Wednesday 08/02/2023
Did the standard walk. Then at 10, met with Susan in the auditorium. There are a lot of Susans around here, nearly as many as Mary Anns. The Susan in the writers group is Susan H. Today I met with Susan P.
Susan and Joanne (there are a lot of those, as well; this is Joanne L) are going to be leading three rehearsal days when people can practice the Country 2-step and the Country Line Dance. They will do it in the auditorium and they want body mics. At first I was going to ask for AV volunteers for this three additional events in the month (grrrrr….) but then Ian said, why not train them to do their own mics? Well, Susan was open to the idea.
Susan is smart and capable. She taught English Lit at College of San Mateo for a zillion years. I walked her through the process of turning our system on, preparing two mics, putting them away, and shutting down. She went through it twice and I deemed her “trained”. The I raised the issue of music: how were they planning to have music during these dance lessons? Then I showed her how the audio board had a Bluetooth input, and how easy it was to sync a phone to it, and play music right out through the speakers in the ceiling.
Later in the day I was listening to a podcast when the speaker, a writer, was asked about his writing tools, and said he always composed in a web app, 4thewords.com, which is a great help, he said, at motivating you to write. So I took a look. It’s bizarre at first, but you know? I’m gonna give it a try, maybe it will un-stall my novel. It turns writing into an adventure game. If you’ve played any of the adventure games, Zelda or anything, it would be familiar, except to advance you don’t do fake combat. You conquer monsters and earn loot by writing. 250 words kills a small monster.
At supper I was eating with Patty and the Allens when Susan P stopped by our table. She had been down to the auditorium on her own to practice (gotta love an enthusiastic student!) and couldn’t make the Bluetooth thing work. So we’ll meet again tomorrow at 9. Tomorrow is going to be an “extra value” day.
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