Category Archives: Work

4/4/2019 – little work, tennis lesson, hang DOG show, Andrea

Thursday

Puttered around most of the morning. Met with Seth briefly at noon. Got RPM apps working in prep for meeting with Ray Velez Monday.

Tennis lesson at Total Tennis in the afternoon. Mostly worked on backhand and serve. Not getting some sort of wrist motion on the backhand. New stance for serve is still uncomfortable. Right foot is set behind the left turning the chest to face the side fence. More natural slice action.

New pickle ball courts at Total Tennis.

Came back to home. Carla Shapiro and Ruth Wetzel who are curators for this first show of the season showed up. Hung show.

Dave Drake came by with a pot of gorp for dinner.

Karen told me that Andrea had called to say that Brad (Fallon) had broken up with her. Something along the lines of “where is this going?”.

 

3/28/2019 – work, DOG, tennis lesson, Maria Manhattan, work

Thursday

Carla Shapiro came to work with Karen on the installation of the season opening show. She is one of the curators. Brought me a present.

Worked on UTMH example pilot project financial analysis. Talked with David A. about Ball Consulting retainer.

Karen had an appliance repair guy come from Ackermans up the street. Leaky dishwasher. Cleaned. Told us that repairing the electric lighters on the cooktop would cost ~$188. We’ll go on using the gas lighters that cost $2.

Tennis lesson was focused topspin backhand. Need to simplify and slow down. 

Attended event at the library. Maria Manhattan’s The Box Lunch. Very amusing.  PerfectTen girls made update addition.

UTMH meeting w Seth, Brandon, and James to review backend admin features.  Useful meeting. Lasted until after 10pm. 

 

3/27/2019 – assessment challenge, work, tennis

Wednesday

Finished up an Addendum to the Assessment challenge document. Asking for $325k assessment instead of the proposed $$400k. Argued that comparable are not comparable. They merely have the dame tax property classification which is not something that the market cares about. Download the assessment challenge here and the addendum hereaddendum here. Sent it off by email only to discover through my request that they confirm receipt of the documents that I had failed to attaché them in the first place.

Long, boring, at time contentious, telecon with Troy Web. They don’t seem to have a very robust project management system. Then walked up to Seth’s office. Somml announced that the official start date for the AMC project is 3/29/2019. Spoke with Ryder Cooley about writing the white paper.

Image used in real estate assessment challenge.

Tennis at night was very good. Played first set with Steve, Frank and Justin. Fell behind 1-4, ended at 4-6. Lots of good rallies and running about. Last set played with Joe Capobianco against Ted and Joe Dellamorte. Old vs young. Held them to 4-6. Tripped on my own feet and fell on right knee. No real damage. Not a single double fault. Very high percentage of first serves.

Stuck with no plastic wrapped foods.

3/26/2019 – more diary projects, DOG marketing, UTMH, tennis

Tuesday

Richard Yatzeck

Good discussion with UTMH team. Talked with Sam and Gayle as well as Seth.

Sent out numerous press releases for the first show of the year at DOG.

Mostly worked on old diary entries from 2011 and new Projects. Also made changes to the CSS to remove some of the very heavy font styling…..

Added long letter to Yatzeck from 2012 about his book Russia in Private. Yatzeck died recently at age 86.

Sent note to Taft in search of Walter Foley, a teacher at Taft when i was there. He sponsored my second ISP project. Not clear why he supported a very middling student. Also sent email to Walter Moswkalew another Taft teacher with whom I studied Greek. A bit of nostalgia I guess.

Read some more of Jill Lepore’s These Truths. Interesting parallel between two fights during colonial period, one over representation and the other Slav Rey. She notes that only the former was victorious through the Revolution.

Tennis

Karfen went to Yoga with Anne Bertran-Dewsnap. I went to tennis at Total Tennis.

3/25/2019 – UTMH, more Projects, NF Fiction Book Group

Monday

Karen left for Cambridge before 7am  She stopped at Linda Larson’s aptmnt to install Microsoft Office. She ha Soup Group.   

