Sunday 12/28/2025
Friday, I thought I had signed up to do a docent tour at the museum today, Sunday. When I got home yesterday I discovered that I had actually signed up for the noon tour 12/27, Saturday. Meaning I had been a no-show for my scheduled tour. I wrote to Jesse, the volunteer manager, apologizing. He wrote back, no problem, we were covered, but do come in tomorrow anyway, we can use extra coverage.
So I did go down for the noon tour. Dave Hoyt had signed up for it, and another guy was there to do a 12:15 if needed, so I was superfluous, but the other guy said he didn’t care, he’d go home. Apparently yesterday was a real zoo with 50+ people in the noon tour. Today wasn’t quite as busy, but Dave Hoyt led off at least 25 people at 12, and I still had over 20 when I started at 12:15. Nice tour, appreciative crowd.
Then I zipped home in time to catch the end of the 11-2pm window for Sunday Brunch. I was just finishing that up, sitting alone in the nearly-empty dining room, reading on my phone, when Joanne walked up. She kidded me about having dessert and said she was just going to walk to Trader Joe’s, did I want to come along? I said I would have to change out of my red shirt, she said she would wait in the lobby “tapping my foot” while I did that. So we had a nice walk on a cool bright day.
Later I did something I haven’t done in probably 10 years: proofed a couple of pages at PGDP.net. Something had reminded me of that site, one of the first and maybe the most successful of the “crowd-sourcing” sites, and I just thought I’d check in and see if it was still there and still remembered me. Yes, and yes. Along with Zooniverse.org, one of the places you waste time in a socially productive way, online.
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