More work on office in barn, then pick up food at Letterbox Farm.
HAL information table at Farmers’ Market 11 to 1pm. Talked with quite a few people. More are aware and even enthused about the new library.
View out from table at Farmers’ Market
Good turnout. Chinese food after the reception with David Drake, Liz Allen, Ellen Slotnick.
Breakfast at Bob’s – very bad shopping experience at Price Chopper. They have moved everything around and then we used self-checkout machines. Voices speaking before and after every transaction…….
Matt Almeida at 11:45am
HAL Program Committee mtg at library at 12:30. Extremely competent thoughtful group. Plans for outreach meetings to community individuals, then organizations. Gwen Gould, Ann Rosenthal, Miranda Barry, Emily Chaimeides.
Worked on taxes and then office in barn.
Got up at 7am.
Worked on hanging new DOG show until 9. Spoke with Gwen Gould about business planning on phone.
Went to library for 10am ceremony.
Before
After – $1.2 million
The line up. Sarah Sterling, rep from Barrett’s office, Emily Chameides, MMO, Betsy Hamilton, Gwen Gould, Theresa Parsons
Hung up rest of DOG show. Looked for tax materials – worked on taxes – spreadsheets of transactions. Office project from 3:30 to 7pm.
Picked up roast chicken and rib dinners at Shiloh Baptist Church. reminiscent of CCC.
Stumbled on this on Zite. Wrote blog posting and put it on Facebook: ”
Met with Seth at 11am – updated various projects: CMH, Deepankr, Belvedere. Came up with alternative proposal for them. Will see if they are interested. Lunch at Bagel Tyme. Had not been in there in five or six years. Peanut butter on whole wheat bagel.
Met with David Ackerman. Typical short meeting. Reviewed Randy Johnston mtg in Chicago. Need to find out about Ole’s project??
Worked on office project for rest of afternoon.
Played tennis at Total Tennis from 6:45 to 9pm.
Up early, at desk working on marketing for DOG and UTM stuff. Started to work on taxes, got to finish these before 10/15.
Lowes delivered the building materials for the office in the barn. neat little forklift with wheels that rotated on all four.
Woke up at 4:30 am. Decided that today was a good day to tell UTM, David and Seth, that my days with them are over at the end of the year. Got to bring this engagement to an end.
When I signed on formally with UTM in March 2014 you were aware of my involvement as a founder with my brother Ed in a start up medical devices company, Prescient Medical Devices, LLC (PrescientMedicalDevices.com). For a number of reasons we had put the development of the company on pause while we addressed some IP issues. This made it possible to make a commitment to UTM for a year which was the time frame we talked about at that time.
PMD is now restarting. My brother is making presentations to investors and we expect that these will be fruitful. This means that I need to position myself to focus most of my energies on PMD by the latest January 2016.
I suggest that we move the project of finding a sales/marketing person on to the front burner. You may have other priorities. Lets talk about how I can be most helpful.
Thanks,
Felt immediate relief from taking this step despite the deceptive statements about PMD. Nothing new is happening as far as I know on that front.
Controller on boiler
No heat. Waiting on plumber Ihlenburg.
Went to Belvedere Home Healthcare in Albany for UTM meeting. Good meeting gathering requirements. They will conduct a survey of potential users.
Back to Hudson for HAL Exec Comm lunch at Mexican Radio. Followed by mtg with David Murphy, Betsy Miller and T Parsons about upcoming hard hat tours of Armory for high rollers. Then, at 3pm meeting with Ann Rosenthal about her role as Chair of Program Committee. Smart, energetic, engaged…. big plus for library.
While Karen taught her online course I went to Bell’s Pint Nite at The Spotty Dog. After chatting up the regional sales rep for Bells I was given a Bell’s Pint glass. Also had good chat with Sherrie Jo Williams and Pauline DeCarmo and a couple of their friends.
Busy day with clients. Reviewed materials from Mary Vaughn Williams at 6:30 am; talked with her at 8:30. Hopefully she got her application in to Martha Lane before leaving for her high school reunion.
Spoke with Alan Coon about the UTM website project again. He had a tough conversation with David Ackerman yesterday and is now doing the repair work on his own dime. Then, Matt Almeida. Spent time catching up on diary.More on this1Some company
Great meeting of HAL Marketing Committee at 4pm. Agi Clark presented her ideas and we had a lively discussion and brainstorming session. Left feeling very buoyant about this work. It is clear that we need to organize the messaging around the various classes of users, children, parents, teens, etc.
HAL – meeting of the newly enlarged marketing committee. Agi Clark joined us.
Agi Clark
Born: Budapest HungaryEmigrated to the U.S. with parents on February 1957Graduated from Christopher Columbus H.S. in the BronxBFA degree from Pratt Institute major Fine and Graphic ArtsCareer in Advertising in NYC 1967-1991Art Director at Pritchard Wood (British Airways, Jamaica, Indian Tourist Office, The Bahamas)Creative Director Senior V.P. at N. W Ayer (DeBeers Diamonds, AT&T, Kraft, J.C.Penney, Seven Up)Chairman, Chief Creative Officer LGFE (New York Stock Exchange, Hennessy Cognac, Contel, Wall Street Journal)Advertising Director for the Liberal Democratic Party (Alliance of Free Democrats)in Hungary in the 1994 and 1998 elections.Advertising for the Mayor of Budapest, Gabor Demszky 1994 and 1998Moved to long time country house in 2000Two photography exhibits one in Budapest, one at Hudson Opera House.Established the magazine Hudson River Art (with Peter Barton) designed and produced itVolunteered at John L. Edwards elementary school (mentored reading)On the Board of the Hudson Library (can’t remember the year.)One son, two grandchildren. Grandson second year at Berkeley California, granddaughter junior at Poughkeepsie Day School.
– Raizlabs, Surge, Coherent Solutions, Gavant, all intro discussions. Seth called to tell me that he and David want me to take over the website project. Send letter to Alan Coon informing him of our disappointment and need for him to step in. Seth is altogether too emotional.
Talked with Silicus in Pune India. Then Jared Woodcock, Jan’s nephew, about Schuyler Duffy’s idea for growing vegetables in a shipping container. Drive to UAlbany for meeting with students.
Drove down to NYC to go to opening of Judy Henry’s exhibition at BravinLee Programs (526 West 26th Street #211, New York, NY 10001)
Judy talking with Karen.
UTM – lunch meeting with David, Jan and Seth. David looks terrible.
HAL – Theresa Parsons and David Murphy came over.