even now with his mental powers concentrated to a laser-like focus , sitting as he was in the dennys , writing utensil in hand , on the very brink of planning out his evil scheme to get even with ned , this guy for the life of him couldnt bring to mind even a single feature of a single face of a single geezer , whom , it was an undeniable fact , he had encountered no less than forty times in just the previous month ( twice a day , five days a week , fifty weeks a year ) .