Thursday
Spent time catching up with Seth and David. Leon Greene has officially signed on to a 4 month trial period as new CEO.
Tennis lesson with Saif.
Received Jury Duty summons.
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2/7/2020 – Miami and visit with David Murphy, Wiener Museum of Decorative Art, Wolfsonian Museum
Friday
Up late. Stopped at Burger King for quick breakfast before driving to the Design District to meet up with David Murphy at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Brief visit there.
Lunch at a place all of us had eaten at before, St. Roch Market. David talked about his new house in Merida Mexico and showed pictures of new pool. Spoke of the separate bedrooms.
Followed with a lengthy visit to de la Cruz Collection next door to the Institute.
David left us and we jumped in the car to go to the Wiener Museum of Decorative Art in Dania Beach about 15 miles north. A palace of kitsch at one level, but sill an interesting visit.
near the ceramics museum….
After a quick stop at the hotel for a glass of wine and snacks, we went off up Washington St. to the Wolfsonian Museum. A real find. Karen insists that we have been there before. I have no memory.
Centrifugal speed controller
Dinner at Cafe Del Mar on Washington Ave.
2/4/2020 – UTMH, tennis…
Tuesday
UTMH team meeting….meet Leon Greene, CEO candidate with David Seth and Cameron. Very broad experience in tech and software, bright, good strategic mind. Need to work out future compensation issues before starting four month intro engagement.
Tennis lesson with Saif. Rapid ground stroke drills, serve, toss ball high, slow down the swing from rear drop position, hit up on ball for depth. Knee pain of last week gone.
1/29/2020 – web project, work, tennis
Wednesday
Spent too much time working with a plugin to add tables of contents to web pages here and on AmericanDelusions. Decided in the end to drop it here because of a conflict with Timeline. Also talked with Karen about my spreadsheet of travel events. She added some I had forgotten back in the early ‘70s.
FaceTime with kids in Leiden
Tentative travel list without Karen’s edits:
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Met with Erin Marshall and Ryder Cooley at UTMH. Lengthy discussion of document standards and user roles and permissions. Have asked Troy Web for a roles and permissions matrix. They should be able to produce this easily.
Seth and I talked with SOMML. After what seems to be more than a year of preparatory work they have actually started to sign up patients at Albany Med. Also spoke with David about upcoming meeting with CEO candidate Leon Greene next week.
Rare completely clear sky behind the Catskill Mountains on the way to tennis about 5:30pm.
Doubles at Total Tennis. Played quite well excepting serve which featured way too many double faults. Left knee bothered me towards the end of the session.
1/28/2020 – work, web project…
Tuesday
Spent lots of time on SaaS agreement for UTMH. Met with Seth.
Continued work on pictures and list of travel over past 5 decades. Added note about the status of the website as an ongoing project.
Looking for solution to sidebar on project pages.
Retro Dinner Dish
I made my usual spicy ground sausage with many vegetables. Then the throw back dish: green beans with fried onions and mushroom soup using traditional materials.
1/27/2020 – web project, UTMH, non-fiction book group
Monday
Spent most of the morning working organizing the photos of our various trips. Increased list size and started a spreadsheet with dates and places. Also worked on finding a whole page template for the Projects pages
Telecons with Yehuda Reiss and the NYRWA team.
Surprisingly good turn out (9 people) and discussion tonight at Non-Fiction Book, especially so because most didn’t like the book Songs of America by Meachem. Fortunately the playlist I found to accompany the book was very good.
1/23/2020 – Doctor, UTMH, Tennis
Thursday
Doctor appointment with Marilyn Miller. Talked about right wrist, left knee – minor pain there – and shooting pains occasionally in legs. Left with appointment to Dr. Shin at Fish and Game Rd for wrist and knee. Blood work for leg pains. This may either resolve or narrow that issue. Rest of test results in good shape.
More work on the marketing brochure and other.
Tennis lesson. Saif now wants me to hit the backhand with a grip that very nearly mirrors my forehand grip. Instantly drilled lots of balls into the net, as he predicted. This new grip will greatly increase the top spin. More work on serve. Tossing the ball really high to slow down arm motion. Also keeping left hand pointed to ball for as long as possible.
1/22/2020 – UTMH and tennis
Wednesday
Lots of UTMH work – support documents and new SaaS contract. Worked with John Friedman.
Tennis – doubles at Total Tennis. Good night.
Watching Major Crimes TV series.
1/21/2020 – personal web work…
Tuesday
Went to CMH for blood work. Avoided UTMH team meeting. Spent time on archived Riverside Business Coach website at rbc.markorton.com. Also more work on markorton.com. Set up a page of links to favorite stuff on RBC website.
Met with Seth. David is not acting on the contract we need for Petrov deal. Wexelman is in orbit.
Stopped library to talk with Emily about meeting with Mayor next week.
Tracked back to ValuEdge entry on website. Lots of interesting stuff.
Riverside Business Coach – my favorite blog entries and other tidbits….
1/21/2020
I haven’t written anything new for the RBC website since 2017. Yesterday I announced on the site that the business is closing down. This led me back to the site and a viewing of many of the blog articles I wrote over the years.
Here are some of my favorites:
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