Thursday 11/23/2023
Did a lot of minor things this morning, watering plants, tidying the apartment, and editing a document. What? Well, yesterday somebody asked on the email BB for help showing the Macy’s parade on the big TV on 11. And I replied by email saying, there’s a nice binder with illustrated directions right by the TV. Bert on the other hand actually went and met with the people, and told me that my directions left out a key step. So I brought down the binder and edited the instructions to include the missing step and of course, you can’t edit a document without checking everything, so that took an hour. I saw Edie by the elevator and got her to agree to test my directions. She’s smart but not at all technical, so a good tester.
Picked up my sack supper. Figured out how to make my new doorbell button stick. What? When I moved in I was equipped with a wireless doorbell button and a battery operated base station to make the ding-dong. Unfortunately the base station doesn’t give any indication when its three(!) C(!) batteries run down. Somebody who visited said, your doorbell doesn’t work. Well, crap, what a waste to buy more C-cells. So from Amazon I ordered a wireless doorbell whose base station plugs into a wall outlet, hello, no batteries and always working. Except the button didn’t want to stick to the old double-sided tape on the door frame. Found it on the floor 10 feet down the hall. So today I figured it out, some sticky stuff I’ve had a long time for hanging posters.
Lunch in the dining room which was in fancy mode, greeting you at the door with a selection of wine, salads, lobster stuff on a puff pastry. People already at the table said the turkey entree was all white meat, so I ordered the ham, which was fine.
In the afternoon, just to get out of the building, I put the 500mm lens on the Nikon and went down for a walk in the Baylands. Low tide, boring birds, no good pictures resulted.
Had dinner with 5 other stay-at-homes, brown bags in the floor dining room.
Codgerville 