Category Archives: 2020

3/4/2020 – work, AD, tennis

Wednesday 

Worked on UTMH stuff for Leon Greene, met with documentation team, talked with Seth. No Somml telecon.

Spent several hours watching documentary The Century of the Self: the engineering of consent– documentary written by Adam Curtis BBC 2002. History of public relations in the 20th century – Freud, Bernard, et al. Very good summary. 4 hrs long. Took extensive notes. This will contribute to an emerging new model of what’s going on that starts with the rise of the individual in the wake of capitalism.

Tennis at Total Tennis.

2/28 – 3/1/2020 – sick

Friday thru Sunday

Woke up Friday not feeling well. Nausea and diarrhea and very weak. Spent all of Friday in bed very foggy in the head, then Saturday too. Started to feel a bit better on Sunday. Had soda water and lime for drinks at Swoon Sunday evening.

Read various web entries about food poisoning. The list of pathogens potentially involved is endless. 

2/23/2020 – Sunday – art project, tennis, Morgan-Orton sale, drinks

Breakfast at Bob’s then shopping. More work on sorting pictures for the table mat project. Initial designs.

Temperature over 50 led to tennis at CGCC. Turned out to be a bad outing. Couldn’t get moving at all, very dead legs. Ted felt the same. Nevertheless played for almost two hours.

Beginning of the End of the NJ Era for the Morgan-Ortons

88 Briarwoood Drive East is on the market….

Drinks at Swoon. 

2/21/2020 – Corey Smith, work, dinner out

Friday

Corey Smith came by to give me a tune up on my workout scheme. Added a bunch of exercise involving a 65cm ball. Very good.

Spoke with Matt Almeida who admitted to being exhausted by his three month old son.

Spent much time sorting through pictures of tables after a meal and other food oriented images. Thinking about creating table place mats with them.

Dinner at Ian and Cynthia Stephens house on Green St. Dave Drake too. Very nice craftsman style interior. Lots of possessions, very expensive wines and port at the end of the meal. Introductory stories about earlier life.

2/14/2020 – Friday – old portrait, UTMH, tennis

Karen got up early to go to NYC. Train cancelled due to derailment at Penn Station. Decided to cancel trip. She returned to working on the pile of old boxed materials from the barn.

Found prep school photo of me in box of Orton family photos recently brought in from the barn.

Confab with David Ackerman about marketing materials and contracts. Leon Greene has been signed up to start work, hopefully as CEO soon.

Ted picked me up for tennis at Old Chatham Tennis. 5-7pm. Break through night. Served very well because I consistently threw the ball high enough to slow down the back swing. 2 sets 6-3, 6-2.