We had a dinner for 14 people. Dave Drake cooked the duck breast and red cabbage. Karen made various dishes as did Mark. Anne Bertrand-Dewsnap made a desert, others brought wines and hors d’oeuvre. Ed, Meredith, Maggie and Parker came up from NJ. Ted and Anne came too. Pauline Decarmo, Susan???? Unfortunately none of Dave’s kids came.
Dan and Phoi brought their baby Phoenix to Ed and Meredith’s house in Berkeley Heights.
At Letterbox Farm
After breakfast shoveled out to barn. Got car stuck on frozen snow bank. Pretty dumb. Got chicken from Letterbox Farm, then prescriptions. Picked up Karen for trip to Verizonwireless store for biannual upgrade. Process was very slow. Came back to manually install from iTunes backup.
Drove to Berkeley Heights for dinner with Ed et al. Maggie especially.
Ed and Maggie had been in Philadelphia for a court hearing on the restraining order by Ms. Chu. End of that craziness.
Talked Trump. Meredith is possessed by this crap. Had tuna melts for dinner.
Returned home by 9:45pm
Vertigo on waking up. Fell over in bed. Luckily didn’t bang my head. Took several minutes sitting on edge of bed to get going. Looks like more severe type of what I had 25 years ago. Where is Stanley now that I need him again. When I lie prone and hold my head in some positions I get vertigo. Will have to go to doctor about this.
Took repeated pictures of snowman melting in backyard.
Met with Seth Lachterman about CMH project.
Then talked w Anita Harris.
Tennis at night.
Ed called. They will come for a visit Sunday.
Drove back to Hudson in just under 2 hours. Very fast ~80 mph almost the entire way. No pit stops.
Felt poopy the rest of the day. Perhaps sensing the depression at Ed’s house. He doesn’t seem engaged in things…
Went to eye doctor in the afternoon. Schedule cataract operation for 2/7/2017. Right eye.
Needed these after eye doctor visit….
At New Providence
Went to high school football game. For the first time in the ten or more years we have been going to this traditional Turkey Day contest between Governor Livingston HS and New Providence, GL was ahead when we arrived and finished the game 40-23. 
Half-time score….
Roland and Andrea came from next door for dinner.
Worked on Our Situation letter series.
Stopped in library before UTM mtg, finished Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
Then off to UTM meeting with Cameron and Hilary Melville at KASH Meeting lasted until 3:30 Everyone seemed pleased.
Drove to Berkeley Heights for Thanksgiving.
Arrived 6:30. Went to bed before Maggie showed up at 10:30 or so. Ed seems depressed
The dog is clearly on its last legs.
In Berkeley Heights for our traditional visit with Ed, Meredith, Maggie, and Parker.
Gov Livingston football team beat New Providence for firstn time in 20 yrs.
Maggie stretched the cat (one died last summer):
DinnerOnly the peas added some color to the table, though as Ed pointed out they are just like everything save the turkey, very high in sugars/carbohydrates.
My annual contribution.
An unknown mother-daughter handshake. Are belly bumps far off?
Out for a post-Turkey walk.
Spent the bulk of the day at the Economy conference at the Scandanavia House 38 Park Ave. Two very good panels, one on values in economics and the second on the Internet at economics. The discussions by Greta Brochman (U. Olso) on the Nordic welfare model was great. Richard Sennett who I remember from his 974 book Hidden Injuries of Class gave a very striking description of the career environment of today’s economy. Must work on this. Presentation by Shoshanna Zuboff (Harvard B School) was flashy but actually also substantive. Advocacy capitalism vs surveillance capitalism, this latter is winning. Google most obvious example.
Picked up Karen on Upper West side and returned to Hudson by 6 pm or so.
6:12 pm