Category Archives: Personal

4/9/2019 – doctor visit, work, library, tennis

Tuesday

Saw Marilyn Miller at CMH. Talked about elevated PSA level, Viagra not functioning and hip physical therapy. Made appointment with urologist for tomorrow. Skipped team meeting at UTMH.

Foggy morning.

Attended volunteer lunch at the library. Spent too much time listening to Pamela Badilla. Talked with Shanekia about her performance at the HOH last weekend. Met a couple of other volunteers.

Looked at more pictures from Sicily and Lisbon for Karen’s book projects. Filed Federal tax extension, then worked on the transaction from 2018 from all of the various sources. Three checking accounts, one credit card, and two PayPal accounts. Got all of the data into one spreadsheet. Now to categorize all of the thousands of transactions so I can create P&L statements for DOG, RBC, and Karen’s artist work.

Lunch at Chinese place top of Warren.

Went to Total Tennis for singles night. Started warm up with a very good 40 something guy. Then Vic walked in with Hanna, a roughly 30 yr old woman who is close to 6 ft tall. She is not exactly at my level, but gets the ball back. We rally to good effect for more than 90 minutes. Good fun. I got to practice not hitting the ball so hard. She is an obvious athlete. Good hands and eye coordination. Likes more pace towards the end.

3/21/2019 – UTMH, travel posts, tennis

Thursday 

Starting to feel very depressed about UTMH. Little progress, frustrated with people, lack of budget, remote management may not be working for me, David’s craziness…..  what to do??

Meeting with Seth at CMH. Project continues to be doing well though their sense of urgency is low….

Worked on February 2011 road trip project blog February 2011 road trip project blog elsewhere here. Very good work set up with drag and drop of photos in the post.

Tennis lesson was excellent. Working on reforming the drop off the racket of the back swing on the backhand side. 

Spoke with Alan Harris about his Euphorium.buzz business for an hour. His wife is the actress Charlayne Woodard.  He is brother of Anita. Love stone product. MrCheckout opportunity. Strange guy. Obviously very ill.

Karen went to her book group. Smoked last of the weed. I fell asleep at 9:15 pm or so just after she returned.

3/18/2019 – HAL, travel photos

Monday

Cold weather returns – 29 degrees at 7am.

Went to library at 10am to interview Tina Lesem for admin asst position. Very bright, verbal, experienced. Great candidate, Hope Emily hires her right away.

Spent most of day wrestling with travel photos. Re-organizing, downloading stuff from iCloud. The travel file is almost 100 GBs. Started to split it in half. 

Avoided talking with David Ackerman. Seth is away.

Found a pile of little travel notebooks. Earliest dates back to 1989 trip to Cascades. Read aloud over dinner the entries for our HK-Vietnam trip in 12/2008-1/2009. One note about how Vietnamese treat children was a reminder. “Everywhere people pick Jesse up almost without asking. He is paraded around and played with. Seems that there is communal ownership of babies.” This happened on the street in Hanoi and also in a restaraunt somewhere where the wait staff, not having much too do, came over and took Jesse away. We had lunch in leave and he was entertained.

3/14/019 – UTMH, real estate, tennis

Thursday

Lots of nonsense round the Gayle Gendron mess. David wants immediate action; Seth equivocates.

Took more pictures of comparable houses in the assessment issues. They seem inappropriate in our situation. Part of the problem is our classification as a commercial property..

Tennis lesson at 2:30 as usual. Long half speed ralleys., lot5s of volley practive at the net. Finally lots of work on the spin serve. Finished on return of serves.

3/12/2019 – work, Hudson Creative, tennis

Tuesday

UTMH – Spoke with Sam M about his sales work. Progress is slow. Asked him to send a weekly summary. Team meeting at 11 was chaotic and filled with re-hashings of the mess created during the install of Wexelman and Darby on the test server. Bad decision to do that. Gayle has to go. She is abrasive, pig headed, just plain difficult.

Spoke with Seth further about Gayle. Then Brandon about his taking over implementation and training.

More research about self-directed learning.

Got Chad WAeckler reconnected to various Hudson-Creative accounts,

David A. called about Gayle.

Tennis at Total Tennis. Played 3 sets with a guy named Paul as partner. Won all three sets. Served well. Mixed results on volleys.

3/11/19 – HAL, work, car, Torrey

Monday

Weight 231. Need to cut out all eating outside of the house.

Worked on re-writing facilities use contract for the library. Meet with Seth to watch him train Gayle Gendron on the set up of new customers. Slow, frustrating. In the end she is such an obstructionist…. perhaps Brandon can take on this role. Time to cut losses.

Walked back and forth to Seth’s office. Very nice weather ~ 48 degrees.

Dave Drake drove me over to pick up the car at Wards Auto.

Went by tennis courts at the school. One net up and kids playing. Spring must be upon us.

Talked with Torrey for 45 minutes. Ended with discussion of adult learning models. My AD learning project. The Cycle of Excellence – deliberate practice.

via Skype.

Dinner – leftover chicken, salad and coleslaw with mushed cauliflower with cheese.

3/5/2019 – work, colonoscopy prep,and tennis

Tuesday 3/5/2019

UTMH team meeting. Quite brief because Seth did not attend. Spoke with Ball Consulting about dropping monthly retainer and going to a time and materials basis for future press releases. They will work on a white paper this month.

Went to CMH to meet with Lynn Carollo about colonoscopy in April.

Total Tennis at 6:30. Played doubles, three sets. Included Nicholas, a young pro who knew that I take lessons from Saif. Played quite well. Many good rallies. Tony Sarowitz, Franz ?? and Kevin ??  were partners also.

Pictures from ~1/3/19 at Andrea’s house.

Picture from August 2015 – at top of Mt. Greylock.

 

2/21/2019 Moodle,Tennis, UTMH

THURSDAY 2/21/2019

Late start, then work on Moodle at Learn.AmericanDelusions.com. Added new course focused on getting oriented and started  

Tennis lesson  lots of top speed rallying from baseline  Backand getting better  spent time on high backhands at net.  Also doing spin serve.

 

UTMH / talked withSeth about Troy Web  they don’t seem to understand our business model  nor are they  contributing creatively. Need to have top level conversation  about fixing things.

Karen went to new reading group engagement at girls only book club.