Wednesday 06/04/2025
First event this morning was to join a hike organized by Joanne. Five of us, me, Joanne, Martha, and Joanne the other one and her partner Erica, got in Martha’s car and drove to Edgewood park. Martha favors the trailhead off Cañada road. We walked a big loop, 3.3 miles total, and back to CH in plenty of time for lunch.
After lunch I finished editing the video of Bob’s talk. This was fun. For some of the photos he showed, I applied a “Ken Burns” effect, a slow zoom in or out, which made it more interesting. Also he had played two short music clips, songs from The Student Prince, but the audio of these songs was pretty poor. So I found the songs online and patched in better sounding audio. Finally, I changed the order of things. He had ended his talk and had his family come up on stage for a picture, and then had continued to answer questions for a few minutes. So I moved the part about the family portrait to the end and made it look like he had answered questions right after saying “thanks”. The video editor is the master of time and space; reality is what I say it should be.
At 5 Joanne and I had a new adventure: we went out to a movie. This was her idea, to see Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, a rom-com. Its run was almost over, 5:45 today in Redwood City was almost the last showing anywhere close. So we took a Lyft to Redwood City. I thought this was a perfect use for a Lyft, a local trip but we wouldn’t have to mess with parking, it would take us right to the door. The movie was sweet and nice, about a writer struggling with PTSD (of a sort) and a caring but unreliable boyfriend. The right couple get together in the end, awwww. Part of the fun was that much of the dialogue was in French, and with good audio (unlike the DVD a couple nights ago) both of us were able to follow it a bit. Joanne’s French is stronger than mine, but I could get a word in 10. Or 20.
Codgerville 