David Ackerman called at 8:30 am to cancel a meeting I had scheduled a bit later. Should have known that he would not meet with me. 4/15 is looming in his world, and mine since I have not worked on the taxes for a week.
Met with Jim Savage about his business idea Green Built LLC – hemp-lime building products. Continue reading
Gallery open.
Went to Swoon for Scotch after the gallery closed. We think we will reinstitute this tradition.
David Drake showed up. First time he had been in since he left a year ago. People still bring up Enid. Seems inappropriate at this point.
Lisa Kenneally still works there. No sign of Mark. But Lisa’s parents came in for a birthday dinner. Her father was a scuba diver doing underwater construction. Lisa thinks that he and I look a lot alike. Nice guy.
Sun over Walmart
Gym….. Breakfast at Bob’s. Then to Walmart.
Cotton picking productivity in The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist
Continuing to work through this book. Here is a graph that demonstrates that the cotton economy was in fact dynamic and enormously productive. Slave owners used detailed accounting of each slave’s production and regular beatings and other physical violence to enforce ever greater levels of production.
Argentine film, Wild Tales. Opens with a scene in an airplane that is really frightening because since the movie was made, the German airliner was crashed into the mountain in French Alps by a depressed guy. Scene in the movie shows captain banging on the door. Then the plane crashing into backyard of the co-pilots parents.
Completely over the top story of two guys who get into a traffic altercation on a remote highway. Both end up burned to death in a wrecked car.
Shift in slave populations from The Story Half Told
Worked on essay on slavery.
Prix Fixe dinner at Panzur in Tivoli. Fancy fired chicken followed up with ice cream sundae. sat at bar to talk with Dave Drake. Very busy. The drinks are so complicated that Dave needs to keep recipes to concoct them. Food was very inventive and good.
Saw Vicki and Dennis Kosovac. She barely acknowledged me. He was his usual glad handing self.
Recipes for drinks at Panzurs.
First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang
First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang
First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang
Kay Kenny’s house
Serious garden defenses at Kenny house
Snow almost gone.
Lots of UTM work. Meetings with Jan and Seth and Eliel. Talked about the long overdue website. Seems that Seth and Eliel are flailing around and each other.
Cleaned up HAL Armory site and worked on new calendar plugin for HAL website.
Hung up the first DOG show. Went to Kay Kenny’s house in Saugerties to pick up her pictures. Had to break in thru screen door.
Dinner with David Drake and Liz Allen chez nous – meatloaf – followed by music at Helsinki. Very good original music by Parker Milsap.
former Register Star building getting closer to completion.
former Register Star building getting closer to completion.
Parker Milsap at Helsinki
Door ornament at Helsinki
Breakfast out with Esther Hanig in Catskill at maybelle on Main St. Food was good, though a bit more adventuresome than needed for breakfast.
Tennis must be comingWent by courts behind the middle school. Nets up. Windy and forlorn, but they are up.
6:40 pm.
Went to gym, then breakfast at Bob’s diner. Conversation about free markets and how best to present ideas about how ideas about them permeate the culture.
ReadingPicked up book on slavery, cotton and capitalism at the library. Must write an essay about the four or five books that have transformed my view of race in American history in the last few years.