Spent most of the morning working on UTMH matters. Ole at Verdrigris, Sam, Seth. Hoping that Ole will really focus his attention in home healthcare agency associations.

All that’s left at 6th and State St.

Walking back from meeting with Seth at One HUDSON City Centre I decided that I will stop eating anything wrapped in plastic or foil. Got to loose weight.

Also worked on a couple more Project entries. Business Cards (see below) and the library movie. 

Nonfiction book club at the library. Much better and longer discussion of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee than I much expected. 

Great lamb chops. Karen chided me for not finishing AND sending letter to Walter Stitt  so I did that  

Business Cards

I’ve had a lot of business cards over the years. Before 1982 I never had a job that was regularly exposed to the outside world or I worked in a bureaucratic institution (MIT) where I was too low on the totem pole. Therefore no cards. When I worked at Augat only managers got business cards. It was a big deal that required approval from corporate. In more recent years printing business cards has become so easy that I change them at the drop of a hat.

(list current as of 3/25/2019)

First card at Augat. 1982

Last card at Augat. 1992

1984

1989

1987

First consulting card after Augat. 1992

1992 – succeeded by Riverside Consulting Group, Riverside Business Coach….

1993

1993

~ 1994

1993-4

1996-8

~ 2000

2009 – present

1999 – 2004

1999

1999-2004

2003-5 various TPS/Six Sigma projects – 

2010-2014

2013 – 2015

2015-2016

2016 – 2017

 

2016-2018

2018 to present

2009 to present

2018 to present

2019 to present

 

3/22/2019 – UTMH, road trip posting, tennis, Karen, Chinese food

Friday

Good talk with Karen about the UTMH situation. She said to back off on the idea that my management style doesn’t fit. Focus on chaos of the situation. Then, Seth called to say that he has arranged to meet with David. 

Meeting w David and Seth went well. David took responsibility for Wexelman and other parts. When I asked about the budget for marketing events he nodded without answering my real question about how much money we have. Concluded on strategy for Gayle and Ole. We’ll make this a biweekly event. 

Feel less oppressed and depressed with more clarity amongst the three of us about the situation and my obligations and theirs.

More work on the Feb 2011 road trip posting  

Tennis with Ted at Old Chatham Tennis on clay for two hours. 4-6pm. Played well. Lost two sets 6-4, 6-4. Exhausted.  

Photo sent by Jonathan. Taken at opening reception for Photographuc Resource Center Exposure 2018 22nd annual Juried exhibition where Karen was one of 11 photographers displayed. 

Chinese food from Red Chopsticks for dinner.

3/21/2019 – UTMH, travel posts, tennis

Thursday 

Starting to feel very depressed about UTMH. Little progress, frustrated with people, lack of budget, remote management may not be working for me, David’s craziness…..  what to do??

Meeting with Seth at CMH. Project continues to be doing well though their sense of urgency is low….

Worked on February 2011 road trip project blog February 2011 road trip project blog elsewhere here. Very good work set up with drag and drop of photos in the post.

Tennis lesson was excellent. Working on reforming the drop off the racket of the back swing on the backhand side. 

Spoke with Alan Harris about his Euphorium.buzz business for an hour. His wife is the actress Charlayne Woodard.  He is brother of Anita. Love stone product. MrCheckout opportunity. Strange guy. Obviously very ill.

Karen went to her book group. Smoked last of the weed. I fell asleep at 9:15 pm or so just after she returned.

3/20/2019 – assessment response, travel photos, Anita Harris, UTMHH, tennis

Wednesday

Most of morning worked on response to new real estate assessment on 114. 

More work on February 2011  road trip photos.

Spoke with Seth then Kurt Lozier at SOMML. Ole reported on his conference at NY Home Health Association meeting yesterday.

Anita Harris. 

Tennis doubles at Total Tennis.