Wednesday 04/16/2025
Regarding that podium lamp I talked about yesterday, here are some pics.
You can see how it is designed to grip the top edge of a music stand, but the way the podium is built, it has to grip a bottom edge instead. So the neck has to be bent 180º around from normal. It wouldn’t stay that way naturally, but it stays that way when it is held in with a couple of turns of steel wire looped under screws.
Early on today I spent a couple hours making more prints of flowers. Tomorrow I’ll finish that and change over my hallway gallery to dramatic closeups of blossoms.
At 10 I started walking to PAMF where at 11 I had an appointment for a routine dermatology inspection. My hide is ok. He froze off a couple little spots on my cheeks and scalp. He recommended I always wear a hat when outside, I happily said that I always did. That was nice, because I think of it as just personal style, but now I have a medical reason too.
I should have joined the monthly FOPAL volunteer zoom at 1pm, but about 12, zoom went down nationally. So no meeting. I had signed up to join Joanne on a walk she likes to lead on Wednesdays, and today the other 5 people on her mailing list had all flaked out on her, so it was just her and me, walking around the Baylands for an hour. Imagine my distress.
At 7:30 we had a talk from Bill Johnson, the creator of the Palo Alto Weekly, and now the head of a nonprofit publishing company that puts out local papers in half a dozen nearby towns. He reviewed the top stories they had run over the last 45 years and some reminiscences. Good talk.
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