Monday 11/18/2024
My goodness but the year is ripping along to its close. Anyway, I took the standard walk in the morning, then went to the Event Coordinators’ meeting. Then spent a bit of time updating the AV spreadsheet with the December events, from the draft December calendar. There is a ton of events, but thankfully almost all are concerts of various sorts, lights-and-mics jobs with no zoom complications.
I’ve mentioned the AV spreadsheet before, it’s a Google Doc with one row for each event. The members of the AV committee all have read/write access to it so they can enter their initials on the events they want to run, or check details of events. Because it allows anyone with the URL to edit it, I won’t put the URL here, for fear some nefarious person would do some mischief. But here’s a screen shot of December as it stands now.
See those little dog-ear triangles on the right? They show there’s a “note” attached to that cell. What’s in the note is a copy of the Event Planning Form that was submitted by the producer of that event, which has all the details, like number and placement of mics. If you have access to the real document, you just hover that cell with the mouse pointer and the EPF pops up so you can read it.
From there I grabbed some lunch and went to FOPAL to process 5 boxes of donations. And back in time for a quick nap and then it was Rhonda’s monthly Open Meeting. This time she presented a talk that she had given to, I think, the local chamber of commerce, on “the rewards and drawbacks of managing a retirement facility”. It was quite interesting, in part going over all the different agencies whose jurisdictions CH is under, with their conflicting requirements. (California dept of public health, Santa Clara County dept of public health, Cal/OSHA, Palo Alto City, Palo Alto Fire Dept — and that’s about 1/2 of the list). And the rewards being working with a top-notch dedicated staff and a bunch of smart, creative old fogies.
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