Category Archives: 2020

1/30/2020 – DOG, web project, tennis, dinner

Thursday

Got up at 5:30 am. Worked on updating DOG website for the next season. Then worked more on the timeline here.

Tennis lesson at 11 am.

Troubled left knee was concerning. But once I got going it proved to be just a little annoyance occasionally. Saif introduced the idea that I should be flicking my wrist during my ground strokes. I seem to have interpreted earlier instructions to indicated keeping the wrist immobile during the stroke. Flicking the wrist involved letting the racquet drop below the ball and the flicking the racquet in an upward direction as the arm carried through the stroke. Will have to work further on this.

Big revelation was the time we took with my serve. He pointed out that I am rushing the whole arm motion from then time I toss the ball in the air. Now that I toss the ball quite far up I can slow down my back swing and the wind up to only accelerate during the last quarter or so of the whole swing path. This worked wonders. I hit one ball after the other over the net most landing in very close to the service line. I also had time during the serve motion to think about where I was hitting the ball.

HAL Meeting with Mayor Kamal Johnson

Held meeting with the mayor to provide him with an overview of library operations, future plans, and budget. He is very young, Emily did her usual good job. Gary Sheffer spoke about the History Room. Theresa Parsons chimed in; Bill Stenehjem was present. Toni Koweek represented the Friends and gave a longer than necessary description of their activities. Very good meeting. He is quite familiar with the library but hopefully this gives him a better view of ours issues and the overall program.

Dinner with SJ Williams and Pauline Decarmo

Went to Barnwood. Were horrified at the announcement that there was no fried chicken available. Did eat our dinner. Lots of chatter. Followed up with visit to Dave Drake at Swoon for drinks. Very crowded at the bar. Pauline and I talked about her billing practices.

1/29/2020 – web project, work, tennis

Wednesday

Spent too much time working with a plugin to add tables of contents to web pages here and on AmericanDelusions. Decided in the end to drop it here because of a conflict with Timeline. Also talked with Karen about my spreadsheet of travel events. She added some I had forgotten back in the early ‘70s.

FaceTime with kids in Leiden

Tentative travel list without Karen’s edits:

June 1982	Karen, Jonathan & Mark take Green Tortoise bus from Harvard Sq. to Los Angeles
September 1983	Mark and Karen cross Canada by train
November 1984	Karen and kids go to Virgin Islands
March 1986	Puerto Rico
April 1986	Mark in Milan (work), Paris w Harvey Meyerson
May 1986	Karen to Dueseldorf (work) then Rome and Paris
March 1987	M & K in Jamaica
August 1987	Mark to Taiwan (work) then Melbourne
February 1988	M & K Big Bend National Park
June 1988	Family in Southest
December 1989	Karen in India
June 1990	M&K Washington DC, Virginia and West Virginia
March 1991	K&M Mexico
September 1991	Karen hikes White Mountains
June 1992	K&M travel with Ed and Meredith to Glacier National park
October 1992	Karen and Andrea trip to Southwest and Albuquerque Balloon Festival
March 1995	K&M go to Paris
April 1996	K&M got to Florida, east, west Everglades
October 1998	Karen and Mark travel to blues festival and elsewhere. Helena Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Memphis
December 1999	Karen goes to Vietnam
April 2000	Karen Jackson Mississippi wi Linda Larson
June 2002	Karen Mississippi w Linda Larson
May 2005	Singapore
May 2005	Korea wedding
June 2005	Jon and Nan wedding Cambridge
April 2008	K&M Savannah and Charleston
February 2009	K&M Florida, cousins’ dinner
December 2009	K&M Hong Kong & Vietnam
February 2010	K&M Florida, cousin’s dinner
February 2011	South-Alabama-Texas-New Mexico-Oklahoma-return
December 2011	HK – Bali
December 2012	Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Penang
February 2013	California and Arizona
December 2014	Australia with Jon, nan, kids, visit Torry and Jane
August 2015	Northern CA and Sapoznick wedding
December 2015	West Coast w AJL & kids
October 2016	Road Trip – Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago
February 2017	Florida road trip by car, cousins’ dinner
March 2017	Leiden, Utrecht, Maastricht, Barcelona, et al
August 2017	Phillip Johnson House
August 2017	Art Exhibit Rogers
October 2017	Leiden, Cologne Freiburg, Brussels, Antwerp, et al
February 2018	Road trip – Florida, New Orleans, Gulf Coast, cousins’ dinner
May 2018	Netherlands-Lisbon visit with Torrey and Jane
June 2018	Bus Trip – NYC – Atlantic City – Cape May – Philadelphia – NYC
October 2018	Netherlands – Sicily
February 2019	Superbowl Cambridge, Florida Cousins
April 2019	Philadelphia and Washington DC
December 2019	Leiden, Vienna, Morocco

