Went on a jaunt to Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, NY. Stopped in Glenns Falls, NY on the way to visit the Hyde Collection. In Saratoga Springs, Enjoyed the ambience, watched a couple of races, wagered nothing (couldn’t figure out how it works….trifecta, perfectas, etc???). Also stopped at other spots: Congress Park, Saratoga Springs History Museum, Saratoga Spa State Park, and other.
in the reading pile.
12 inch baseboard in 1840s house Jaffrey NH during visit with Bonnie Mitchell and Martin.
Ready for the day’s activities – computer and gym bag
The end of the Pamela Worden project. 50 copies of “Letters To Andrew: the house book” Flash movie.
Karen is ready to go.
Karen is ready to visit Cheryl in Palo Alto, CA.
Some wit …..
Bush announces more steps in his war.
Nyla
Jim and Judy, our backyard Franklin St. neighbors are convinced that Spring is here. So am I, after my first outside run along the river since late October.
Reconstruction has actually begun on this vest-pocket park on Franklin St. The original concrete monstrosity was built in the 60’s during the same architectural phase that brought us the King and Tobin elementary schools in the “brutalist” style most famously seen in Boston City Hall and the nearby state mental health building.
Construction – Franklin St pocket park
More expensive housing being built on Franklin St. The lot was formerly the site on an automotive repair garage.
“Hours”, very good, especially surprising Meryl Streep who really is some else, not Meryl Streep working very hard at acting. Also Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore in outstanding performances.
Back on SATURDAY 02/28/03 I started the YIP Project.
Snow on spiral stairs. Forecast 4-6 inches. More than 12 arrived. But, very fluffy.
This began as a picture-centric project with just captions below. As explained elsewhere, I have been plagued by a bad memory of my day-to-day life. So my first swing was to keep a digital camera with me and take pictures every day. Here is the first, following a snowy day:
Work is well underway on the Pamela Worden Flash movie project. Miriam Goodman stopped by and proffered some advice on the project. As with every project I do, this one is taking several times longer than anticipated.
A messy desk is SOP for me.
Scribbling on the white board with Terry Burton & Sherry Gordon preparing proposal for Six Sigma project at MKS.
Off to the Sports Palace in Central Square
Dark matter and energy make it to NYTimes
WMAP project reported in the NYTimes. Front page below the fold. There is dark matter and dark energy. The universe is 13.7 billion years old.
A relatively cheap little satellite has confirmed astrophysicists theories that most of the universe is filled up with stuff they call “dark matter” and “dark energy”. I have called my brother Ed about this and he assures me that Parker (nephew age nine) will shortly have this all figured out.
The back of Simmons Hall located on Vassar St. Steven Holl Architects. This was a bit of a surprise seen at night. Karen and I had visited it during the day when the multi-colored facade seems a key feature .
Temperature at 7am.
Sink drain clogged up. Resisted drain snake, required industrial strength chemicals.
Prep for colonoscopy. Cancelled next day because of blizzard.
Kinnaird St. Cambridge during snow storm.
A Harvard house along the river.
About 6 PM. Record 27.5 inches of snow, but still nothing like the Blizzard of 1978 that lasted for two days and was accompanied by 50 mile per hour winds.
Taking advantage of the record snow storm, we stayed home. This lead to a catching up on old New Yorkers. “to Google” has entered the everyday vocabulary. The most amazing thing about Google is how wonderful its search capabilities really are!!
After Karen and I did our Kinnaird St,. duties we walked over to Richard and Nancy’s house on Harvard Street to shovel their sidewalk. They had taken off for a “school teacher’s holiday” to Florida. When we got there we discovered that their tenant had done an excellent job. So, with an excess of moral energies we found Dorothy and Jim’s car on Pine St. to extricate.
Pine st. Cambridge
A favorite dinner spot with Linda Larson. Best ambience in Watertown.
KCD at the Sheraton in Hartford, scene of our weekend “holiday”.
A real destination breakfast spot in Hartford. Replete with the owner of 30+ years hobbled on crutches on a corner stool.
Mel Bochner at the Wadsworth in Hartford
Atheneum Museum
Breakfast in Avon, Ct. Second day of continuous rain
new Apple 14.1 inch iBook put into service.
Seen in the bathroom at work… did someone misplace a fig leaf?
envelope for the CD
Help Pamela Worden set up her show on Church St. Cambridge. Included a computer showing the video I made, “House Book” an animation of her artist book about her husband’s decline.
During October, 1999 Louis and Nancy Vermond paid us a visit from their home base in Toronto. We took one jaunt up the coast of Massachusetts to give Louis, a first time visitor to the New England coast, a taste of the rocky shores.
Along the way we stopped in several towns in Cape Ann. On one spit, we found a boatyard. Here are pictures from there.
PS: Some of you will better recognize Nancy as Nancy Simms from her Cambridge days.
