Category Archives: 2016

Thursday – 11/10/2016

Went to library. Started working on letter to Noah about his college essay. Picked up Will in the World, the Shakespeare biography. Continued to stew about the election. Maybe it is time to write an angry old white guy piece.

UTM meeting with Ole and Seth for two hours plus in the afternoon.

Karen and I attended  CGCC students on the Gotsch Papers presentation at the library. Very poor presentation skills. Might be interesting work about social mobility. Data focused on Irish immigrants in mid-19th century Hudson.

Tuesday – 11/8/2016 – Election Day

Meeting with Chad Weckler at CEDC and Michael Tucker about commercial kitchens and Hudson-Creative. Arrived at the end of the meeting due to my calendar entry screw up. Tucker is loud and mostly about his own opinions. 

Had coffee afterward with Chad. He told me of space offered to us at 3rd and State. 

Drove to NYC. Arrived about 2pm. At MET Breuer – old Whitney. Diane Arbus and Kerry James Marshall. image

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image Took selfies in our regular bench in the stairwell. Horse or fire station entries on E. 82nd St. 

Drove over to PioPio restaurant for Nyla’s 14th birthday party. Andrea, Noah, & John too. Very cheery time. 11082016-nyla-bday-1

Back to Hudson in time to watch some of the election returns at Spotty Dog. Went home at about 10. I went to sleep about 11. Woke up at 3am to discover a headline from NYTimes announcing Trump’s victory. Despite my lack of enthusiasm for Hilary C I am distressed. 

Monday – 11/7/2016

Weighed 230.5 this morning.

Wrote overview piece for Hudson-Creative. Then turned to my attention to the Our Situation essays. Started anew  writing a letter to Noah and Nyla. Very effective mode for me. Quickly got into the swing. Posing questions about why things are the way they are in order to get to the ideas.2016-11-07_2043

Went to get a haircut with Karen. Done, both of us in under 15 minutes. Then a stop at Walmart for drugstore. Got new dish towels to replace the rags we have used up completely.img_4258

Dave Drake came over for leftovers. Beef stew.
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Sunday – 11/6/2016

Trip to the corner for NYTimes.

Corner 1st and Warren - Forman House

Corner 1st and Warren – Forman House

After breakfast, a walk up Allen – Union, then back down Warren. ~ 2.5 miles.

Walked on the even (North) side of Union St. Had not noticed how large this yellow brick house is. And a bit further up the street, a house that we looked at when we shopping for one in 2009, has a pitch of more than a foot bottom to top. Always though that it was just the porch that is sagging.

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Stopped at Damiani Gallery. Sue Chiafullo was there. She is trying to sell her house in Kinderhook and move to Charleston, SC. House is not moving.

No one came to the gallery at all. K. Closed up early at 5pm.

I spent afternoon of and on making beef stew. Ran out of Mr. Robot series. Started third season of The Fall with Gillian Anderson.

Saturday – 11/5/2016

Bob’s Diner for breakfast. Price Chopper, &  farmer’s market. 

Then I drove to Walmart for tennis balls and 3-in-One oil; then to the bank for cash and a stop at Fairview Wine. 

Gallery watch until 3pm. 

Tennis at CGCC with Ted Dewsnap. Unusually we played a set. I won 6-2. 

Bard Conservatory Orchestra: Beethoven’s Leonora Overture; Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; and Shostakovich Symphony No. 5. We sat in Row H. unusually close to the orchestra. The strings seemed on top of us. The balance was not what I usually like. Next time we will try seats back around Row T.image

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Friday – 11/4/2016

Met with David Murphy about HAL matters. Basement issues are sorting themselves out to pretty good satisfaction. He asked me to attend the next Finance Committee mtg. 

Talked with Matt Almeida. Key topic is a lead tracking system. 

Worked on RoadTrip Keynote piece. Went to courts for practice at 4:30. 

Watched Citizen Four about Edward Snowden. A remarkable documentary. image

Thursday – 11/3/2016

Spent most of day working on the Road Trip Keynote review and diary entries. Also talked with UTM about RPM pricing. image

Played tennis w Ted D. Very windy. Less than good tennis. 

Karen gave her 20th century women photographer lecture for Anne Bertrand-Dewsnap’s art history class at Marist.

Chinese food from Red Chopstick. Very spicy. 

Talked w Harvey Meyerson for 45 minutes. 

Continued to watch Mr. Robot series. 

Monday – 10/31/2016

UTM – meeting with two Swedish guys, Fredrik Florberg and Niclas Fjälltoft.

Spent over four hours in discussion. Fredrik really liked the simplicity and robustness of the product. He is envisioning how to implement it in the healthcare sector in Sweden.

Lunch at Wunderbar.

Dinner with Dave Drake at New York Restaurant in Catskill. 

borrowed from Google Earth

borrowed from Google Earth