Tuesday 12/31/2024
Picked up my sack supper at 9 and headed off to FOPAL to finish cleaning up the donations from the previous week. This included two boxes of old software, including such nostalgic items as Eudora Mail. Which I remember using on an early Mac around 1998. Priced these and into two boxes to save for the Vintage Computer show next summer.
Got back to CH in time for the “fancy” lunch they set out for the occasion (apparently tomorrow’s will be even fancier). After, spent a lot of time trying to settle the question of would I/could I accompany myself for “Annie’s Song”. I created an audio file of just the accompaniment to John Denver’s record, pitch-shifted down to my range. Then I thought, well maybe somebody has published a guitar tutorial on YouTube. I did a quick search for “annie’s song guitar tutorial” and found, not one or two, but 13 hits. Reviewed most of them and settled on two that seem to be teaching simple enough techniques I could learn them.
Had picnic supper with a few others in the 6th floor dining room. At 7 went down to the party in the lobby, which was not that exciting. But Marcia grabbed me and asked for help with the TV. There’s no TV in the lobby but they had rolled in the mobile screen for this; however, no connection to Xfinity – streamed content only. So at 8:30 we started searching for a streamed, live, cast from the Times Square ball drop. Of course we couldn’t find any. Lots of channels supposedly “live” (NBC Live, CBS Live, Fox Live…) and all of them were showing stuff other than Times Square, recaps of Paris or Dubai. So I am standing by the TV, fighting with the Samsung “smart” user interface, a room full of people are watching me and yelling helpful suggestions, waiting to see something on the screen and there is nothing to show. I really resent being put in that position. Cortesi the AV genius can’t find something simple like the Ball Drop.
After 9 I edged out and left. Happy GD new year.
Codgerville 