Tuesday 08/26/2025
Wow, a day with no nap. At 10 I sat down with Jerry to decide who’s doing what with the videos for the broadway show. He had done a lot and will do some more, then I will take over.
10:45, the writers group. I had nothing to contribute. The topic was “back to school” and there were some amusing entries. One retired teacher recounted the kinds of nightmares she regularly had the night before school resumed.
I started my laundry going as soon as that was over, so it could run while my room was cleaned and I ate lunch. About 1 I was accosted by Kass who wanted help with keeping the minutes of the Appreciation Fund committee. Margaret, the committee secretary, will be traveling, and Kass had heard that we could use AI to format a raw transcript. Why yes I have done this. So I attended her meeting at 2. Put my phone on the table, recording in Voice Memo. After the meeting I used “Copy Transcript”, pasted it into an email to myself, mailed it from the phone.
Went to my laptop, opened the email, copied the transcript text, which looks like this,
All right, so we recording Appreciation Fund Committee Meeting. Chit chat while we wait for the cast. Did you get my email when I forwarded the letter the email from Beth Shirley yesterday. Oh Is that the one where you’re not going to be here to the 17th? Well, that’s that was the next one. The previous one was about how to respond to Beth. And I said, “Could you reply? Because you have more information….
and on and on for an hour. I went to claude.ai and told Claude, I was going to paste a meeting transcript, please analyze and summarize. I pasted the transcript and Claude gave back a very sensible summary, picking out all the decisions and action items. That took 20 minutes and I sent the result on to Kass and Margaret to proofread.
Then it was time for the AV meeting. John has been taking over a lot of the little stuff which is great. But we had a nice meeting, almost everything is set for next month.
Came out of that to find Joanne alone in the lobby, shoving furniture around to set up for the sing-along that happens at 7pm. Went to supper, then to the sing-along, then I think early to bed.
Codgerville 