Category Archives: Hudson Area Library

3/25/2019 – UTMH, more Projects, NF Fiction Book Group

Monday

Karen left for Cambridge before 7am  She stopped at Linda Larson’s aptmnt to install Microsoft Office. She ha Soup Group.   

Spent most of the morning working on UTMH matters. Ole at Verdrigris, Sam, Seth. Hoping that Ole will really focus his attention in home healthcare agency associations.

All that’s left at 6th and State St.

Walking back from meeting with Seth at One HUDSON City Centre I decided that I will stop eating anything wrapped in plastic or foil. Got to loose weight.

Also worked on a couple more Project entries. Business Cards (see below) and the library movie. 

Nonfiction book club at the library. Much better and longer discussion of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee than I much expected. 

Great lamb chops. Karen chided me for not finishing AND sending letter to Walter Stitt  so I did that  

3/18/2019 – HAL, travel photos

Monday

Cold weather returns – 29 degrees at 7am.

Went to library at 10am to interview Tina Lesem for admin asst position. Very bright, verbal, experienced. Great candidate, Hope Emily hires her right away.

Spent most of day wrestling with travel photos. Re-organizing, downloading stuff from iCloud. The travel file is almost 100 GBs. Started to split it in half. 

Avoided talking with David Ackerman. Seth is away.

Found a pile of little travel notebooks. Earliest dates back to 1989 trip to Cascades. Read aloud over dinner the entries for our HK-Vietnam trip in 12/2008-1/2009. One note about how Vietnamese treat children was a reminder. “Everywhere people pick Jesse up almost without asking. He is paraded around and played with. Seems that there is communal ownership of babies.” This happened on the street in Hanoi and also in a restaraunt somewhere where the wait staff, not having much too do, came over and took Jesse away. We had lunch in leave and he was entertained.

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.

3/11/19 – HAL, work, car, Torrey

Monday

Weight 231. Need to cut out all eating outside of the house.

Worked on re-writing facilities use contract for the library. Meet with Seth to watch him train Gayle Gendron on the set up of new customers. Slow, frustrating. In the end she is such an obstructionist…. perhaps Brandon can take on this role. Time to cut losses.

Walked back and forth to Seth’s office. Very nice weather ~ 48 degrees.

Dave Drake drove me over to pick up the car at Wards Auto.

Went by tennis courts at the school. One net up and kids playing. Spring must be upon us.

Talked with Torrey for 45 minutes. Ended with discussion of adult learning models. My AD learning project. The Cycle of Excellence – deliberate practice.

via Skype.

Dinner – leftover chicken, salad and coleslaw with mushed cauliflower with cheese.

3/7/2019 – library, work, tennis….

Thursday

Met with Miranda Barry at our home. Discuss transition issues when I become president again. More about starting a foundation and setting up a Fundraising Committee. 

Only a little UTMH work.

Met briefly w Cheryl Lacona about June exhibit at in the gallery. Think she is going to put too much stuff in  room.

Tennis lesson. Lot of focus on early prep for strokes. Racket up. Also change in stance and racket position at ready at net. 

Karen went off to meeting with Woodstock photog. group.

Wrote AD piece on Reich’s video Monopolization of America.

 

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.

2/18/2019 – OLDFandF.com, UTMH, HAL

Monday 2/18/2019

Snow formed a sheet of ice on the sidewalk  still, only 4-5 inches.  Stopped snowing regularly BR 9 am  Then squalls until 1pm  

Worked on new website, mostly registration and child theme  Also fiund matrrials for HAL Long Rang Planning Committee. 

Prep fir UTMH team meeting at 114, then the group showed up. Went thru set up and use of apps . Also useful discussion of sales issues w Ole and Sam.  

Thrn talked w David A about commissions, etc.

only Miranda Barry showed for HSL mtg  but we talked through upcoming Board retreat 3/2/2019  also discussed David Murphy and foundation for library.

made gorp for dinner  first time in quite a while