Sunday 07/28/2024
Usual Sunday morning. The NYT puzzle was one of the best I remember, because of the long clues were all crazy long palindromes. “Rock group clashes over album art” — CD CASE DIVIDES ACDC. That’s really clever. “What happened when the bust went sideways?” NARC IN A PANIC RAN. “Headline about a children’s author’s controversy” — SEUSS IGNITING ISSUES.
At 10am I opened up the auditorium so Gigi could practice her book talk. She will discuss her husband Tom’s biography. He is still around, but he is slipping into dementia and can’t present it on his own. Anyway I set up her slide show and she ran through her talk while I timed it. Gave a couple of notes to improve clarity.
After lunch I went down to the museum expecting to help lead a private tour with another docent. The tour group was supposed to be 75 kids, arriving at 2:30. Then we heard that only half would arrive then, the other half at 3:15. So the other docent took that first group and I waited for the second. And waited. About 3:30 we found out that the second group had gone first to Google Experience and were delayed. We agreed I could leave at 3:45. Exactly at 3:45 the bus pulled up. So I have a very hasty, abbreviated tour. As usual with these big groups, a small cluster of geeks hung on with me while the rest scattered out. Which is fine. But I didn’t get home until 5:15. Found a phone message from Jerry and Betty, join them for dinner at 5:40. OK, that worked out.
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