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.
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
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
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
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
Hudson Area Library closes; all programs stop.
Gov. Cuomo announces shit down of all non-essential businesses.
HAL hold first online Board of Trustees meeting; library closed
Today marks the end of the third week of isolation. Excepting for a couple of trips to the grocery, bank, and liquor store we have had no contact with any one closer than 6 feet.
Fortunately for us we have been taking daily walks, sometimes lengthy enough to be called hikes. It has been remarkable how few people we see during these walks. You might think that people would be getting out for exercise, air, nature…. maybe this reflects how sedentary we have become as a society. Our walks have mainly featured a route up Warren St. around the hospital and then back down the hill to home – about 2.5 miles (4K). We have extended and varied this to make it both longer and more challenging.
Here are reports for a few.
Slow start to the day. Read NYTimes Sunday edition on paper. Cancelled tennis date with Ted because it only got to 42 degrees. Went to Carol Pledger’s house on East Allen for a get together with Emily and Lisa Dolan. Just a check in about library matters. Friday’s announcement of program and event cancellations graduated to a full shut down on Wednesday 3/18 thru the end of the month. Lots of talk about the coronavirus pandemic. The Hudson City School District announced their closing so we followed suit.
225 Warren Bar & Grill
Texted Dave Drake about drinks at Swoon. It closed at 4pm so we met for a drink at 225 at 4:30pm. Only 5 or so people at the bar. We practiced social distancing at the end of the bar.
Came back to 114 for a dinner of bacon and gruyere quiche with spinach and asparagus. Talked about memories of family, cousins,…. he left about 8pm. We listened to music before another chapter of Major Crimes.
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.
UTMH stuff. Hung pictures with Dave Drake upstairs at Le Perche.
Coffee with Anna-Maria about library matters. She is very interested while also being more direct than most about her concerns.
Executive Committee meeting at 9am. Very good discussion of VP position that needs to be filled and other committee matters. Good suggestion from Miranda Barry about how to proceed on deploying the Long-Range Strategy. Theresa Parson, Anna Nilsson, Miranda Barry and Emily Chameides attended.
Board meeting was buoyant. Spoke with Kimberly about Program Committee. Need to chat further about where the committee is going. Also set date to meet with Anna-Marie Assevero.
Lunch at Cascades with Ellen Feldman and Karen. It was jammed. This is a holiday weekend. All sorts of visitors, no one I knew. As always, good food. Afternoon spent working on sorting photos for post-dinner food on tables. Possible project. Ellen thought up place matts.