Wednesday 10/23/2024
First thing today was by prearrangement, I met with Romie to install her new iMac, replacing an old iMac that had gotten just soooo slooooow. Set it up and started it loading from the old backup drive. Then went to an 11am meeting with Rhonda, Gerald, and Bert to discuss AV requests for the next cycle of Heritage Circle grants. This got a little contentious, first because two of the grant requests turned out to be under $2K and Rhonda doesn’t think HC grants should be so small, they can be funded from the Gift Shop. And the other request is Bert’s idea of a “video wall” to supplement the projection screen in the auditorium. He’s been fascinated by video wall tech for a couple of years, and I think there’s nothing in it to benefit us at all. In the end, Rhonda punted to us, asking the AV team to come up with some firm recommendations. End of meeting.
At 1:30 I met with a lady from the Youth Community Services and handed over the old guitar to be a donation.
At 4:55, David M called from the auditorium where he was setting up for the evening lecture. No audio coming out of the system. I had no clue, I said, quick go find Gerald before he leaves for the day. By the time I got down to the auditorium the problem was fixed. Gerald saw that somebody had turned down the master volume in the software. We NEVER do that, so didn’t know to check. Who did it? Dunno. But one more thing to check.
After supper I was settling in to playing around with Romie’s old iMac, I have hopes that after I reformat the hard drive and install a later OS, it will not be so dog-slow, when the phone rang. Again from the auditorium, the speaker needs a charger for his MacBook, do I have one. Uh, yeah I guess. So I bring the charger for MacBook down to the aud. so the speaker can show his slides. Boy that’s a rookie mistake, going to give a talk and your laptop isn’t charged. Anyway I had planned to listen to the talk on Zoom but now I’m down there, so I sit in the back and listen. This guy was one of 49 or so architects working on the Apple HQ building and he had lots of pictures and statistics about what a marvel it is. Among many other amazing stats, the whole circular thing sits on rubber isolators and can move up to four feet in an earthquake. So I got my power supply back and came away.
Codgerville 