Saturday 02/08/2025
I had three tech appointments in a row. At 9am I trained David T. in the use of the lecternette on the 11th floor. At 10 I met with Joanne to help her figure out a problem with her phone. Her carrier wanted her to update to an e-SIM and it had failed the first time. But it worked this time so that was easy. At 11 I met with Leon at Marlys’s apartment to try to get her laptop to do screen mirroring on her Samsung TV. We failed, so we helped her order an HDMI cable. She’s sharp enough to install it herself.
In the afternoon I worked on issues from the ValDay rehearsal yesterday. One of several was that Kay wanted to play her flute along with Al Martino singing “Spanish Eyes” but she wants to (has to?) play in the key of G. In every youtube video, Mr. Martino sings the first verse in E-flat and then at the halfway point, he and his orchestra modulate up to G and sing the rest in G. So to make it all in G, I had to pull out the audio into a separate file; split that file in half at the exact point he changes key; run the first half through a website where I can change pitch up to G; put the two files together with the video and add it back to the main ValDay video. A matter of 90 minutes or so.
I went out for a short walk, and called Laurel to talk about a family issue she’s having. She reminded me of a very important thing I need to do. Which like a dope I hadn’t even thought of — a v-day present of some kind for Joanne. OMG how could I not think of that! So did some online shopping.
After supper I picked up two packages from Amazon, one a book (yes I actually bought a physical book) (Judy Dench, Shakespeare, the man who pays the rent, which I am sure other people here will want to read so I’ll put it in our library) and the other, a better (hopefully) Bluetooth transmitter. I’ll test that tomorrow.
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