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3/24/2019 – painting, gallery, Indian music with kids,

Sunday

Slight coating of snow on the ground. After breakfast Karen went off to Williams Lumber to buy more White Dove paint. I was sitting at the breakfast table looking out when she came in from the barn. She promptly fell flat on her face on the two steps up to the deck.Very upsetting to me. She just jumped up and said that nothing was hurt. Probably bruised knees.

More work on Sicily photos. Prepped and painted walls in gallery. Karen painted the doorway in the kitchen.

Went to Hudson Opera House for a concert of Indian music with kids from Hudson performing. Lots of fun. You can hear the kids in the background. As the music gained pace some began to dance around.

Ran into Pauline Decarmo on way home. She gave us some weed to tide us over. We also talked about her design work of UTMH.

Stopped at new store next to Vico. Strange place. The Hudson Underground. The Hudson Underground. 

Beer can chicken, spinach, leftovers

 

3/23/2019 – breakfast, farmers market, travel photos, art opening

Saturday

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.

 

3/22/2019 – UTMH, road trip posting, tennis, Karen, Chinese food

Friday

Good talk with Karen about the UTMH situation. She said to back off on the idea that my management style doesn’t fit. Focus on chaos of the situation. Then, Seth called to say that he has arranged to meet with David. 

Meeting w David and Seth went well. David took responsibility for Wexelman and other parts. When I asked about the budget for marketing events he nodded without answering my real question about how much money we have. Concluded on strategy for Gayle and Ole. We’ll make this a biweekly event. 

Feel less oppressed and depressed with more clarity amongst the three of us about the situation and my obligations and theirs.

More work on the Feb 2011 road trip posting  

Tennis with Ted at Old Chatham Tennis on clay for two hours. 4-6pm. Played well. Lost two sets 6-4, 6-4. Exhausted.  

Photo sent by Jonathan. Taken at opening reception for Photographuc Resource Center Exposure 2018 22nd annual Juried exhibition where Karen was one of 11 photographers displayed. 

Chinese food from Red Chopsticks for dinner.

3/21/2019 – UTMH, travel posts, tennis

Thursday 

Starting to feel very depressed about UTMH. Little progress, frustrated with people, lack of budget, remote management may not be working for me, David’s craziness…..  what to do??

Meeting with Seth at CMH. Project continues to be doing well though their sense of urgency is low….

Worked on February 2011 road trip project blog February 2011 road trip project blog elsewhere here. Very good work set up with drag and drop of photos in the post.

Tennis lesson was excellent. Working on reforming the drop off the racket of the back swing on the backhand side. 

Spoke with Alan Harris about his Euphorium.buzz business for an hour. His wife is the actress Charlayne Woodard.  He is brother of Anita. Love stone product. MrCheckout opportunity. Strange guy. Obviously very ill.

Karen went to her book group. Smoked last of the weed. I fell asleep at 9:15 pm or so just after she returned.

3/20/2019 – assessment response, travel photos, Anita Harris, UTMHH, tennis

Wednesday

Most of morning worked on response to new real estate assessment on 114. 

More work on February 2011  road trip photos.

Spoke with Seth then Kurt Lozier at SOMML. Ole reported on his conference at NY Home Health Association meeting yesterday.

Anita Harris. 

Tennis doubles at Total Tennis. 

3/19/2019 – travel photos, non-fiction book club, tennis

Tuesday

Skipped UTMH team meeting. Spoke with David Ball about white paper. Chatted with David Ackerman.

Spent most of day working on reconstituting travel photos from as far back as 2008.

Went through a February 2011 trip south and west to New Mexico and back. Reminded me of how much I enjoy the driving around trips. This one started in Cambridge for the Super Bowl, then Washington DC, down along the Smoky Mountains, Chattanooga, Montgomery AL (19 degrees in the morning, New Orleans, St. Charles LA, Galveston, TX, Houston, Austin, LBJ homestead, Fredericksburg, Seminole Canyon St. Park, camping a few times, Carlsbad Canyon, Roswell NM, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, NM, Canyon TX, Oklahoma City, Memphis, then long drive back to Ed’s house. Approx. 21 days. 

RVW Bridge from Catskill Waterfront Park

Should do more of these. 

Scanned through 1/3 of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. This for the Non-Fiction Book group next Monday.  Too much detail, too long, not very interesting.

Tennis at night.

3/18/2019 – HAL, travel photos

Monday

Cold weather returns – 29 degrees at 7am.

Went to library at 10am to interview Tina Lesem for admin asst position. Very bright, verbal, experienced. Great candidate, Hope Emily hires her right away.

Spent most of day wrestling with travel photos. Re-organizing, downloading stuff from iCloud. The travel file is almost 100 GBs. Started to split it in half. 

Avoided talking with David Ackerman. Seth is away.

Found a pile of little travel notebooks. Earliest dates back to 1989 trip to Cascades. Read aloud over dinner the entries for our HK-Vietnam trip in 12/2008-1/2009. One note about how Vietnamese treat children was a reminder. “Everywhere people pick Jesse up almost without asking. He is paraded around and played with. Seems that there is communal ownership of babies.” This happened on the street in Hanoi and also in a restaraunt somewhere where the wait staff, not having much too do, came over and took Jesse away. We had lunch in leave and he was entertained.

3/17/2019 – St. Patrick’s Day lunch, travel photos

Sunday

Karen went out to visit Richard Edelman with others from photog group. She had set up the crock pot with the corned beef cooking. 

Dinner at 1 or so. Dave brought beans and greens; Sherry Jo brought salad. We supplied the rest. Pauline’s sister came too. Anita Harris came too. 

Spent most of afternoon restoring lost travel photos from 2018.