Category Archives: Friends

3/28/2019 – work, DOG, tennis lesson, Maria Manhattan, work

Thursday

Carla Shapiro came to work with Karen on the installation of the season opening show. She is one of the curators. Brought me a present.

Worked on UTMH example pilot project financial analysis. Talked with David A. about Ball Consulting retainer.

Karen had an appliance repair guy come from Ackermans up the street. Leaky dishwasher. Cleaned. Told us that repairing the electric lighters on the cooktop would cost ~$188. We’ll go on using the gas lighters that cost $2.

Tennis lesson was focused topspin backhand. Need to simplify and slow down. 

Attended event at the library. Maria Manhattan’s The Box Lunch. Very amusing.  PerfectTen girls made update addition.

UTMH meeting w Seth, Brandon, and James to review backend admin features.  Useful meeting. Lasted until after 10pm. 

 

3/17/2019 – St. Patrick’s Day lunch, travel photos

Sunday

Karen went out to visit Richard Edelman with others from photog group. She had set up the crock pot with the corned beef cooking. 

Dinner at 1 or so. Dave brought beans and greens; Sherry Jo brought salad. We supplied the rest. Pauline’s sister came too. Anita Harris came too. 

Spent most of afternoon restoring lost travel photos from 2018. 

3/15/2019 – AD, work, AD, library, dinner

Friday

Late, sluggish start. Emails to Nick Zirpolo and Torrey about adult learning 

Coffee with Julia Back at Cafe Le Perche. HAL board member. Ozzie. Runs marathons. Marketing events for an OpenSource software company. Very interested in anything to do with fundraising. Sharp. Lives at 421 Warren St. 

Spent bulk of day reading and writing about adult learners. Responded to Nick Zirpolo, Torrey and a Lithuanian academic. 

Nap. HAL Exec Commitee mtg at Miranda Barry’s house. Mostly budget talk. 

Walking home from Union St. mtg.

Karen is off to writing event in Rhinebeck. I had Red Chopstick food.

2/10/2019 – snow, lazy day, dinner with David Drake and Hazel

Sunday

Woke up to 3 inches or so of slushy snow.

Mostly lazed around. Karen started cooking around 2pm. Seemed to occupy the whole afternoon. She follows recipes.

David Drake came at 4:30 with new acquaintance Hazel (last name ??). We drove over to Ward’s Auto on 9 to drop off the Corolla for repairs. Dinner followed. Hazel is 73, lives in Athens near her kids and grandchildren. Twice married. Worked for doctors following time in Kingston with second husband with a string of restaurants.

Leaky dishwasher again. Gasket around door gets dirty.

3/3/2019 – brunch, sluggish day, snow

Sunday 3/3/2019

Up at 6am. Puttered around aimlessly. Brunch at Home|Made Hudson across the street with Dave Drake. Food only so so.

Tomato cobbler with cheese.

…. long nap in early afternoon. Brief trip to ShopRite. Bumped into Ted as I was leaving. Made gore with hot Italian sausages for dinner. Also a salad with lettuce. Maybe getting into more salads. lots of chewing.

Snow started at 7:30. No walk in the snow because there was nothing underfoot even at 9pm.

3/2/2019 – HAL, Bauhaus, end of Rive Gauche

Saturday 3/2/2019

Breakfast at Bob’s. Then off to the library for the board meeting and planning retreat.

Meeting went very well. People really enjoyed the group breakout sessions. Productive discussion of board governance issues. Also toured the basement (Lower Level) which was new for most of the board members. Board rejected the idea of a co-presidency in favor of Chairman of the Board and President. I think and stated that if we put together an integrated fundraising committee, then the chair of that committee will take a big load off the president.  

Late afternoon went to TSL to see a movie about the Bauhaus school and its impact on architecture, urban planning, etc. A little sleepy during its coverage of the 1920s and 30s. Very interesting stuff about urban design and development in South America. Columbia and Venezuela.

Karen had received a call from Dave Drake that Rive Gauche in Athens where he is bartending is closing today. So, we went over for a drink and nibbles. The place was very crowded and noisy, mostly with locals. As we were getting ready to go Samira ?? Showed up. Karen and she went out to have a smoke accompanied as it turned out by the owner Joe’s SO. When I turned my stool over to Samira I found Karen propped up against the buyilding. One Scotch and a nicotine rush and she had to hang on to me for the walk to the car.

2/22/2019 – Joe Keenan, Matt Almeida, UTMH, Rive Gauche drinks

Friday 2/22/2019

Coffee with Joe Keenan at Rev. Good discussion of his work. Stumbled on ne work he is doing helping companies spec out the best technology to run things, e.g., Slack, Dropbox, Asana, etc. He will develop proposal for UTMH project. Walked home. Warm day. 40 degrees. Matt Almeida at noon. 

Lunch at Chinese place in 700 block. Met up with Seth before 2pm mtg with David A. Very wound up about Troy Web.  Anthony Debonis wants 4pm telecon including me. Mtg w David bizarre in turns as usual. Discussion of customer service, commissions, revenue calculations, his Slack account. 

Very good discussion w Anthony of Troy Web  he accepted responsibility fit the recent cascade of errors . we worked through fixes including automated provisioning system. Quite positive  left Seth feeling better. TW has better understanding of our market strategy. 

Drinks with David Drake at Rive Gauche in Athens. Samira ?? was there. Met a couple of guys who own a house there near RG. She is very smart and interesting. Dave is freshly back from time with his kids.