Friday 10/04/2024
Took a short walk then killed time until 11 when I left for the Museum to lead the noon tour. The parking lot was very full and I thought there’d be a lot of people, but it was all for a big event in the rental space upstairs. I had only 6 people on my tour.
At 3pm I took a tech squad call. A resident had forgotten the admin password to his iMac and couldn’t log in. This was the first time I used the procedure to use “Recovery Mode” of MacOS to reset a password. I think it works differently for different models — at least, there are variations in the different online websites that tell how to do it — but on this iMac it worked slick and easy.
There was to be a presentation from the League of Women Voters on the state propositions at 7:30. I had it in the AV schedule as simple mics-only. I was eating supper quietly when Kass, who was down for running the event, slid into the next seat and said, “Ellen says she wants Zoom and has slides.” So instead of attending the presentation and maybe leaving early, I was helping Kass set up and run it.
This was not easy as one of the presenters was not prepared. A key part of a zoom event with slides, is that the presenter with the slides needs to join the zoom meeting in progress and share their screen. This presenter arrived late, about 7:25 for a 7:30 show. Her laptop needed its power supply, it wasn’t charged up or doesn’t hold a charge, I don’t know, but anyway it has to be plugged in, which is OK but I have to show her where the plug is in the floor by the podium. Then she couldn’t get logged in. To her own laptop. I was dreading what I could see would be a long clusterfuck trying to coach her through how to actually join a zoom meeting, and share her screen, but at that point the other presenter said, you have it on a stick, right? So she produced a memory stick which I grabbed and stuck into my own personal laptop, and signed in to the meeting and shared my screen and there we were, all set to go at only 7:40.
The same presenter somehow couldn’t get comfortable with the over-the-ear mic we gave her, she was holding the mic in her hand, finally we handed her a real hand-held mic.
Amateurs. In the end the presentation was pretty clear and I understood the props better, as did most in the audience. There were very few questions after. So it was ok in the end.
Codgerville 