Met with Erin Marshall and Ryder Cooley at UTMH. Lengthy discussion of document standards and user roles and permissions. Have asked Troy Web for a roles and permissions matrix. They should be able to produce this easily.

Seth and I talked with SOMML. After what seems to be more than a year of preparatory work they have actually started to sign up patients at Albany Med. Also spoke with David about upcoming meeting with CEO candidate Leon Greene next week.

Rare completely clear sky behind the Catskill Mountains on the way to tennis about 5:30pm.

Doubles at Total Tennis. Played quite well excepting serve which featured way too many double faults. Left knee bothered me towards the end of the session.

1/28/2020 – work, web project…

Tuesday

Spent lots of time on SaaS agreement for UTMH. Met with Seth.

Continued work on pictures and list of travel over past 5 decades. Added note about the status of the website as an ongoing project.

Looking for solution to sidebar on project pages.

Retro Dinner Dish

I made my usual spicy ground sausage with many vegetables. Then the throw back dish: green beans with fried onions and mushroom soup using traditional materials.

1/27/2020 – web project, UTMH, non-fiction book group

Monday

Spent most of the morning working organizing the photos of our various trips. Increased list size and started a spreadsheet with dates and places. Also worked on finding a whole page template for the Projects pages

Telecons with Yehuda Reiss and the NYRWA team.

Surprisingly good turn out (9 people) and discussion tonight at Non-Fiction Book, especially so because most didn’t like the book Songs of America by Meachem. Fortunately the playlist I found to accompany the book was very good.

1/26/2020 – web project, bran muffins, drinks..

Sunday

Up early. Breakfast, NYTimes Sunday paper on paper, made 3 batches of bran muffins. Most are for the Friends of HAL bake sale.

Most of the day spent In the factory on this website. Organizing photos, making lists of events and trips. Set up me 5 terabyte HD for Time Machine.

Nap.

Drinks at Swoon. Ian and Cynthia with Dave. Loud conversations. Dinner was leftovers from pre-Christmas dinner, duck, purple cabbage, tsimas.

Karen wants to know where my orphaned sock collection is? She doesn’t seem to grasp a truth About the universe. When you open the dryer mischievous sock spirits randomly disappear a sock here and there never to be seen again.

1/25/2020 – Bob’s – pack up DavisOrtonEditions

Saturday

Regular Saturday breakfast at Bob’s followed by grocery shopping.

Attended to new Time Machine hard drive for Karen’s new iMac. Spent several more hours scrubbing through the photos from 2018 to creat a list of blog postings. Somehow I went through 2018 with only two entries in real time.

Spent most of the afternoon boxing up the fifty or so portfolios that were featured in our failed attempt to sell photography online. DavisOrtonEditions was launched in 2013 and abandoned in 2016. Time to ship the prints back to the photographers. Fortunately we had a good sluppy of white boxes. Karen worked on confirming the shipping addresses for all these boxes. We lost the old database.Rained steadily all afternoon and into the evening.

Dinner

Pork chop, red bean vegetable medley with jerk seasoning, cauliflower mashed with cheese, salad with Brussels sprouts chopped: