Day was pretty poopy….except for the HAL Nonfiction Book Group at 6pm. Six people. Good discussion of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Gene. Punctuated by Yvonne Jehenson introducing her comments with “This is fascinating” – heard this probably ten times in an hour.
Category Archives: 2020
4/26/2020 – Sunday – rain, lots of Zoom meetings..
Made pancakes with yogurt, this at Karen’s suggestion replace milk that was not available because the bodega hadn’t opened. Worked out fine. Sunday NYTimes paper was fairly quick reading. Took much pandemic news that is really not news here. Continue reading
4/25/2020 – Saturday
seen at farmers market…..
Listened to Its Only a Game.
Read more of Gene.
Left for long walk at 9:30. Stopped at farmers market to pick up a fresh chicken from Letterbox.
More reading. Fixed bad CSS in the new newsletter plugin for DOG. Talked with Ted and Anne for more than an hour.
Dave’s pork vindaloo, Karen fiery cauliflower……
Person of Interest on tv.
4/23/2020 – Thursday – work, HAL, salad
Up early again…. worked on UTMH branding further.
Attended 10am Columbia County Chamber Meeting about the pandemic, local feedback. Continue reading
4/22/2020 – Wednesday – work, Anita Harris, Esther Hanig
No walk today.
Most of day taken up with UTMH work on user documentation and new logo for the consumer app. Held Doc. team meeting.
Spoke with Anita harris briefly after the SOMML telecon.
Drinks and chat with Esther Hanig. Will make this a regular weekly meet up.
More Person of Interest on tv.
4/21/2020 Tuesday – HAL
Went for walk first thing after breakfast. I pooped out at 7th St. Karen walked all the way around.
Participated in Hudson Arts Task Force meeting. Run by Seth Rogovoy. over 30 people attended. Well organized and well run. Met some new people in the arts community. From my email to others:
Thanks to Julia for alerting us to this. I attended the Arts Task Force mtg. Tuesday 3pm. About 35 people. Seth Rogovoy chaired the meeting.
I attended with two hats – the Davis Orton Gallery and HAL. I specifically mentioned the library’s connections to the arts community and our early planning for an art auction with shared proceeds. Most of the meeting was taken up with setting up sub-committees to investigate various approaches to supporting the arts.
Here are some new (to me) contacts:
• Feliz Soyak HudsonArts.org hudsonartscommunity@gmail.com
• Marc Scrivo FinchHudson.com StudioScrivo.com
• Adam H. Weinert adamweinert.com promoting the Hudson Arts Coalition, dancer, faculty at Vassar, co-founder Hudson Dance Collective
• Marlene Martin, Exec. Director, Council for Resources to Enrich the Arts, Technology & education (former Greene County Council on the Arts – supports arts in Coliumbia, Greene & Schoharie counties) – GreeneArts.org executivedirector@greenearts.org CREATE has fubnded projects with HAL in the past.
• Jonah Bokaer – Jonah Bokaer Foundation, Jonah Bokaer Choeography, The Hudson Eye https://www.chronogram.com/hudsonvalley/space-428-choreographer-jonah-bokaers-church-of-dance-in-hudson/Content?oid=10283694 His foundation is active locally. He explicitly asked people to reach out to him about funding.
• Aaron Levi Garvey – staff curator Jonah Bokaer Foundation and The Hudson Eye
• Jane Ehrlich – organizer last fall’s Open Studios Hudson openstudiohudson.com She is moving to an online format. I know her personally.
Drinks and chat with Dave Drake in the evening.
4/20/2020 – Monday
Finished letter to Walter Stitt. Breakfast, then walk around the loop. 
Tried to discover status of $1200 government checks…. just have to wait.
Worked on UTMH user documentation for two hours.
Chat with Harvey Meyerson and Betsy Keeler. Watched Groundhog Day – Bill Murray – Andie MacDowell
4/19/2020 – Sunday NY Times, Zoom with family and friends, walk…..
Bought Sunday NYTimes paper. it included a separate section on Quarantine Parenting. Travel section was 4 pages, similar for Sports. Made whole wheat pancakes. Think I will experiment with half and half next week.
Visited Walmart for shopping and prescription.
Longish letter to Walter Stitt in production.
Visited with Leiden crew at 12:30. Good visit. The top floor house project is moving slowly. Only two guys working on it. No Andrea and her crew. Not even a note that they wouldn’t attend. I’m not surprised. Reflects her long term priorities.
Out for a walk…..2pm. Down to river and back up the 2nd st. Stairs, up Allen beyond the court house then home down Warren. Many, many more people out and about. Warm weather. Feels very Spring like. Continue reading
4/18/20 – Saturday – library, exercise……
Up early. Listened to Only a Game podcast.
HAL Board of Trustees mtg – active, happy meeting. Received $58,500 PPP money from SBA. Good for 2 1/2 months salaries etc. Lots of talk about new fundraising strategies. Emily made extensive report on our online library programming.
Went to Letterbox Farm to pickup order of eggs and greens.
Karen participated in Balance for Seniors from the library. I did my exercises for the first time in weeks.
Ordered grab bars and other bathroom stuff from Amazon. This will allow us to make the first floor bathroom safe for us to shower in. Short term fix without all of the work planned for a walk in shower.
Karen made meatloaf and sautéed spinach. We drove a portion over to Dave Drake. Had lengthy drinks with Ted and Anne.
Watched the first 30 minutes of China Moon (1995). Gave up at that point. Back to Person of Interest
4/17/20 – Friday – various and list of Zoom meetings
Sent notices out to HAL board. Spent most of morning doing digital housekeeping.
Also time spent learning new things about Notability. Interesting feature of recording a lecture or meeting while making notes. The notes are synced to a time stamp during the recording. So, you can tap on a note and it moves the playback to that point.
Bought lunch at Cascades.
Talked with Kim Bach outside her store Verdigris. She complained about lack of workers to help with her online business. Her part time employees are financially better off on unemployment than coming back to work for her part-time. Continue reading