Thursday 10/26/2023
Just tidied the place as usual, and headed out to the Shustek center in Milpitas. There was lots to do. For one, they had just received a robot named Pepper.
Pepper recently retired from a job as a lobby concierge at WeWork, or so I think they said. Later I cataloged a late-70s document workstation with 8-inch floppies, then in the afternoon helped Kathleen catalog documents.
On another topic, I had a couple of waves of grief lately, the first in quite a while. Both were sorrow for the past life. One was when I was putting the season schedule for SWBB in my calendar. When putting in the away games I was remembering the times we traveled to Spokane, Denver, L.A., Corvallis. And this makes the death of the PAC-12 even more cruel. The other was, strangely, in the local Ace Hardware. I was cruising around looking for something when I got a flashback to Brown’s Hardware on San Juan Island and the summers we were at Paul and Katie’s farm. Living in an apartment in what amounts to a nice hotel, I still find a need to stop by Ace every couple of weeks. Imagine how much more often you need something from the hardware store, living on a working farm.
Codgerville 