Went to the basement to learn from the company representative how to use the new laundry machines. It was not the seminar or presentation I thought it might be, but rather just an opportunity for tenants to see the new machines, press the buttons, change the settings and ask questions during whatever brief time they chose to come down during the scheduled hour (17:30 to 18:30). The prewash and mainwash modes seem gimmicky, inconvenient and annoying, but Mrs. P. seemed unreasonably confused by the whole thing and asked me many questions. I did learn some things and was able to voice my discontent with the silly splitting of the wash cycle into two modes in the form of asking for clarification on it. A perceptive neighbor pointed out what seemed to be a true contradiction in the settings that made the rep say he’d inquire about it with the company. That neighbor actually was washing a load of laundry and I alerted him to a sock he had dropped (or am I mixing up two neighbors?). {…} Encountered Phil in the hallway on his way to the selfsame place, and I pretended it had been fascinating.
Went out food shopping and bought lots of meat and other things. Mailed condolence card. Snapshots of customer and worker in Food Dynasty and of the stuffed bears in Duane Reade.
Wiki talk
(On a Public Domain Super Heroes article) “Pages should be what the character went by as a name and/or codename rather than the title of the story.” If that’s the case, then the name of the article should be Little Orphant Annie and not Elf Child. The character is known as Orphant Annie or Little Orphant Annie in the text of the poem and storybook, and only known as Elf Child in the original title of the poem, nowhere else. Elf Child is more a nickname, like “the Caped Crusader” or “the Man of Steel.”