Category Archives: Hudson Area Library

5/18/2019 – HAL BoT meeting, Caroline Wilder, tennis, art exhibit Ghent, dinner

Saturday

Edsel outside of Bob’s Diner

Edsel outside of Bob’s Diner

Breakfast at Bob’s Diner. Karen went off to Center for Photography in Woodstock to do portfolio reviews.

HAL Board of Trustee meeting. Only Gary Sheffer and Steve Dunn were missing. Talked about the upcoming Funders Party, the Gala, Long Range Planning, and Fundraising Committee. Pretty uneventful. 75 minutes.

Gallery sitting at DOG.

Caroline Wilder stopped by. We talked about how she can manage her small business in a manner congenial to her personality and business needs…..She wants to keep her dress business small and personal. Doesn’t need Quickbooks that she isn’t comfortable with anyways. I suggested a simple paper journal for the 200-300 transactions a year. When she pulled out a MacBook Air I remembered that she is a digital native, so extended my suggestion to Google Sheets or Apple Numbers. “Whatever technique is comfortable.” She can get her other financial information from her checking account, credit cards, Venmo and other digital finance tools. She left sayin g that she felt relieved about how to keep track of her finances and her business. I told her she had to come back in  couple of months to show me how she is doing.

Pauline Decarmo came over at 3pm to finish out the gallery duty. I played tennis with Ted from 3:30 to 5pm. Starting to feel as though we are getting back into the swing of outdoor summer tennis.

Dave Drake came by for dinner. He had been back and forth to Chicago during the week unloading Lauren Schaeffer’s shit. We drove out to the Art School of Columbia County in Hollowville section of Ghent. Nick Tipple and Erika Born had work on display. 

Janus, Roman God of Past & Future  by Nicolas Tipple

 

5/13/2019 – rain, gray, cold, work, nonfiction book group

Monday

Nasty weather continued. Finished reading Susan Orlean’s The Library Book for tonight’s book group meeting. More writing in the essay Tinkering with Capitalism – homeostasis. Physical therapy with Anna Marie Zietsman. Lots of muscle and ligament stretching right hip. Met with Seth around UTMH matters. Received draft of marketing pieces from Pauline Decarmo. Was appalled to discover how bad the writing was. Sent note to Seth with angry comments.

Library nonfiction reading group was small. But discussion of Orlean’s book was buoyant.

 

5/2/2019 – work, HAL, tennis

Thursday

Feeling substantially back to normal.

Energetic UTMH team meeting, minus Seth and Ole, concerning Tony Kieraldo’s social media campaign. Spoke briefly with Emily from HAL.

Tennis lesson. Very demanding. Ended with work on serve. New image of throwing the right shoulder up towards the ball. Ball needs to be thrown very high.

Nets up and ready at Total tennis.

5/1/2019 – work, HAL, tennis

Wednesday

Lots of UTMH work throughout the day.

Met with David Murphy at Verdigris . Caught up on his personal goings on. He bought a house on the top of the hill up Rossman. Next to cemetery. Union St. house is for sale. Also talked about the fundraising committee. He agreed to participate. Always good to talk with him.

Played tennis doubles at CGCC. Played poorly with little rhythm. Bad serve. Last set played into the darkness was very good. Played with Paul Ambrose against Ted and Bob Gegen.

 

4/29 – 4/30/2019 – work, book club, MRI, dinner

Monday and Tuesday

Still underpowered from cold. Foggy and low energy. 

Met with Tony Kieraldo at Rev about UTMH matters. He told me about his music tour in Europe and Lebanon. We talked through a new social media campaign to develop leads for UTMH. Bright guy. Also met with David and Seth. The, late afternoon  Ole. Missed an appointment at PT with Corey Smith. This has not happened before. 

HAL NonFiction Book Club – picked up Erika Born out in Ghent because Nick was busy and couldn’t come. Good discussion of Drawdown edited by Paul Hawken. Emily, Karen,  Lisa Stewart, Erika Born, Nancy Kuster, Michael O’Hara, Ruth Tamaroff, Juan Flores(new) and Bob Braunlich from SunCommon in Rhinebeck. Michael gave a good description of how a carbon tax could be implemented.

