Monday 03/24/2025
Took the standard walk in the morning. Then spent 2 hours at FOPAL processing 8 boxes of books. Not a good-quality donation; looked like the library of somebody who had been heavy into computers from the 70s to the 90s, so not much saleable today.
Practiced a little guitar. Then at supper I realized that the Palo Alto Library people were coming tomorrow morning. I wanted to meet with them because I had seen a problem trying to sign up for the Kanopy service, which is supposed to give access to many films for free by way of the library. Before, when I tried to register my library card number, it would say there was a problem, see your library. So, yay, the library was coming. So I signed up on the sign-up sheet.
Then I thought, better try again so I can show them exactly what happens. And it didn’t happen. It took my library card number smooth as you please. I was able to browse the movies and showed myself one, a short film from Brazil? I think? Plus, I was able to “cast” the film from my phone to my 55-inch LG TV. So I had to go downstairs and cross my name off the sign-up sheet.
Then I found that after the phone stopped casting, the TV screen was full of a message about “you have no new notifications” and I couldn’t get rid of it. Took 20 minutes of screwing around to get the TV back to normal. Guess I can’t blame the library for that, thought.
Codgerville 