Friday 01/17/2025
What Bill Pawek used to call an “extra value day”. First thing, a medium distance walk with Joanne, always a pleasure. Then at 10:30 the line-dance class, which I had to slide out of early, to join the monthly AI interest group meeting at 11. We talked at length about the possibilities of using AI in Channing House, either to assist residents or for staff efficiency. Bert is on an email discussion list of elder facilities and will try to find out what other places are doing.
A quick lunch and then at 1pm I meet with resident Jim to try to figure out why his iMac runs slow. I don’t have any good answer. Of course the fact that it’s 10 years old… nah. Well, yeah, if it were my machine, I’d back it up then reformat the hard drive, and restore it. I bet that would speed it up. But I wouldn’t dare do that with somebody else’s machine. I urged him to take a walk over to the Apple store (only 6 blocks away) and look at the current iMacs. But I’m not sure if a new computer is in his financial reach.
Anyway at 2pm I met with Leon, another member of the tech squad, to try to figure out how to get Linda’s printer to talk to her brand new iMac. We figured that out but then found the HP printer wasn’t printing any black ink. So I figured out how to make it do a head-cleaning, and after it cleaned its jets twice, suddenly it could print.
I had a nice nap and settled in to watch youtube videos when I realized I was the AV person for a jazz concert tonight. So I had a hasty supper at 5pm so I could open up the auditorium at 6pm. Nice concert, but to keep my own interest up, I practiced using our three video cameras to get a good recording. Which is fortunate since the band members had set up an iphone to record it but forgot to turn it on until the second song, and anyway, that was one angle where I had multiples. So I will edit the video and put it on dropbox and pass the link to the band leader.
And so to bed.
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