8 degrees at 6:30am
Drive to CGCC with Karen for her second vaccine shot. 
Very prompt process. Continue reading
Category Archives: Family
2/10/2021 – Wednesday – Trump Impeachment
Trump Impeachment
Haircut. Karen ran the mini-lawnmower around. Very satisfactory results. Continue reading
2/8/2021 – Monday – first missed Orton sibling chat in more than ten months
Didn’t know about comics in the Washington Post
Lots of work on describing capitalism for talk with Jonathan. He sent me PowerPoint for his next lecture. Also replied at length to Cindy Weisbart about financialization and monopolization of the economy. Continue reading
2/7/2021 – Sunday – 7 minute photo exercise – Superbowl
Light snow.
Zoom with Sunday brunch group.
Lunch time Zoom with Leiden. Continue reading
2/2/2021 – Tuesday – snow, clean up, kitchen repairs, “general consensus”
Snow over night
6:50am
7:30am Continue reading
2/1/2021 – Monday – snow early
Snow forecast
Got up at 3:30 am for ibuprofen for hip. It had started snowing several hours before forecast.
Scanned a bunch of old photos. 
Andrea and Mark bringing paint back to 266 Western Ave during Great Blizzard of ‘78 in Cambridge.
UTMH – meeting with OSPLabs. Possible new software developer.
Spoke with Matt Almeida.
3pm. Snow
Lots of work on OldDodgeVan.com.
5 pm more snow. 
Orton sibling chat. I recalled a summer debate between Torrey and Father when he was 16 or so over whether the phrase “general consensus” was a redundant phrase.
1/28/2021 – Thursday – more old photos
More work on scanning old photos. 
Jonathan and Andrea in the loft bedroom 266 Western ~1977.
Helped Linda with her online grocery shopping.
Brief chat with Ryder and Erin at UTMH
Tennis lesson. Offense, Neutral, Defense. No noticeable pain.
Made a ton of roasted veggie gorp with sausage. Spicy. 6 lbs leftover.
Drinks with Karen. Moving family history project to olddodgevan.com
More Jack Irish series.
1/27/2021 – Wednesday
Scanning old photos. 
Bad night’s sleep due to pains in hips. Took ibuprofen at 4am. Definitely helped and lasted for many hours.
Spoke with Caitie Hilverman about her new role as VP of HAL board. Head of Board Development. She’s passionate and energetic. Continue reading
1/17/2021 – Sunday – Noah and Kiara visit.
Sunday NYTimes
Short walk for me; longer walk for Karen. Hips and knees bothering me.
Noah and girlfriend Kiara Guyton came by. Mostly chat about their upcoming semester at Penn. Then brief Zoom with Leiden division before they left. We stayed on for a while. Spoke at some length about the white supremacist fascist insurgence here.
Karen attended some sort of book publishing webinar. I went shopping for a few things for dinner soup.
Made spicy sausage with asparagus confit to go with the butternut squash soup.
Dave and Hazel came for dinner at 5pm. Butternut squash soup with confit. Garlic bread. Dave brought homemade butter pecan ice cream.
More George Gently!
1/6/2021 – Wednesday – visit with Andrea and insurrection in the capitol
Visit with Andrea, Noah & Nyla
Drove to Sagaponack in the Hamptons on the south fork of the eastern tip of Long Island. 4 hour drive (199 miles). Andrea bought a house here at a bargain price earlier in the year. Arrived for lunch, chats with Andrea, Noah and Nyla, tour of the house and a visit to the beach. Continue reading