Category Archives: Hudson Area Library

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.

 

1/21/2020 – personal web work…

Tuesday

Went to CMH for blood work. Avoided UTMH team meeting. Spent time on archived Riverside Business Coach website at rbc.markorton.com. Also more work on markorton.com.  Set up a page of links to favorite stuff on RBC website. 

Met with Seth. David is not acting on the contract we need for Petrov deal. Wexelman is in orbit. 

Stopped library to talk with Emily about meeting with Mayor next week. 

Tracked back to ValuEdge entry on website.  Lots of interesting stuff. 

12/7/2019 – DOG Opening – Winter Walk – HAL

Saturday

Esther Hanig is visiting over the weekend.

Saw this iceboat being set up on Warren while walking back from farmer’s market in the morning.

DOG Opening

We held the opening reception for the PhotoBook show with pictures of books and readers at 3pm in order n to to bump into Winter Walk that starts at 5pm. Feared few would show up. Having a couple of locals in the show brought out their posses.

Winter Walk 

Spent most of the time at the library’s History Room store front at 538 Warren.

Gary Sheffer, Miranda Barry, MMO, Jim Hoon

11/9/2019 – HAL and Tennis

Saturday

On the way to Bob’s…..

7:28 am

Attended a marketing workshop at the library. This one given by staff from MHLS. Biggest surprise was to hear from folks at RoeJan Library that they only raise 30% of the funds from taxes!!

Tennis

First visit of the season to Old Chatham Tennis Club. Played with Ted on the HarTru court. Lots of fun on this surface.

10/20/2019 – Ghostly Gallop, J L Edwards School and a goofy picture

Sunday

8 am weather

Did set up and course monitoring for today’s HAL Ghostly Gallop 5k walk run race.

 

Father and son competitors

J. L. Edwards School building

While waiting for the race to get started I walked around this noe empty building. It looks quite small at street level. But it is in fact a four story 1960s concrete pile. May become Hudson city hall and other uses.

8/2/2019 – house, work, tennis, HAL event, drinks

Friday

Saw a do-it-yourself video about a drop down work bench. Remembered there is a 60 x 36 table top in the barn. This will do just fine. Need to get piano hinges and other hardware. Also started adding a new light over door to factory that will come on with a motion detector.

Talked with Seth. Went over to meet with Luca ??, the young guy Seth has doing odd jobs. Chatted with him about plans he has to take a year off from college. Gave him the task of finding some healthcare logistics firms to handle our biometric devices.

Tennis with Ted mid afternoon. Played well. 

In the evening I went to the library for a concert, Music in the Stacks, given by Aston Magna.

The Schubert song cycle Die Schoenberg Mullerin was a forty five minute extravaganza of twenty poems about nature and lost love. Sung by a tenor Frank Kelly who had memorized the whole thing. Here is section of one poem as an example:

Everything was played on period instruments or reproductions of period instruments as in the forte piano.

Janissary bells. A fourth foot pedal actuates these bells.

The natural horn was amazing but also disconcerting with its muffled sound when the hand in the bell was used to change pitch.

 

7/31/2019 – HAL,UTMH, tennis, HAL

Wednesday

Early breakfast. eEllen Liburt came by to talk about her professional website  

Met with Bill Stenehjem about HAL board. He is mostly interested in programming.

UTMH – various with Seth.

Tennis with Ted. Karen is teaching her online course  

Met Dan Ronsani at library to talk about what he wants to do on the board,

Smoked some weed and had too much drink.

 

 

 

 

7/30/2019 – HAL, clean up, tennis lesson

Tuesday

Did some of the standing exercises with the exercise bands….monster walks….These Indian clubs showed up in the mail:

Ducked out of the UTMH team meeting today. Cannot stand the blather…. Caught up on HAL stuff. Set up meetings with board members…looked at ellenliburt.com website in advance of tomorrow’s meeting with Ellen. Spent time getting ready to transfer the new UTMH website to the domain. Also watched more videos about prostate cancer and treatments, especially robotic prostatectomies. Updated my exercise protocol pages.

Sudden, quite violent thunder storm with hail descended at about 1pm. Power went out. Took Karen to library on the way to Saugerties. Tree limbs and trees down over in Catskill.

Tennis lesson at 3pm. Worked on hitting backhand crosscourt. Spent a lot of time on crosscourt rallies, both forehand and backhand.  Ended with serve. Saif seemed pleased that my toss is finally high enough to slow down the swing of the arm and racket. Ted Dewsnap showed up for Saif’s next lesson as I was leaving.

Put a big pile of recycling out. Got rid of many computer boxes that have been upstairs in the barn for ten years. Started working on new motion detector light over door to office. Will come in handy when the shorter days return in a couple of months. 

Karen made a real meatloaf with a mixture of veal, pork and beef. Excellent.

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