Wednesday 07/09/2025
Took the standard walk in the morning. Spent most of the day working on four projects.
One, Bert asked me to try again feeding all the comments from the Dining Services Survey into Claude.ai and get them analyzed and sorted into categories and themes. Which I did and Claude handled pretty well.
Two, I spent half an hour with the guitar (not enough).
Three, I fixed up and printed a nice set of pictures of the striped cathedrals of Orvieto and Siena, Italy, and put them in my hallway gallery. Took down the close-ups of flowers that had been there for a few months.
Four, I edited another 4 chapters of Joyce’s autobiography. Her books was certainly different from her mother’s book. Cecil wrote about people and events. Joyce did that too, but she also puts in a lot of sensory detail. She remembered her childhood from age 4 on, colors, tastes, sensations; and she is very frank about her emotions.
Then went to Rhonda’s open meeting, a special one, where she shared some information about the “satellite campus” the board is about to buy. By that they mean, another building, said to be “10 minutes walk” from 850 Webster. It can house “up to 30” people in units that each have at least 2BR, kitchen and laundry. So that would be — 15 units? She went over the financials in detail which seem to work out very well, although they are predicated on filling the place over 90% full in one year.
Of the many questions after, she had to say no comment to many because the specific address can’t be disclosed until the sale is final. A major question in my mind, which she couldn’t answer, was: if this is a completed apartment complex in Palo Alto, does it have existing tenants? And if so, how do you get them out so you can sell the apartments in a year? Guess we’ll find out.
I will now go to a lecture by Paul Saffo, on the future of Silicon Valley. Expect to be underwhelmed.
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