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3/14/2020 – Bob’s, shopping, tennis

Saturday

Off to Bob’s Diner for breakfast. Sat at some distance from others. Not as crowded as usual. Couple of cracks about practicing social distancing. Went to ShopRite. Parking lot was over half full. never seen this at this early hour. Some shelves, noticeably paper products and water were nearly bare. Meat in thin supply. Certain air of frenzy about some of the shoppers. We stocked up on canned goods. Also went to Walmart. Both places were sold out of tofu!

Walked up to Farmer’s Market on upper Union. Warren St. was quite empty. Noticed workers moving pews out of the Presbyterian Church. Maybe the roof project is going to get underway. The market had quite a few people. No Berkshire Bakery bread. Bought a bacon and gruyere quiche.

Largely a day lost to the strange vibe of the COVID19 pandemic.

Played tennis at Old Chatham for 2 hours with Ted. Felt like a break through. Much fluid play and more good exchanges at the net. Love the HardTrtu court

1/25/2020 – Bob’s – pack up DavisOrtonEditions

Saturday

Regular Saturday breakfast at Bob’s followed by grocery shopping.

Attended to new Time Machine hard drive for Karen’s new iMac. Spent several more hours scrubbing through the photos from 2018 to creat a list of blog postings. Somehow I went through 2018 with only two entries in real time.

Spent most of the afternoon boxing up the fifty or so portfolios that were featured in our failed attempt to sell photography online. DavisOrtonEditions was launched in 2013 and abandoned in 2016. Time to ship the prints back to the photographers. Fortunately we had a good sluppy of white boxes. Karen worked  on confirming  the shipping addresses for all these boxes. We lost  the old database.Rained steadily all afternoon and into the evening.

Dinner

Pork chop, red bean vegetable medley with jerk seasoning, cauliflower mashed with cheese, salad with Brussels sprouts chopped:

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.

Saturday – 1/21/2017 Women’s March in Hudson

Took Karen to train at 7:15am. She is off to join Andrea and Nyla for the arch in NYC. Went to Bob’s Diner for breakfast. Sat next to a guy with a torn rotator cuff eating pancakes one handed. About to be retired truck driver. Talkative, but not insensitive enough not to leave me alone when I returned to my New York Review of Books.

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Thursday – 1/12/2017

Snowman has melted completely. Breakfast at Bob’s Diner. Delayed by phone call from Albany Med about next week’s surgery. Breakfast a bit rushed by sudden call from Ole Breuning in Denmark. Walmart shopping because Karen needed to visit pharmacy. 

Wrote Program Marketing Process piece for mrktg comm. Revised UTM:IPS pricing sheet for Ole. Took nap. 

Karen taught first class of her online photo course. 6 – 8:30. Nine students. 

Poached pork loin  Very good method.  Watched Youtube video on installing vinyl flooring. Wish I had seen this before I did the office floor.

continued to watch documentary on OJ Simpson    

 

 

Tuesday – 12/6/2016

Long breakfast at Bob’s. Review of Karen trip to New Mexico with Dorothy Nelson   Talked further about shutting down the physical gallery. Time to explore online exhibition software. 

Ship going up the Hudson. Saw top of the ship over the Promensde when we came down State St. caught it at foot of Front.

Ship going up the Hudson. Saw top of the ship over the Promensde when we came down State St. Caught it at foot of Front.

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Saturday- 11/19/2016

Breakfast at Bob’s Diner. Talked about future of DOG. Shopping. Felt very sluggish. Hung up more pictures  

Board meeting at HAL. 7 new people on the Board. Must get list. Talked with Carol Pledger about volunteers. 

When I left library the Community Room was jammed with kids and parents. This for the Parents Academy program that just yesterday at the Program Committee mtg. was described as having trouble recruiting participants. Amazing. 

Back home the gallery was open. Very few visitors. Then  at 5 for the opening a bunch of people showed up for the opening. Suddenly at about 6:45 the people evaporated. Took two artists to train station. 

Dinner then watched more of The Fall series. Maybe too intense and violent. img_4304 img_4305 img_4306 img_4307 img_4309

Friday – 11/11/2016

Went to Bob’s for breakfast, quite crowded because it is Veteran’s Day. Saw this on the way home. Thought of all the hissing pipes that we no longer have to worry about.

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Started work on Angry White Guy essay. Talked with Matt Almeida. Very brief. Seth Lachterman brought new blood pressure cuff by gallery. Read bits of Will in the World, a biography of Shakespeare. 

Saturday – 11/5/2016

Bob’s Diner for breakfast. Price Chopper, &  farmer’s market. 

Then I drove to Walmart for tennis balls and 3-in-One oil; then to the bank for cash and a stop at Fairview Wine. 

Gallery watch until 3pm. 

Tennis at CGCC with Ted Dewsnap. Unusually we played a set. I won 6-2. 

Bard Conservatory Orchestra: Beethoven’s Leonora Overture; Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; and Shostakovich Symphony No. 5. We sat in Row H. unusually close to the orchestra. The strings seemed on top of us. The balance was not what I usually like. Next time we will try seats back around Row T.image

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Saturday – 2/13/2016 – HAL Event & Music

Breakfast at Bob’s followed by grocery shopping

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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

a presentation sponsored by the library at the Montgomery C Smith Intermediate School. Sold out crowd – mostly school kids and parents – extremely cold and windy afternoon.
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Music at Bard in the Evening

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More Cold.
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