Tuesday 07/11/2023
Did the gym thing. Doing the gym machines once a week does not cut it. I need to either drop it, or do it more often. Three times, perhaps? It’s only half an hour.
Because tomorrow morning, which would normally be laundry day, is kind of booked, I decided to do my laundry this morning. Patty’s name was on the schedule for 8-12 but the washer wasn’t running. I called her and she said no problem, she wasn’t laundering this time. So I ran my laundry in between other things.
At 10 I met with Edie (6th floor Edie, who is very smart & funny) to help her buy a new iMac. That was fun. At 10:45 it was the writers meeting. The cue was “best advice you’ve ever had” and I had thought about it and come up with nothing. I don’t remember anybody giving me advice that altered my path. So I hadn’t written. I had to leave that meeting early anyway because I needed to leave for California avenue before 12.
That was because sister in law Jean had invited me to lunch to meet AliceSally. Alice Sallyis a retired school teacher, also a widow, that Jean has been sharing her house with for several months now. I hadn’t met her yet. She turns out to be a nice person.
From there I had to drive over to FOPAL to meet with Frank, another volunteer. It only occurred to me yesterday, that the Vintage Computer Festival is coming up in less than a month. For the last two years, FOPAL has had a table to sell books at the VCF. It’s been quite successful, we moved a lot of books last year and took in about $700 as I recall.
Over the year since then I’ve been setting aside books that probably won’t sell in the regular sales, but might sell to a bunch of people interested in old machines. Like DOS manuals from 1990. I put these in boxes labeled “Hold for VCF” and send them to the bargain room. Frank rules the bargain room. Today we met up to locate all those VCF boxes and count them to see what we had. This meant moving about 40 heavy boxes of books around to get at the heavy boxes of VCF books. Turns out there are ten in total. We also spent some time putting prices on some software discs. Look on eBay, kind of take an average of what you see. For example, a distribution DVD for Mac OS 10.5 “Leopard” goes for $20-30.
By 4 I was bushed and came home.
Codgerville 