Wednesday 07/30/2025
Tired of trying to think up titles. Also tired of not being able to remember what I did with the day. At one point this afternoon I remember thinking, damn, I have been busy all day and can’t remember what I was doing. Took a walk early. Stopped at Ace hardware to buy a teeny little battery to put in my oral thermometer, which finally died after like 3 years of daily use. Worked on documentation for the AV team, getting that folder of good stuff organized and editing things.
At 3 the Good Times group had a costume panic in the auditorium. My phrase. Stew and Lou brought up all the costumes that had been stored by a couple of decades of drama groups, in a locker in the basement. Lots of wigs and hats and masks and some clothes. The idea was for people to pick out things they could wear in the upcoming broadway show tunes thing. It was pretty funny, a dozen old farts trying on wigs. A picture was taken but not on my phone, thank goodness.
Lecture in the evening, ex-mayor of East Palo Alto, about its history and recent economic recovery. From “murder capitol of the nation” (murders per capita, not in absolute numbers) back in the 1990s, to recently a year without any homicides. New shopping center, new housing, etc.
The talk itself was ok but there were so many AV flubs I was squirming in my seat. Mostly not the fault of the volunteer who was running it. The guy doing the talking constantly fiddled with his mic, making scratching and thumping sounds. And he had a sheet of notes that he kept folding and unfolding, making more distracting noises. And he walked all over the place unpredictably, making the AV guy nuts trying to follow him with the camera. The guy who ran three videos for him had trouble getting the sound to come out, and he turned on these lame Youtube generated captions which lagged 30 seconds behind the voice on the video. We got to question time and turned on the audience mics and immediately there was feedback, at which point I left.
Codgerville 