Just to clarify the Residents Council “budget constraint” referenced. The Entertainment budget is the single largest Residents Council expenditure – approximately 20% of the entire budget.
Malo e lelei, Creed. My cousin Lise is married to a Tongan, Rodney Sekona. His family owns a construction company based in Salt Lake City. You probably can guess what the focus of their business is – building coral block walls. Lise’s speciality is producing lots of grandchildren, five at last count. Faasamoa.
I appreciate the information of Hawaiian Lei. I thought it is for celebration only. Now I know it is “Aloha Spirit.” represents love, friendship, celebration, honor, or greeting. I like it very much because it means a lot more to me. I treasure your and everyone’ sharing. Photographers have always done excellent jobs. Photos are very important to the articles. Knowledge is priceless. So much I don’t know. Thanks to all!
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I am a frequent admirer of the Storybook House. This additional information is very interesting. I appreciate the long dedication of Yoka and Grant very much. I am glad that three volunteers joined to do the delicate job. Thanks to all.
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I have wondered about these things many times and amused myself with examples such as the ones so cleverly poeticized here. Thanks for letting me know I am not alone!
Thank you, Anne. The main goals of sustainable landscape design are to conserve water and energy, reduce waste and decrease runoff. In order to achieve these goals management of RVM common areas should treat water as a resource and create a plan for xeriscaping.
Greetings, A. Looney, I thought you would like to know I just signed up for the cranium conditioning class. This should help.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
I can’t contain my laughter – love how A. Looney pokes gentle fun at us every month! But – dare I inquire – will the real A. Looney step forward and reveal who they really are?
Thanks for the thoughtful article. Have you passed it on to Marketing? They certainly should read it.
I’m assuming you didn’t have access to the full data set. On first seeing the results I wondered if anyone had done significance testing on, for ex, the differences between RVM and all PRS. It’s tricky with un-anchored ordinal satisfaction measures, but Holleran surely has the resources to do it if they want. Just looking at the magnitude of these differences and the N’s, it makes me wonder how many of them are statistically reliable.
George, what a fascinating piece you’ve put together. The sound of the the theremin is aptly described as a mix between a female soprano and a violin, but maybe even better than the sum of those two parts. The instrument was made for Puccini’s aria and Saint-Saens, “The Swan.” I was also pleasantly reminded of that hauntingly, spooky “Spellbound” theme. The history of the instrument and its creator was fascinating.
Thanks, I’ve been richly rewarded.
Dick
First, heartfelt congratulations on the third anniversary of The Complement.
It would be ungrateful to not acknowledge with gratitude the warm welcome Anita and I have received upon our “return to the RVM”. Our nine months sojourn in Geneva, Switzerland proved to be disappointing — the mildest and the politest way to put it. The one lesson we learned again is “appearances can be deceptive”. What’s universally talked about Switzerland is that it is a paradise.Yes perhaps for well-off tourists but we wouldn’t recommend it for permanent residence, particularly for people of our age.
In closing we also wish to say that we are more than satisfied with our decision to return to RVM. It is not perfect but then which CCRC in the U.S. is perfect
About 2 months ago, I discovered ChatGPT. I was working on a computer program at the time, and was using a programming language with which I was only slightly familiar. ChatGPT helped me with some syntax questions at first, delivering what I needed much faster than my sorting through all the Google search results to find one that appropriately met my need.
Then, I got more bold, and described whole programs by what they should do and what the GUI (Graphical User Interface) should look like. And, it generally produced 90+% of the final solution.
I have now become better at asking it to write code for me, and I use it constantly. Its solutions generally (not always) work on the first try, and I just add tweaks to make things look nicer or to make it more user friendly. The latter is generally something I could have requested at the start, but didn’t realize was needed until after I tried using the program.
But you can also have great fun just playing with it.
Ask it to write a Limerick, a poem, a story, or parody lyrics to a particular song. Give it reasonable guidance or non-sequiturs. Write a fictional story about a boy named Gary who likes butterflies. Or. Write parody lyrics to “O What a Beautiful Mornin’ ” about a tornado, an earthquake, a circus, and a sentient penguin.
I appreciate your article, especially calling for a vote & reporting the result. I also think that the carpet is a bigger issue than the fire place.
Do you know that there is another log fireplace in the continental room. I didn’t ck whether it works.
I finally had an opportunity to talk a bit to Arnold a few days ago and casually asked him where he came from. He answered simply–“Oh, China.” Well that was a bit of an understatement! Then came his family history on “The Complement.” –An engaging and most rewarding read. RVM is a wonderful storehouse of interesting people with fascinating histories. I knew there was more to Arnold’s story–so thanks for sharing him with us, Joni.
A delightful history of remarkable people who put varied talents to work. Excellent examples of opportunities realized! Thank you for telling Arnold’s family’s story in The Complement.
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