7:30 am PT with Corey Smith. Very good session. Hip feels much better. Less pain, more mobility.
Afternoon spent in UTMH meeting with Michael Queralt, Seth and David in technology review. He appears willing to help us identify better platform and new developers. Very nice guy.
Michael Queralt
Tired by end of day, but substantially recovered from illness. Constipation finally over.
Spoke with Pauline Decarmo about the UTMH printing job. Emailed various other UTMHers. Packed for trip. Left for Berkeley Heights at about 11 am. Stopped briefly on the way out of town at 125 Warren St to look at a demonstration design project by SJ Williams. This for the Design Hudson affair scheduled for the upcoming weekend.
arrived before 2. Talked with Ed. Chased the dog Marley who got loose and disappeared.
Marley, wayward dog captured
Long line at Newark Airport Toni get through security, almost 45 minutes. Noisy visually distressing time in the airport waiting area. Very crowded. Flight left at ~ 5;45 pm.
Didn’t sleep at all. Arrived Schipohl about 7 am Tuesday 5/21/2019. Another long wait to get through passport control
Edsel outside of Bob’s Diner
Breakfast at Bob’s Diner. Karen went off to Center for Photography in Woodstock to do portfolio reviews. 
HAL Board of Trustee meeting. Only Gary Sheffer and Steve Dunn were missing. Talked about the upcoming Funders Party, the Gala, Long Range Planning, and Fundraising Committee. Pretty uneventful. 75 minutes.
Gallery sitting at DOG.
Caroline Wilder stopped by. We talked about how she can manage her small business in a manner congenial to her personality and business needs…..She wants to keep her dress business small and personal. Doesn’t need Quickbooks that she isn’t comfortable with anyways. I suggested a simple paper journal for the 200-300 transactions a year. When she pulled out a MacBook Air I remembered that she is a digital native, so extended my suggestion to Google Sheets or Apple Numbers. “Whatever technique is comfortable.” She can get her other financial information from her checking account, credit cards, Venmo and other digital finance tools. She left sayin g that she felt relieved about how to keep track of her finances and her business. I told her she had to come back in couple of months to show me how she is doing.
Pauline Decarmo came over at 3pm to finish out the gallery duty. I played tennis with Ted from 3:30 to 5pm. Starting to feel as though we are getting back into the swing of outdoor summer tennis.
Dave Drake came by for dinner. He had been back and forth to Chicago during the week unloading Lauren Schaeffer’s shit. We drove out to the Art School of Columbia County in Hollowville section of Ghent. Nick Tipple and Erika Born had work on display.
Janus, Roman God of Past & Future by Nicolas Tipple
UTMH – met with Pauline Decarmo about collaterals printing. Notes to new sales people. Re-wrote the Tinkering with Capitalism essay. Mostly re-arranging text and eliminating extraneous material.
Telecon with Troy Web. 25 minutes wasted on project management tasks they should know how to do and be doing them. Then rambling discussions, frequently amongst themselves about various trifles. We have to get rid of them. They are expensive but not contributing.
Met with Michael Queralt with David and Seth. 3 hour discussion. He is very experienced technologist and entrepreneur. Next steps may be interesting. He is knowledgeable of the healthcare marketplace. Nice guy to boot.
Spoke with Tony Kieraldo about renewing the utmhealthcare.com website.
Sent note to Linda McNutt and Mike from Kach Inc. about the repairs to the front lattice and gate.
Wrote note to Sam and Dan Sapoznick about blockchain technology mentioned by Queralt.
Walked up to Swoon for dinner. Big crowd at bar when we walked in. Gave up on sitting at the bar and sat at a table for dinner. Two Dewars and two dinners $85. Ole Breuning and Crystal Heinz came in. Ole and I spoke of UTMH matters. I told him that we had been stuck for twenty minutes on the name of a guy sitting at the bar . Finally recalled, Victor Amendola. Ole said, “It was a senior moment.” I corrected him, “It was a senior intermission.”
Karen noticed these fire connections with upside down medallions.
Sun early morning and mostly bright during the day – temperatures in low 60s. Almost spring like.
UTMH – meet with Michael Cole and Melissa Scherrif at Columbia County Mental Health to discuss the app project. Seth too. Then, in the afternoon Seth and I met with SOMML – contract finally signed. Also complained to each other about David’s behavior. Seth as frustrated as me. Talk again with Tony Kiieraldo about tomorrow’s telecon with David about the social media campaign.
