Friday 05/23/2025
(oooh sneaking up on a full house, 5/25/2025)
Took a nice walk with J in the absolutely beautiful morning. Trying to be consciously thankful of being able to walk, in health, in lovely weather, with a friend.
Before going out I moved all the furniture off my area rug. At 10 a housekeeping guy came with the carpet cleaning machine and shampooed the rug. I can’t find the blog post where I got this rug; I know I ordered it from Amazon and it went down very soon after I moved in. This would be its first cleaning.
While he worked I talked to Dr. Margaret down the hall, trying to get some background on Dennis’s medical issues so I could talk sensibly. At lunch time I drove out, picked up a burger at Jack, and drove on down to Dennis’s place. Chatted with Toni then had a long conversation with Dennis, trying to be helpful about his situation.
Back home I wrote two extremely sensible emails. One was to Rhonda and our lead marketer. This was a response to the idea that, because our building has a majority of studio and 1BR units we are at a marketing disadvantage. My proposal was that they hire an architecture design firm, to do attractive renderings of different imaginative ways that an studio apartment can be arranged with custom furniture and professional use of color and texture.
The other email was a response to a question from another resident about AI and the prospect of AGI, artificial general intelligence. I gave my reasons for thinking the present AI systems have no chance of improving to that level, some other design approach would be needed.
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