Thursday 06/04/2026
Early-ish, 8:30, I joined Bert in the small conference room to watch a webinar, a lecture on how to build an AI agent from scratch, sponsored by the ACM. It was a bust, very poor instructor who didn’t know how to use Zoom right and just plunged into minutia without any kind of overview or setup. I bailed; Bert stayed but said it didn’t get better.
So I had a couple hours and I brought the guitar and other equipment to the auditorium. I will be entertaining the bi-monthly Birthday Dinner (everybody with birthdays in May and June), that’s in two weeks. I wanted to start to practice with a microphone to get used to singing into a stand mic. So I had a very satisfactory hour plus of playing and singing.
At 3:30 I started walking for PAMF where I was to get an ultrasound exam at 4:45, and supposed to fill my bladder by drinking at least 24oz of liquid before. So I had a bottle of root beer and a large iced chai latte, sitting around Peet’s coffee patio. Went over to PAMF on time. Finished with the exam about 5:30.
Walked back into the shopping center to meet Joanne who had brought the car up to park it in the shopping center lot. We had a light supper at Douce France, then at 6 walked the mile into the Stanford campus to the Frost Amphitheater. Yes the same place we were at a few weeks back to see David Byrne.
This time it was to see Paul Simon. I had been very excited when this concert was announced a couple months back and got tickets as soon as possible. The actual concert was a bit of a disappointment. Simon’s selection of songs were almost all from his more recent work, and while the lyrics are very poetic, the music does not rock even a little bit. Very quiet and meditative and introspective. Except for a couple of oldies, “Graceland”, “Me and Julio”, it was… nice. It would have been awkward to squeeze out of our row early, but as soon as he left the stage, while people were standing up yelling “more”, we left. We were not the only ones, a pretty good stream of people heading out even as, of course, he came back to do an encore.
Codgerville 