Left for Florida about on time at 9:10am.
Drove 600 miles to Smithfield NC. Went to dinner at a local place. Dreadful BBQ pulled pork. Not a good advertisement for NC style BBQ.
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Thursday – 2/9/2017
Snow
Snow started after 4 am; ended about 3:30pm Probably 10 inches or so. Karen shoveled because I am officially disqualified due to cataract surgery .
INCOMPLETE 3/14/2019
Tuesday – 2/7/2017
Cataract Surgery
Up at 5:30am. Hospital admissions at 6:30. Look up at the light in the ceiling about 8. A few minutes later, “I’m about 90% done.” – Dr. Esposito
Home by 9:30
Rest of Day
Watched documentaries, napped, not much else. Start drops in eye 4 times a day for the next 4 weeks.
Monday – 2/6/2107
Up promptly – in car and out of Belmont by 7:40am. Back to Hudson by 10:30.
Promised teleconference with UTM evaporated.
Long talk with Brigid Dorsey about her business. She has come around on her own to the need to raise funds from friends and network. Has reached out to Joe Keenan and his daughter Lauren to help with a crowdfunding campaign.
Watched more of the British TV series- The Shadow Line. Trouble getting to sleep. Need to be up at 5:30 tomorrow to get to hospital for cataract surgery at 6:30am.
Sunday – 2/5/2107
at Ryles.
Brunch with the regular crew at Ryles in Inman Square. Got confused about where I was headed, kept trying to drive to Davis Sq. The pull of the long history of brunches at now defunct Johnny D’s probably. Arranged not to sit near Ruth Goodman. Talked mostly with Michael Beach and Edie Bresler, new love interest for Cindy Weisbart.
Lunch with Paul and Ruth Richards at Paddy’s in West Newton
Super Bowl
Very exciting game during the last quarter. Improbable outcome.
Vertigo continues especially getting up in the middle of the night.
Saturday – 2/4/2017
Breakfast at Esther’s house. Picked up Ellen Feldman and drove to Addison Gallery in Andover.
Addison Gallery
Excellent exhibitions. Disturbing series on the Manzanar Internment Camp by Ansel Adams, very propagandistic. Surprising show about Triple Candie group that showed things in a warehouse on 126th St in Harlem during the ’70s. See the slide show of things I liked here. Also revisited a Charles Sheeler painting Ballardvale. The ship models in the basement are still a treat.
Karen’s Clams
Drove down to Wollaston Beach in North Quincy. Both beachfront clam shacks were closed for the season. Duh!! Found Burke’s Seafood just off 3A in North Quincy center. Meltdown averted. Food was good, ambience excellent local.
Seen in front of Catholic church around the corner on 3A. Superbowl is tomorrow. Guess Jesus is on the Patriot’s side.
I’m Not Your Negro – movie
Saw this at Landmark in Cambridge with Ellen Feldman. Outstanding, compelling. Baldwin, as noted earlier in the Fall 2016 at HAL workshop, still speaks to us.
Dinner at the Friendly Toast
A Kendal Sq. eatery favored by Elfel. Drove to Belmont to stay with Bill and Nancy. Arrived on schedule at 8:30 pm sharp.
A throwback. Still good. Still cheap.
Friday – 2/3/2017
Follow up appntmnt with Jeanne Pierce. Blood work good. Gave me a referral to Fish and Game for the benign positional vertigo.
Updated UTM overview flyer for RPM. Talked with Matt Almeida. Opened mail, paid bills, finally found cataract instructions bundled in with the ones for the hydrocelectomy.
Left for Cambridge for Super Bowl weekend at 12:30. Arrived at Esther’s house then to movie.
Paterson
Thursday – 2/2/2017
Dr. Rivard. He said everything is healing well. Go back to regular activities. See him in four months.
Brutalism in Albany
Library Meeting
Wednesday – 2/1/2107
Went to CMH for UTM meeting about Remote Patient Monitoring project.
Very succcessful meeting to kick off the patient pilot. Lots of good ideas from the staff.
Linda departs
Drove to Albany. Lunch at Iron Gate restaurant just across the street from the Albany Institute of Art and History. Wandered around Rte 43 going east before connecting with 9 to go back to Hudson.
Outside Albany Institute
1924 Auto Show Albany Armory – one of many local photographs in a large survey on display at the Institute.
Amtrak Station, Renssalear NY
Tuesday – 1/31/2017
Local Produce
Went to corner store for some cereal for Linda. The prominence of sugar is amazing. Who would have thought of Reese’s Puffs?
Up and out to dentist appointment for root canal. Another $1,000 procedure!
The three of us went to the library. Karen to talk with Brenda Shufelt about the replace Peppler print.
Took Linda to see the library for the first time. Lunch at Cascades. Chatted with Linda about her doings. She is working on a research project at Mass Mental on how mentally ill relate to their clinicians. Structured interviews.
Met with Seth Lachterman in mid afternoon. Prep for tomorrow’s CMH meeting.
Geodesic dome house along Rte 25 in Stockport.
Linda and I went on a little ride in the country. Stockport Creek, then along Hudson River to Rte 25 to 9H to Stottville.
Stop at Price Chopper for bread for garlic bread.
Flat Tire
Dave Drake called at 6 to say that he had a flat tire. So we agreed to declare victory and we would get together another time. This left us short spaghetti sauce. Opened freezer, hot sausage into the nuker and 30 minutes later sauce. Karen made garlic bread a la Joy of Cooking. Very good.