Tuesday 09/19/2023
Out early, walk to PAMF (2.2 miles for the day) for the second blood draw, after I consumed the single tablet of dex last night. I have no idea what this is supposed to prove. The Sutter Health website notifies me of new test results and this one hasn’t come in yet.
That left me an hour to write something for the writers group. The cue this week was “music lessons”. I’ll stick what I wrote at the end. It was a good session, ten or eleven people had written, and all but one of them had similar experiences to mine, where they didn’t get have a good experience or learn anything.
Afternoon I helped Edie solve a silly problem with her Mac. And I took down the pictures that have been in my hallway gallery for several months and decided what to print for the next set. I printed one picture, 17×11, and the printer goofed up and did some banding and skipping. Didn’t quite ruin the picture because it only affected the left and right edges, so I cut it down to 14×11 and could still frame it and put it up. But then I had to clean the heads, and then I had to run a “power cleaning” which takes a long time and uses up half the capacity of the waste-ink-box. But after that the printer was ok.
The set of guitar strings I ordered two days ago arrived, thank you Amazon Prime, and I spent an hour re-stringing Karen’s guitar. Then I downloaded a guitar tuner app for the iPhone. Tuned it up and it sounds great! It’s a Yamaha, quite large, I think it’s Yamaha’s copy of the Martin “Dreadnought” style. With new strings it feels good and it has a very big sound. I played it for ten minutes and my left hand is sore. Not the guitar’s fault. Just out of condition muscles.
Codgerville 