Category Archives: Personal Projects – not AD

4/12/2019 – travel project, work….

Friday

Woke up at 4:30 worrying about prostate cancer threat  

Spent lots of time on Feb. 2011 road trip in Projects.

Talked with David Ackerman. He sounds dreadful. Also met with Ole.  Discussed good idea to create an automated confurator to connect RPM with EHR systems. 

Dinner downstairs. Conversation about Karen’s upcoming speech about her book project.

Debby Mayer posted On Facebook about her local library in San Diego  Reminded me that Karen and I had seen the frame of a new central library a couple of years ago  Found these photos of the finished library.

 

 

4/11/2019 – HAL, tennis, TV

Thursday

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.

3/26/2019 – more diary projects, DOG marketing, UTMH, tennis

Tuesday

Richard Yatzeck

Good discussion with UTMH team. Talked with Sam and Gayle as well as Seth.

Sent out numerous press releases for the first show of the year at DOG.

Mostly worked on old diary entries from 2011 and new Projects. Also made changes to the CSS to remove some of the very heavy font styling…..

Added long letter to Yatzeck from 2012 about his book Russia in Private. Yatzeck died recently at age 86.

Sent note to Taft in search of Walter Foley, a teacher at Taft when i was there. He sponsored my second ISP project. Not clear why he supported a very middling student. Also sent email to Walter Moswkalew another Taft teacher with whom I studied Greek. A bit of nostalgia I guess.

Read some more of Jill Lepore’s These Truths. Interesting parallel between two fights during colonial period, one over representation and the other Slav Rey. She notes that only the former was victorious through the Revolution.

Tennis

Karfen went to Yoga with Anne Bertran-Dewsnap. I went to tennis at Total Tennis.

3/25/2019 – UTMH, more Projects, NF Fiction Book Group

Monday

Karen left for Cambridge before 7am  She stopped at Linda Larson’s aptmnt to install Microsoft Office. She ha Soup Group.   

Spent most of the morning working on UTMH matters. Ole at Verdrigris, Sam, Seth. Hoping that Ole will really focus his attention in home healthcare agency associations.

All that’s left at 6th and State St.

Walking back from meeting with Seth at One HUDSON City Centre I decided that I will stop eating anything wrapped in plastic or foil. Got to loose weight.

Also worked on a couple more Project entries. Business Cards (see below) and the library movie. 

Nonfiction book club at the library. Much better and longer discussion of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee than I much expected. 

Great lamb chops. Karen chided me for not finishing AND sending letter to Walter Stitt  so I did that  

3/23/2019 – breakfast, farmers market, travel photos, art opening

Saturday

Late breakfast at Bob’s. Whitney and Steve were there. Karen and I talked about a road trip in September. Went to Walmart. Karen arranged for my first shot of the new anti-shingles vaccine.

Worked on the photos from the Sicily trip in 2018. Over 1,400 from this Netherlands-Sicily trip in October. The iPhone time stamps and the camera time stamps are slightly out of synch causing troubles with the sequencing.

Went to art opening in late afternoon at Hudson Opera House. Too many people. Stopped at Red Dot for a drink and appetizers.

On the way home ran into Michael O’Hara outside his house. We stood over the construction site next door.Just as I noticed that the first floor joists are attached to a ledger board instead of sitting on top of the foundation Michael said that the contractor had poured the wall 18” too high. What a mess. Then Michael told the story of how the original building had collapsed because they had dug down 2 feet below the bottom of the original stone foundation. The clay subsoil gave way causing first a side wall then the front wall to slip in under the building. Big SNAFU. So far this is not an advertisement for competence on the part of the architect owners nor the contractors.

Watched the fourth in the Kavanaugh Q.C. British TV series from the mid ‘90s. Followed by another VEEP.

 

3/22/2019 – UTMH, road trip posting, tennis, Karen, Chinese food

Friday

Good talk with Karen about the UTMH situation. She said to back off on the idea that my management style doesn’t fit. Focus on chaos of the situation. Then, Seth called to say that he has arranged to meet with David. 

Meeting w David and Seth went well. David took responsibility for Wexelman and other parts. When I asked about the budget for marketing events he nodded without answering my real question about how much money we have. Concluded on strategy for Gayle and Ole. We’ll make this a biweekly event. 

Feel less oppressed and depressed with more clarity amongst the three of us about the situation and my obligations and theirs.

More work on the Feb 2011 road trip posting  

Tennis with Ted at Old Chatham Tennis on clay for two hours. 4-6pm. Played well. Lost two sets 6-4, 6-4. Exhausted.  

Photo sent by Jonathan. Taken at opening reception for Photographuc Resource Center Exposure 2018 22nd annual Juried exhibition where Karen was one of 11 photographers displayed. 

Chinese food from Red Chopsticks for dinner.

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.

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.