Wednesday 08/27/2025
Well, that was a day. I shall attempt to list it all. To start with, Joanne had organized a hike. I brought Fred up at 8:45 and I, Joanne, Martha, Joanne the other and her partner Erika piled in and drove off to Wunderlich park. Three mile hike with a lot of elevation gain. Moderate temps and mostly shaded, but got good and sweaty.
Back and went to my room to wipe down and change shirts, then to lunch. After lunch had a break before a 2pm appointment. Craig called and asked for help assembling his new TV. At 2pm went to Tom’s apartment where we practiced me singing “Try to Remember” to his piano accompaniment.
At 2:30 went to Craig’s apartment and helped assemble his TV. Then at 3 went down to the dining room where, Wednesdays at 3, they serve coffee and pastries. Caught up with Lennie who has just received her Captify glasses. I got to try them on, they really work. What your phone can hear, is transcribed and the transcription is shown as glowing green letters hanging in space in front of your eyes.
Then over to Skilled to visit a few minutes with Pam. Back to my room to relax. But about 5, neighbor Eva called, her Mac wouldn’t show her emails, would I help. Sigh, sure. So spent an intense half hour trying to get the Mac to connect to Google Gmail. Why did it ever forget? Why didn’t she know her Google password? Good questions. But eventually got the damn thing working again.
Just in time to go down and join Joanne, Jerry and Betty for dinner. Except as we were sitting down, David M, in charge of AV for the lecture tonight, accosted us. Did we have any idea where the podium had gone? What? The podium that is always always sitting on the stage in the auditorium? So the great podium hunt began. Green room? No. Various conference rooms, music practice room, exercise room? No. After 20 minutes running around the ground floor we thought to look on the second floor where there was a photo shoot today. There was the podium, neatly parked in the fitness center. DM took it back to the auditorium and Jerry and I rejoined the ladies in the dining room.
I attended the evening’s lecture remotely via Zoom. And that was a day.
Codgerville 