Community Center & PC Lab

Every Tuesday morning I volunteer as a supervisor at the PC lab in the community center. The community center is one of the newest buildings in Laguna Woods.  It replaced the old administration building.  It has three floors that house different functions.

The first floor consists of the administration for the village residents.  This is where you can get permits, gate passes, and, if you have a problem, property services. There’s also many meeting rooms.  The second floor is mostly devoted to PCM, the management company that maintains all of the property, and more meeting rooms.

The third floor has many educational and recreational facilities.  This is where the PC lab is located. There’s also a work area in the lab where residents can bring their computers and printers to have them fixed by volunteers. There’s also a MAC lab for those residents who prefer an Apple system.  There’s also a PC classroom with 30 PCs setup in a classroom style, with a projector.  The PC Club puts on 6 different series of classes during the year.  The next session starts next week.  Linda is going to take a class on Digital Scrapbooking, and I’m assisting in a class on Windows 7.

Also on this floor is a complete workout facility that complements on the main one in Clubhouse 1.

There’s also an indoor ping pong facility.  I didn’t understand the need, but there’s no wind indoors so it makes sense.  It gets a lot of use. 

They even have a ball machine for practice.

Also in this building is the studios for Channel 6, the inside the village station that has news, the trading post program, and meetings of the different boards.  The trading post allows residents to sell things to other residents and it’s very popular.

So that’s one of the “clubhouses” here in the village.  I’ll post other descriptions of the 7 other clubhouse in the future.  As the classes are starting, we’re starting to get busy.  It’s always good to keep the brain active.

Partially Finished & The Start of the Week

We have been trying to finish the remodeling here at the village.  The kitchen was just about done, but we needed pendent lights over the bar and hardware for the drawers and doors. We looked and looked at a lot of different lighting stores, and finally decided on some fixtures from Kitcher.  The first shipment was damaged, but we finally got our order.  We also decided on the hardware from The Great Indoors.

Monday, Ted our contractor came over to install everything.  We’re very pleased with the results. We were having a problem with our dishwasher.  The dishes weren’t getting clean.  We contacted our local repair people and they discovered that the dishwasher was hooked up to the cold water line.  Ted fixed that and now we have clean dishes again.  It’s amazing how the small things can affect how appliances work.

While Ted & I were working on the kitchen, Linda had her biweekly beading club meeting.  This month they’re making a necklace, and I’m anxious to see how it comes out.  She’s feeling much better and is starting to get her energy back

Tuesday I spend in the PC lab as a supervisor.  It’s fun helping people solve problems, and teaching them some new programs.  I’ve forgotten how satisfying volunteering can be since we left Olympic National Park.  I’ll give you a more complete description of the computer facilities here at the village in the future.

Wednesday I got a call from the head of the Photo Lab asking me to sub for the afternoon supervisor.  I was glad to fill in at the lab.  I helped a couple of the more experienced photographers in the club work in the studio with the lighting.  It was fun to learn new techniques.  Here’s a picture they took of me during the session. That’s about it for this entry.  Next time I’ll talk about the outdoor concert scheduled for tomorrow.