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Journal 7.15.2023 – Saturday
Date: July 15, 2023 at 5:36:31 PM EDT
Weather: 86°F Partly Cloudy
Location: 114 Warren St, Hudson, New York, United States
Bob’s for breakfast.
Very few people at 8:30am. Waitress mystified too. Shopping.
Tennis with Ted. Played some games. He won first to 5; 5-1.
Haircut.
Nap. Sluggish afternoon. Weed wacked part of yard. Batteries died. Dripping hot.
Hudson Festival Orchestra. Lots of new music. Orchestra sounded great, very transparent.
More Happy Valley.
13,301 steps.
Journal 7.12.2023
Date: July 12, 2023 at 8:15:25 PM EDT
Weather: 77°F Mostly Cloudy
Location: 1811 Old Kings Hwy, Saugerties, New York, United States
Tennis night.
Spoke with Joe Keenan about his consulting practice.
Walked to library. Got Michael Chameides’ email address from Emily.
NuLink Health meeting…..
15,187 steps.
2/11/2021 – Thursday
2/7/2021 – Sunday – 7 minute photo exercise – Superbowl
Light snow.
Zoom with Sunday brunch group.
Lunch time Zoom with Leiden. Continue reading
1/29/2021 – Friday – moving family history project to OldDodgeVan.com
7 degrees at 6:30am
Drove to Greenbush with Karen to dermatology appointment. Worked on UTMH docs in car.
Spent rest of morning working in the sun room Too cold to heat up the factory.
Talked with Anita Harris.
Tennis with Ted at Chatham.
Drinks with Esther.
Started process of moving the content of markorton.com to olddodgevan.com . 8 GB of data – 3 hours of upload time.
New iPad mini was delivered at 8:30pm
More Jack Irish tv series.
1/21/2021 – Thursday – sports doctor visit and tennis blunder
HAL – write note to board about personnel policies.
Received cartoon from Toni Koweek. 
Appointment with Dr Pregont about my knees, especially my left knee. He has questions about where the pain was and then he felt around and pressed on the knee in various directions. At his direction I flexed my knee various directions. Then he looked over at the x-rays and said well this confirms what the x-rays told me. You have arthritis in both knees.
I asked him what I need to do to preserve my knees as long as possible. He said that I should go on doing what I I have been doing. Playing tennis,walking, keeping active. He spoke of Cortizone shots in the future if needed. Gave me referral to PT.

Tennis lesson.
Got hit in the eye during volleying drill. Held racquet up on edge in front of my face. Ball smacked my glasses bending the frame. Drew a little blood. 
Zoom with Bill and Nancy. She spoke briefly but in ten minutes she was slumped back.
1/19/2021 – Tuesday – medical check in
1/18/2021 – Monday – lots of chatter
Knees and hips troubling.
Short walk to post office only to find it closed for MLK day.
Work on essay about Jonathan Haidt’s TED talk about origins of moral values and liberals and conservatives. Response to Ellen Feldman.
Arrange HAL Exec Comm mtg.
Talk with Andrea Geyer about help organizing her finances and digital life.
Dave Drake and son Danny came by. Sat for an hour chatting.
Zoom with Linda Larson.
Ruth Tamaroff and Michael O’Hara came got drinks at 5:30. Left just after 7pm. Michael told a very long story about his travels to Willits CA in 1971.




