Monday 03/10/2025
Started the day with the 9am monthly Resident Association meeting. This finished unusually fast, before 10am, so I had an hour free to practice music. I have actually scheduled what I’m calling my concert beta-test. Saturday I will run through an hour of my repertoire to an audience of four, two of whom are knowledgeable former music teachers.
Then it was time for lunch with a prospective couple, the Burtons. The marketing team sometimes do this, ask residents to have lunch with prospects. Jenny from marketing asked me, then she said, “who would be a good fourth person?” I waited a whole three seconds before I said casually, well, Joanne is always a good representative. So this was lunch with me and Joanne and this couple who may someday be neighbors. They were nice. He was in product development for a bunch of high-tech companies including Sun (AKA The Competition, when I was Silicon Graphics), but we never worked for the same outfit.
Right after lunch a traveling nurse sent out by United Healthcare stopped by for an annual checkup. This is a feature of the UHC Medicare Advantage plan that IBM subsidizes. It’s a 20-minute chat where she reviews my meds, takes my vitals, asks if I have had a fall in the past year. I lied and said no. That time I fell while hurrying back from the train station in the dark doesn’t count.
Then down to FOPAL to do the post-sale cleanup of my section. There was only one box of donation to process, so I was out in an hour. Bought a pound of coffee and headed back. After supper a little more music practice. Getting serious, are we?
I’ve almost half way into Fei Fei Li’s The Worlds I See and liking it a lot. She does a great job of weaving together her personal story of being a confused immigrant teen, with the story of the start of machine learning and vision.
Codgerville 