Thursday 08/03/2023
Did the gym round first thing. Then at 9am, met with Susan P. to review using her phone to send music through the speakers. Had an early lunch and headed down to FOPAL. Today was the day to load up the 12 boxes of books and stuff to sell at the Vintage Computer Fest, and take it down to CHM.
Met Frank and Nikole. Frank is a long-time FOPAL volunteer and a mainstay of the whole program. Nikole is a summer intern. First up was to load the boxes, and a hand-truck, into my car and Nikole’s. Then we went to the opposite side of the Cubberly complex, to the building that houses the Children’s room and the FOPAL offices, for training in the new portable terminal. And there ahead of us was Dennis, who is volunteering to help part of the weekend. We learned how to use the cute little terminals that handle cards and phones etc. A big improvement from last year when we had an iPad with a Square card reader.
Now I and Frank drove down to CHM, Nikole following, and we schlepped our boxes into the museum. Unfortunately there was another event using the space assigned to us, so we had to stack our boxes. Tomorrow morning we will carry them across and set up our tables.
Back to CH. At 5:30 the young theater people from G. I. F. T. showed up. They were here a few weeks ago, presenting the Addams Family musical. Today they were back with a shortened version of Singin’ in the Rain. As before I turned the AV on, put batteries in all of our wireless mics, and basically turned the system over to them. They come in and in 20 minutes have mastered our sound and light systems, and at 7:30 they presented the show, with all the light cues and music cues — music off an iPhone by Bluetooth into our system, just as I was teaching Susan to do — like they used our stage every day.
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