Monday 10/13/2025
The Resident Association meeting was at 9. During the open-comments part at the end, I took the mic and complained about the loss of the binder from the 11th floor.
Then I headed out for FOPAL for the post-sale triage. Sent four boxes of non-selling stuff to the bargain room. There was only one box of donation waiting, so I was back by 1.
At 2pm I went down and started setting up the auditorium for the 4pm Appreciation Fund Kickoff event. Something has gone wrong with the sound board, the controls aren’t working right, or at least not the way they were last week. Part of my job was to get a decent remote experience to the Assisted Living section who would watch on zoom on a big TV. But in the auditorium there was a series of powerpoint slides to accompany the various skits and songs in the event. I knew I couldn’t properly manage the video cameras and also switch the slides at the right time, so I handed that part off to Bert to run while I did the video. Tomorrow I’ll edit the recording and see how well I did.
The show itself was only 25 minutes long, so at 4:30 we broke everything down and put it all away. Then I spent a few minutes in the large reception that was going in the lobby. Didn’t feel hungry, felt tired, went to my room and then napped right through the dinner hour.
Writing this blog the phone rang. It was another resident, living in Independent Living but not much longer, I suspect, as his grasp on things is definitely getting fuzzy. He was asking me for help with his TV. He said he had the book I’d set up for the 11th floor — aha! the thief! — which he thought would help him figure out his entertainment system. Normally his wife is here also, but she is away for a short vacation, and he can’t figure out the rather complicated setup in their apartment. Neither could I figure it out. There are a number of remotes including an extremely complicated universal remote, and I simply could not get his TV to show Comcast.
No matter how often I pointed out that his system was nothing like the one on the 11th floor, he insisted on reading my writeup and trying to apply it to his gear. The combination of a strong masculine personality with failing cognition is… hard to deal with.
Anyway I got the 11th floor book back and put it in its proper place.
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