Tuesday 06/25/2024
Spent some time trying to make the 11th floor tv system show DVDs. I won’t bother trying to explain the problems. But I got Paul the IT guy to come help and he worked out something. Not a satisfactory fix IMHO but, what can you do. It means I get to modify my super simple and clear manual yet again.
Writers meeting. Not many contributions on the theme of “favorite movie”. I don’t have a favorite movie. At 3pm we had a Tech Squad meeting. This was all of us who take trouble calls for other residents. We discussed various issues.
One is, tomorrow we have a 3-hour scheduled power shutoff, while they rewire the building to use the new emergency generator whose installation has been going on for months. Why a tech squad issue? Well, following a power outage, all the house phones forget the date and day of the week. It’s easy for a tech-literate person to reset them. We have some residents who are not that. Something that affects fewer, but more difficult to solve is: following a power outage, there are people with Mac desktop machines that reboot, which haven’t been rebooted in weeks or months, and they will be asking for their admin password. We have people who won’t know, or will have lost, their admin password.. Well, no problem, you can recover and log in to your iMac by using your Apple ID and your iCloud password. Yeah, like they remember that.
In the evening we had a concert by a string quartet. Four guys, twenty-somethings, all students at Julliard, who are here for the week attending a big-deal music conference at Stanford. They played music they wrote, and some Dvorak, and they actually improvised some on the spot. Give us a word, they asked, and Lennie hollered “Bananas” and they improvised on the them of bananas for a couple of minutes. Fun.
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