Friday 07/25/2025
First thing was a walk with Joanne for coffee and to get her muffin. Then I took care of several little errands around the place and before you know it it was 12 and time to meet her again for a lunch date. She had suggested lunch at the Menlo Tavern, which turned out to be a super nice place inside a big hotel in Menlo Park. For once she let me buy her lunch.
Now to work on a project I had agreed on with John yesterday: over the 4 years I’ve been AV chair I have written half a dozen how-to documents and he wondered if they were available, and where. Of course not, they were all mixed up in a single folder with dozens of other AV related documents. So today I was pulling the how-tos out into a separate folder, and of course I have to read them over and edit them. The first thing I did, partly before lunch, was to update and make even simpler, the instructions for using the 11th floor TV. And print it out and put it in the binder under the TV. But there are other write-ups more specifically for the AV team.
I got a bunch of that done, then I turned to a task that Joanne had talked me into. She was talking about how she had been updating and revising all her various estate documents and were mine in proper order? Did I have a Document Locater document for my estate binder? Well as a matter of fact, I do have exactly such a document, but now I had to check. Yes, pretty much, except there were a couple of things that were out of date. So I got those docs out and marked them up and I’ll edit and reprint them tomorrow.
Down to dinner rather late, which turned out to be fortunate, as I fell in with Mickie and a new couple, Karl and DeeDee, and we had a long getting-to-know-you conversation over dinner. Karl was a long-time employee of Amdahl and then Synopsis, so, a software guy. DeeDee was a counselor, social worker, then pivoted and became a programmer and then a tech writer at Apple. So, my kind of people.
Codgerville 