Friday 07/19/2024
First thing was to meet with Gerald of IT to try find a fix for the hum in the monitor speaker (5-223). Gerald quickly found a work-around. The monitor is a powered speaker, it has its own internal amp. He turned down the gain on the input which brought the hum down to only just noticeable, then turned up the level on the sound board output that feeds the monitor. By juggling the two levels we got to where the monitor gave a clear sound with just barely perceptible hum.
On to a meeting of the recently-formed AI interest group. That’s mostly Bert, me, Agnes and David G. A couple of other people have expressed interest but didn’t come. So we chatted about AI and our experiences with Claude and Gemini. Eventually the goal would be to find some way for AI to directly benefit other residents, but nothing has come up yet.
Later in the day I met with Craig and we practiced “City of New Orleans”, me on guitar and voice and him on harmonica. We aren’t either of us used to playing with someone else so it was a little rough but started to come together.
Today was the annual Staff party, and as part of that the dining room was again closed with no dinner service. As usual we were to pick up sack suppers in the morning, but I didn’t. Instead I went out meaning to find me some comfort food, a burger and a shake maybe. Downtown Palo Alto was jammed, no parking to be seen, even at 5pm, so I ended up down on California avenue. There I strolled past a bunch of restaurants and finally settled on the Greek place, had a big pita full of lamb.
Codgerville 