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Saturday – 3/4/2017

15 degrees when we got up. Winter is back for sure. Bob’s Diner for breakfast followed by quick shopping at Price Chopper. Home for coffee then a walk up to the indoor Farmers’ Market for Berkshire bread. 18 degrees. Cold fingers and face on walk back going into a stiff wind.

Karen noted this house on S. 6th St. again. Odd arrangement; maybe complex elevations inside.

Read much of a new NYReview of Books.

Went to library at 4 to see how the Living Library program was going. Karen talked with Jeff Rigby about repairing a book; I made paper birds with Pamela Badilla.

Off to TSL to see BEHEMOTH (BEI XI MO SHOU) a 2015 movie. Very compelling scenes from strip mining for coal in Inner Mongolia. Workers and goat herders lives in a tumult. Moved on to iron production. Workers with lung diseases. Ended with scenes in a ghost city of apartment towers somewhere west of Beijing. A tour de force about unrelenting uncontrolled exploitation of the earth and people by Chinese state capitalism.

Thursday – 2/23/2017

Tooth appointment at 8am. Discussions of the loose tooth. First mention that an implant might be possible. Cost?? Usefulness??

Ellen Feldman spent most of the day working with Karen on various projects.

Drove meandering through Catskill. It really has a better housing stock of the old buildings than Hudson.

Methodist Church
Methodist Church

UTM telecon with Vilat Keomoungkhoun from IndoorAtlas. They seem not to have any capacity to develop apps to actually use their IPS services. Big opportunity for us. He is meeting with Cintel in Barcelona next week and will show our app to them. Yahoo in mid-March. Knows other opportunities including Simon Group biggest shopping mall owner in US. Seth and Ole participated.

Final work on HAL volunteer website. Went to library to talk with Emily. Ran into Theresa Parsons, her step-son, a psychotherapist,  and his two little boys.

Karen went off to meetings in Saugerties. Arrived back at 9:30 or so. Had Chinese food from Red Chopsticks. Couldn’t eat but half.

Red Chopsticks, Warren St.

Red Chopsticks, Warren St. Don’t know what that round wooden wall hanging means or not?

Monday – 2/20/2017

Saw substitute eye doctor  Everything is ok.

Emergency UTM meeting at Ole’s house  videocon w Henrik Ibsen CEO Open Telehealth, Danish healthcare software company  they have a well developed RPM product.   

Are the History Purists on alert about this weird balcony on top of the oriel??

Another very ugly building.

Thursday – 2/2/2017

Dr. Rivard. He said everything is healing well. Go back to regular activities. See him in four months.

Brutalism in Albany


Library Meeting

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Wednesday – 12/7/2016

75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack.

Up early. Worked on Angry (Old) White Man essay. PT at 9:30.

Dropped package off at UPS.  Building undergoing renovations.  Didn’t know that that end had a curved roof.

HAL mtg about Volunteers at Verdigris at 11. New Board member Carol Pledger. Emily and Brenda too. Very good discussion of volunteer program. 

Returned to work on volunteer management software  

Tennis at night.  Played much better than usual until last 20 minutes.  

 

Saturday – 3/21/15

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7:34 am

Went to gym alone. Karen is mending her ankle.

After breakfast spent time working on a mock up of a website for the Greenport Historical Society. ghs.markorton.com. They haven’t asked for one but I will propose it to them as my contribution. Continue reading →