Wednesday 11/01/2023
Hoo boy. Finished editing and uploading the travelogue video (want to see it? Here.) Then it was time to set up for the fourth session of the End of Life series. No media to show for this one, so it was easy to run. All about dementia and the great difficulty care-givers of all types have, deciding when someone is competent enough to make medical choices. There’s a lot to it. Details of VSED and assisted suicide, and the legal ramifications.
Next up: lunch and laundry. Managed to get a 20 minute nap and then it was time to go down to see the Happy Birds. I didn’t have to run this show, Bert did. It was a good show, quite entertaining. Cockatoos and Macaws and Parrots, several of which talked or sang. Two rode bicycles and one rode a teeny little skateboard.
Another 20 minute nap and time to go down for dinner, as invited by Gloria, who was hosting the evening’s guest speaker, Andrew Binder, the Palo Alto chief of police, to dinner before his talk. Seven at table, me and Ian and Kay and Edie and Shirley and Gloria and the chief. He’s youngish (probably 40?) and very articulate and personable.
Then off to the auditorium to set up for his talk, which came off very smoothly. He answered some tough questions very smoothly. I managed not to screw anything up.
So tomorrow I have two event videos to edit, the EOL panel and the police chief’s talk. But not much more on my schedule than that.
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