Friday 06/19/2026
Took the usual Friday muffin ramble with Joanne. Then at 11 I joined the AI interest group meeting. At this meeting, Rob presented what he’d learned at a seminar on Math and AI at Stanford. I didn’t absorb much of it apparently or I’d say more here.
In the afternoon I worked on my new Advanced Health Care Directive. I need to clarify the sequence of people who have my medical PofA. I have looked at a bunch of AHCD (prounounced, “ah, crud”) forms online. Search for “Advanced Directive California Form” and you’ll see. They’re all similar but have slight differences. Joanne just had her lawyer write her a new one so I looked at that and it has stuff that other forms leave out. So I did a lot of thinking and editing.
One final issue, does it need to be notarized, or witnessed by two people, or both? My old one was signed by two of my neighbors as witnesses. Joanne’s lawyer’s version has a block for a notary to sign and stamp but no witnesses. Need to resolve this. If only I knew an attorney…
When I got tired of that, I downloaded a video of the song that Sandy and I might sing as a duet, Johnny Cash and June Carter singing “Jackson”, and stripped the audio file out of it, and ran that through an online AI magical thing to remove the voices leaving only the accompaniment. I sent that file to Sandy so she can see if the key is right for her voice. It’s just a little too low for me, I need to raise it from C to D. But I’ll wait until she’s tried it.
Codgerville 