Tuesday 03/18/2025
Another day in which I didn’t leave the building. Not even to step out onto my balcony. Hmm. In the morning I finished editing another lecture video. Almost caught up. Then sat through the writers meeting. Initially I had nothing to contribute but halfway through I remembered something. Today’s prompt was “water, wetness”. I remembered that I had written something to a similar prompt — once. When? Took just a few seconds, really to find that in July 2021 (day 2.225) the prompt was similar and I had written about the childhood pleasures of playing in the ditch alongside the road past the ranch. So read that.
At 12:30 I joined a seminar or working lunch that Alice sponsored. She had brought a couple of guys from Stanford who want to start a platform that will let anyone talk 1:1, or in a group, with an academic expert in various fields for a fee. They are lining up academics who want to improve their communication skills. I was one of 6 residents Alice had rounded up to give them feedback. Interesting but not terribly productive.
And back to the same meeting room at 3 for the Car-Free group meeting. Where we heard a preview of a new Channing House program. Parking is really tight in our garages and parking lot, which impacts our employees who commute in from distant places. To encourage any resident who is thinking of giving up their car (and thus, freeing up a parking space), they are going to offer a cash stipend if you will do a 2-month trial of going car-free. Don’t move your car for 2 months, use Channing House’s transportation for medical appointments and Gogo/Uber/Lyft and other methods for your other transport, and you’ll get $200. My input was that it sounds like a good program but that $200 is way too low, it sounds stingy. Make it $400 or $500, so people would feel like their Lyfts were “free” for that time. We’ll see if I was heard.
In between the other stuff I started the process of wiping my old iMac. First I was going to try installing Ubuntu on it, and I did, but Ubuntu just couldn’t connect with the old Apple bluetooth trackpad. Plus it didn’t handle that huge 27-inch screen correctly, fonts too small etc. So I went back and reinstalled MacOS.
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