Friday 10/17/2025
Took our morning muffin ramble, Joanne and I. Talked about various things, including her intention to get a trainer and start working out. She’s been reading Peter Attia’s book Outlive, which emphasizes among other keys, lean muscle mass as critical “long healthspan”.
Well dammit if she can, I can. We talked about how difficult it is to be regular in exercising. I had a thing for a while, 7:30am in the gym, but dropped it in part because that early hour suits the schedules of a surprising number of people. Isn’t there another regular time you could use, she asks. So I looked over my typical week and I do see where I could block out M-W-F after lunch. Will experiment with that next week. Hold me to it.
Spent the afternoon reading more of Bill Gates’ book Source Code, and realizing when I read it before, I didn’t finish it. Some of the most interesting parts, 1975-76 when he and Paul Allen were implementing BASIC for the Altair, were new to me.
At 4pm, big deal in the Auditorium. Must have been most of the 190 residents there for the big reveal of our new satellite campus. I had been under NDA for a week because I was on a focus panel on the naming. Anyway, now it can be told: the buildings at 430-436 Forest Ave., 13 units, mostly 2bed-2bath, are now the property of Channing House, deal closed yesterday. Existing tenants have been asked to be out by 12/31; we will start taking new residents early next year. Management is very confident that the market exists to fill this building in the first year with people paying $1.5M to $2M to move in. It’s like downsizing to a nice condo with the added benefit of being a CCRC.
The staff and the Resident Association executive board have begun preparing plans to integrate the newcomers into our resident-driven culture. There is to be a panel of residents working on this, selected by the RA exec (my neighbors Sally and Donna) and staff. I have a feeling I will be asked to serve on this. Well, that’s why I unloaded the AV chair, so I could do other volunteer things.
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