Tuesday 09/26/2023
First thing this morning was to drive 5 miles to Redwood City to the DMV to complete renewal of my drivers license. I had pursued the online renewal process up to a point where it said now you gotta make an appointment. It wasn’t clear whether I would have to take a test or what.
I arrived half an hour ahead of my 09:10 appointment. Went straight in with number F022 and waiting maybe 10 minutes before they called that. Clerk looks at my license and has me read the top line of an eye chart with each eye. Sends me to the photo line. So I guess the point of coming in was a new picture? After the photo, the next guy gave me a temporary paper license. “Your new one will come in the mail in a few weeks.” And that was it; I was back to CH by 9:45.
Writers meeting at 10:45; nothing new. After lunch I talked to Gerald, he had just got an OK from the contractor on our training schedule for the AV team. But now it was time for the Strategic Planning committee to meet with the Consultant Team who are duplicating all our work gathering information from all stake holders. This process is BS, frankly. There are a lot of pie-in-the-sky ideas that people have proposed (like: we should build or buy some housing for employees so it would be easier to get staff) none of which we have money to do. I kept my mouth shut this time.
Now I had the problem of getting my AV team to sign up for training units and choose times when they can use the auditorium. I flashed back to the time-scheduler we used back in ’20 to organize volunteers, Slottr.com, and yes it is still there and remembers me, so I whipped up three different sign-up sheets and sent out links.
Then I went to the back stage area and grabbed the house-owned PC and MacBook which have been hibernating in the cabinet for a year or more. Took them to my room, charged their batteries, and updated their software. Now they will be available for use when trying out the new equipment later in the week. Geez but I’m good.
Codgerville 