Wednesday 06/11/2025
First thing was to walk the mile to PAMF for a blood draw. I have a physical coming up and the doctor ordered the usual tests. Walking a mile before breakfast, bleagh. Had a nice brekkie after at Douce France. That’s Joanne’s fave coffee shop, I would normally go to Peet’s in the same shopping center, but she’s away in Ashland this week and I wanted to be able to text her and say I was texting from Douce France.
Back to CH in time for the Line Dance class. Between the walk and the zillion steps of the class I had 3.3 miles on the phone today.
Quick lunch and then down to the museum to lead a tour at 1pm. Private tour, 45 students from a local junior college. Split the tour with another docent, Nomi Trapnell. She was telling me her husband was a big cheese at IBM back in the day. If I understood right, he took over 360 software development from the famous Fred Brooks. ANYway, the tour group was all 18-20, all cute and attentive but oh lordy did they make me feel old. Telling them how exciting it was when personal computers first came out in 1975, shit, that was 50 years ago. Ask your grandparents about it, kids, they’ll confirm my story.
Back home in time for the monthly 6th floor meeting. This time it was a little party with wine and snacks because our co-chairs Carolyn and Edie are handing the responsibility on to a new person, Jean. Then down to dinner, and shortly after to a lecture. This was a talk by the head of the Museum of American History, which is just a couple blocks away. He talked about some of the odder things in their collection. Like a motorized hair plucker. If you wanted to prune your eyebrows with a vibrating motorized tweezer.
And at 8:30 I’m pooped and going to bed early.
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