Wednesday 04/17/2024
Did the laundry. In among the loads I had a phone consultation with Kass. She is staying with a daughter (granddaughter?) on the East Coast somewhere, I don’t know, somewhere on the right edge of the map. But she wants to run a meeting of a Channing House committee that she chairs, so naturally over zoom. Since she’s on our AV committee, she is tech-literate, but hadn’t done this so I walked her through scheduling a zoom meeting.
At 1pm it was time for the monthly post-sale zoom meeting of FOPAL volunteers. The sale netted $18.5K, not bad. However the fire department is about to preempt most of our parking lot for a temporary (months) fire station while another fire station is remodeled. Since that lot is often full of people attending various events in the Community Center next door, parking is gonna get a bit squeezy for the rest of the year.
At 4 I set up a mic for the monthly birthday dinner. Then at 6:30 I set up the auditorium for a lecture. This was an unusual event in this way. Two of my friends and neighbors are Peter and his wife Juthica. She is of Indian derivation. Thirty years ago she set up the Shadhika Foundation, furthering empowerment of women and girls in India. Today we had a talk from board chair of the foundation, Teena Sebastian, herself US-born of Indian parents. It’s a worthy charity (and rated 100% by Charity Navigator).
I had opted to do the AV for this event because I knew it was important to Peter, whom I like. Not to say that three other people couldn’t have done it as well, but he asked me. And afterward I was pleased that Teena said “It went so smoothly, smoother than any other presentation I’ve given.” Hah. Pat pat on my back.
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