Category Archives: Hudson Area Library

Tuesday – 1/31/2017

Local Produce

Went to corner store for some cereal for Linda. The prominence of sugar is amazing. Who would have thought of Reese’s Puffs?

Up and out to dentist appointment for root canal. Another $1,000 procedure!

The three of us went to the library. Karen to talk with Brenda Shufelt about the replace Peppler print.

Took Linda to see the library for the first time. Lunch at Cascades. Chatted with Linda about her doings. She is working on a research project at Mass Mental on how mentally ill relate to  their clinicians. Structured interviews.

Met with Seth Lachterman in mid afternoon. Prep for tomorrow’s CMH meeting. 

Geodesic dome house along Rte 25 in Stockport.

Linda and I went on a little ride in the country. Stockport Creek, then along Hudson River to Rte 25 to 9H to Stottville.

Stop at Price Chopper for bread for garlic bread.

Flat Tire

Dave Drake called at 6 to say that he had a flat tire. So we agreed to declare victory and we would get together another time. This left us short spaghetti sauce. Opened freezer, hot sausage into the nuker and 30 minutes later sauce. Karen made garlic bread a la Joy of Cooking. Very good.

Saturday – 1/28/2017

Breakfast at Tanzy’s. Talked with Tisha and her husband about their trip to Iceland. Revised notes of Thursday’s HAL history talk by Carl Whitbeck. Rick Rector was there too. 

Walked up to library for Board of Trustees mtg. Again struck by the tremendous change in composition of the board. Term limits have that effect. 

Meeting in the Senior Ctr room 2nd floor

Stayed at library until 1pm working on HAL volunteer website. Rushed home. Drove to Kinderhook for a demo outside Congressman Faso’s office. More people than a week ago in Hudson. Occupy Wall St style crowd repetition of speaker’s words. We left after about 15 minutes. Ran into Sue Ciafullo at her house wheee we had coincidentally parked  she has just sold her house. Moving to Charleston SC at the end of March.

Stopped at The School for the latest exhibit.

Here are my favorites:

Andres Serrano
Andres Serrano – The Lake
Huma Bhabha
Thot and Scribe
Thot and Scribe
Thot and Scribe
Thot and Scribe
Thot and Scribe
Enrique Martinez Celaya
The Children’s Rhyme, 2014
The Children’s Rhyme, 2014
The Children’s Rhyme, 2014
The Children’s Rhyme, 2014
The Children’s Rhyme, 2014
The Children’s Rhyme, 2014

Made tuna casserole for dinner.

Friday – 1/27/2017

Sound of a front-end loader backing up beeping repeatedly at 4am announced snow removal. Didn’t get up until after 8. Heard this poem on radio:

Happy the Man

by  John Dryden (1631-1700)

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, 

He who can call today his own

He who, secure within, can say,

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul or rain or shine,
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Translation from Horace??

Worked on UTM RPM instructions, then more volunteer website for the library. Matt Almeida at 11am. 

Walked to library for Program Committee mtg. Good  review of projects. 

Stayed art library until almost 4. Then walked to Tom Ferrell’s Auto at Worth Ave. to pick up care after auto inspection. 

Went to bank where I ran into the same truck driver with torn rotator cuff  He didn’t remember meeting earlier at Bobs Diner  

Karen cooked chicken with beer can in the butt  very good.

 

Thursday – 1/26/2017

Karen’s new iPhone restored successfully this morning. Just need to download all the apps. Farted around most of the day. Time spent somewhat fruitlessly setting up a new iPad that turns out to be just a bit faster than my old one. New one bought as part of promotion at Verizonwireless yesterday.   

new iPhone 7 camera at night.

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Tuesday – 1/24/2017

Still sleeting in early morning. Sound of snow plows. Lower back very sore.

Cancelled meetings with UTM. Seth told me that David Ackermsn had a kidney donor.  Schedule is unclear. Money has arrived from Melvilles  

Karen insisted that I call Dr. Rivard, the surgeon. After fifteen minutes on hold he said the back pain had no connection with surgery. Call GP. Karen brought heating pad and Tylenol. This helped. We’ll wait this out   Continue reading →

Monday – 1/23/2017

Slow start. Worked most of day on volunteer site for HAL. Brief walk up to 4th St and back. Bumped into Ruth Tamaroff.

Did shoulder exercises. Took a nap. Went to Verizonwireless store for new iPhones. Will go back another time. Too many people. Stopped at Walmart for frozen dinners. Sleet started at about 5:30 – continued heavily into the night. Cars were covered by 8pm.

Watched more of Homeland 6th season. Incision is still dribbling blood.

 

 

Sunday – 1/22/2017

Up early. Oatmeal and NYTimes. Lower back very sore, stiff. Lay in bed on heating pad for an hour. Helped a lot.  Wound from hydrocelectomy continues to get better.

Worked on HAL volunteer website most of the afternoon. 

Patriots beat Steelers to go to SuperBowl. Our first football game of the season. French toast for dinner. 

Thursday – 1/19/2017

Spent day following post-surgery instructions. Not much discomfort. Incision is quite small. Maybe 2 inches. Scrotum is beginning to turn black and blue as predicted. Otherwise not much discomfort excepting an inexplicable sore lower back: 

Spent most of day working on new volunteer management site for HAL.

 

Karen had a rough online class.  Mismanged time. 

Saw this picture of opening of library on Facebook.

Monday – 1/16/2017

MLK Holiday celebrated. Woke up late. Breakfast at 9am.

Read more of The Common Cause. Very fine grained history. Almost 20% of the typical page is taken up with footnotes and annotations. Will skim more of this. Most interesting is not the somewhat unsurprising racism of the leaders of the revolution. Rather it is the intensiveness with which they managed the communications with the public, chiefly through the press.

Also puttered around with pictures. Downloading, labelling, etc.

Walked to HAL for the movie The 13th organized by SBKeith Social Justice. Another interesting crowd. Compelling movie about incarceration.

Saturday – 1/14/2017

Finance Committee at HAL in the morning. Anna Rachminov, Marie Rasner, Miranda Barry and Emily. Very good cheery mtg.

Noticed exhibition of sculpture from Hudson High School students. I took lots of pictures for a posting on the HAL website. Later discovered that I had missed some in the Teen Library. Will have to return Tuesday.

Hudson Pride Event at High School


Then, quick stop at Hudson Opera House to see opening of pictures of Alleys of Hudson. On to HAL for opening of Jim Peppler photos.