Mostly more web consolidation. Discovered a new treasure trove of old files in DropBox.
Met with Seth about UTMH matters. Discussed Ole and his lack of production for the umpteenth time. He asked, “Should I talk with David about this?” Went to NY Rural Water Association to kick off new software project. I will be doing the workflow analysis.
Went to dinner at David Drake’s house in Catskill. Nice view out his back window.
Went for walk up Warren after breakfast. Great weather.
Walked down to train station to see Noah off. Train was l;after than he told us. He was outside the house when we walked back. Brief chat with Noah, John and Stephanie.
Gallery duty.
Played tennis with Ted at 3pm. Felt very sluggish and generally lousy. Drinks with Dave at Swoon.
Rained pretty much all day. Breakfast at Bob’s. Very crowded due to Father’s Day crowds. Shopping at ShopRite. Later went to Natural Foods on Healy Blvd. Mostly a putter day. 6 people in the gallery.
Halo over mashed potatoes next to us.
Japanese mushroom salad
Scene at bar at Swoon.
Drinks at Swoon with Dave behind the bar.
Window display at Limner.
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
Cold, rainy, rain. Breakfast at Rivertown Lodge with Dave and Daniel Drake. Food so-so. Conversation buoyant.
DOG had some visitors despite weather.
Worked on new keynote capitalism essay. Biggest new claim concerns the ubiquity of regulators in every system except the economy. 
Then a bunch written on the What Matters essay.
Drinks at Swoon with Dave. Talked about Karen’s book project. Maybe pre-sell 500 copies.
Watched more Unforgotten and The Closer. 
Still underpowered from cold. Foggy and low energy.
Met with Tony Kieraldo at Rev about UTMH matters. He told me about his music tour in Europe and Lebanon. We talked through a new social media campaign to develop leads for UTMH. Bright guy. Also met with David and Seth. The, late afternoon Ole. Missed an appointment at PT with Corey Smith. This has not happened before.
HAL NonFiction Book Club – picked up Erika Born out in Ghent because Nick was busy and couldn’t come. Good discussion of Drawdown edited by Paul Hawken. Emily, Karen, Lisa Stewart, Erika Born, Nancy Kuster, Michael O’Hara, Ruth Tamaroff, Juan Flores(new) and Bob Braunlich from SunCommon in Rhinebeck. Michael gave a good description of how a carbon tax could be implemented.
Up promptly Tuesday morning. Enema in preparation for the prostate MRI up in Latham at ImageCare. Arrived at 10:30 back in car at 11:40. 30 minutes in the machine. Wait for the results.
Emily called from the library to discuss how to handle requests from Register Star for video from security camera on second floor that may have caught the altercation between Tom DePietro and John Friedman during a Common Council meeting last week. Camera belongs to Galvan but is recorded on our equipment. The police had come by earlier and taken a copy with Galvan’s permission. Emily will refer them to Galvan for permission to release.
Long nap in the afternoon. Dinner at Dave’s in Catskill. Karen made a salad and I made rice pudding. Lamb, saag paneer, yellow sauce, cheese cake by Hazel.
8 pm looking west.
Overall a sluggish day. Sore throat, low energy. Worked on various new entries for projects in the diary. Old writing that seems germane even after ten or more years. Me and Religion and Are We Over Taxed..??..
A little gallery sitting….saw David Murphy on the street. He is back from Ft. Lauderdale.
Photos from Jonathan and Nan
By chance I had seen photos from these fields on Facebook in the last couple of days. I pointed out in a comment that there are over a billion bulbs planted by hand. When Karen and I went on a tour of this area in early March 2017 we saw men dangling prone in a box hauled across the field by a tractor planting the bulbs by hand. The tractor driver was standing in the field nearby having a smoke. The tractor is guided automatically over the field by GPS or laser location.
Tennis with Ted at 4pm. Dead on my feet. Stopped by 5pm due to rain.
Dinner with David Drake at Barnwood.
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?”.
Weight 231. Need to cut out all eating outside of the house.
Worked on re-writing facilities use contract for the library. Meet with Seth to watch him train Gayle Gendron on the set up of new customers. Slow, frustrating. In the end she is such an obstructionist…. perhaps Brandon can take on this role. Time to cut losses.
Walked back and forth to Seth’s office. Very nice weather ~ 48 degrees.
Dave Drake drove me over to pick up the car at Wards Auto.
Went by tennis courts at the school. One net up and kids playing. Spring must be upon us.
Talked with Torrey for 45 minutes. Ended with discussion of adult learning models. My AD learning project. The Cycle of Excellence – deliberate practice.
via Skype.
Dinner – leftover chicken, salad and coleslaw with mushed cauliflower with cheese.
Woke up to 3 inches or so of slushy snow.
Mostly lazed around. Karen started cooking around 2pm. Seemed to occupy the whole afternoon. She follows recipes.
David Drake came at 4:30 with new acquaintance Hazel (last name ??). We drove over to Ward’s Auto on 9 to drop off the Corolla for repairs. Dinner followed. Hazel is 73, lives in Athens near her kids and grandchildren. Twice married. Worked for doctors following time in Kingston with second husband with a string of restaurants.
Leaky dishwasher again. Gasket around door gets dirty.