Tuesday 01/30/2023
Such a day. I’m tuckered out and it’s only 4:30. The planned first activity was to go, with Leah, to see Charley Tucker, my agent at Prime Fiduciary. Back in August of 22 I set him/them up as the successor trustee on my trust. It’s been a while and I wanted to make sure they had my health directive with Leah as first responder, and meet her and verify that they would be able to pay her fees.
Before that, though, CH issues occurred. I had reported the problem with the 11th floor blu-ray player to the combined tech email list, and a couple of people had responded saying, did it every play blu-rays? Raising the issue, had I tried to make a plain DVD player play discs it didn’t recognize? That would be embarrassing. So I went up to 11 to check, no, it is plainly labeled “Blu-Ray” on top and sides. It’s just a piece of old gear. Then Stew wanted to test the karaoke screen on Thursday so I had to contact Gerald to get hold of it. So I emailed Gerald.
I fussed around finding all the documents I wanted to share with Charley. Then went down and brought the car up. At 10:20 Leah walked up and we went off to meet Charley. This meeting went very well. We talked about a lot of things, details of how my affairs can be handled when I am incapable or dead. Both I and Leah got a clearer picture of what the Fiduciaries can and will do. For example, if I get really old and am not completely incapable but just tired of paying my bills and such, I can just hand my affairs over to them and they would manage things on an hourly fee basis. At any rate, everybody knows who to call in what circumstances.
One point is, either Leah or the Channing House nurses will likely be the one to call the Neptune Society to take my remains away. So both should have info on my Neptune account. I had made copies of that info; when we got back I ran up to get a copy for Leah. But it’s on my to-do list to add that info the folder at the nurses’ station.
More on the to-do list of things to settle. Charley needs to know, is my SFCU account under my name or the trust’s? I had no clue. Who’s the beneficiary of my IRA? Ditto. So I emailed Howard at my financial advisors, I think he would know about the IRA. I contacted SFCU. They have both my name and Marian’s, and the trust, on the account, except it’s the old trust, not the current Survivor trust. Apparently I never told them Marian had died. Now they may need a death certificate. I think I still have one. I have a pretty good idea which file box to look in, anyway.
Got with Gerald in the afternoon and arranged about the karaoke screen for Thursday. Emailed Stew to tell him to be ready at 9:30 Thursday.
Mary M. filed an EPF for a new event, just two weeks ahead on 2/14. Full auditorium + zoom lecture event. The A/V volunteers commit to their tasks at the end of the month, for the next month. Added events like this mean I have to email the volunteers and beg for somebody to handle the event. Probably I will end up having to do it. I was fairly harsh with Mary M. but she wasn’t actually the perpetrator — she was acting for a person who is vacationing in Paris. How nice for her. It isn’t clear if the Paris person knew about the event any earlier or what. But how can we keep people from doing this? If you don’t book your event at least 30 days in advance, it won’t appear on the monthly calendar (which was just distributed around the building last week), but could we also say, “you better be ready to do the A/V yourself because the regular crew aren’t interested”?
Talked to my friend Pam, who it turns out is head of the committee that wants to show blu-rays on 11. Told her we should replace the player with a new Sony XBR-700, do they have money to reimburse me for the $180 cost? Yes they do, so I sat down and ordered one.
At the end of the day I was able to send Charley an email answering most of his open questions. I also completed purchase of a California-legal POLST bracelet, so will be carrying a DNR signal on my body. Not sure if I will actually wear it, but I’d been meaning to order one ever since the End of Life series a few months ago.
Such a day.
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