Wednesday 11/19/2025
In the morning, Joanne had organized a hike with Joanne the lesser and Erika. We walked the Stanford Dish loop, 3.5 miles. I ended the day with 12,540 steps and 4.7 miles. Weather was perfect for a strenuous walk, overcast and breezy. And we saw the craziest sight:
This white Dish Network van came down the paved hiking path and turned up the service road to the giant dish. You maybe thought the Dish was for radio-astronomy? Seems like it’s for pulling in ESPNU for the campus maybe.
Had a nice nap after lunch. Then after supper we met up and drove to the Bing concert hall on campus to attend Morgan Freeman’s Blues Symphonic Experience. Which was… OK. Definitely not great. Some pretty good blues musicians on stage, backed by a classic string quartet (2 violins, viola, bass viol). A giant video screen above where Mr. Freeman, recorded, introduced each number, and where they showed a lot of various graphics. The sound mix was not good at all, too heavy on the bass, couldn’t hear the harmonica or the vocals; and the amplified string quartet didn’t add anything at all to the music IMHO. But the second half wasn’t bad.
Codgerville 