Arrived Schipohl about 7 am Tuesday. Another long wait to get through passport control. Train to Leiden was 10 minutes late departing, very unusual. Got to Maredijk by 9am. Kids already off to school. Had coffee with Jonathan and Nan. Brief nap. Then off to the Vodafone store to get chips for the phones. Lunch at City Hall.
Spoke with Pauline Decarmo about the UTMH printing job. Emailed various other UTMHers. Packed for trip. Left for Berkeley Heights at about 11 am. Stopped briefly on the way out of town at 125 Warren St to look at a demonstration design project by SJ Williams. This for the Design Hudson affair scheduled for the upcoming weekend.
arrived before 2. Talked with Ed. Chased the dog Marley who got loose and disappeared.
Marley, wayward dog captured
Long line at Newark Airport Toni get through security, almost 45 minutes. Noisy visually distressing time in the airport waiting area. Very crowded. Flight left at ~ 5;45 pm.
Didn’t sleep at all. Arrived Schipohl about 7 am Tuesday 5/21/2019. Another long wait to get through passport control
Bad night of little sleep. Cold slowly getting better.
looking out the window from the hotel – 16th floor….
Battleship New Jersey across the river….
Walked on the promenade below the hotel:
A few historic markers:
Parking ended up to be about 1/2 mile from the Barnes. Saw this strange truck across the street.
Sent photo to Matt Almeida as a joke. He replied:
That is GREAT! Only in Philly.
I remember all the food trucks in Philly, but I have never seen a background check truck.
Looks like you may have stumbled onto a new franchise model. A cheesesteak and criminal record check truck. The back half can sell cheesesteaks and you can order your criminal record check from the front half while you wait for them to cook it.
Is the slurping sound part of the design??
The iron works caught my eye. Turns out that Barnes had worked at the layout and arrangement of the objects in these room for decades. All part of a pedagogical approach (see John Dewey) to display not that of a museum. Then I noticed that the iron works were really arrangement of objects with their own shapes in counterpoise to various aspects of the paintings. The ironwork is a decorative element. There is not an intent to display them on their own.
Left Philadelphia and drive to Berkeley Heights for a visit with Ed and Meredith. Talk about their plans to move to the Seattle area, land and construction versus buying existing, Meredith’s retirement plans complicated by changes in retirement plans by the school system. We had roast lamb. It was Easter afterall. Met the new dog. Now forgotten the name. Energetic part beagle, 6 years old. Parker was in his usual question mode.
Returned to Hudson in time to go to Swoon for a drink with Dave. Doors closed but we got let in. Several people we know from Catskill were there. Ole walked in.
Cold continues to hang in there. Breakfast at Bob’s.
Just a quorum at 8. Waiting to get started at 10:15 am.
Board of Trustees meeting upstairs in the Senior Ctr. Introduced and got approval for new Fundraising Committee. Emily gave her illustrated annual report. As always very good. Positive numbers and results galore. The slide that listed all of the organizations with whom the library collaborated during the year is especially startling. 
Left to go to Philadelphia at 12:30pm. Caught up with Nyla and Andrea outside the church where the Iron Gate Theater is located around 4pm. Aliyah, daughter of ???, who is attending Howard U. was also there. Talked, gabbed, Nyla did homework. Noah showed up for a few minutes. 
Then, less Noah we had dinner at Baby Blues BBQ. Food not very good.
Over the top salsa dance program. Lots of lights, sound, action…. audience screaming… quite a surprising new activity for Noah. Show began at ~8:30 ended at ~10:30pm.
We stayed at Hilton at Penns Landing. Had drinks and a snack at bar. Noisy ac system in room.
Breakfast at Bob’s with short visit to ShopRite. CVS to pick up Tadalafil. Only took two 20 mg tablets at $106. See if it works. Gallery sitting rest of day. Karen went to her balance class at the library and then to Ctr for Photography at Woodstock for an opening.
Seen at ShopRite. Not sure why “paws” is better than “feet”?
Spent lots of time on 2011 road trip project here. Also a posting on AD of John Oliver’s pieces on the US justice system John Oliver’s pieces on the US justice system.
Emily and Michael Chameides came by the gallery at the end of the day. Left exactly at 5:30. Good talk with Michael about his supervisor role and other local politics and policies. Very smart guy, Low key, pleasant to boot. Since I speak with Emily regularly we barely spoke. They enjoyed the exhibit, LandEscapes.
Michael O’Hara and Ruth Tamaroff came for drinks at 6:30. Lots of talk about Michael’s two week visit to Rome in January. We are planning a visit in May. He gave us very detailed descriptions of places he visited with suggestions along the way. I took three pages of notes. Very much fun visit with them. Ruth was a bit tippy on leaving. Michael seems impervious to drink.
Talked w Gayle Gendron about implementation and service processes, then drove to Tarrytown to meet with Ray Velez. Excellent meeting. He was impressed with the financial analysis of a doctor’s office using RPM. Very bright, experienced, aggressive guy. He didn’t blink at the commission structure. Got back to Hudson by 3:30pm. Worked more on apps bugs.Reported them to Seth….
Wrote “Recently Noted” entry about Reich’s new video, Socialism for the Rich Capitalism for the Rest.
Worked with Karen on photos for books about our Lisbon and Sicily trips. Roast chicken for dinner. Ate more of Dave’s cannellini bean dish.
Late breakfast at Bob’s. Whitney and Steve were there. Karen and I talked about a road trip in September. Went to Walmart. Karen arranged for my first shot of the new anti-shingles vaccine.
Worked on the photos from the Sicily trip in 2018. Over 1,400 from this Netherlands-Sicily trip in October. The iPhone time stamps and the camera time stamps are slightly out of synch causing troubles with the sequencing.
Went to art opening in late afternoon at Hudson Opera House. Too many people. Stopped at Red Dot for a drink and appetizers.
On the way home ran into Michael O’Hara outside his house. We stood over the construction site next door.
Just as I noticed that the first floor joists are attached to a ledger board instead of sitting on top of the foundation Michael said that the contractor had poured the wall 18” too high. What a mess. Then Michael told the story of how the original building had collapsed because they had dug down 2 feet below the bottom of the original stone foundation. The clay subsoil gave way causing first a side wall then the front wall to slip in under the building. Big SNAFU. So far this is not an advertisement for competence on the part of the architect owners nor the contractors.
Watched the fourth in the Kavanaugh Q.C. British TV series from the mid ‘90s. Followed by another VEEP.