Wednesday 12/06/2023
Took the good old standard walk, no problem. Then sat down to do month-end numbers, copying all the Schwab account totals into the “Codger Accounts” spreadsheet that I first created based on a design by Marian, back on Day 31. Bottom line, the nest egg is still healthy
Next job up, was to make a video out of the recording of Mary M.’s First Monday book talk. This was a matter of taking the raw video recording from the camera in the auditorium, editing out some pauses and awkward moments, then cutting in the images from her powerpoint slides. It took about 2 and a half hours, 10 to about 12:30, to do this. I uploaded it to Vimeo and sent a link to Mary M. for approval. Later I got back this email,
Oh. My. God. Dave. You did an absolutely masterful job! Really. The way you cut what needed to be omitted, the way you went back & forth between the speaker and the slides, the timing…. I mean it was truly professional. Thanks so much!
I’ll take that as a sincere compliment, considering that Mary taught business communications for thirty years at Dartmouth and Stanford graduate business school. Here’s the video.
I spent another hour plus late in the day, applying chrome to the window frames of the 240Z using Real Metal foil. Much better results than the metal leaf foil (compare to yesterday).
Unfortunately I got absorbed in this and completely forgot about the 6th Floor meeting at 4:30. When I set the Z aside and started down for dinner at 5:30 I saw the sign-up sheet by the elevator and remembered the meeting, which was now clearly over, and everyone had presumably gone down to dinner already. I went down anyway and, yup, three tables were occupied by my neighbors happily chowing down. I am seriously bummed out by this. Other floor meetings I’ve attended, people look around and say, “Where’s Gwen? Where’s Phil? Somebody go knock on their door.” Apparently nobody thought to say, “Where’s Dave, go knock on his door” at 4:30. Or at 5:15 when they all went down to eat together. I didn’t go into the dining room to eat. I just moped back to my room to mope.
Codgerville 