Saturday 06/14/2025
Thought about the job of digitizing Cecil’s, and maybe Joyce’s autobiographies. Have to pull out the staples. Don’t want to discard after, so — binder. How big? Measure them, both a bit over half-inch thick, so 1-inch D-ring binders. Rather than ordering from amazon, I got the car out and drove 2 miles to Staples. Then started the process, got through the first chapter, realized I was not doing it right. Will have to start over but it will go fast. Fastish.
At 11 met with Bert, Carol, Jerry in the green room to try to make sense of the immense amount of clutter there. Rhonda has agreed to refurbish this room but there’s a ton of stuff left in it by literally decades of amateur organizers. We identified a lot of stuff that could be given away or trashed. I went off and emailed several people asking them to take responsibility for one part of the mess or another.
After lunch met up with Joanne and we walked across to where the No Kings march would be coming through. Lots of enthusiastic people with clever signs. (I especially like “Trump: a Faux King Joke”) Walked with them down to Rinconada park. March was very well organized with traffic monitors keeping people out of the road and making them obey traffic signals. No sign of police whatever.
At the park there were lots of booths for various orgs set up. The entertainment or speeches hadn’t started. There were plenty of seats in full sun, but all the shady spots were taken. We decided not to wait and went home.
At 5 I took a shower and dressed in nicer clothes, and at 5:30 met Joanne and we walked to one of her favorite restaurants, Vino Locale. How much her favorite? She’s been going there, usually with her group of old friends, for years. She walks in and the owner says “Joanne!” and gives her a big hug. And the manager greets her and the servers do too.
Codgerville 