Tuesday 11/25/2025
Started the day most pleasantly with a walk to the shopping center with Joanne. At 10:30 CH had arranged for a talk about Medicare and such with an expert, I believe he was here last year as well. Intellectual interest to me, as I am content with the IBM/UHC PPO.
However a big thing happened. I have been looking for someone I can train to edit event videos. One possibility I had in mind was a new resident, Jean Yao, who is very energetic and seems to want to be into everything going on. So I asked her about computer use, yes, she is comfortable with computers, she was an “analyst”, I don’t know what kind. So would she like to learn this new skill? Sure, she’d be happy too. Her son is giving her a new laptop, so we’ll start after the holidays.
After lunch spent some time trying to nail down the chords for “Feliz Navidad”. Jose Feliciano in the official recordings that I’ve heard, plays it at such a fast tempo I can’t get the rhythm right. I have to slow it down, and change the key so I can sing it. Oh well.
At 3:30 it was time for the quarterly meeting of the Tech Squad, the volunteer team who provide first-line IT support for residents. The big news here from our organizer, Bert, was that according to his spreadsheet, the number of calls has been dropping. Last year he was averaging 3 point something calls a day, now it is down to 2 point something. Nobody could think of a reason why. My guess is it will shoot up again after the holidays when everybody gets electronic gifts from their kids.
Following that it was the monthly meeting of the AV team. December is a relatively light month. I signed up for only a book talk and the holiday music show. I need to enlist somebody to relieve me running the cameras for that, too.
Supper followed by at 7pm, a monthly sing-along. Except they had a typo in the elevator sign this time, “Come to the Song-along” and everybody thought that was cute, plus some people attend just to listen, not sing; so Song-along is what we are going to have from now on.
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