Category Archives: Work

Friday – 1/13/2017

Got up at 7:30. Went CMH for presurgery physical with PA Jeanne Pierce. Uneventful. 

Read at library. Talked with a Seth from UTM about CMH RPM app. Walked home for telecon w Gabe Zinn. Postponed. Talked w Matt Almeida. 

Hudson HS girls basketball game against Chatham at home. First time at a game at home. Turned out to be quite competitive until last quarter. Game ended at 48-32.  Very unlike earlier game that they won something like 79-43. 

Thursday – 1/12/2017

Snowman has melted completely. Breakfast at Bob’s Diner. Delayed by phone call from Albany Med about next week’s surgery. Breakfast a bit rushed by sudden call from Ole Breuning in Denmark. Walmart shopping because Karen needed to visit pharmacy. 

Wrote Program Marketing Process piece for mrktg comm. Revised UTM:IPS pricing sheet for Ole. Took nap. 

Karen taught first class of her online photo course. 6 – 8:30. Nine students. 

Poached pork loin  Very good method.  Watched Youtube video on installing vinyl flooring. Wish I had seen this before I did the office floor.

continued to watch documentary on OJ Simpson    

 

 

Tuesday – 1/10/2017

Snowman still standing. Missed call from Albany Med for presurgery checkin w nurse. No call back all day. 

Talked with JoeTheGrower Giangrande. Very negative guy. Sent email to Mary Ann Johnson at HVADC about the call. Ball is in his court. 

Continued work on new DOG virtual website. Very successful HAL marketing committee mtg. Late lunch at Cascades. 

Talk witb Brigid Dorsey. She will probably go out of business. Bartlett House people not responding. 7pm reconnect with Susan Weseen about her granola business. She is smart and thoughtful. 

Watched an hour of tv series OJ Made in America with. Then Obama’s fairwell address from Chicago. 

Friday – 1/6/2017

PT w Anna Marie Zeitsmann. Reviewed my home exercises in detail.

Talked w Matt Almeida. UTM meeting with Seth and Ole cancelled because David A went home early not feeling well  

Hudson HS Girls basketball at Coxsackie-Athens HS at 7pm.  Score was 25-4 after first period,  final score 79-27. Game over at 8:05pm  

Stopped at Rive Gauche in Athens for drink with Dave Drake.

 

 

Thursday – 1/5/2017

Snowman still standing. 

Meeting at Bard with Ole Breuning. Safety Committee. Joe Ahern, Warren St neighbor we met at Ted and Anne’s house last Sprjng was there. He is working on risk management. Very good meeting. They are actively envisioning what building to try out.

Directory at Bard Admin Bldg.

 

Stopped at Otto’s in Germantown on the way back. 

Ole dropped me at the library. I worked on new DOG website. Had lunch at Red Chopstick. Long nap. Karen went to see movie The Harder They Fall at Bliss Tower. 

Wednesday – 1/4/2017 – vertigo, snow man melting, and work

Vertigo on waking up. Fell over in bed. Luckily didn’t bang my head. Took several minutes sitting on edge of bed to get going. Looks like more severe type of what I had 25 years ago. Where is Stanley now that I need him again. When I lie prone and hold my head in some positions I get vertigo. Will have to go to doctor about this. 

Took repeated pictures of snowman melting in backyard. 

Met with Seth Lachterman about CMH project. 

Then talked w Anita Harris. 

Tennis at night. 

Ed called. They will come for a visit Sunday. 

Friday – 12/30/2016

Late start. Bad night’s sleep. Ate last of overly spicey leftover frittata. Worked on CurrentMatters, New banner for site; reorganized Our Situation materials. Nap.  Haircut and visit to Walmart. Talked with Brigid Dorsey at 5pm. The Bartlett House people have expressed interest in investing in her business, potential breakthrough.

Friday- 12/23/2016

Yarn bombed decorations outside Verdigris. Done by the Thursday evening knitting group.


Woke up late. 7:45. Breakfast at Tanzys. Talked about the virtual DOG. Packed up one of sets of pictures from the last show. Looked for pop up layer or note plugin for WordPress. Paid bills. Sent summons from taxi company for last May’s accident to Travelers. Also created projected P&L for Brigid Dorsey. Sent note to Chad Weckler withdrawing from active participation in the makerspace projects, Hudson-Creative. Relieved about that.

Plenty of leftover beef stew.

Thursday – 12/22/2016

Late start. Appointment for PT with Anna Marie Zeitsmann. Finally understand focus on upper back muscles. Got new headlamp for car. 

Lunch at Camea with Ole Breuning and Seth Lachterman about UTM matters. Good discussion. 

Worked more on Angry Old White Guy essay. Also some library emails about marketing.  Slow cooked beef for beef stew. 3 hrs at 215 degrees.

Spoke via Skype for 30 minutes w Torrey. He was hand holding a cellphone so his head bounced around during the whole conversation.  He and Jane are at their Christmas house above the beginning of the Great Ocean Road west of Melbourne  We talked about redefining human identity in contrast to the neoliberal concept.  Jane came into view at end  She announced that her doctors have pronounced her cancer free  Quite amazing for lung cancer that seemed quite late stage six months ago.