08/01/2023
Did the machine round in the gym. Other than that the day was pretty blah. Writers meeting at 10:30. The assignment was, a letter from a future relative written in 2123. I did not write because I didn’t feel like writing gloomy predictions and couldn’t think of any other kind. Others wrote pretty dark stuff. For example, one recounted how they were really lucky to have gotten a place in the Sierras above 10,000 feet, where it often dipped below 100º at night.
One writer surprised me: she’d used ChatGPT to write her first draft, then edited it. She sent it out (we send our writings to the group by email so we can read along as the writer reads their essay aloud) in two forms, one with the parts from ChatGPT highlighted. Susan’s 90 (plus or minus a year or two) but obviously still running on all cylinders.
I disassembled the crap lectern and had facilities take it away along with its packing materials. What a waste.
At 4pm was the third presentation in the series, levels of care at Channing House. This one on the services and care provided in our third-floor AL units. There are 11, of which 7 are currently occupied, which surprised me.
Did I say, a few days ago, how I started to watch Return of the Jedi? I had this package of the first three Star Wars movies on Blu-Ray and I had watched the first two. Return of the Jedi is the one on Endor, with the Ewoks. Well, I got bored and turned it off and put the disk away. Partly it was seeing Carrie Fisher in her prime. But mostly it was that the movie wasn’t very good.
Anyway I don’t feel very good about myself or the world today.
Codgerville 