf (overall she beat me by only one stroke). We went on and about 2:00 p.m., we reached Sea World and spent the rest of the day walking around there and playing in the (fake) snow.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: December 28, 1978

Today I would like to talk about tomorrow, the next day, and the next day. Tomorrow, Lisa Rogne has invited me to go to Sea World with her, and we will be doing that all day tomorrow. The day after tomorrow I will be giving a magic show — only this one will be a little different because Sean has to work and I have to do the show alone. (I don't know if I like that) The next day, the last day of the year, Colette Matthews will be coming over, and she will spend New Years with us and New York's times square.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: December 27, 1978

Today, as you might notice, I am ending (or coming close to ending) two things. This diary, and the pen I have used for the last 360 days. After I finish writing this there will only be approximately 72 hours left in this year. I only have 3 more entries to make, and then I can get rid of this pen. Some parts of the diary I have read over and have added something to what was already there. I doubt if I'll ever go through the process of writing another year, but if I did, I won't do it for a while.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: December 26, 1978

Today I would like to talk more about yesterday. The best present I got, of course, was the bike, but did you know that Mom got a bike too? So, we went riding around the neighborhood yesterday and today. Lisa dropped by at 1:30 yesterday so we could exchange gifts. Before I opened my present, she said, "Wait a minute. Before you open it, I think I better tell you it was either this or Minnie Mouse!" It was a mug with a picture of Donald Duck on it! I gave her a gold necklace with a gold apple on it.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: December 25, 1978

★ Highlight Day

Today was my big day! I woke up at 7:00 and saw the family's famous pantyhose stocking for each kid. I went back to sleep for an hour, woke up at 8:00 and ran in to Mom and Dad and opened it. This was alot better than last year when I woke up at 5:20! Anyway, we had a short breakfast and got right to the present-opening. I got a waterful tic-tac-toe, a calendar of animals, a box of "Nothing", a new O.P. (Ocean Pacific) shirt, a 3/4 in. thick book of puzzles, a new bog for all my magic, $55 in cash, and best of all, a new 10-speed bicycle! There were plenty of other things.

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Nothing Much Else Happened: December 24, 1978

★ Highlight Day

Today was when all the fun begins. At 9:30, we (the brothers) left for Magic Mountain. The first ride we went on was the "Mountain Express." Chris loved it, but Ian pretended to cry all the way through it! But that was only the warmup. We followed with the "Revolution" (a 360˚ loop), the "Jet Stream" was next, and then the "Gold Rusher". The brothers really got sick of it all when they saw me go on "COLLOSUS" 5 times in a row. The reason was no one was there on Christmas Eve. We came home early, I put the lights up, and Lynn and Tina came over. I'm sleeping on the couch tonight. Tomorrow's the big day!

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