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5/17/2019 – work, work, dinner out

Friday

UTMH – met with Pauline Decarmo about collaterals printing. Notes to new sales people. Re-wrote the Tinkering with Capitalism essay. Mostly re-arranging text and eliminating extraneous material.

Telecon with Troy Web. 25 minutes wasted on project management tasks they should know how to do and be doing them. Then rambling discussions, frequently amongst themselves about various trifles. We have to get rid of them. They are expensive but not contributing.

Met with Michael Queralt with David and Seth. 3 hour discussion. He is very experienced technologist and entrepreneur. Next steps may be interesting. He is knowledgeable of the healthcare marketplace. Nice guy to boot.

Spoke with Tony Kieraldo about renewing the utmhealthcare.com website.

Sent note to Linda McNutt and Mike from Kach Inc. about the repairs to the front lattice and gate.

Wrote note to Sam and Dan Sapoznick about blockchain technology mentioned by Queralt.

Walked up to Swoon for dinner. Big crowd at bar when we walked in. Gave up on sitting at the bar and sat at a table for dinner. Two Dewars and two dinners $85. Ole Breuning and Crystal Heinz came in. Ole and I spoke of UTMH matters. I told him that we had been stuck for twenty minutes on the name of a guy sitting at the bar . Finally recalled, Victor Amendola. Ole said, “It was a senior moment.” I corrected him, “It was a senior intermission.”


Karen noticed these fire connections with upside down medallions.

 

5/16/2019 – work, HAL, tennis, drinks with Ruth and Michael

Thursday

UTMH – telecon w David Ackerman and Tony Kieraldo about social media campaign. David was unusually engaged and positive. Go ahead for project. Tony performed very well. 

Meeting late morning with Seth and Paul Hamann and another person in Florida about NY Rural Water Association project. I will work on process mapping. 

Tennis lesson. Worked a lot on backhand ground stroke. Timing swing with bounce of ball. Backhand volley. Get racket out front. Arm motion towards ball. Big change in serve. Stand still, rock shoulders like a cartwheel without twisting body. Also less speed. 

Drinks with Michael and Ruth. Big spread of food. Good stories especially from Michael’s post high school years. Hitch hiking, freight trains.  Also found out Michael never went to college. 

5/15/2109 – sun, work, tennis

Wednesday

Sun early morning and mostly bright during the day – temperatures in low 60s. Almost spring like.

UTMH – meet with Michael Cole and Melissa Scherrif at Columbia County Mental Health to discuss the app project. Seth too. Then, in the afternoon Seth and I met with SOMML – contract finally signed. Also complained to each other about David’s behavior. Seth as frustrated as me. Talk again with Tony Kiieraldo about tomorrow’s telecon with David about the social media campaign.

Also did more work on the Tinkering with Capitalism essay.

Went over to Susan Rubin’s house at Crosswinds to assemble and put up a spice rack. Easy task. She shoed me around her two-bedroom townhouse. Really very well laid out, comfortable, with an amazing array of closets and fittings. She is very obviously very involved with yarn type projects. One large closet entirely devoted to yarn storage. She sent this picture.

Health

Finally got call back with results from colonoscopy. Everything normal. Turns out cut off age is 75. So another procedure in 2024. Also received call back from Dr. Subudhi about prostate MRI. Something there; need to do biopsy to establish whether it is cancer and what type. Need to research this a bit. Won’t do it until after return from Europe. He is a dreadful communicator.

Tennis

Played doubles at CGCC. Lots of fun. Joe’s grand son Dalton played. Very agile and quick with pretty terrific strokes. Kevin, Joe, Ted, Dalton, Paul, Ray, Tony and me. 4 sets. Played until dark. Down pour as we were leaving.

5/14/2019 – more rain and cold, work, carrot mushroom loaf

Tuesday

Another day of gray, cold, rainy weather. 

Woke to find that Seth had revised his piece last night. Gave up on really reviewing this. Sent it to Pauline Decarmo for her to revise her layouts. Scheduled discussion with her for 4pm. Need to be much clearer about what we need.

Met with David and Tony Kieraldo for morning UTMH team telecon.  Seth was sick. David muttered and gesticulated throughout the telecon. I put the phone on mute to prevent others from hearing this. Then, after the telecon, he announced that he didn’t want to listen to Tony’s very brief presentation about a new social media campaign. “Just send me the number of C level people who are on Twitter. Twitter is all crap” Very insulting behavior. 

 

5/13/2019 – rain, gray, cold, work, nonfiction book group

Monday

Nasty weather continued. Finished reading Susan Orlean’s The Library Book for tonight’s book group meeting. More writing in the essay Tinkering with Capitalism – homeostasis. Physical therapy with Anna Marie Zietsman. Lots of muscle and ligament stretching right hip. Met with Seth around UTMH matters. Received draft of marketing pieces from Pauline Decarmo. Was appalled to discover how bad the writing was. Sent note to Seth with angry comments.

Library nonfiction reading group was small. But discussion of Orlean’s book was buoyant.

 

5/12/2019 – rain, cold, DOG, drinks at Swoon

Sunday

Cold, rainy, rain. Breakfast at Rivertown Lodge with Dave and Daniel Drake. Food so-so. Conversation buoyant.  

DOG had some visitors despite weather.

Worked on new keynote capitalism essay. Biggest new claim concerns the ubiquity of regulators in every system except the economy.

Then a bunch written on the What Matters essay. 

Drinks at Swoon with Dave. Talked about Karen’s book project. Maybe pre-sell 500 copies.

Watched more Unforgotten and The Closer.

5/10/2019 – return to Hudson, work, tennis, DOG

Friday

Left Cambridge about 8:40; arrived Hudson 11:10… 

Telecon with Troy Web. Seth did all the talking. They still haven’t fixed the table sorting problem. Met with David and Seth. David immediately announced the shut down of any further discussion of a consumer product. He promised to tell Wexelman. We also discussed the terms and timing of an exit. He and Cameron want $50 million. I told him that I would work on finding a middle size healthcare company to buy us or partner with us. He agreed to meet with Tony Kieraldo to listen to his pitch for social media campaign. 

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