Monday 09/16/2024
Took the standard walk in reverse, it felt fine.
I didn’t mention that Friday, during the activity showcase, I saw that the big mobile TV–an 85-inch Samsung monitor mounted on a rolling cart–had been broken. Person unknown had somehow slammed it into something? And there was a foot-wide stripe of random colors down the middle of the screen. We are depending heavily on having that for the Folk Fest, we show videos of a number of songs on that TV for sing-alongs. Now it was out of commission. Friday I talked to IT manager Gerald about it briefly. Today after my walk I stopped in the IT office and checked. Happily they are on the case, just then ordering a new screen. So it will be usable on Friday, but probably not for rehearsal tomorrow.
Now it was time for the monthly event coordinators meeting. This is when everybody who sponsors events get together and fill in the calendar for the next month, and I can fill in our AV team spreadsheet with events we need to support.
Then off to FOPAL for the post-sale cleanup. That took a couple of hours. Home for a nap an to practice my numbers for the Folk Fest. The at 4pm it was Rhonda’s monthly meeting. Recently there had been announced a bunch of changes in how fitness classes would be run, which was very controversial among the many people who depend on the weekly “standing strength” or “sitting strength” or yoga or line dancing classes. Which I don’t, though probably should. Anyway Rhonda spent a lot of time justifying the changes, not to everyone’s satisfaction.
One big change is the end of putting fitness classes on Zoom, which apparently a bunch of people used. The reason is liability. She said that more and more assisted living homes, which we technically are, are being sued for lesser and lesser things. We had a waiver for zoom fitness during the pandemic, but according to the state licensing body, the pandemic is over. So if somebody fell, in their room while exercising to a zoom session run by CH, we could technically be sued by them (or a relative). So no more official CH zoom sessions. Only in-person classes with a licensed trainer in the room.
After that I got busy with more stuff. I had to edit the Folk Fest video because they had changed the sequence of songs. That’s an hour-long process of exporting from iMovie and processing through two other apps, but I could do other stuff meantime, paying a couple of bills, and scheduling zoom meetings for our October events. By the time I was done with that it was after 6, late for going down for dinner, and I wasn’t very hungry anyway. So ate a PBJ in my room.
Codgerville 