Friday 09/12/2025
Met with Joanne and her friend from up North, Jan, at 8:30 and we walked up to the Town and Country shopping center and Joanne’s favorite coffee shop, Douce France. Talked a lot. Here’s a coincidence for you: Jan, who lived mostly in the Seattle-Tacoma area, wanted to hear about my growing up there, and when I said our mailing address was Graham, she lit up and said, oh I used to know a guy from that area. What was his name… Doug. Doug… and after a couple of minutes she remembered, Rasmussen! Douglas Rasmussen!
Well, Doug Rasmussen was a classmate of mine through grade school and high school! Has to be the same guy. Of course I never stayed in touch so I had no idea what happened after high school. Jan thought he married someone named Susan and settled in Tacoma.
So we three sat with coffee and yakked for an hour, then they headed back. I hung around the shopping center because I had an appointment at the nearby PAMF for a flu shot at 11, and an ultrasound at 11:30. For the latter I was supposed to drink 24oz of liquid in the hour before, so I sat around doing that until 11. Got the flu shot. Got the ultrasound. Walked on back home in time for a meeting where a Stanford Robotics person talked about robots and what maybe they could do for senior facilities.
Practiced some guitar, specifically trying to learn to play “Ticket to Ride” and “Bye Bye Love” off YT videos.
Now going to go to the Bus Barn theater to see “Cabaret”. Report tomorrow.
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