Late rising time. Went to Farmers Market with Ellen Feldman. Played tennis with Ted. Wrist still troubling. Need to figure out how to address this. Ellen says ice right after exercise.
DOG closing reception from 5 to 7pm. Lots of people including some regulars. Sold one Lickona piece. Ted and Anne came by. Went next door to BCB Art to see sculpture by a colleague.
Left for Boston at 7am. Arrived Needham by 9:45. Visited with Paul and Ruth. He looks older, tired. He is recovering from pneumonia. She from diverticulitis surgery. Good visit.
Drove over to Griffin Museum. Pick up a bucket of books to return from last fall’s book show.
Arrived at Chinese restaurant in Brookline early for 1pm gathering to honor Jane Kogan’s 80th birthday. Kind of an odd event. Food not so good. Miriam’s two daughters and families were there. Spoke with Stuart Pitchel. He recalled my consulting at SRP Signs. Sat next to some grumpy cousins from Jane’s family. Left at 2:15 before the speeches in order to get back to Hudson for the 6pm gallery opening event.
Everything ready/
Very crowded opening. 7 local artists brought their posses out. Glad when it was over at 8pm.
More The Closer.
Spent most of the day hanging end of newest DOG show. UTMH telecon with Troy Web, Matt Almeida, David Ackerman. Migrated website from diary.markorton.com to markorton.com.
Emily Chameides sent me a text message at 4pm:
Just had to call 911. Found someone passed out in men’s room. Greenport Rescue and HPD responded and they revived him. Glad we caught it in time.
I was in the car going to play tennis. Saw the ambulance already at the library. I responded later. She replied:
Yes. Glad they came quickly and revived him. We have narcan but I called 911 first and they came so quickly. Glad I didn’t need to administer.
I stopped by her house on 5th on my way home from tennis. She was sitting on her stoop. We chatted about the incident for a few moments, the emotional burden of finding unresponsive bodies and then deciding what to do. She and Paul have Narcan training. But she pointed out that this guy was really big and it happens that they get aggressive when revived. But the Greenport Rescue came so quickly that she didn’t need to work that over too much.
Tennis was a first outing after the trip and illness, first time in just a day shy of four weeks. Trouble striking the ball squarely. Volleying OK. Ted was like the Energizer Bunny. I was fairly dead. Only played for an 45 minutes.
Drinks with Ted and Anne. Ted had made a big plate of deviled eggs. Shared notes of our trips. They had taken ten students from Marist to Paris for ten days. As usual the conversation was loud, abrupt, back and forth.
Ended evening with another The Closer.
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. 
Breakfast at Bob’s. Shopped, packed boxes for UPS, fixed lights.
Met with Miranda Barry at our home. Discuss transition issues when I become president again. More about starting a foundation and setting up a Fundraising Committee.
Only a little UTMH work.
Met briefly w Cheryl Lacona about June exhibit at in the gallery. Think she is going to put too much stuff in room.
Tennis lesson. Lot of focus on early prep for strokes. Racket up. Also change in stance and racket position at ready at net.
Karen went off to meeting with Woodstock photog. group.
Wrote AD piece on Reich’s video Monopolization of America.
Up at 5:30. Met w Karen about forms on DOG site. Wrote piece for AD about Republican Party moral bankruptcy. More time on OLDFandF.com.
Wrote more patient instructions for UTMH.
Went to Total Tennis for singles nite. Played doubles with two different groups of guys. More competitive on average than the Wednesday group. Tall guy Rick with a funny but effective backhand. Very quick hands. Good serve. Short Indian guy Nick. Not a strong hitter but quick, good volleys. Als a kind of sour guy Kevin. Played until 9:15. I had some really striking sequences of shots. Good serving night.
Late start. Snowman has suffered significant melting over night. Angry about mess in house and packing up DOG shipments. Worked on notes from HAL mrktg comm meeting yesterday. Went to library in the afternoon. Got new history of the American revolution, Common Cause. 
Saw Ted Dewsnap and Anne in library. Discovered that I was scheduled to play tennis that night.
Got to tennis early. 15 minutes of extra warm up. Played very well. Last tennis until the end of February.
Snowman still standing. Missed call from Albany Med for presurgery checkin w nurse. No call back all day.
Talked with JoeTheGrower Giangrande. Very negative guy. Sent email to Mary Ann Johnson at HVADC about the call. Ball is in his court.
Continued work on new DOG virtual website. Very successful HAL marketing committee mtg. Late lunch at Cascades.
Talk witb Brigid Dorsey. She will probably go out of business. Bartlett House people not responding. 7pm reconnect with Susan Weseen about her granola business. She is smart and thoughtful.
Watched an hour of tv series OJ Made in America with. Then Obama’s fairwell address from Chicago.
Up early. Snowman still standing. After breakfast worked on DOG website forms most of day.
Drove to Spectrum movie theater in Albany with Dave Drake to see LaLaLand. Movie redeemed itself with last ten minute flashback.
Had Brian Flach’s bratwurst for dinner.
