Saturday 12/16/2023
In the morning I worked at editing the videos of the Chorus performance of Wednesday. I have two, hour-long, recordings from the two performances that day. I separated out individual video files of each of the main numbers, so I have a folder of AM clips and one of PM clips. Tomorrow I will put together a final video selecting the best version of each number.
At noon I went to the 11th floor to assist in a memorial for one of my 6th floor neighbors, Cindy. I thought this was to be a simple AV job, set up the portable mics and help one of her daughters show a reel of photos on the big mobile TV screen. But in fact they had announced it would be zoomed, and people would come in from outside. Oh sigh. So I ended up being zoom host. About 20 people signed in from outside the building. There was a pretty good crowd, 50 or more, mostly 6th floor residents and visiting relatives and friends. Cindy was a teacher and her husband a pilot for United; they lived in Palo Alto for many decades. He died around 2019, she downsized and moved into CH not long after. She had a lot of health problems this past year, and it was kind of indicated during the eulogy that she had voluntarily ended her life — spent the last month very deliberately saying goodby to everyone, then moved to hospice care and almost immediately died.
The memorial was very nicely conducted by a U/U minister and all the tech worked and caused no issues, so that was good.
At seven I picked up Patty and we went to the Bus Barn theater for Elf the Musical, which is a very silly play but wow, did they do a good job with the music and dance. There were at least 8 big production numbers, where the whole cast of 20 or so were singing and dancing, quite complicated choreography. Many costume changes. There were a couple of numbers where they had a dozen people wearing tap shoes and doing tap-dance steps. All this in a little box of a theater. Very impressive.
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