Tuesday 10/21/2025
Today was the day for a lecture sponsored by the Heritage Circle, with me doing AV. They had brought in a lawyer, John, who specializes in estates, and Jeff, a specialist in estate planning and giving, to team up for a presentation on “Talking About Your Estate With Your Family”. Each of the presenters had a powerpoint on a thumb drive. I got their presentations onto my older MacBook. The newer MacBook was Zoom host. The older signed in to the meeting and shared its screen. At the appropriate point I very smoothly, if I do say so, switched from John’s slides to Jeff’s slides. The whole thing went off very smoothly. I spent my time managing the cameras and think I did that well, also. When I edit the video in a day or so you’ll see.
As soon as they finished at 11:30, I shut down and headed for FOPAL, where I knew more than 10 boxes of books waited. I had ordered a grilled cheese sandwich to go, that was ready, off I went. Spent 3 hours there and headed back. I had under an hour before I was due to put the Stanford Webinar on “Reimagining Democracy” on the 11th floor TV at 4pm.
I was reading my email and here was one from the facilities staff. Did I want to change to a stall in the Tower garage? Wayyyy back on Day 143, a month before I moved in to CH, I had been given a choice of garage stalls, and I had picked one in the garage under the Lee center because it had a 120V outlet for charging the Prius. That has always been a bit of a pain because it is a long walk from the elevator through the basement, four different doors, to get to the Lee garage. When we started sharing Joanne’s car, and had no use for the 120V outlet, we put in a request to move to the much more convenient Tower garage under the main building. And I guess my name had bubbled to the top of the list.
So I, Joanne, and 3 other people watched the webinar, this one with a couple of journalism professors talking about the changes in journalism generally in this modern era and administration. Then I ran off to the Lee garage to get Fred, while Joanne went to the front desk to get a different garage clicker, one for the Tower garage door. I brought Fred around and turned in the clicker for the Lee garage. Then Joanne drove us around and down the ramp into the Tower garage and parked us in our new stall #32. Lots of room, easy to get in and out. Great.
For supper I made myself a sandwich in my room so I would have time for a wee bit of a nap before 7pm. At 6:45 we met again in the auditorium to watch the Tuesday night movie, Great Expectations from 1946. What a silly plot. But nicely made movie.
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