Friday 06/28/2024
Took the standard walk (3.5 mi for the day) starting bright and early, back by 9. Then at 10 drove across Palo Alto to Gryphon Stringed Instruments where I had an appointment to do a little work on the guitar. I asked them to lower the “action”, the distance between the strings and the fretboard, just a little, which meant lowering the “saddle”, the hard strip at the bottom of the strings. This turned out to be a 20-minute job, and I was very happy with the result. It’s only a difference of maybe 1/32nd of an inch, but somehow it is easier to play every chord.
At 1pm I met with Mary R to practice another duet. Our first one was well-received, now she wants to do “You’ve Got a Friend” (see 5.206) and this was the first time we tried singing it together. We don’t have a date to perform so we left it that she would figure out when we would perform, and once we had a firm date, we would get serious about practicing.
From there I had a 2pm tech squad call, helping Nancy with an error message from Mac Mail. Too complicated to describe and anyway I didn’t fix it, though I think we can later. But in general 90 year olds have problems when they need to know their Xfinity password and their Gmail password and also the admin password for their macs, and all the passwords are jotted down, in a little paper notebook, and crossed out and revised over and over. Sheesh.
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