Most of day working on UTMH matters. Several hours translating more material into Russian for the RPM app. Short conversation with Michael Queralt about his proposal, not sent in advance strangely, for re-writing the code for the whole RPM system. $90k-$100k.
More work on sorting through old web materials to consolidate here.
Drove to Rhinebeck to go to Marigold Home to look at blinds for the sun room. Now that the tree has died, the sun is overwhelming in the morning. Hunter Douglas must be to top end. Almost $3000 for blinds for the four rear facing windows. Will look elsewhere. Lowes has items that will do the job for a couple hundred.
Troy Web telecon and Matt Almeida. Then long nap.
Left for Katonah NY at 5:45. Caramoor Center for Music and Arts and a concert by Roomful of Teeth. Music was fairly interesting, excellent musicianship, doesn’t require additional exposure.
165 mile round trip. Arrived home at 11pm.
UTMH work, then more work consolidating old stuff into this website.
Tennis lesson. Worked on top spin. Saif set up a chair at mid court. I had to hit the ball over the chair and still have it land in the court. Also more work on getting toss of ball on serve really high.
Karen went off to her Woodstock critique group.
Mostly more web consolidation. Discovered a new treasure trove of old files in DropBox.
Met with Seth about UTMH matters. Discussed Ole and his lack of production for the umpteenth time. He asked, “Should I talk with David about this?” Went to NY Rural Water Association to kick off new software project. I will be doing the workflow analysis.
Went to dinner at David Drake’s house in Catskill. Nice view out his back window.
UTMH team meeting at 9:30.
Spent most of the day working on consolidating old web material into this site.
From Lawrence U. Not much of interest to me from long forgotten classmates.
Steamy evening after a day of rain.
Tennis doubles at Total Tennis in the evening. Played quite well.
Have continued to mine the many many files from earlier websites. Added new Post By Date navigation. Added new categories to Projects.
PT with Corey Smith at 7:30am. Asked him about a private consult to set up a home exercise protocol using the mat, rubber bands, and weights I already have.
Spent many hours working on integrating old websites into this one. Adding many new Projects as well as posts. Lots of material to work on. Played tennis with Ted at 1pm. Felt infinitely better than yesterday’s outing. Won a set 6-1. Pretty bouncy all and all.
Non-fiction book group. Just six people. I hadn’t read the book, No Ashes…. Pretty good discussion nevertheless.
Went for walk up Warren after breakfast. Great weather.
Walked down to train station to see Noah off. Train was l;after than he told us. He was outside the house when we walked back. Brief chat with Noah, John and Stephanie.
Gallery duty.
Played tennis with Ted at 3pm. Felt very sluggish and generally lousy. Drinks with Dave at Swoon.
PT with Corey Smith at 7:30 am. Very productive.
Scrubbed through more old files from earlier websites. Lots of stuff to consolidate here.
Tennis lesson with Saif. Focus on less power and more consistent stroke paths. Toss ball really high for serve. Stretch up to reach the ball. Wrist is bothering me. Moved mouse pad to opposite side of keyboard. Will see if this helps.
Karen started cooking by mid morning. Her book group is meeting here. I cleaned the two rooms – vacuum, wash floors, etc. rearrange furniture.
I left for Bob’s for dinner at about 6pm. Came back around 7:30pm. Book group didn’t leave until 9:30 or later;
Spent most of the day hanging end of newest DOG show. UTMH telecon with Troy Web, Matt Almeida, David Ackerman. Migrated website from diary.markorton.com to markorton.com.
Emily Chameides sent me a text message at 4pm:
Just had to call 911. Found someone passed out in men’s room. Greenport Rescue and HPD responded and they revived him. Glad we caught it in time.
I was in the car going to play tennis. Saw the ambulance already at the library. I responded later. She replied:
Yes. Glad they came quickly and revived him. We have narcan but I called 911 first and they came so quickly. Glad I didn’t need to administer.
I stopped by her house on 5th on my way home from tennis. She was sitting on her stoop. We chatted about the incident for a few moments, the emotional burden of finding unresponsive bodies and then deciding what to do. She and Paul have Narcan training. But she pointed out that this guy was really big and it happens that they get aggressive when revived. But the Greenport Rescue came so quickly that she didn’t need to work that over too much.
Tennis was a first outing after the trip and illness, first time in just a day shy of four weeks. Trouble striking the ball squarely. Volleying OK. Ted was like the Energizer Bunny. I was fairly dead. Only played for an 45 minutes.
Drinks with Ted and Anne. Ted had made a big plate of deviled eggs. Shared notes of our trips. They had taken ten students from Marist to Paris for ten days. As usual the conversation was loud, abrupt, back and forth.
Ended evening with another The Closer.