Thursday 12/07/2023
Tidied up the apartment and before I left, tried to call one Edlyn but she wasn’t at her desk yet. Here’s the tedious story on that. A resident here, Paul P, has a lifetime of bird photos and likes to show them. He plans to show bird pics next Monday in the AL activity room at the Lee Center. That’s a big common living room shared by the AL residents. There’s a big tv screen.
Paul is quite disabled, he gets around in a powered chair, and has a paid aide named Franko. I helped Franko connect his computer to the tv to show videos on the 11th floor for Paul’s 80th birthday party. I wrote about that but don’t feel like finding the day number. So last week Franko called me to ask for my support running Paul’s bird show next Monday. Well, (a) I don’t like being treated as a personal assistant, (b) they should have filed an EPF request a month ago and we could have planned for this, and (c) I’ve never done anything in that building, and (4) anyway I need to be supporting the Chorus tech rehearsal next Monday. But yesterday I went over to the AL floor and checked things out. It will be easy to connect the computer to the tv, the HDMI cable is there and the tv remote all ready. But Franko wants also a microphone so Paul can narrate his slides. The nurse on duty didn’t know about that but referred me to Edlyn who is the Activities lead. She wasn’t in so I left a message, but she didn’t call. So now I tried again but no dice.
Off across the bay to Shustek where I worked with Sherman to catalog a bunch of stuff that the curators have rounded up to show in a special exhibit this summer. The theme seems to be robots, because the collection included a Teddy Ruxpin, a Furby, a Hello Barbie (a version of Barbie that could talk), and several varieties of Golem statues. Did you know there was a Pokemon Golem? Me neither.
To my surprise, Hello Barbie is still a thing, here she is looking just like I saw her today. She is battery powered, and so has to be charged up before use. Oddly enough that web site doesn’t show the charging cable. It’s part of that sleek “charging stand”. It terminates in a skinny silver tip that you insert into Barbie’s back just below her belt. We had some dirty old man chuckles about basically penetrating Barbie with an anal dildo.
On the way home stopped to pick up a pound of coffee at Peet’s, then went straight to the Lee center, and this time found Edlyn in. She assured me she had talked to Paul, she had a microphone he could use, and she would be around on Monday. So I went to my room and called Franko and told him that. One job off my hands.
A couple people have gone out of their way to ask what happened that I missed yesterday’s meeting. Which is nice and makes me feel better. No explanation of why nobody knocked on my door, or maybe somebody did but not loud enough?
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