Wednesday 11/26/2025
Wednesdays Joanne likes to organize a hike, and today the plan was to walk the Arastradero Preserve, yet again as we have been there often. Joanne L and her partner Erica came along. It was a very nice day, cool and clear with nice mists setting the hills off.
3.5 miles; back to CH at 11:45, I went in for an early lunch while Joanne took Fred for some errands. After lunch I took Fred and drove to FOPAL to deal with the 8 boxes of priced books from the big donation. The job was to figure out where to put them on my shelves. I got permission to use one of the rolling red display carts that are extra shelf space for special sales. This I loaded up with shelf of all Ruby/Rails books, and a shelf of books all about designing or debugging embedded systems (computers built into appliances) which was apparently a specialty of the donor. Moving some other sections around got me shelf space for the rest. Three hours and I had it all cleaned up and off the floor. More to do on Monday, but at least it’s tidy.
Time to chill for an hour and then we met with Lou and Alice for a planned dinner. Lou had invited us to dine with them a week ago. He is one of my more impressive neighbors, both of them had important roles with various NGOs, the World Bank, stuff like that, he was on the board of the California high speed rail project for a while; but also very pleasant, smart people.
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