Monday 02/19/2024
I took the standard walk, which seemed a bit more effortful than sometimes. At 10:30 it was time for the Event Coordinator’s meeting. This has often run long but today it was all wrapped up by a bit after 11.
One of the attendees was Lynn, who among other things runs the harmonica group, and plays the ukulele. She wanted to show me her “fake book”, that’s the term for a musician’s collection of sheet music. “Fake” because usually it only shows the most minimal info for a song, the key and the chord changes, or maybe a melody line. She’s been building this for years and it’s a huge binder.
Like me she is slated to perform in the spring concert in May and she wanted to talk about sharing the stage. Which is fine by me. I had two songs planned, and she had one. We agreed that we’d sing together on her song, then I’d do one of my solo, then we’d sing together on the third. Now we have to rehearse. But May is a long ways off.
Then to lunch with Stew, Lou and Joanne, the principals of the Good Times group that put on the Strollin’ event on Saturday. Stew wanted to do a post-mortem but there wasn’t much to dissect, feedback has all been positive. We, actually they, talked about how to get more people to dance. But then talk turned to the next event, which will focus on folk music, and will be in September.
After that I headed down to FOPAL, finding a stack of 8 boxes of donations. I got through them all in 2 hours, and got back in time for Rhonda’s open meeting at 4pm This was well attended, there must have been 80 people in the auditorium and 20 or more on zoom. The topic was the dining services changes which had provoked so much comment at the RA meeting last week. Discussion was calmer this time but there were plenty of questions.
Then I had supper with Patty, Martha, and the Allens. Craig has pretty well recovered from his recent operation to remove a tumor from his neck.
Codgerville 