Lots of UTMH work throughout the day.
Met with David Murphy at Verdigris . Caught up on his personal goings on. He bought a house on the top of the hill up Rossman. Next to cemetery. Union St. house is for sale. Also talked about the fundraising committee. He agreed to participate. Always good to talk with him.
Played tennis doubles at CGCC. Played poorly with little rhythm. Bad serve. Last set played into the darkness was very good. Played with Paul Ambrose against Ted and Bob Gegen.
Outside Tanzys
Construction next to Ruth and Michael seems stalled.
Breakfast at Tanzys. Talked with Tom and Tisha Mulligan about travel. Barcelona. Rome. Sicily. Most of the Hudson police force was there too. As always the food was great.
Farmers Market is back outdoors. Cold, windy.
Then to Goodwill to find a new lightweight jacket. Came home with jacket and new sweatpants and a large cast iron sauce pan. This to replace one of the nonslip pans
Picked up four frozen chickens at Letterbox Farm.
Karen went to balance class at the library. Three people came in the gallery.
Tennis at CGCC with Ted. Cold and slow. Played for a little over an hour.
Ted and Anne came for drinks. The usual fun. Lots of talk about Rome.
Stoned. Listened to the Last Walz. Then Bosch.
Overall a sluggish day. Sore throat, low energy. Worked on various new entries for projects in the diary. Old writing that seems germane even after ten or more years. Me and Religion and Are We Over Taxed..??..
A little gallery sitting….saw David Murphy on the street. He is back from Ft. Lauderdale.
Photos from Jonathan and Nan
By chance I had seen photos from these fields on Facebook in the last couple of days. I pointed out in a comment that there are over a billion bulbs planted by hand. When Karen and I went on a tour of this area in early March 2017 we saw men dangling prone in a box hauled across the field by a tractor planting the bulbs by hand. The tractor driver was standing in the field nearby having a smoke. The tractor is guided automatically over the field by GPS or laser location.
Tennis with Ted at 4pm. Dead on my feet. Stopped by 5pm due to rain.
Dinner with David Drake at Barnwood.
Met with Emily Chameides at the library. We’re going to make this a regular deal. Complete review of all the issues. Emily is on top in a firmer way than just a few years ago.
Tried out making a travel book for the 2011 road trip. First on Lightroom. Too much work. Then tried Blurb’s app. Too much work. Told Karen that I wouldn’t be making a book.
Great tennis lesson. Volleying. Slice serve from new stance. Cross court drill. Move towards ball. Don’t wait for the ball.
Watched a few minutes of Russian Doll. Remembered that Harvey and Betsy said it picked up. So watched two episodes. Jury is out. Then something else. Then a couple Veeps.
Black bean gorp. Leftover chicken.
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
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.
Bob’s Diner for breakfast. Brief shopping. Spent much of the day working on tax return in the factory. Will end up filling for an extension. We will owe over $12k because we took so much money out of retirement funds last year for the construction of the new room and kitchen renovations. Also continued to work on an essay for AmericanDelusions about Ray Dalio’s critique of capitalism published in LinkedIn.
First tennis of the outdoor season. Ted and I were both very flat. I won a very sluggish set 7-5. Ended with 30 minutes of rallying which was much better.
After returning home heard a jostling of front door. Guy was standing outside. He said he knew one of the artists and missed yesterday’s opening. I invited him in. His name is Ben Schawinsky. Lives in Sheffield MA. His father, Xanti Schawinsky, it turns out is a forgotten artist of the Bauhaus school. Interesting stories of Europe before WWII and later.
Puttered around most of the morning. Met with Seth briefly at noon. Got RPM apps working in prep for meeting with Ray Velez Monday.
Tennis lesson at Total Tennis in the afternoon. Mostly worked on backhand and serve. Not getting some sort of wrist motion on the backhand. New stance for serve is still uncomfortable. Right foot is set behind the left turning the chest to face the side fence. More natural slice action.
New pickle ball courts at Total Tennis.
Came back to home. Carla Shapiro and Ruth Wetzel who are curators for this first show of the season showed up. Hung show.
Dave Drake came by with a pot of gorp for dinner.
Karen told me that Andrea had called to say that Brad (Fallon) had broken up with her. Something along the lines of “where is this going?”.
Train at One Hudson City Ctr.
Worked on pictures from last weekend and the Evicted exhibit in particular at the National Building Museum.
Wrote post about that for AD.
UTMH – talked with Sam about customer service role He is in. Met with Seth UTM:RPM bug list. Wexelman.
Anita Harris. More about her brother Alan and the Albany house.
Doubles tennis at Total Tennis. Good play.
Carla Shapiro came to work with Karen on the installation of the season opening show. She is one of the curators. Brought me a present.
Worked on UTMH example pilot project financial analysis. Talked with David A. about Ball Consulting retainer.
Karen had an appliance repair guy come from Ackermans up the street. Leaky dishwasher. Cleaned. Told us that repairing the electric lighters on the cooktop would cost ~$188. We’ll go on using the gas lighters that cost $2.
Tennis lesson was focused topspin backhand. Need to simplify and slow down.
Attended event at the library. Maria Manhattan’s The Box Lunch. Very amusing. PerfectTen girls made update addition.
UTMH meeting w Seth, Brandon, and James to review backend admin features. Useful meeting. Lasted until after 10pm.