Up promptly Tuesday morning. Enema in preparation for the prostate MRI up in Latham at ImageCare. Arrived at 10:30 back in car at 11:40. 30 minutes in the machine. Wait for the results.

Emily called from the library to discuss how to handle requests from Register Star for video from security camera on second floor that may have caught the altercation between Tom DePietro and John Friedman during a Common Council meeting last week. Camera belongs to Galvan but is recorded on our equipment. The police had come by earlier and taken a copy with Galvan’s permission. Emily will refer them to Galvan for permission to release.

Long nap in the afternoon. Dinner at Dave’s in Catskill. Karen made a salad and I made rice pudding.  Lamb, saag paneer, yellow sauce, cheese cake by Hazel.

8 pm looking west.

 

4/24 – 4/25/2019 – dragging, colonscopy prep

Wednesday – Thursday

Cold finally departing. Wednesday evening spent drinking almost a gallon of some sort of laxative. Spent several hours puttering around between trips to the bathroom.

Picked up UTMH paycheck, went to bank for deposit. Drove by high school. Book Festival is coming.

Received annoying note from Anne Terwilliger at the library requesting a meeting to talk about “problems”. I have to talk with Emily about this.

Karen was away at her Woodstock critique group.

Spoke with Emily Thursday morning at our regular weekly telecon. Agreed that I will reply to Anne with the proviso that Emily would be present at any meetings with staff.

Watched a lot of Youtube videos, tennis, politics, construction…..

4/15/2019 – cold, web projects, work

Monday

Felt crappy all day. Mostly spent time collecting old materials and publishing them here. 

Sent out notice and notes to HAL board for next Saturday’s meeting.

Talked with Seth about UTMH matters. 

Still need to send extension for NYS taxes.

Skipped Hudson-Creative meeting at library.  

Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. 

4/11/2019 – HAL, tennis, TV

Thursday

Met with Emily Chameides at the library. We’re going to make this a regular deal. Complete review of all the issues. Emily is on top in a firmer way than just a few years ago. 

Tried out making a travel book for the 2011 road trip. First on Lightroom. Too much work. Then tried Blurb’s app. Too much work. Told Karen that I wouldn’t be making a book. 

Great tennis lesson. Volleying. Slice serve from new stance. Cross court drill. Move towards ball. Don’t wait for the ball. 

Watched a few minutes of Russian Doll. Remembered that Harvey and Betsy said it picked up. So watched two episodes. Jury is out. Then something else. Then a couple Veeps. 

Black bean gorp. Leftover chicken.

4/9/2019 – doctor visit, work, library, tennis

Tuesday

Saw Marilyn Miller at CMH. Talked about elevated PSA level, Viagra not functioning and hip physical therapy. Made appointment with urologist for tomorrow. Skipped team meeting at UTMH.

Foggy morning.

Attended volunteer lunch at the library. Spent too much time listening to Pamela Badilla. Talked with Shanekia about her performance at the HOH last weekend. Met a couple of other volunteers.

Looked at more pictures from Sicily and Lisbon for Karen’s book projects. Filed Federal tax extension, then worked on the transaction from 2018 from all of the various sources. Three checking accounts, one credit card, and two PayPal accounts. Got all of the data into one spreadsheet. Now to categorize all of the thousands of transactions so I can create P&L statements for DOG, RBC, and Karen’s artist work.

Lunch at Chinese place top of Warren.

Went to Total Tennis for singles night. Started warm up with a very good 40 something guy. Then Vic walked in with Hanna, a roughly 30 yr old woman who is close to 6 ft tall. She is not exactly at my level, but gets the ball back. We rally to good effect for more than 90 minutes. Good fun. I got to practice not hitting the ball so hard. She is an obvious athlete. Good hands and eye coordination. Likes more pace towards the end.