Monday 04/07/2025
First thing was a live event in the auditorium, the First Monday Book Talk. Speaker was resident Alice, basically giving a report on the biography of Ketanji Brown Jackson, first black female supreme court justice. Alice had an extensive set of powerpoint slides. I wanted to use Zoomroom because it gives me a good set of video recordings. However there was a stupid problem with zoomroom, which had apparently resolved itself Sunday night, but was back this morning. And our one staff IT guy had the day off. I’m not sure how I resolved this, exactly. It was in this state where Zoomroom couldn’t join the meeting for the bogus reason that “the host has another meeting in progress”. So in frustration I closed the lid of my laptop, and that seemed to clear it up, as it then joined the meeting. Opened the lid of the laptop, all was fine.
Computers. Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em.
Also I was going to show Alice’s powerpoint off another of my machines, but that wasn’t working well, and she suggested doing it off her machine, which I didn’t think would work but turns out, she knew PowerPoint better than I did, and it worked fine. So the event came off smoothly more despite me, than because of me.
That over, I buzzed off to FOPAL to process a couple of boxes and put my section in shape for the sale weekend. Other volunteers there were in a tizzy because, contrary to policy, somebody had accepted a huge donation, 30+ boxes of books, the weekend before the sale. So the sorting room was jammed full and… I’m sure they got it all straightened out but I did my thing and left.
First Monday of the month is also the scheduled time for the Poetry Out Loud group, headed by Joanne, although in fact she wasn’t able to be there today. But I was sort of ready having read ome Pablo Neruda poems and I picked one to read.
Codgerville 