Monday 07/10/2023
First up was the residents association meeting. Nothing especially newsworthy there. After that I drove down to FOPAL and did the post-sale cleanup, sending all books that had seen four sale days without selling, to the bargain room. Three boxes worth. Processed one box of new donations. Did an hour of sorting and tidying up the sorting room.
In the afternoon I did a lot of emailing to keep my AV group organized. Exchanged emails with Alice who volunteers to join. Proposed changing out the lectern in the auditorium; I can’t think why I didn’t propose that years ago, there is so much annoying about the present one.
Jerry and Betty invited me to dinner. Mostly because Jerry wanted to know what was going on with the auditorium, I think.
In the evening there was quite a pleasant concert in the lobby, a jazz pianist, Bob Applebaum, who has performed here before, and a friend of his on bass guitar. They did a bunch of standards from the 20s, like “Someone to watch over me”, doing each straight and then with jazz improvisations and general rewriting.
Talking with Lenny afterward I heard about a new policy that staff has thought up, regarding the video recordings we make of our meetings, that seems quite bizarre to me. We will see.
Codgerville 