Thursday 09/28/2023
Today was the day allocated for the auditorium contractor to give our committee 8 hours of training. I had decreed there would be four units of an hour each, two identical walk-through and overview of the system, and two on specific areas. Plus a series of half-hour slots people could sign up for to get solo hands-on time to try things out. I had prepared a sign-up sheet and pretty much all my volunteers had signed up for different parts.
So I spent from 9am to 3pm in the auditorium participating in these activities. It didn’t all go to plan. The first two one-hour units did go as planned. But then we discovered that the sound mixer board was broken. And that the blu-ray player had been disabled accidentally. So there was time spent fiddling around while the contractor guys fixed things or patched around things. But in the end everybody got at least introduced to the system, and quite a bit of useful hands-on experiments were run. But it was quite exhausting, mentally.
Tomorrow is much the same, in that I arranged for one-hour hands-on slots and those have been signed up for, from 11am to 4. So I’ll need to be in the room during most of those, just to brainstorm and help.
Codgerville 