Tuesday 8/12/2025
Instead of wondering at the end of the day, “what the heck did I do today, I know I was busy but…” I am going to log it in detail.
7:30 took recycles down to the bins. Finished tidying up for the housekeeper.
8:00 my desktop machine won’t connect to our magical Clearpass wifi. I go into the Clearpass management page, delete the machine, add the machine back. After some more fooling around on the machine (curse you Apple variable IP address) it finally connects.
8:15 print the three how-to docs I hadn’t yet printed. And hole-punched them.
8:25 cut up the dead daphne plant and took the plant and pot down to the 3rd floor where there is a garden-waste disposal bin. Brought pot back and, because daphne died of fungal infection, I took the pot into the shower and scrubbed it with bleach cleanser.
8:40 futzed around trying to get a youtube video downloader to work. (I need to download videos for people to sing with in the upcoming good times show) The one I had used to, but now it puts up a message saying youtube has changed, we’re working on it. (There is kind of a continuous guerilla war between Youtube, trying to keep people from downloading their videos for private use, and a world of hackers trying to figure out how to fool Youtube. Youtube can’t win; in order to show a video, it has to eventually send those bits to the user’s computer. Hollywood tried for years to make DVDs uncopyable but there no such thing as an un-copyable bit.) Tried to install a different downloader, ran into mac install issues.
9:00 took how-tos and ring binder dividers downstairs. Got the IT guys to let me roll a small tv into the music practice room, as requested by Stew days ago, and I’d been forgetting.
9:10 reorganized the info binder at the AV station with new how-to docs and page dividers with labels.
9:30 to-do list looking much better, decided to write something fo the writers group
9:50 two-paragraph essay finished and sent. With an hour to the writers meeting, I am reviewing to-do list, which looks pretty beat-up.
Read a couple things I had set aside from my RSS feed. One was a recap of a new paper on alzheimer’s disease suggesting it might be associated with a lithium deficiency.
10:00 Ordered low-dose lithium caps.
10:10-10:40 Sandy will perform the South Pacific song “Wash that man right outa my hair” in September, but she needs the video with the audio transposed down. Spent this time finding a new video downloader.
10:40-11:40 writers meeting.
11:45 Patty had emailed that she was done with her laundry early so instead of waiting for 2pm, I quickly sorted my stuff and started the first load. Then left the room for the housekeeping lady. Had lunch. Worked on laundry, and in between worked on setting up an online repository for our AV documents.
!:30 laundry finished. Finished the AV setup and sent an email documenting what I had done, to the team. All the how-to’s I’ve written over the years, in one place, not dependent on my personal computer or email.
2:45 regarded to-do list and decided to have a nap.
3:30 resumed work on Sandy’s audio, downloading the video, separating the audio track. Then realized that I really wanted to do all this, and other things for the good times show, on my desktop machine, so moved it there. Ran the audio track through an app that changes the pitch, shifting Mitzi Gaynor’s voice down from the key of E to B-flat (she sounds like a drag performer, but that’s Sandy’s range). Put it all back together, put it where Sandy could get it, and sent her an email.
4:15 declared my day over.
After supper participated in the monthly sing-along in the lobby.
Codgerville 