Category Archives: Tennis

1/9/2020 – jet lag and tennis lesson

Thursday

Slow off the mark. Spoke with Seth in catch up mode about UTMH activities. Big order from a Dr. Petrov in Brooklyn promises to be a game changer.

Tennis lesson with Saif. Rusty but got back into the rhythm until the last ten minutes. My serve was completely awry. Hit 20 or more balls into the net. Finally got a few over.

12/10/2019 – more prostate action and tennis

Thursday

Went to see Dr. Subudhi at CMH. PSA value now 5, up from 4.7 8 months ago. This is following a trend over the last few years of rising PSA numbers. He repeated a DRE and found that he could still feel the small (~1/8 in bump). But given negative results of the August biopsy I am no closer to a conclusive result. He suggests another blood test, 4Kscore. This test provides a good assessment of risk of aggressive cancer versus “indolent”.

Tennis lesson with Saif. Lots of work on backhand and volleying. 3 ball drills coming to the net.

11/9/2019 – HAL and Tennis

Saturday

On the way to Bob’s…..

7:28 am

Attended a marketing workshop at the library. This one given by staff from MHLS. Biggest surprise was to hear from folks at RoeJan Library that they only raise 30% of the funds from taxes!!

Tennis

First visit of the season to Old Chatham Tennis Club. Played with Ted on the HarTru court. Lots of fun on this surface.

10/29/2019 tennis, Jesse and Anna, lecture at Bard

Tuesday

UTMH team meeting and other work.

Tennis lesson with Saif.

end of outdoor season at Total Tennis

Jesse and Anna

 

Architecture Lecture at Bard

Dr. Jenny Shaffer presented a lecture entitled “Harnessing the Past to Create the Present: The Multiple Lives of Charlemagne’s Chapel at Aachen, ca. 800-2019″. Lecturer is friends with Ted and Anne. Interesting for its traversal of so much European history.

in the Steel Plant building at Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY

8/2/2019 – house, work, tennis, HAL event, drinks

Friday

Saw a do-it-yourself video about a drop down work bench. Remembered there is a 60 x 36 table top in the barn. This will do just fine. Need to get piano hinges and other hardware. Also started adding a new light over door to factory that will come on with a motion detector.

Talked with Seth. Went over to meet with Luca ??, the young guy Seth has doing odd jobs. Chatted with him about plans he has to take a year off from college. Gave him the task of finding some healthcare logistics firms to handle our biometric devices.

Tennis with Ted mid afternoon. Played well. 

In the evening I went to the library for a concert, Music in the Stacks, given by Aston Magna.

The Schubert song cycle Die Schoenberg Mullerin was a forty five minute extravaganza of twenty poems about nature and lost love. Sung by a tenor Frank Kelly who had memorized the whole thing. Here is section of one poem as an example:

Everything was played on period instruments or reproductions of period instruments as in the forte piano.

Janissary bells. A fourth foot pedal actuates these bells.

The natural horn was amazing but also disconcerting with its muffled sound when the hand in the bell was used to change pitch.

 

7/31/2019 – HAL,UTMH, tennis, HAL

Wednesday

Early breakfast. eEllen Liburt came by to talk about her professional website  

Met with Bill Stenehjem about HAL board. He is mostly interested in programming.

UTMH – various with Seth.

Tennis with Ted. Karen is teaching her online course  

Met Dan Ronsani at library to talk about what he wants to do on the board,

Smoked some weed and had too much drink.

 

 

 

 

7/30/2019 – HAL, clean up, tennis lesson

Tuesday

Did some of the standing exercises with the exercise bands….monster walks….These Indian clubs showed up in the mail:

Ducked out of the UTMH team meeting today. Cannot stand the blather…. Caught up on HAL stuff. Set up meetings with board members…looked at ellenliburt.com website in advance of tomorrow’s meeting with Ellen. Spent time getting ready to transfer the new UTMH website to the domain. Also watched more videos about prostate cancer and treatments, especially robotic prostatectomies. Updated my exercise protocol pages.

Sudden, quite violent thunder storm with hail descended at about 1pm. Power went out. Took Karen to library on the way to Saugerties. Tree limbs and trees down over in Catskill.

Tennis lesson at 3pm. Worked on hitting backhand crosscourt. Spent a lot of time on crosscourt rallies, both forehand and backhand.  Ended with serve. Saif seemed pleased that my toss is finally high enough to slow down the swing of the arm and racket. Ted Dewsnap showed up for Saif’s next lesson as I was leaving.

Put a big pile of recycling out. Got rid of many computer boxes that have been upstairs in the barn for ten years. Started working on new motion detector light over door to office. Will come in handy when the shorter days return in a couple of months. 

Karen made a real meatloaf with a mixture of veal, pork and beef. Excellent.

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