Drove to NYC, picked up Jeannette, then to The Tank, 312 W. 36th. to see Nyla participate in the city-wide Moth story telling for teens. We had gone weeks earlier to see her perform in her Moth class performance. Nyla was the first presenter. She was terrific. 
We sat in a bar next door for an hour chatting.
Arrived Schipohl about 7 am Tuesday. Another long wait to get through passport control. Train to Leiden was 10 minutes late departing, very unusual. Got to Maredijk by 9am. Kids already off to school. Had coffee with Jonathan and Nan. Brief nap. Then off to the Vodafone store to get chips for the phones. Lunch at City Hall.
Spoke with Pauline Decarmo about the UTMH printing job. Emailed various other UTMHers. Packed for trip. Left for Berkeley Heights at about 11 am. Stopped briefly on the way out of town at 125 Warren St to look at a demonstration design project by SJ Williams. This for the Design Hudson affair scheduled for the upcoming weekend.
arrived before 2. Talked with Ed. Chased the dog Marley who got loose and disappeared.
Marley, wayward dog captured
Long line at Newark Airport Toni get through security, almost 45 minutes. Noisy visually distressing time in the airport waiting area. Very crowded. Flight left at ~ 5;45 pm.
Didn’t sleep at all. Arrived Schipohl about 7 am Tuesday 5/21/2019. Another long wait to get through passport control
Karen went off to CPW for second day of portfolio reviews. She sent me this new diptych.
Noah circa 6 or 7 and 20. Mark circa 56 and 71.
The cover of Nature in the City – a natural resource and open space inventory of Hudson, NY. – an unusual view.
Edsel outside of Bob’s Diner
Breakfast at Bob’s Diner. Karen went off to Center for Photography in Woodstock to do portfolio reviews. 
HAL Board of Trustee meeting. Only Gary Sheffer and Steve Dunn were missing. Talked about the upcoming Funders Party, the Gala, Long Range Planning, and Fundraising Committee. Pretty uneventful. 75 minutes.
Gallery sitting at DOG.
Caroline Wilder stopped by. We talked about how she can manage her small business in a manner congenial to her personality and business needs…..She wants to keep her dress business small and personal. Doesn’t need Quickbooks that she isn’t comfortable with anyways. I suggested a simple paper journal for the 200-300 transactions a year. When she pulled out a MacBook Air I remembered that she is a digital native, so extended my suggestion to Google Sheets or Apple Numbers. “Whatever technique is comfortable.” She can get her other financial information from her checking account, credit cards, Venmo and other digital finance tools. She left sayin g that she felt relieved about how to keep track of her finances and her business. I told her she had to come back in couple of months to show me how she is doing.
Pauline Decarmo came over at 3pm to finish out the gallery duty. I played tennis with Ted from 3:30 to 5pm. Starting to feel as though we are getting back into the swing of outdoor summer tennis.
Dave Drake came by for dinner. He had been back and forth to Chicago during the week unloading Lauren Schaeffer’s shit. We drove out to the Art School of Columbia County in Hollowville section of Ghent. Nick Tipple and Erika Born had work on display.
Janus, Roman God of Past & Future by Nicolas Tipple
UTMH – met with Pauline Decarmo about collaterals printing. Notes to new sales people. Re-wrote the Tinkering with Capitalism essay. Mostly re-arranging text and eliminating extraneous material.
Telecon with Troy Web. 25 minutes wasted on project management tasks they should know how to do and be doing them. Then rambling discussions, frequently amongst themselves about various trifles. We have to get rid of them. They are expensive but not contributing.
Met with Michael Queralt with David and Seth. 3 hour discussion. He is very experienced technologist and entrepreneur. Next steps may be interesting. He is knowledgeable of the healthcare marketplace. Nice guy to boot.
Spoke with Tony Kieraldo about renewing the utmhealthcare.com website.
Sent note to Linda McNutt and Mike from Kach Inc. about the repairs to the front lattice and gate.
Wrote note to Sam and Dan Sapoznick about blockchain technology mentioned by Queralt.
Walked up to Swoon for dinner. Big crowd at bar when we walked in. Gave up on sitting at the bar and sat at a table for dinner. Two Dewars and two dinners $85. Ole Breuning and Crystal Heinz came in. Ole and I spoke of UTMH matters. I told him that we had been stuck for twenty minutes on the name of a guy sitting at the bar . Finally recalled, Victor Amendola. Ole said, “It was a senior moment.” I corrected him, “It was a senior intermission.”
Karen noticed these fire connections with upside down medallions.
Sun early morning and mostly bright during the day – temperatures in low 60s. Almost spring like.
UTMH – meet with Michael Cole and Melissa Scherrif at Columbia County Mental Health to discuss the app project. Seth too. Then, in the afternoon Seth and I met with SOMML – contract finally signed. Also complained to each other about David’s behavior. Seth as frustrated as me. Talk again with Tony Kiieraldo about tomorrow’s telecon with David about the social media campaign.
Also did more work on the Tinkering with Capitalism essay.
Went over to Susan Rubin’s house at Crosswinds to assemble and put up a spice rack. Easy task. She shoed me around her two-bedroom townhouse. Really very well laid out, comfortable, with an amazing array of closets and fittings. She is very obviously very involved with yarn type projects. One large closet entirely devoted to yarn storage. She sent this picture.
Finally got call back with results from colonoscopy. Everything normal. Turns out cut off age is 75. So another procedure in 2024. Also received call back from Dr. Subudhi about prostate MRI. Something there; need to do biopsy to establish whether it is cancer and what type. Need to research this a bit. Won’t do it until after return from Europe. He is a dreadful communicator.
Played doubles at CGCC. Lots of fun. Joe’s grand son Dalton played. Very agile and quick with pretty terrific strokes. Kevin, Joe, Ted, Dalton, Paul, Ray, Tony and me. 4 sets. Played until dark. Down pour as we were leaving.
Another day of gray, cold, rainy weather.
Woke to find that Seth had revised his piece last night. Gave up on really reviewing this. Sent it to Pauline Decarmo for her to revise her layouts. Scheduled discussion with her for 4pm. Need to be much clearer about what we need.
Met with David and Tony Kieraldo for morning UTMH team telecon. Seth was sick. David muttered and gesticulated throughout the telecon. I put the phone on mute to prevent others from hearing this. Then, after the telecon, he announced that he didn’t want to listen to Tony’s very brief presentation about a new social media campaign. “Just send me the number of C level people who are on Twitter. Twitter is all crap” Very insulting behavior.
Nasty weather continued. Finished reading Susan Orlean’s The Library Book for tonight’s book group meeting. More writing in the essay Tinkering with Capitalism – homeostasis. Physical therapy with Anna Marie Zietsman. Lots of muscle and ligament stretching right hip. Met with Seth around UTMH matters. Received draft of marketing pieces from Pauline Decarmo. Was appalled to discover how bad the writing was. Sent note to Seth with angry comments.
Library nonfiction reading group was small. But discussion of Orlean’s book was buoyant.
Cold, rainy, rain. Breakfast at Rivertown Lodge with Dave and Daniel Drake. Food so-so. Conversation buoyant.
DOG had some visitors despite weather.
Worked on new keynote capitalism essay. Biggest new claim concerns the ubiquity of regulators in every system except the economy. 
Then a bunch written on the What Matters essay.
Drinks at Swoon with Dave. Talked about Karen’s book project. Maybe pre-sell 500 copies.
Watched more Unforgotten and The Closer. 
