Saturday 06/22/2024
Took care of a few things in the morning, especially testing access to Ancestry.com from an invitation by Jean. She is nearly done assembling the Lacrampe family tree and wants to make it available to all and sundry, but wanted to know if the invitation worked. It does, kind of. But Ancestry is a money-grubbing ogre of a site, and even though their “invitation” promises to give you “guest access”, in fact there is no way forward but to open a free account. There is no “guest”, in the sense of anonymous drop-in viewing. That’s a shuck. But once you sign in with Google or Apple or give them an email, you can see what Jean’s created. Of course Ancestry will now pester you to sign up for a paid membership, but everyone these days knows how to deal with that sort of thing.
After lunch I put on the red shirt and went off to lead a tour at CHM. It was a busy day and I had 25 people or so. It went ok, not great.
At 6 I drove over to the Stanford campus for a 7:30pm concert. Had a Jamba Juice smoothie thing and sat around the plaza until time to go it. The doors of DInkelspiel aud were open and I could hear the band rehearsing. This was the Tommy Igoe band; Igoe is a moderately famous drummer and band leader. And the program was hits by Steely Dan. Amazing how many of those there were, and they were just part of the atmosphere in the 70s and 80s. The band would start a number and, oh yeah, I know that one.
All the musicians were first-rate. The guitarist there had toured as part of Steely Dan. The woman with the trombone, Jennie Geiger is her name I believe, was credited as the arranger of some of the numbers and had several solos. Altogether a very enjoyable concert.
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