Tuesday 06/27/2023
I have resolved to rise half an hour early (easy to do after the solstice) and do some writing for half an hour before settling down to read the paper. I did that yesterday and again today. After reading the paper I went on down and did the round of machines in the gym.
At 9am I went down and set up for an event: a talk by Ryan somebody, about all the electronic resources available from the Palo Alto library website. There’s a lot. I had a tech failure in that the stage lights just quit about ten minutes before the 10am start. So Ryan was somewhat in the shadow during his talk. Later Bert showed me what button should be pressed, only I swear I pressed that same button myself several times. Go figure.
Following that I joined the writers meeting which had been delayed to not conflict with the event. I hadn’t written anything. The cue was “my first experience with death”. Several people wrote really affecting, striking essays.
At 1pm I had an appointment with Joe, the guy with the malware on his mac. Turns out I hadn’t fixed it last time, so I had another try. Different malware scanner. I apparently did something to mess up his setup though, because he called me at 6 to say that he couldn’t find Firefox any more. I’m to go help further tomorrow.
Then I was thinking about the mess at FOPAL where there has been a surge of donations and stuff piled everywhere so I went down there and did 2 hours of sorting. There were about five people working and it was quite a jolly crew.
Then I looked at the calendar and realized tomorrow, my normal laundry day, was quite crowded, so maybe I should do laundry tonight? So I started a load on the way down to supper and finished the laundry after supper.
After supper I realized that I should at least get a start on making a video from the presentation this morning. So I worked on that for a couple of hours, and in fact finished the job. An “extra value day” as Bill used to say.
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