Monday 02/03/2025
Started the day with a standard walk. It appears I kept walking all day because I ended up with over 10K steps, 4 miles. Busy busy.
Drove down to FOPAL, processed 5 boxes and set up my section for the upcoming sale weekend.
Back home after lunch I did the tedious work of assembling the final video of the Drama club’s show of last Thursday (6.057). It actually took only about 2 and a half hours for the editing. Then it was time for the Poetry Out Loud group, which Joanne leads. My choice to read was “Relax” by Ellen Bass. It’s funny, and profound. Although the Buddhist parable it includes needs more thought than you can give it, just hearing it read aloud.
Down to supper early because it was “mixer” night, at 5:15. You pick a table number from a hat at the door, and so you sit with, presumably, people you don’t normally eat with. Usually I end up with the same people I regularly see, but tonight I had one table-mate I’d never eaten with before.
After, opened up the auditorium for the San Francisco Shakespeare traveling troupe. Very professional, well equipped, they set up their set and props and stuff fast, very cooperative. All I had to do was put out enough mics that their voices would get into the hearing-assist loop.
They presented a condensed version of Romeo and Juliet, in 52 minutes start to finish. Very well done. But it was 9:15 by the time they had knocked down their stuff and packed up so I could turn out the lights. Going to bed now.
Codgerville 