Got up at 7:30. Went CMH for presurgery physical with PA Jeanne Pierce. Uneventful.
Read at library. Talked with a Seth from UTM about CMH RPM app. Walked home for telecon w Gabe Zinn. Postponed. Talked w Matt Almeida.
Hudson HS girls basketball game against Chatham at home. First time at a game at home. Turned out to be quite competitive until last quarter. Game ended at 48-32. Very unlike earlier game that they won something like 79-43. 
Late start. Snowman has suffered significant melting over night. Angry about mess in house and packing up DOG shipments. Worked on notes from HAL mrktg comm meeting yesterday. Went to library in the afternoon. Got new history of the American revolution, Common Cause. 
Saw Ted Dewsnap and Anne in library. Discovered that I was scheduled to play tennis that night.
Got to tennis early. 15 minutes of extra warm up. Played very well. Last tennis until the end of February.
Snowman still standing. Missed call from Albany Med for presurgery checkin w nurse. No call back all day.
Talked with JoeTheGrower Giangrande. Very negative guy. Sent email to Mary Ann Johnson at HVADC about the call. Ball is in his court.
Continued work on new DOG virtual website. Very successful HAL marketing committee mtg. Late lunch at Cascades.
Talk witb Brigid Dorsey. She will probably go out of business. Bartlett House people not responding. 7pm reconnect with Susan Weseen about her granola business. She is smart and thoughtful.
Watched an hour of tv series OJ Made in America with. Then Obama’s fairwell address from Chicago.
Vertigo on waking up. Fell over in bed. Luckily didn’t bang my head. Took several minutes sitting on edge of bed to get going. Looks like more severe type of what I had 25 years ago. Where is Stanley now that I need him again. When I lie prone and hold my head in some positions I get vertigo. Will have to go to doctor about this.
Took repeated pictures of snowman melting in backyard.
Met with Seth Lachterman about CMH project.
Then talked w Anita Harris.
Tennis at night.
Ed called. They will come for a visit Sunday.
Breakfast with Esther followed by a walk around Riverside neighborhood. Our old house and King School.
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PT with Corey Smith. Took boxes to UPS. Played with new camera.
From Columbia St.
Telephoto from Columbia St.
Went to library. Published a posting, “A Note on Jobs & Unemployment” (http://currentmatters.markorton.com/2016/12/a-note-on-jobs-unemployment/). At Karen’s suggestion left out paragraph about adjunct professors in the universities.. Might expand that into seperate posting.
Karen decorated some stuffed animals.
Neuron
This arrived in the mail from the Prison Policy Initiative.
Drove back to Hudson after picking up new Panasonic LUMIX pocket camera st B&H. Arrived Hudson around noon. Puttered around. 
Went to see Fences movie. Extremely good – Denzel Washington and Viola Davis leads. Dinner at Chinese restaurant next door.
Late start. Appointment for PT with Anna Marie Zeitsmann. Finally understand focus on upper back muscles. Got new headlamp for car.
Lunch at Camea with Ole Breuning and Seth Lachterman about UTM matters. Good discussion.
Worked more on Angry Old White Guy essay. Also some library emails about marketing. Slow cooked beef for beef stew. 3 hrs at 215 degrees.
Spoke via Skype for 30 minutes w Torrey. He was hand holding a cellphone so his head bounced around during the whole conversation. He and Jane are at their Christmas house above the beginning of the Great Ocean Road west of Melbourne We talked about redefining human identity in contrast to the neoliberal concept. Jane came into view at end She announced that her doctors have pronounced her cancer free Quite amazing for lung cancer that seemed quite late stage six months ago.
PT w Anna Marie Zietsman.
New reading and a DVD documentary at library.
Telecon w Matt Almeida.
Spent most of day in HAL volunteer management software selection process. Arranged demo next week. Finished use case.
Small amount of time editing Angry (Old) White Guy essay.
Went to movies. Saw Allied. Old fashioned but effective. 
Drove back to Hudson in just under 2 hours. Very fast ~80 mph almost the entire way. No pit stops.
Felt poopy the rest of the day. Perhaps sensing the depression at Ed’s house. He doesn’t seem engaged in things…
Went to eye doctor in the afternoon. Schedule cataract operation for 2/7/2017. Right eye.
Needed these after eye doctor visit….