David Ackerman called at 8:30 am to cancel a meeting I had scheduled a bit later. Should have known that he would not meet with me. 4/15 is looming in his world, and mine since I have not worked on the taxes for a week.
Met with Jim Savage about his business idea Green Built LLC – hemp-lime building products. Continue reading
First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang
First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang
First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang
Kay Kenny’s house
Serious garden defenses at Kenny house
Snow almost gone.
Lots of UTM work. Meetings with Jan and Seth and Eliel. Talked about the long overdue website. Seems that Seth and Eliel are flailing around and each other.
Cleaned up HAL Armory site and worked on new calendar plugin for HAL website.
Hung up the first DOG show. Went to Kay Kenny’s house in Saugerties to pick up her pictures. Had to break in thru screen door.
8:19 am – still below freezing
Spent most of the day working on tax prep. Almost done with DOG/DOE statements. Gross sales exceeded $17K.
Had call from Jim Savage founder of Green Build LLC a new venture working on hemp-lime construction materials. Expect to have conversation sometime next week.
More work on getting ready for taxes. Trip to Albany to meet with UAlbany students. Jan there too. Raining and cold.
Walked over to university art gallery. Current show: The Ties That Bind: Artists and Archives.
Most striking is Shane Aslan Selzer’s images in B&W. One image bleeding into the next always preserving elements of the earlier in the succeeding. Here is a sequence grabbed by iPhone from the video.
The living room will go away shortly. Displaced by DOG
Went to gym at 7:30 am. Hope to get this into a routine. More work on tennis exercises.
Returned and worked on UTM and library projects. Talked with Jan about UTM plans for an hour. He remains concerned that David and Seth don’t really grasp the situation and opportunity they are in.
6:40 am Snow shower over night. 19 degrees this morning.
UTM work in the morning. Lengthy call with Jan. Planning for next six months or so. He told me that he is negotiating a contract with David to work full time and be CEO. Told him that I am supportive though dubious of getting David and Seth to march in a straight line or follow any line. Also told him that I want to take over the CMH and other customer operations so he can focus on investors. We developed a good beginning of an outline. Promised to get him a draft done today si that we can talk further about it tomorrow. Continue reading
5:32 pm
Worked on UTM contracts and other matters. Also trimmed down the marketing list for DOG. Regular weekly UTM meetings mid day. Worked in a few moments to start drafting overview piece for the library.
6:05 PM
Went early to go to Apple Store to pick up new iPad Air2. Then to UAlbany. Led discussion because Jan was attending an executive event at the Business School.
Left promptly at 1:30 to return to meet with Miranda Barry who is interested in the library. Gwen Gould also attended. Met at Cafe le Perche. Miranda is very dynamic, experienced educational media person. Long time with Sesame Street.Now with a new venture StarWalk Kids Media. She is very interested in participating in program development.
Spent most of day on UTM. Met with Jan at Columbia Memorial Hospital for talk with Katie Cullen, head hospitalist. She is enthusiastic about the app. Wants to bring more of her people into using it. Ran over to Fish & Game Rd. office of Chris Gorczinski. He had his admin, Kacey Quirk, with him. Similar discussion.
Went to Albany to meet up with Karen and David Drake for a movie, Leviathan, and later dinner with Dave’s new girlfriend Liz. Need to find her last name. Continue reading
UAlbany trip.
Full house, SRO, at Peter Jung talk about Hudson River School painters at HAL