4.359 meeting, tech

Friday 11/24/2023

Took a shorter walk down around Pardee Park. Somehow walking toward 101 and the bay is “down”. Strange, since the terrain is dead flat. Oh well.

Did some little things. Practiced guitar, sprayed the 240Z with gray primer. Felt busy. Sometime I am going to keep an accurate log of what I do on such a day. Oh well.

After lunch set up the auditorium for the AV meeting, to which only 5 came. Presented the new head-worn microphone. I saw this on the priest at the Kelleher mass, and bought one for $29 bucks off Amazon. We have head-worn mics which are basically a loop that hangs over one ear. To be secure you need a dab of surgical tape to keep it against your cheek. This mic has two loops, so it goes over both ears, and has a wire that circles around the back of your neck. This gives a solid base for the microphone that sticks out alongside your cheek. Everybody tried it and agreed that it would work for most but dubious for anyone with long hair.

We also talked about showing DVDs from laptops instead of using the Blu-Ray player in the equipment rack. We have a Macbook Air that works with an Apple DVD player for this. But we also have a little Acer PC. Later I took that upstairs with me and installed the driver for the Apple DVD player so now we can use either it or the Macbook.

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