Category Archives: Friends

Friday – 4/17/2015

Busy day with clients. Reviewed materials from Mary Vaughn Williams at 6:30 am; talked with her at 8:30. Hopefully she got her application in to Martha Lane before leaving for her high school reunion.

Spoke with Alan Coon about the UTM website project again. He had a tough conversation with David Ackerman yesterday and is now doing the repair work on his own dime. Then, Matt Almeida. Spent time catching up on diary.More on this1Some company

Great meeting of HAL Marketing Committee at 4pm. Agi Clark presented her ideas and we had a lively discussion and brainstorming session. Left feeling very buoyant about this work. It is clear that we need to organize the messaging around the various classes of users, children, parents, teens, etc.

David Drake’s 64th Birthday

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Thursday – 4/9/2015

Talked with Silicus in Pune India. Then Jared Woodcock, Jan’s nephew, about Schuyler Duffy’s idea for growing vegetables in a shipping container. Drive to UAlbany for meeting with students.

Drove down to NYC to go to opening of Judy Henry’s exhibition at BravinLee Programs (526 West 26th Street #211, New York, NY 10001)
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Judy talking with Karen.

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Sunday – 4/5/2015

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Went to Swoon for Scotch after the gallery closed. We think we will reinstitute this tradition.

David Drake showed up. First time he had been in since he left a year ago. People still bring up Enid. Seems inappropriate at this point.

Lisa Kenneally still works there. No sign of Mark. But Lisa’s parents came in for a birthday dinner. Her father was a scuba diver doing underwater construction. Lisa thinks that he and I look a lot alike. Nice guy.

Wednesday – 4/1/15

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Shift in slave populations from The Story Half Told

Worked on essay on slavery.

Prix Fixe dinner at Panzur in Tivoli. Fancy fired chicken followed up with ice cream sundae. sat at bar to talk with Dave Drake. Very busy.  The drinks are so complicated that Dave needs to keep recipes to concoct them. Food was very inventive and good.

Saw Vicki and Dennis Kosovac. She barely acknowledged me. He was his usual glad handing self.

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Recipes for drinks at Panzurs.

Saturday – 3/28/15

IMG_9513Went to gym, then breakfast at Bob’s diner. Conversation about free markets and how best to present ideas about how ideas about them permeate the culture.

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Picked up book on slavery, cotton and capitalism at the library. Must write an essay about the four or five books that have transformed my view of race in American history in the last few years.

Library Campaign Committee Meeting

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Wednesday – 2/18/15

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Temperature at 6:30am.

Walk in Germantown briefly on the river where Paul Stewart told me we could find access. Temperature was about 20 degrees at 2pm.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Started working on the OLD Family Timeline that was originally created at the time of our 25th wedding anniversary. Blown up and displayed at the Community Center. Last entry is 2003.

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Monday – 2/16/15

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Intense cold. Strong winds.

Temp at 7am.

Paid bills.

Spent most of day old consolidating diary entries into diary.markorton.com

Noah and Nyla came by for chat. John and Stephanie dropped them off. Talk about photography w Karen.  Also their favorite books.

Cooked butternut squash soup w spicy sausage & asparagus confit. Karen made salad. Joe Keenan, his wife Lynn McElroy and Dave Drake came over. Good fun.