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Haircut. Karen ran the mini-lawnmower around. Very satisfactory results. Continue reading
Author Archives: markorton
2/9/2021 – Tuesday
First up for the day is UTMH Work. Team mtg. Update websites.
Entered several jaunts on OldDodgeVan.
3-4 inches of snow, fluffy.
2/8/2021 – Monday – first missed Orton sibling chat in more than ten months
Didn’t know about comics in the Washington Post
Lots of work on describing capitalism for talk with Jonathan. He sent me PowerPoint for his next lecture. Also replied at length to Cindy Weisbart about financialization and monopolization of the economy. Continue reading
2/7/2021 – Sunday – 7 minute photo exercise – Superbowl
Light snow.
Zoom with Sunday brunch group.
Lunch time Zoom with Leiden. Continue reading
2/2/2021 – Tuesday – snow, clean up, kitchen repairs, “general consensus”
Snow over night
6:50am
7:30am Continue reading
2/1/2021 – Monday – snow early
Snow forecast
Got up at 3:30 am for ibuprofen for hip. It had started snowing several hours before forecast.
Scanned a bunch of old photos. 
Andrea and Mark bringing paint back to 266 Western Ave during Great Blizzard of ‘78 in Cambridge.
UTMH – meeting with OSPLabs. Possible new software developer.
Spoke with Matt Almeida.
3pm. Snow
Lots of work on OldDodgeVan.com.
5 pm more snow. 
Orton sibling chat. I recalled a summer debate between Torrey and Father when he was 16 or so over whether the phrase “general consensus” was a redundant phrase.
1/31/2021 – Sunday – steak for dinner
Continued very cold.
Shopping before breakfast. Bought some sausages for breakfast. Scrambled eggs.
NYTimes then more work on OldDodgeVan. Zoom with Leiden.
Sunday drive. Catskill and environs.
Octagonal house off Division St. Hidden behind trees.
Steak for dinner. A new monthly ritual. 
1/30/2021 – Saturday – finish move to OldDodgeVan.com – new iPad mini
9 degrees at 6:50am. Cold spell continues.
After breakfast did exercises to a YouTube video with Karen. Very uncomfortable coordination tasks for me. Will try again.
Set up new iPad mini. Completed transfer of markorton.com to olddodgevan.com
1/29/2021 – Friday – moving family history project to OldDodgeVan.com
7 degrees at 6:30am
Drove to Greenbush with Karen to dermatology appointment. Worked on UTMH docs in car.
Spent rest of morning working in the sun room Too cold to heat up the factory.
Talked with Anita Harris.
Tennis with Ted at Chatham. 
Drinks with Esther.
Started process of moving the content of markorton.com to olddodgevan.com . 8 GB of data – 3 hours of upload time.
New iPad mini was delivered at 8:30pm
More Jack Irish tv series.
1/28/2021 – Thursday – more old photos
More work on scanning old photos. 
Jonathan and Andrea in the loft bedroom 266 Western ~1977.
Helped Linda with her online grocery shopping.
Brief chat with Ryder and Erin at UTMH
Tennis lesson. Offense, Neutral, Defense. No noticeable pain.
Made a ton of roasted veggie gorp with sausage. Spicy. 6 lbs leftover.
Drinks with Karen. Moving family history project to olddodgevan.com
More Jack Irish series.