Monday 02/12/2024
First up was the monthly resident association meeting. This one went two hours with lengthy discussions of the new dining services rules (day 5.059). The changes that seemed like common sense to me, and certainly wouldn’t affect my habits, have turned out to be very upsetting to some people. In particular a rule that food can’t be taken from the dining room has turned up a bunch of people who apparently make it a habit to carry away food to eat later. They want to be able to get a box of milk at dinner and take it to their rooms so they can have dry cereal in their room for breakfast. When pointed out that they can order anything they want for breakfast including milk and dry cereal, as carry-out, they say that’s not the same, they would have to come downstairs in the morning to get the carry-out tray. I guess they want breakfast in their jammies. Others apparently regularly take away some portion of their dinner to eat for lunch. I don’t do these things so I would not be inconvenienced but it is turning into a major crisis for some. I thought the language used by some (“destroying the sense of community”, “shows lack of trust”, etc) was highly overblown.
After the meeting I met briefly with Jeb who is going to help me sing my bit for the Strollin show. Then down to FOPAL for the post-sale triage day. All books unsold after 4 sale days, out, three boxes of them.
Met at 4 with Peter who is writing a newsletter article about the AV team. Had dinner later with Peter and his wife, and with Craig Allen. Diane Allen is in quarantine, finishing up with the Covid that she got from Craig. Craig is going to have surgery Wednesday to remove a small cancerous tumor from his salivary gland.
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