02/10/2025
The day started with the monthly Resident Association meeting. Nothing special worth noting. My UHC insurance had scheduled a window from 10 to 2, for a drop-in visit by a nurse practitioner to check on me, which is nice little feature of the IBM-subsidized policy. At 9am, just as the RA meeting was starting, my phone buzzed; it was that nurse calling to say she was ill today and would reschedule. So suddenly I didn’t have to hang about waiting for that. So at 10 I could head out for FOPAL. The monthly sale was last weekend, so this was the time I go through all the books remaining on the shelf and remove the ones that have gone unsold too long and send them to the bargain room. Usually there are also boxes of new donations to price, but not this time. So I was in and out in 45 minutes.
Back to CH for lunch. Then I had a short meeting with Bert, who it turns out had done a very clever political thing with staff, too complicated to describe here, but might have good results in a few months, or years. Or never.
Now with time on my hands I sat down and wrote something for the writers group tomorrow. First time in a long time I’ve done that assignment on the day before the meeting. Good stuff, too. The prompt was to look at the faces in a collection of candid street photos, choose one or more to be a character, and write at least the beginning of a story about that character.
Still time to spare. So I took two Mac laptops down to the auditorium to try to solve the issue I hit the other day, where it seemed that videos embedded in Keynote presentation slides, were not playing back properly, the audio broke up and stuttered and got out of sync with the video.
Turns out the problem was with the newer MacBook. It has always had problems driving our projector. The video slides played perfectly, smooth as butter, with the 10-year-old MacBook driving the projector. Then I got out an even older MacBook Air we keep in a storage locker and it also, played the material perfectly. Only the newer (2022) one with the Apple Silicon had a problem. So that resolves my problem for the Val Day show; I’ll use the two old machines and it will be fine.
Codgerville 