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.
Breakfast and NYT’s.
Went to CGCC to a model toy and train expo. Surprisingly large event. Mostly men over 50.
Did buy a couple of cars marked with the Soo Line. HO and N scale. This because I worked on a track gang in Wisconsin during the summer of 1967.
Puttered around. Received call from Andrea about her boyfriend Jeff Cadan’s need for help with a presentation for investors in LMP Motors. Spent 3 hrs developing a draft. Will talk with him Monday morning. 
Watched two more episodes of The Americans
15 degrees when we got up. Winter is back for sure. Bob’s Diner for breakfast followed by quick shopping at Price Chopper. Home for coffee then a walk up to the indoor Farmers’ Market for Berkshire bread. 18 degrees. Cold fingers and face on walk back going into a stiff wind.
Karen noted this house on S. 6th St. again. Odd arrangement; maybe complex elevations inside.
Read much of a new NYReview of Books.
Went to library at 4 to see how the Living Library program was going. Karen talked with Jeff Rigby about repairing a book; I made paper birds with Pamela Badilla.
Off to TSL to see BEHEMOTH (BEI XI MO SHOU) a 2015 movie. Very compelling scenes from strip mining for coal in Inner Mongolia. Workers and goat herders lives in a tumult. Moved on to iron production. Workers with lung diseases. Ended with scenes in a ghost city of apartment towers somewhere west of Beijing. A tour de force about unrelenting uncontrolled exploitation of the earth and people by Chinese state capitalism.
Bruno tooth cleaning. Work on various currentmatters posts on capitalism.
Leftovers. Chicken, dal, spinach, carrots & celery
$30 breakfast at Le Perche. Caught Karen up on UTM matters and phone call with Carol. Spent much of the day working on pictures and paperwork in Factory. Walked up to CVS to pick up Viagra prescription. 10 = $360 even after discount coupon. Ran into David Drake on the street. Dinner at Wunderbar.
Received a call from David Ackerman early. Asked to see me privately before the 1:30 mtg w Seth and Ole about Open Telehealth. Karen dropped me off on her way to Boston.
David presented me with a document specifying UTM’s obligation to me for $110,000. This is my outstanding deferred compensation from UTM. He also mentioned the possibility of converting this sum into UTM stock. That might be userful. I need to follow up on that.
He also said that it had been agreed by Seth and Cameron Melville that I would take over management of the company in the event of David’s death (or presumably his incapacitation) His kidney transplant may occur within a month or so. He is getting weaker. Reported having to go home by 2 pm to take a nap.
UTM 2/27/17 from David Ackerman
Notes of meeting with David Ackerman 2/27/17
These documents will be put in my personal file for future reference. Interestingly David recognized that they could be useful to Karen if I should die.
Discussion of how to handle negotiations with Open Telehealth.
Yesterday’s joke transformed. In front of The Spotty.
Karen still quite sick with a cold. NYTimes with breakfast. Wrote a response to Joe Keenan then posted on currentmatters.markorton.com . “How Much Money Would It Take to Eliminate Poverty in the US.” – Spent much of the morning working on the search function for the volunteer site for the library. Then wrote instructions.
Walked up to Subway for sandwich and salad for our lunch. Stopped along the way to talk with Joan Damiani. Her art production is very high. She said that she sold two paintings in January. “Never happened before, probably won’t happen again. But, energizing.”
Also ranted about Trump.
New use of this term. Store on Columbia near chocolate store/
At 7th St. park. Had a medallion saying it is a Plymouth?
One or then worst looking buildings in Hudson
600 block of Warren. Reminds me of the student sculptures at the library
In front of The Spotty.
Two doors down from The Spotty.
Went on errands and took drive down Kips Lane in Greenport where there is a large trailer park. Deer herd grazing.
Karen has bad cold.
Breakfast at Bobs then shopping at Price Chopper and Walmart. Temperature 65 degrees
I worked on the forms on the library volunteer site. Figured out how to get the flow working. Went library at noon. Prop 414 meeting at 1. Lasted almost until 3.
Volunteer Fair followed at 4. Spent most of the time talking with Joe Keenan. About 30 people attended along with the whole board. Fixed problem with the online application form on the fly.
Came home as the 60 degree weather broke in a windy blow. Temperature fell quickly. Got to 2nd St just as rain changed into a downpour. 40 degrees at 7pm.
Very good results from Wednesday’s visit with PT for the vertigo. Symptoms almost entirely gone.
Sent note to various consulting clients announcing that I am winding down my consulting practice. Will only carry UTM and Matt Almeida going forward. Not clear whether I will entertain new clients from HVADC and Columbia Ec Dev.?? Kind of hard to entirely shut the door. Continue reading
Tooth appointment at 8am. Discussions of the loose tooth. First mention that an implant might be possible. Cost?? Usefulness??
Ellen Feldman spent most of the day working with Karen on various projects.
Drove meandering through Catskill. It really has a better housing stock of the old buildings than Hudson.
UTM telecon with Vilat Keomoungkhoun from IndoorAtlas. They seem not to have any capacity to develop apps to actually use their IPS services. Big opportunity for us. He is meeting with Cintel in Barcelona next week and will show our app to them. Yahoo in mid-March. Knows other opportunities including Simon Group biggest shopping mall owner in US. Seth and Ole participated.
Final work on HAL volunteer website. Went to library to talk with Emily. Ran into Theresa Parsons, her step-son, a psychotherapist, and his two little boys.
Karen went off to meetings in Saugerties. Arrived back at 9:30 or so. Had Chinese food from Red Chopsticks. Couldn’t eat but half.
Red Chopsticks, Warren St.
Red Chopsticks, Warren St. Don’t know what that round wooden wall hanging means or not?