Spent time trying to get Lightroom up and running to replace Photos app, and UTMH work. Went to play tennis with Ted at 2:30 pm. 40 degrees but little wind. Balls didn’t bounce much so many ball were hit at ankle height. Then we had snow flurries. Time to end the outdoor season?? When will the city take down the nets? Usually already happened by this point in the year.
Hung up banner for last DOG show of the year.
Watched more of Homeland and Ally McBeal
Woke up this morning to this article headline in the Guardian. Torrey reported just last night that there have been no new cases in Victoria for 28 days and no new deaths. He refers to this as a “double donut”.
Water dripping from sink front.
Saw this photo of a book carousel. Mindful of the dictionary carousels that were on a vertical axis, too. My resource access strategy is on the right.
The leak under the kitchen sink required two trips to Lowes for parts. The discovered that the threads on the drain assembly are stripped. New drain. Might as well buy a whole new drain, dishwasher stem, J trap assembly…..
Drove Karen up to East Greenbush for a reading of the biopsy on her upper lip. Fortunately the results are fairly benign. A pre-cancer finding. Now hopefully successfully eradicated through a cryogenic procedure.
Drove to Papscanee Island Nature Preserve for a walk. This park is located on the Hudson River in New Castleton, NY. 3.5 mile walk. Flat with occasional muddy section on the trail. Nice to be walking in a new environment.
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There must have been a very strong wind storm recently. Whole trees blown down….
Tennis with Ted in the afternoon. Esther Hanig drink at 5:30 via Zoom. Post Thanksgiving debrief…..
I have not felt motivated to write much during this period. The pandemic and its associated tribulations interfere.
We’ve been quite busy with socializing mainly virtually but with warm weather outdoors chiefly people’s backyards. We’ve moved our drinks with Ted and Anne to our backyards on a weekly schedule. Dave Drake has come by for food a number of times. He is working his way through a myriad of curry dishes. Zoom meetings weekly with Esther Hanig, Ellen Feldman, Dave Drake, the Orton siblings, the Leiden crew.
With less regularity Andrea and company have Zoomed and appeared here physically. Though we have seen Noah and Nyla twice now in the backyard once including Noah’s girlfriend Kiara Guyton. Andrea actually talked with us for almost two hours in a singe stretch. Probably my longest conversation with her in decades. Nyla wrote a great high school essay, “Aunt Jemima Ain’t Chure Mammy”
Out to factory at 8:30. UTMH work…. log in to new SaaS software. testing. Lots of work on user documentation. Doc Team meeting…. Somml. Most of day spent on UTMH. Drinks with Esther Hanig.
Breakfast w bran muffin, banana, and apple. Andrea called and spoke with Karen for a long time. Included me to look at pictures of a house in Sagaponick NY that Andrea has successfully bid $1.5 million. Fully furnished vintage 2002. 2 areas of land. Pool. Good rental property.
Standard walk. But 3.4 mph pace. Definitely the fastest yet.
Listening to lecture 10 in the neuroscience course – vision and visual perception. Also watched the new podcast from the HAL History Room. Gary Sheffer and Kelly Drahushuk on the cemetery. Worked on catching up on my diary on markorton.com.
Drinks with Dave Drake at 6:30pm…..
More Persons of Interest.
Day was pretty poopy….except for the HAL Nonfiction Book Group at 6pm. Six people. Good discussion of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Gene. Punctuated by Yvonne Jehenson introducing her comments with “This is fascinating” – heard this probably ten times in an hour.
Made pancakes with yogurt, this at Karen’s suggestion replace milk that was not available because the bodega hadn’t opened. Worked out fine. Sunday NYTimes paper was fairly quick reading. Took much pandemic news that is really not news here. Continue reading
seen at farmers market…..
Listened to Its Only a Game.
Read more of Gene.
Left for long walk at 9:30. Stopped at farmers market to pick up a fresh chicken from Letterbox.
More reading. Fixed bad CSS in the new newsletter plugin for DOG. Talked with Ted and Anne for more than an hour.
Dave’s pork vindaloo, Karen fiery cauliflower……
Person of Interest on tv.