Monday 12/02/2024
Everybody wishing me happy birthday, nice. Took the standard walk. My left glute was sore starting out from being my landing cushion last night, but by the end of the walk it warmed up and felt ok.
Ran an event at 11, the First Monday Book Talk, with Alice as a trainee. This was Ian talking about his late wife’s book, A Political History of China. The tech went rather badly at first. We had Ian’s laptop all set up, his powerpoint slides on the big screen, all sweet. Two minutes into his talk he starts reading an excerpt from the book. Problem was, he had the text in a binder, and he rested the binder on the keyboard of his laptop on the podium. Which screwed everything up. Took several minutes to recover and get him started again.
After that I headed out to FOPAL. Stopped to buy groceries and a couple of energy bars for lunch. Then did an hour processing a small amount of donations.
Back home and at 4pm joined the Poetry Out Loud group which meets monthly to read poems. I had a good one I’d found and others read good poems also.
Prior to this Patty had emailed saying she wanted to take me out for a birthday dinner. She settled on Reposado, an upscale Mexican place up the street. Patty and Mildred and I were the party. Nice supper with nice people.
Codgerville 