What's on your menu (Tuesday)

Cute reindeers!

Those deer are adorable and what a fun surprise for your friends.

Those are so adorable, so cute looking out the back of the pick-up!

Mornin' All!

I'm feeling really bloated this morning, so I'll be carefully watching what I eat today and drinking lots of fluids. I hate feeling this way! I'm attending a Zoom lecture at 10:00 and then have a short board meeting at 5:30. We don't really have anything to talk about, but we just bought the Webinar option for our Zoom account so we can start hosting big lectures in January, since we obviously won't be able to have live ones for a few more months. Although I've "hosted" Webinars for another organization, I haven't done things like create templates for Webinars, configure them from the get-go, use the "breakout" function (which our other co-chair wants to use), etc. I've done some online training tutorials and am more comfortable with it now, but I want to practice a few things with the board rather than "practice" when we have 200 people online waiting for a lecture to begin while I screw around trying to get things to work!

other than that, I'll get some kind of exercise in today, too. It's too cold to go outside, so some kind of youtube video. Maybe kickboxing...

QOTD: I didn't even think of presidential libraries/museums until a couple of you mentioned them - definitely those. We've been to the ones for FDR, JFK, LBJ, Gerald Ford, Rutherford B Hayes, Abraham Lincoln (although that's more his house and tomb). I think that might be it for me, but DH has been to a couple more - the Clinton one, for example. I, too, wonder what on earth they'll do for Trump - or if they'll even have one. Baffling. Anyway, I would also love to go back to the British museum - I went there years ago because I really wanted to see the medieval illuminated manuscripts, and they did not disappoint - and I also managed to see the Rosetta stone and a few other things - but there's so much more there I would have wanted to see if I'd had the time. Same with the Smithsonian. I also love the Art Institute of Chicago (they have everything - but they're especially well-known for their French impressionist collection), the Bradley Collection at the Milwaukee art museum (which is all early 20th century abstract art - my favorite period). And all the medieval items at the Cleveland Museum of art (I loved the armor (i.e., that knights wore) when I was a kid - and when I went as an adult, I fell in love with the medieval tapestries). Oh - and how could i forget - Hagia Sophia in Istanbul - which was a museum for decades until Erdogan turned it back into a mosque a year or two ago. I walked in the door and pretty much stood there with my mouth hanging open - I could barely speak the place was so stunningly beautiful. I'm sure if I thought about this for a couple more minutes I could think of more - but I'm already rambling!!

TSS: 5y6m

B: 1/2 C protein oatmeal with a thing of Carbmaster cinnamon roll yogurt, coffee with half & half

MS: Fit Frappe

L: piece of cheesecake-flavored yogurt pie with blueberry compote

AS: L&F yogurt with raspberries, light English muffin with cream cheese

D: maybe the last 2 oz of the "old" turkey breast (I just took another one out of the freezer) and a sweet potato

have a great day, everyone!!

I have to say that you are one of the busiest retired people I know!

I try - anything to keep my brain going and to feel useful and positive - although COVID has made that a lot harder the last few months (esp now that we're pretty much stuck in our house again until spring!!)

I agree with Liz, you are one of the busiest retired people~I hope to be like that in my retirement as well. Do you think you would be able to send a link to some of the tutorials you used for your zoom skills? I am involved with a non-profit and we have our yearly fundraiser in january-its a great event with a live band we usually get about 500 people in attendance, obviously not doing that...but we are going to do something virtually. The band is on board for a live stream and then the director of the home will speak from his home and I just don't know how to do it. I am certain that I am making it more complicated than it is. but any info you would be willing to share would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Eileen

most of the stuff I watched I accessed through my Zoom account (in the support section) - but I also watched a few things on youtube, which are accessible even if you don't have access to a Zoom account, like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccSa83-EogE

I was particularly interested in the part about the Webinar add-in because that's the part i've had SOME experience with, but I need to know it inside and out. If you just search youtube with "Zoom Webinar tutorial" (or if you just want basic Zoom tutorials, not necessarily the Webinar add-on, just type in "Zoom tutorial").

I did learn today that unfortunately, the breakout room session is only in the Meeting module, not the Webinar module, so not sure how we're going to do this. Either send people two separate links (one for each), an idea that our other co-chair HATES, or me having to figure out how to set this thing up, with some people only wanting to see the lecture and not do the breakout rooms, and how to turn off everyone's video en masse so their thumbnails and names don't show up on the recording (you can configure the software to have video turned off when people enter the meeting, but that won't work for us since it needs to be ON when they're doing breakout, and OFF when they're in the lecture - so we either have to talk them through turning off their video, or I may have to turn off their video individually (and we could have 100+ people) if there's no way to do it en masse. UGH. I think that's why they invented the Webinar option. It's set up to deal large lectures - not much special configuring involved!). Oh well - I'll be going through more tutorials tomorrow, I guess!!

I really loved my day at the British Museum....I needed two days but I made good use of my one day. When I decided to go solo to London it was entirely because I wanted to spend as much time as I wanted in that museum, lol. I happened to be there the last couple of weeks of an exhibition on Troy that was incredible but it was a bonus to visiting all the things I'd always wanted to see.

I went to London by myself, too. I only had a week (spring break), and I wanted to do what *I* wanted to do. Loved it. I'd love to go back someday...