Thursday 08/14/2025
Planned to go over to Stanford Shopping Center but it doesn’t open until 10, so to pass the time I took my music and guitar down to the new Music Practice Room. I practiced my two numbers for the Good Times show then just worked over some songs with the guitar.
Walked to the shopping center and purchased a new pair of jeans at the Levi’s store. Then, since there was an Apple store just down the aisle, I went and bought something I’d been thinking about for a while. All my music is currently on sheets of paper in a very messy 3-ring binder. I’ve watched John Morse play from an iPad. I asked him what app, he said ForScore. I’d been flirting with buying an iPad but was talking to Joanne about how I was looking at used ones on eBay and so on, and she said, come on, you have the money, get what you want. So today I walked into the Apple store and said, I’ll have a 13-inch iPad Air please. And walked out 5 minutes later with one.
Setting that up took an hour later on, but it works fine. Getting my various songs into it will take a little longer. Later I sat down to start the task the good times committee depends on me to do, get all the background videos for the numbers people will perform. And immediately ran into trouble with the first one.
At 4pm I attended a meeting set up by some other residents supposedly to give us advice on how to direct our political contributions in ways that might be effective. The self-taught expert they had brought in was a bit disappointing, although he did mention two interesting organizations, Movement Voter Project and SwingLeft.org.
Immediately after, at 5, I went to supper, a special birthday supper for my neighbor Brian. His friend Barbara had arranged a fancy party for about 25 residents, fancy to the extent that wine was provided, and special appetizers and a special dessert. Nice chat with a congenial table.
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