Also did more work on the Tinkering with Capitalism essay.
Went over to Susan Rubin’s house at Crosswinds to assemble and put up a spice rack. Easy task. She shoed me around her two-bedroom townhouse. Really very well laid out, comfortable, with an amazing array of closets and fittings. She is very obviously very involved with yarn type projects. One large closet entirely devoted to yarn storage. She sent this picture.
Finally got call back with results from colonoscopy. Everything normal. Turns out cut off age is 75. So another procedure in 2024. Also received call back from Dr. Subudhi about prostate MRI. Something there; need to do biopsy to establish whether it is cancer and what type. Need to research this a bit. Won’t do it until after return from Europe. He is a dreadful communicator.
Played doubles at CGCC. Lots of fun. Joe’s grand son Dalton played. Very agile and quick with pretty terrific strokes. Kevin, Joe, Ted, Dalton, Paul, Ray, Tony and me. 4 sets. Played until dark. Down pour as we were leaving.
Another day of gray, cold, rainy weather.
Woke to find that Seth had revised his piece last night. Gave up on really reviewing this. Sent it to Pauline Decarmo for her to revise her layouts. Scheduled discussion with her for 4pm. Need to be much clearer about what we need.
Met with David and Tony Kieraldo for morning UTMH team telecon. Seth was sick. David muttered and gesticulated throughout the telecon. I put the phone on mute to prevent others from hearing this. Then, after the telecon, he announced that he didn’t want to listen to Tony’s very brief presentation about a new social media campaign. “Just send me the number of C level people who are on Twitter. Twitter is all crap” Very insulting behavior.
Nasty weather continued. Finished reading Susan Orlean’s The Library Book for tonight’s book group meeting. More writing in the essay Tinkering with Capitalism – homeostasis. Physical therapy with Anna Marie Zietsman. Lots of muscle and ligament stretching right hip. Met with Seth around UTMH matters. Received draft of marketing pieces from Pauline Decarmo. Was appalled to discover how bad the writing was. Sent note to Seth with angry comments.
Library nonfiction reading group was small. But discussion of Orlean’s book was buoyant.
Left Cambridge about 8:40; arrived Hudson 11:10…
Telecon with Troy Web. Seth did all the talking. They still haven’t fixed the table sorting problem. Met with David and Seth. David immediately announced the shut down of any further discussion of a consumer product. He promised to tell Wexelman. We also discussed the terms and timing of an exit. He and Cameron want $50 million. I told him that I would work on finding a middle size healthcare company to buy us or partner with us. He agreed to meet with Tony Kieraldo to listen to his pitch for social media campaign.
….. incomplete
UTMH work in the morning. Met with Tony Kieraldo to develop new social media program. David A. Has already indicated he doesn’t want to spend money on it even before seeing the proposal. Turns out he is once again funding the company so this brings out his craziness about money. Then, telecon with a private equity firm. We aren’t mature enough to be of immediate interest. David once again closed the door with his closing comments. A pointless exercise. Seth and I had a telecon with Troy Web about project status. Then lunch with David. He once again expressed himself about the social media campaign. This despite the fact that the revised proposal won’t be forwarded for review until Monday.
Jumped in car at 1 pm for ride down to NYC and Nyla’s lacrosse game at Horace Mann. Talked with Matt Almeida on the way down.
Across the street from the field….
Trinity won the game 8-7. Nyla scored 3 goals. Girls lacrosse is a strange unsatisfactory game.
Drove into Harlem in time to get to the Maysles Documentary Center for a showing of The Feeling of Being Watched by Assia Bondaoui. Andrea had tickets.
This is a personalized story of the investigation of FBI surveillance and harassment of a Muslim community outside of Chicago in the late 1990s into early 2000s. Very good. Discussion following was also stimulating. Mentions of “politics of respectability” – reminds the same in the history of civil rights earlier. Also the need to get beyond the objective journalism trope.
Back to Andrea’s about ten pm.
Feeling substantially back to normal.
Energetic UTMH team meeting, minus Seth and Ole, concerning Tony Kieraldo’s social media campaign. Spoke briefly with Emily from HAL.
Tennis lesson. Very demanding. Ended with work on serve. New image of throwing the right shoulder up towards the ball. Ball needs to be thrown very high.
Nets up and ready at Total tennis.