Low key day. Karen left early to go to Boston to do a photo shoot project with Ellen Feldman and Cindy Weinberg at MFA. Staying over for Soup Group on Monday.
Category Archives: 2019
2/23/2019 – Tanzeys, Polar Plunge, tennis, drinks w Ted and Anne
Saturday 2/23/2019
Breakfast w David Drake at Tanzeys. Clara from across the street invited us to join her. She is surprisingly voluble.
Up to Lake.
2/22/2019 – Joe Keenan, Matt Almeida, UTMH, Rive Gauche drinks
Friday 2/22/2019
Coffee with Joe Keenan at Rev. Good discussion of his work. Stumbled on ne work he is doing helping companies spec out the best technology to run things, e.g., Slack, Dropbox, Asana, etc. He will develop proposal for UTMH project. Walked home. Warm day. 40 degrees. Matt Almeida at noon.
Lunch at Chinese place in 700 block. Met up with Seth before 2pm mtg with David A. Very wound up about Troy Web. Anthony Debonis wants 4pm telecon including me. Mtg w David bizarre in turns as usual. Discussion of customer service, commissions, revenue calculations, his Slack account.
Very good discussion w Anthony of Troy Web he accepted responsibility fit the recent cascade of errors . we worked through fixes including automated provisioning system. Quite positive left Seth feeling better. TW has better understanding of our market strategy.
Drinks with David Drake at Rive Gauche in Athens. Samira ?? was there. Met a couple of guys who own a house there near RG. She is very smart and interesting. Dave is freshly back from time with his kids.
2/21/2019 Moodle,Tennis, UTMH
THURSDAY 2/21/2019
Late start, then work on Moodle at Learn.AmericanDelusions.com. Added new course focused on getting oriented and started
Tennis lesson lots of top speed rallying from baseline Backand getting better spent time on high backhands at net. Also doing spin serve.
UTMH / talked withSeth about Troy Web they don’t seem to understand our business model nor are they contributing creatively. Need to have top level conversation about fixing things.
Karen went to new reading group engagement at girls only book club.
2/20/19 – HAL, DOG, UTMH, tennis
Wednesday 2/20/2019
Finished up the DOG website forms for Karen. They are now set up as a database so she can export things En mass.
Good call with Miranda Barry about David Murphy and a foundation for the library. She had followed up on my conversation with David while we were in FL last week. Looks like a good opportunity to get a significant start on an endowment for the library. Also we talked about possible co-president arrangement.
Spent most of the afternoon with Seth. Discussed customer service requirements and lit of user manuals that Ryder Cooley needs to write. Reviewed bad service situation with Troy Web. Need to have a meeting with Anthony DeBonis to try to improve things. Also talked with David about his Slack account.
Spoke with Anita Harris for 30 minutes. More about her Mom’s house and all of the travails with her siblings.
Evening tennis was just so so.
2/19/2018 – DOG, UTMH, tennis
Tuesday 2/19/2019
Up at 5:30. Met w Karen about forms on DOG site. Wrote piece for AD about Republican Party moral bankruptcy. More time on OLDFandF.com.
Wrote more patient instructions for UTMH.
Went to Total Tennis for singles nite. Played doubles with two different groups of guys. More competitive on average than the Wednesday group. Tall guy Rick with a funny but effective backhand. Very quick hands. Good serve. Short Indian guy Nick. Not a strong hitter but quick, good volleys. Als a kind of sour guy Kevin. Played until 9:15. I had some really striking sequences of shots. Good serving night.
2/18/2019 – OLDFandF.com, UTMH, HAL
Monday 2/18/2019
Snow formed a sheet of ice on the sidewalk still, only 4-5 inches. Stopped snowing regularly BR 9 am Then squalls until 1pm
Worked on new website, mostly registration and child theme Also fiund matrrials for HAL Long Rang Planning Committee.
Prep fir UTMH team meeting at 114, then the group showed up. Went thru set up and use of apps . Also useful discussion of sales issues w Ole and Sam.
Thrn talked w David A about commissions, etc.
only Miranda Barry showed for HSL mtg but we talked through upcoming Board retreat 3/2/2019 also discussed David Murphy and foundation for library.
made gorp for dinner first time in quite a while
2/17/2019 – Sunday
Karen ent off to NYC to return two sets of artwork. Left around 9am. I went up to the library along the alleys.
Meeting of the Basement Committee. Miranda, Emily, Ken Kraus. Nothing surprising at the program level. Ken and I walked around in the basement after the meeting.
Came back to house. Worked on setting up a new website: OLDFandF.com.
Hope to replace Facebook for family and friends with a website that is private but usable.
Snow started at 9pm
2/16/2019 – breakfast, shopping, social platforms
Saturday – 2/16/2019
After Bob’s Dinner and shopping, including bread at Farmers’ Market.
Stopped to chat with Joan Damiani mostly talked with Karen about spots to stop at in Italy. Saw this painting that seemed unusual because of the lone figure in the corner. I asked Joan, “how did you know the paining was finished, complete?”
She said, “Oh, no. I was bored with painting the seashore so I stuck this guy in and it was done.”
Got to send this along to Josh Noble.
By J. Damiani
Spent day on BBPress, BuddyPress, PHPbb, and others. Searching for replacement for Facebook
2/15/2019 – personal work, mostly
Friday 2/15/2019
Spent morning on bills, paperwork, largely playing with BuddyPress. Did finally figure out that it has only a plain text post editor. Very strange.
Met with Ole Breuning at Verdegris. Good talk about video and webinar projects.
Wrote two AD posts during the day. replaced banner logo. An hour at end of day devoted to adding 50 more names to the email list. Then Mailchimp
Recently Noted – more unequal justice – lots of it….
Roosevelt’s 1944 Second Bill of Rights – a good starting point today
