Got up at 6 am to take the second round of last night’s laxatives. Third day of this process.
Appointment at 10:30am at CMH.
Anesthetist said that she was starting the propofol drip. I woke up sometime later back in the ambulatory room. Never actually met the doctor, Dr. Blachman. He walked in when I was already lying on my side falling asleep. Everything went well. Everything normal.
Lunch at The Cascades at 1:15 pm with Karen. Miranda Barry and Charlotte Sheedy were there. Charlotte still doesn’t recognize me.
Had a new sandwich, The Catamount.
Catamount (Vegetarian) $8.25
Hummus, cucumber, roasted red peppers, grated carrots, sprouts, and mozzarella cheese with a touch of balsamic vinaigrette served on mixed grain bread
Think this will be my go-to sandwich in place of tuna on multi-grain.
Talked with Matt Almeida. Things are slow on his end.
Cold finally departing. Wednesday evening spent drinking almost a gallon of some sort of laxative. Spent several hours puttering around between trips to the bathroom.
Picked up UTMH paycheck, went to bank for deposit. Drove by high school. Book Festival is coming.
Received annoying note from Anne Terwilliger at the library requesting a meeting to talk about “problems”. I have to talk with Emily about this.
Karen was away at her Woodstock critique group.
Spoke with Emily Thursday morning at our regular weekly telecon. Agreed that I will reply to Anne with the proviso that Emily would be present at any meetings with staff.
Watched a lot of Youtube videos, tennis, politics, construction…..
Spent most of these days mopping about. Low energy.
Tuesday, UTMH team meeting was buoyant. Sam missed it due to some call. Otherwise Wexelman and Ole held the floor. Some good ideas about details of how doctors use the UTM:RPM reporting tools.
Saw Anna Marie Zeitsman at Fish and Game Physical Therapy. She had me walk around the building. Noticed that my right hip is slightly immobilized and so I am swinging my whole body forward skewing the gait a bit. Overall she still finds things to be in good shape with further opportunities to put off hip replacement. She also noticed that my toes don’t stretch up as much as they should. 5 degrees deflection instead of 10. This could account for my two recent tripping events on the tennis court. I am shuffling my feet.
Received this video from Nan. Anna doing the bars.
Bad night of little sleep. Cold slowly getting better.
Penns Landing
looking out the window from the hotel – 16th floor….
Battleship New Jersey across the river….
Walked on the promenade below the hotel:
A few historic markers:
Barnes Museum
Parking ended up to be about 1/2 mile from the Barnes. Saw this strange truck across the street.
Sent photo to Matt Almeida as a joke. He replied:
That is GREAT! Only in Philly.
I remember all the food trucks in Philly, but I have never seen a background check truck.
Looks like you may have stumbled onto a new franchise model. A cheesesteak and criminal record check truck. The back half can sell cheesesteaks and you can order your criminal record check from the front half while you wait for them to cook it.
At The Barnes
Is the slurping sound part of the design??
The iron works caught my eye. Turns out that Barnes had worked at the layout and arrangement of the objects in these room for decades. All part of a pedagogical approach (see John Dewey) to display not that of a museum. Then I noticed that the iron works were really arrangement of objects with their own shapes in counterpoise to various aspects of the paintings. The ironwork is a decorative element. There is not an intent to display them on their own.
Left Philadelphia and drive to Berkeley Heights for a visit with Ed and Meredith. Talk about their plans to move to the Seattle area, land and construction versus buying existing, Meredith’s retirement plans complicated by changes in retirement plans by the school system. We had roast lamb. It was Easter afterall. Met the new dog. Now forgotten the name. Energetic part beagle, 6 years old. Parker was in his usual question mode.
Returned to Hudson in time to go to Swoon for a drink with Dave. Doors closed but we got let in. Several people we know from Catskill were there. Ole walked in.
Cold continues to hang in there. Breakfast at Bob’s.
Just a quorum at 8. Waiting to get started at 10:15 am.
Board of Trustees meeting upstairs in the Senior Ctr. Introduced and got approval for new Fundraising Committee. Emily gave her illustrated annual report. As always very good. Positive numbers and results galore. The slide that listed all of the organizations with whom the library collaborated during the year is especially startling.
Left to go to Philadelphia at 12:30pm. Caught up with Nyla and Andrea outside the church where the Iron Gate Theater is located around 4pm. Aliyah, daughter of ???, who is attending Howard U. was also there. Talked, gabbed, Nyla did homework. Noah showed up for a few minutes.
Then, less Noah we had dinner at Baby Blues BBQ. Food not very good.
Over the top salsa dance program. Lots of lights, sound, action…. audience screaming… quite a surprising new activity for Noah. Show began at ~8:30 ended at ~10:30pm.
We stayed at Hilton at Penns Landing. Had drinks and a snack at bar. Noisy ac system in room.
Cold slowly departing. Spent much of the day working on various aspects of updating and integrating materials into this website. Long telecon with Troy Web. Making good progress on many matters. Communication seems much better. Talked with Matt who had not done very much.
Long nap. Made red lentil gorp.
Went to Le Perche to meet Richard and Roberta Cummings for drinks. We had run into them last Saturday at Bob’s. They told us that Friday was a Le [perche night for them. They didn’t show this evening. Chatted with staff. Talked a bit about Karen’s book group discussion the evening before about Michelle Obama’s book. Jonathan called Karen from San Francisco where he had participated in a conference and given a talked he described as most important. Very warm damp weather in the evening.
Cold continues. Spent good part of the day in bed. Rest of day working getting posts here up to date.
Karen returned from her talk in Boston around 1pm. She seemed uncertain about how the talk had been received. This despite lots of evidence during and after the talk that people were engaged and moved by the project. She went off to her book group. I drove the car around the block. High tide on the river.
Overall a sluggish day. Sore throat, low energy. Worked on various new entries for projects in the diary. Old writing that seems germane even after ten or more years. Me and Religion and Are We Over Taxed..??..
A little gallery sitting….saw David Murphy on the street. He is back from Ft. Lauderdale.
Photos from Jonathan and Nan
By chance I had seen photos from these fields on Facebook in the last couple of days. I pointed out in a comment that there are over a billion bulbs planted by hand. When Karen and I went on a tour of this area in early March 2017 we saw men dangling prone in a box hauled across the field by a tractor planting the bulbs by hand. The tractor driver was standing in the field nearby having a smoke. The tractor is guided automatically over the field by GPS or laser location.
Tennis with Ted at 4pm. Dead on my feet. Stopped by 5pm due to rain.
