Éric Philippe Bernard Van Hove Marsan de Mondragon (born 1975 in Guelma, Algeria) is a Cameroon-raised Belgian conceptual artist and entrepreneur. He lives and works between Brussels and Marrakech. (from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Van_Hove )
UTMH work in the morning. Met with Tony Kieraldo to develop new social media program. David A. Has already indicated he doesn’t want to spend money on it even before seeing the proposal. Turns out he is once again funding the company so this brings out his craziness about money. Then, telecon with a private equity firm. We aren’t mature enough to be of immediate interest. David once again closed the door with his closing comments. A pointless exercise. Seth and I had a telecon with Troy Web about project status. Then lunch with David. He once again expressed himself about the social media campaign. This despite the fact that the revised proposal won’t be forwarded for review until Monday.
Jumped in car at 1 pm for ride down to NYC and Nyla’s lacrosse game at Horace Mann. Talked with Matt Almeida on the way down.
Across the street from the field….
Trinity won the game 8-7. Nyla scored 3 goals. Girls lacrosse is a strange unsatisfactory game.
Drove into Harlem in time to get to the Maysles Documentary Center for a showing of The Feeling of Being Watched by Assia Bondaoui. Andrea had tickets.
This is a personalized story of the investigation of FBI surveillance and harassment of a Muslim community outside of Chicago in the late 1990s into early 2000s. Very good. Discussion following was also stimulating. Mentions of “politics of respectability” – reminds the same in the history of civil rights earlier. Also the need to get beyond the objective journalism trope.
Back to Andrea’s about ten pm.
Feeling substantially back to normal.
Energetic UTMH team meeting, minus Seth and Ole, concerning Tony Kieraldo’s social media campaign. Spoke briefly with Emily from HAL.
Tennis lesson. Very demanding. Ended with work on serve. New image of throwing the right shoulder up towards the ball. Ball needs to be thrown very high.
Nets up and ready at Total tennis.
Lots of UTMH work throughout the day.
Met with David Murphy at Verdigris . Caught up on his personal goings on. He bought a house on the top of the hill up Rossman. Next to cemetery. Union St. house is for sale. Also talked about the fundraising committee. He agreed to participate. Always good to talk with him.
Played tennis doubles at CGCC. Played poorly with little rhythm. Bad serve. Last set played into the darkness was very good. Played with Paul Ambrose against Ted and Bob Gegen.
Still underpowered from cold. Foggy and low energy.
Met with Tony Kieraldo at Rev about UTMH matters. He told me about his music tour in Europe and Lebanon. We talked through a new social media campaign to develop leads for UTMH. Bright guy. Also met with David and Seth. The, late afternoon Ole. Missed an appointment at PT with Corey Smith. This has not happened before.
HAL NonFiction Book Club – picked up Erika Born out in Ghent because Nick was busy and couldn’t come. Good discussion of Drawdown edited by Paul Hawken. Emily, Karen, Lisa Stewart, Erika Born, Nancy Kuster, Michael O’Hara, Ruth Tamaroff, Juan Flores(new) and Bob Braunlich from SunCommon in Rhinebeck. Michael gave a good description of how a carbon tax could be implemented.
Up promptly Tuesday morning. Enema in preparation for the prostate MRI up in Latham at ImageCare. Arrived at 10:30 back in car at 11:40. 30 minutes in the machine. Wait for the results.
Emily called from the library to discuss how to handle requests from Register Star for video from security camera on second floor that may have caught the altercation between Tom DePietro and John Friedman during a Common Council meeting last week. Camera belongs to Galvan but is recorded on our equipment. The police had come by earlier and taken a copy with Galvan’s permission. Emily will refer them to Galvan for permission to release.
Long nap in the afternoon. Dinner at Dave’s in Catskill. Karen made a salad and I made rice pudding. Lamb, saag paneer, yellow sauce, cheese cake by Hazel.
8 pm looking west.
Recently have begun to add materials from old notebooks and digital materials from as early as 1999.
After breakfast and Sunday NYTimes on paper we had a rain abbreviated walk to 3rd street and back.
DOG gallery sitting. The I went to the library for Music in the Stacks. Moyna, a Bangladeshi music group.
Outside Tanzys
Construction next to Ruth and Michael seems stalled.
Breakfast at Tanzys. Talked with Tom and Tisha Mulligan about travel. Barcelona. Rome. Sicily. Most of the Hudson police force was there too. As always the food was great.
Farmers Market is back outdoors. Cold, windy.
Then to Goodwill to find a new lightweight jacket. Came home with jacket and new sweatpants and a large cast iron sauce pan. This to replace one of the nonslip pans
Picked up four frozen chickens at Letterbox Farm.
Karen went to balance class at the library. Three people came in the gallery.
Tennis at CGCC with Ted. Cold and slow. Played for a little over an hour.
Ted and Anne came for drinks. The usual fun. Lots of talk about Rome.
Stoned. Listened to the Last Walz. Then Bosch.
Got up at 6 am to take the second round of last night’s laxatives. Third day of this process. 
Appointment at 10:30am at CMH.
Anesthetist said that she was starting the propofol drip. I woke up sometime later back in the ambulatory room. Never actually met the doctor, Dr. Blachman. He walked in when I was already lying on my side falling asleep. Everything went well. Everything normal.
Lunch at The Cascades at 1:15 pm with Karen. Miranda Barry and Charlotte Sheedy were there. Charlotte still doesn’t recognize me.
Had a new sandwich, The Catamount.
Catamount (Vegetarian) $8.25
Hummus, cucumber, roasted red peppers, grated carrots, sprouts, and mozzarella cheese with a touch of balsamic vinaigrette served on mixed grain bread
Think this will be my go-to sandwich in place of tuna on multi-grain.
Talked with Matt Almeida. Things are slow on his end.
Cold finally departing. Wednesday evening spent drinking almost a gallon of some sort of laxative. Spent several hours puttering around between trips to the bathroom.
Picked up UTMH paycheck, went to bank for deposit. Drove by high school. Book Festival is coming.
Received annoying note from Anne Terwilliger at the library requesting a meeting to talk about “problems”. I have to talk with Emily about this.
Karen was away at her Woodstock critique group.
Spoke with Emily Thursday morning at our regular weekly telecon. Agreed that I will reply to Anne with the proviso that Emily would be present at any meetings with staff.
Watched a lot of Youtube videos, tennis, politics, construction…..