Category Archives: Tennis

3/7/2019 – library, work, tennis….

Thursday

Met with Miranda Barry at our home. Discuss transition issues when I become president again. More about starting a foundation and setting up a Fundraising Committee. 

Only a little UTMH work.

Met briefly w Cheryl Lacona about June exhibit at in the gallery. Think she is going to put too much stuff in  room.

Tennis lesson. Lot of focus on early prep for strokes. Racket up. Also change in stance and racket position at ready at net. 

Karen went off to meeting with Woodstock photog. group.

Wrote AD piece on Reich’s video Monopolization of America.

 

3/6/2019 – work and tennis

Wednesday 3/6/2019

Most of the day taken up with UTMH. Met with David A and John Friedman to talk about commission contracts. Also discussed leasing finance arrangements. David continued to ask about what Ole, Sam and Gayle are doing. Need to bring more discipline to their work. Then met with Seth. Ryder Cooley also there. Then, talk with Anita Harris. Finally Ole Breuning at Verdegris. Maybe I can get him more focused on home health agencies.

Cold all day. 12 degrees at 8am.  Walked back from One Hudson City Center at 3pm. Windy and cold all the way back.

Tennis doubles night at Total Tennis. Played very well. First set in particular. Won three sets. Very unusual. Played with Ray Siecinski at the end.

 

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.

 

3/1/2019

Friday 3/1/2019

Up early again, 5:30am.

UTMH: Talked with David Ball and Greg Turner at Ball Consulting. They essentially repeated their rather narrow focus on press and media relations when asked again how they might help reach our new target markets. Perhaps now Seth will be satisfied that we can jettison them as a monthly retainer. Move to time and materials basis. 

Prepared materials for tomorrow’s HAL board retreat. Couple hours work. Spoke with Miranda Barry about the meeting. She continues to be quite sick with a cold.

Chatted with Matt Almeida who had done very little this week.

Played tennis with Ted at Old Chatham on the clay court. 1 1/2 hours. I played very badly.

2/28/2019 – DOG, UTMH, Tennis

Thursday 2:/28/2019

Up early, 4:45am. DOG web forms. A little UTMH. 

Went to History Room at the library to participate in a psychology experiment for Caitie Hilverson, daughter of Liz Dolan. Involved solving a puzzle. . Tower of Hanoi.  After 3 rounds with 3 disks one try at 4 disks. Solved that in 17 moves, one more than the minimum. Then was asked on video how I had solved the puzzle.

Tennis lesson. Need to focus more on early prep with feet for ground strokes. 

Made carrot mushroom loaf. A favorite. 

2/26/2019 – work

Tuesday – 2/26/2019

Hip is bothering me. UTMH team meeting at 11. Seth and Gayle repeatedly talking past each other. Overall good review of last weeks training sessions in Brooklyn. MSA ready for SOMML until Erin finds errors in contract. Seth backed away from meeting with Ball Consulting in which i would ask them to give up retainer and move to time and expenses. Ole has a proposal going to Elmwood Home Health in Buffalo.

Talked about frustrations with UTMH at dinner with Karen. She suggested a written list of tasks to be presented to owners. Don’t let them off the hook. And remind them that my term is limited.

Didn’t go to tennis to give hip further rest.

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.

 

 

2/19/2018 – DOG, UTMH, tennis

Tuesday 2/19/2019

Up at 5:30. Met w Karen about forms on DOG site. Wrote piece for AD about Republican Party moral bankruptcy.  More time on OLDFandF.com.

Wrote more patient instructions for UTMH. 

Went to Total Tennis for singles nite. Played doubles with two different groups of guys. More competitive on average than the Wednesday group. Tall guy Rick with a funny but effective backhand. Very quick hands. Good serve. Short Indian guy Nick. Not a strong hitter but quick, good volleys. Als a kind of sour guy Kevin. Played until 9:15. I had some really striking sequences of shots. Good serving night.