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Tuesday – 3/14/2017 – big snow storm
8am
Karen informs that it was snowing at 3am. I was asleep. A few inches at 8 am.
Noon
Noon
3pm
6pm
Spent the day in the house excepting a couple of forays to shovel
March Trip Packing List
#todo
☐ 6 underwear
☐ 6 socks
☐ 6 t-shirts
☐ 6 shirts
☐ 1 pants
☐ 1 sweater
☐ baseball hat
☐ sun glasses clip on
☐ bathrobe
☐ toiletry bag
☐ pill cases
☐ antacid
☐ laxative
☐ amoxicillin
☐ anti-viral
☐ viagra
☐ oil
☐ toothpicks
☐ nail clipper
☐ nose clipper
☐ sports coat
☐ rain gear
☐ lightweight jacket
☐ camera + case
☐ extra camera batteries
☐ camera battery charger
☐ iPad
☐ iPad case
☐ backpack
☐ iPad power supply
☐ iPhone charger
☐ iPhone earbuds
☐ notebook
☐ airplane cushion
☐ power outlet adaptors
☐ passport
☐ Black garbage bags
☐ Cardboard
3/12/2017 – Clark and Mass MOCA
Sunday
Karen is worried about the snow storm forecast for Tuesday into Wednesday. Possible impact on our departure.
Trip with Dave Drake to The Clark and Mass MICA. Big exhibit of Japanese wood block prints st Clark. 
Mass MOCA was as usual underwhelming and a bit annoying. It’s part of the contemporary art puffery machinery. Vast spaces and poles of money to support the production of art that is not very interesting one wouldn’t plan a revisit to see any of it.
Lunch with beer at a place in the complex run by a Brian Flach’s brother Danny. 
Saturday- 3/11/2017
Two library meetings. Finance Committee and Proposition 414 Committee.
Afternoon movie, Get Out. OK horror movie, short on the race component promised by it creator J. Peele. Followed by dinner at Chinese restaurant next door. .
Thursday – 3/9/2017
Worked library voter lists. Then we drove to Crossgates Mall in Albany in search of rain proof coats for our Netherlands visit. Went to Burlington Coat Factory. Dreadful place. Never enter that store again. Walked across mall to Macy’s. now suffering from early signs of consumption revulsion. Nothing water proof there. Stopped at Dicks where we found two water proof jackets. Saved. Continue reading
Wednesday – 3/8/2017
Great start to the morning.
Cleaned up office. Paid bills. Added citations from Sachs book Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable. Getting ready to write a review.
A Boy’s Book of Model Railroading
Congressman Faso and the proposed American Health Care Act
Congressman Faso
Today I received an email from my Congressman, John Faso, concerning the proposed American Health Care Act. It included a link to a Republican website that speaks to their proposed legislation and a link to the the actual legislation. Asking me to read the legislation is insulting because though I am fairly literate it is well known that the language of legislation is a swamp of references to other pieces of legislation frequently calling for comprehensive knowledge of the topic to even begin understanding its implications.
The site also spends a lot of time bad-mouthing Obamacare. I get it. Republicans don’t like Obamacare. The question is how will they improve upon it??
Congressman Faso and the proposed American Health Care Act
Congressman Faso
Today I received an email from my Congressman, John Faso, concerning the proposed American Health Care Act. It included a link to a Republican website that speaks to their proposed legislation and a link to the the actual legislation. Asking me to read the legislation is insulting because though I am fairly literate it is well known that the language of legislation is a swamp of references to other pieces of legislation frequently calling for comprehensive knowledge of the topic to even begin understanding its implications.
The site also spends a lot of time bad-mouthing Obamacare. I get it. Republicans don’t like Obamacare. The question is how will they improve upon it??
Tuesday – 3/7/2017
Worked on library volunteer site most of day. Solved the problem of keeping two different type of volunteers visible until processed. Then they automatically show upon Active lists.
Went to PT for second visit w Susan Sheldon about vertigo she repeated treatment to try to overcome lingering problems on getting up from bed.
Tennis nets are up early this year!!
Boring UTM telecon w Seth, Ole & Gayle went on for almost an hour. Need to work on marketing plan.
More Homeland and The Americans followed by 30 Rock. Karen still coughing.
Monday – 3/6/2017
8:30 discussion with Jeffrey Cadan about his business presentation. Made revisions. Plan to talk further at 11. No call back from him for the rest of the day.
Worked on volunteer site for HAL. Trouble with backend filters. No OR function.
Brief walk to river with Karen. Made vegetable frietada for dinner.
Watched two more episodes of The Americans. Scandal and then 30 Rock.