Category Archives: Personal

5/15/2109 – sun, work, tennis

Wednesday

Sun early morning and mostly bright during the day – temperatures in low 60s. Almost spring like.

UTMH – meet with Michael Cole and Melissa Scherrif at Columbia County Mental Health to discuss the app project. Seth too. Then, in the afternoon Seth and I met with SOMML – contract finally signed. Also complained to each other about David’s behavior. Seth as frustrated as me. Talk again with Tony Kiieraldo about tomorrow’s telecon with David about the social media campaign.

Also did more work on the Tinkering with Capitalism essay.

Went over to Susan Rubin’s house at Crosswinds to assemble and put up a spice rack. Easy task. She shoed me around her two-bedroom townhouse. Really very well laid out, comfortable, with an amazing array of closets and fittings. She is very obviously very involved with yarn type projects. One large closet entirely devoted to yarn storage. She sent this picture.

Health

Finally got call back with results from colonoscopy. Everything normal. Turns out cut off age is 75. So another procedure in 2024. Also received call back from Dr. Subudhi about prostate MRI. Something there; need to do biopsy to establish whether it is cancer and what type. Need to research this a bit. Won’t do it until after return from Europe. He is a dreadful communicator.

Tennis

Played doubles at CGCC. Lots of fun. Joe’s grand son Dalton played. Very agile and quick with pretty terrific strokes. Kevin, Joe, Ted, Dalton, Paul, Ray, Tony and me. 4 sets. Played until dark. Down pour as we were leaving.

5/12/2019 – rain, cold, DOG, drinks at Swoon

Sunday

Cold, rainy, rain. Breakfast at Rivertown Lodge with Dave and Daniel Drake. Food so-so. Conversation buoyant.  

DOG had some visitors despite weather.

Worked on new keynote capitalism essay. Biggest new claim concerns the ubiquity of regulators in every system except the economy.

Then a bunch written on the What Matters essay. 

Drinks at Swoon with Dave. Talked about Karen’s book project. Maybe pre-sell 500 copies.

Watched more Unforgotten and The Closer.

5/2/2019 – work, HAL, tennis

Thursday

Feeling substantially back to normal.

Energetic UTMH team meeting, minus Seth and Ole, concerning Tony Kieraldo’s social media campaign. Spoke briefly with Emily from HAL.

Tennis lesson. Very demanding. Ended with work on serve. New image of throwing the right shoulder up towards the ball. Ball needs to be thrown very high.

Nets up and ready at Total tennis.

4/26/2019 – colonoscopy

Got up at 6 am to take the second round of last night’s laxatives. Third day of this process.

Appointment at 10:30am at CMH. 

Anesthetist said that she was starting the propofol drip. I woke up sometime later back in the ambulatory room. Never actually met the doctor, Dr. Blachman. He walked in when I was already lying on my side falling asleep. Everything went well. Everything normal.

Lunch at The Cascades at 1:15 pm with Karen. Miranda Barry and Charlotte Sheedy were there. Charlotte still doesn’t recognize me. 

Had a new sandwich, The Catamount.

Catamount (Vegetarian) $8.25
Hummus, cucumber, roasted red peppers, grated carrots, sprouts, and mozzarella cheese with a touch of balsamic vinaigrette served on mixed grain bread

Think this will be my go-to sandwich in place of tuna on multi-grain.

Talked with Matt Almeida. Things are slow on his end.

4/24 – 4/25/2019 – dragging, colonscopy prep

Wednesday – Thursday

Cold finally departing. Wednesday evening spent drinking almost a gallon of some sort of laxative. Spent several hours puttering around between trips to the bathroom.

Picked up UTMH paycheck, went to bank for deposit. Drove by high school. Book Festival is coming.

Received annoying note from Anne Terwilliger at the library requesting a meeting to talk about “problems”. I have to talk with Emily about this.

Karen was away at her Woodstock critique group.

Spoke with Emily Thursday morning at our regular weekly telecon. Agreed that I will reply to Anne with the proviso that Emily would be present at any meetings with staff.

Watched a lot of Youtube videos, tennis, politics, construction…..

4/22 – 4/23/2019 – mostly sick…trip to PT….

Monday and Tuesday

Spent most of these days mopping about. Low energy.

Tuesday, UTMH team meeting was buoyant. Sam missed it due to some call. Otherwise Wexelman and Ole held the floor. Some good ideas about details of how doctors use the UTM:RPM reporting tools.

Saw Anna Marie Zeitsman at Fish and Game Physical Therapy. She had me walk around the building. Noticed that my right hip is slightly immobilized and so I am swinging my whole body forward skewing the gait a bit. Overall she still finds things to be in good shape with further opportunities to put off hip replacement. She also noticed that my toes don’t stretch up as much as they should. 5 degrees deflection instead of 10. This could account for my two recent tripping events on the tennis court. I am shuffling my feet.

Received this video from Nan. Anna doing the bars.

4/18/2019 – cold, diary project

Thursday

Cold continues. Spent good part of the day in bed. Rest of day working getting posts here up to date.

Karen returned from her talk in Boston around 1pm. She seemed uncertain about how the talk had been received. This despite lots of evidence during and after the talk that people were engaged and moved by the project. She went off to her book group. I drove the car around the block. High tide on the river.

Then beef with scallions at Red Chopsticks.

 

4/15/2019 – cold, web projects, work

Monday

Felt crappy all day. Mostly spent time collecting old materials and publishing them here. 

Sent out notice and notes to HAL board for next Saturday’s meeting.

Talked with Seth about UTMH matters. 

Still need to send extension for NYS taxes.

Skipped Hudson-Creative meeting at library.  

Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. 

4/12/2019 – travel project, work….

Friday

Woke up at 4:30 worrying about prostate cancer threat  

Spent lots of time on Feb. 2011 road trip in Projects.

Talked with David Ackerman. He sounds dreadful. Also met with Ole.  Discussed good idea to create an automated confurator to connect RPM with EHR systems. 

Dinner downstairs. Conversation about Karen’s upcoming speech about her book project.

Debby Mayer posted On Facebook about her local library in San Diego  Reminded me that Karen and I had seen the frame of a new central library a couple of years ago  Found these photos of the finished library.

 

 

4/10/2019 – doctor, Cameron Melville, work, tennis

Wednesday

Dr. Subudhi, urologist at CMH. Waited a long time. Less than five minutes with the good doctor including prostate exam. He felt something. Wants MRI first.

Cameron Melville was also in the waiting room. Talked about UTMH, then after he returned and I was still waiting we talked about Bob Adam and his history at the private progressive school they went to in Western MA in the late ‘60s. He was born in 1956. Cameron also revealed that he has prostate cancer.

Need to do research on prostate cancer.

Met with Seth. Discussed various changes and improvements to rpm apps. Also what to do about Troy Web and Turnkey. Also talked with David about hospital in Dutchess Cty.

More work on transaction spreadsheet for 2018 taxes. 80% complete.

Tennis doubles at Total Tennis. Got there early. First play with Justin against Joe Dellamorte and Chad Silver. Excellent. Played very well all around. Especially volleying. No double faults in the entire evening