Thursday 12/05/2024
No after-effects of yesterday’s long walk, so yay. Today was for getting some shit done. First project on the list was to try to get a usable video from Ian’s talk of Day 6.001. That event had several technical glitches and the video recording had some problems. But over 2 hours I managed to patch together an acceptable video. After that I did the monthly review of the Schwab accounts. The Nest Egg is in OK shape, recovered from a dip last month and just barely above where it was at the start of the year.
After lunch I worked on my annual charitable giving. I use the charity navigator site, which remembers all my donations from last year. I had some problems with their user interface this time, but got most of the work done. I need to go back tomorrow to finish.
I walked out for an hour doing a couple of errands. Then there was time for a nap, and then I met with Joanne at 5 to go out for an early supper. We went to Coconuts, a Jamaican-style place nearby. It was ok. Not super but could go back.
Back to CH in plenty of time for the 7pm concert, the Gunn High School Choir in their annual visit to CH. The leader, Bill Liberatore, said this was the 25th visit, they started coming to CH in 1999, and “So I guess I’ve been here longer than most of you.”
I got into the auditorium early, 6:35, to check in on my AV volunteer Tom, doing the mics. And the stage light panel wasn’t working. We’d had this problem before and I couldn’t remember what the magic was. I finally remembered, there’s a particular button that has to be pressed down, and it wasn’t. Did that, lights worked.
The 35 or so high school singers were just finishing a quick rehearsal. I noticed that the facilities guys had not replaced all the chairs, there were two big stacks of chairs that should be spread out on the floor to make the back two rows. And this would be full house, too. Shit. Do I want to schlep 20 chairs the length of the room? Wait, there’s all these cute young people standing around… I grabbed a mic from Tom and asked, could we have a few of you young men take some of these chairs and line them up there at the back? I was immediately reminded that I am a sexist old relic, when two young women (both taller than me) each grabbed a chair and headed for the back. Anyway in a couple of minutes the kids had added two full rows of seats at the back, nicely lined up and ready. And by the time the show started at 7, all those seats were full. There would have been a bunch of people standing (and grousing loudly) had I not taken proactive action. So I’m feeling good about myself on that account.
Codgerville 