Friday 06/13/2025
Went for a fairly short walk in the morning (although 3.4 miles for the day) with Joanne, who is back from a fast trip to Ashland. We walked to Town and Country for coffee and to shop at Trader Joe’s, then hurried back so I could pick up my sack supper before 10am. Sack supper because there was an employee party this afternoon, so no dining services for supper.
During the day Kass called me to help on the 11th floor. The fifth floor had the duty for the monthly TGIF party. Their theme was “Over the Rainbow” and they wanted to show the Judy Garland clip of that song on the mobile TV. We had practiced doing this before so I thought all would be fine but of course not. Kass could mirror the screen of her laptop on the TV but as soon as it started playing a Quicktime movie it would stall. We eventually figured out a work-around, never mind the details.
In the afternoon I finished the job of putting the family album pictures on SmugMug and notified the few people who might care.
At 4:45 I went up to 11 for the TGIF. They had already played the Judy clip and stopped the playback, but I was told it went fine. They had copious good snacks, and I really wouldn’t have needed my sack supper, but I ate that anyway, later.
At 7 met with Joanne and we went to the Stanford Theater. This is a restored old movie palace, this week celebrating its 100th birthday by showing movies that were first shown in 1925, with accompaniment by the mighty Wurlitzer organ. The movie was “The Crowd” which was actually watchable. Though very slow-paced and corny, there was camera work that must have been mind-blowing at the time, and really decent acting.
Codgerville 