Karen off to CG Community College for COVID vaccine. 
Very efficient. 45 minutes.
Shopping at Shoprite. Then I went off to Shoprite again for forgotten cranberry juice. Gas up car. Bank for cash. Wine. 
Nap.
Esther chat. Always buoyant and entertaining.
More George Gently.
Drove Karen up to East Greenbush for a reading of the biopsy on her upper lip. Fortunately the results are fairly benign. A pre-cancer finding. Now hopefully successfully eradicated through a cryogenic procedure.
Drove to Papscanee Island Nature Preserve for a walk. This park is located on the Hudson River in New Castleton, NY. 3.5 mile walk. Flat with occasional muddy section on the trail. Nice to be walking in a new environment.
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There must have been a very strong wind storm recently. Whole trees blown down….
Tennis with Ted in the afternoon. Esther Hanig drink at 5:30 via Zoom. Post Thanksgiving debrief…..
Out to factory at 8:30. UTMH work…. log in to new SaaS software. testing. Lots of work on user documentation. Doc Team meeting…. Somml. Most of day spent on UTMH. Drinks with Esther Hanig.
No walk today.
Most of day taken up with UTMH work on user documentation and new logo for the consumer app. Held Doc. team meeting.
Spoke with Anita harris briefly after the SOMML telecon.
Drinks and chat with Esther Hanig. Will make this a regular weekly meet up.
More Person of Interest on tv.
Received this from Torrey:
This was a complete surprise. We’d been expecting a progress report from Jane at the end of January. Not her death.
Jonathan wrote this to Torrey:
Dear Torrey,
I just now received the news of Jane’s passing.
I’m overseas, far from others.
And I am thinking of the moments we’ve spent together in different combinations at different times across continents.
These include my first meeting with Jane in Australia…at her office … in 1997 I think … and all the times I’ve spent with her and you, and all of our times together, with Nan and the kids.
Your presence in our lives, together, has brought us warmth, confidence, and feelings of connection. We feel these now.
Nan happened to be wearing the earrings Jane gave her in May when she learned this news, sitting at our dining table in Leiden. The kids were by her side.
Torrey, there’s no way to describe the mix of love and gratitude I am feeling right now toward you both.
Such a beautiful, beautiful soul, Jane …I feel lucky to know her and to feel her as a part of my life.
Nan and I over the years have talked about you two, about how much we appreciate you both…
In other words you are a significant part of our lives and our sense of self and family.
And though at early stages in their lives, Jesse and Anna have experienced your love.
Vivid images of their interactions with you and Jane sprinkled across their past few years come to mind as I write these words…
We all treasure our time together with you both.
These are my initial thoughts.
Talk soon and in due course.
I’d be happy to chat with you by phone or mail as you see fit. A phone call might be nice at some point.
Love from us all,
Jonathan
Drove to Winchester to drop off photo books. Then dropped Karen at her Soup Group meeting at Ellen Feldman’s house. Went to library. Worked on DOG website. Ran into Andrea Geyer. Went back to Esther’s house then off to movie – The Gentlemen. Dinner at Amelia’s.
Tried to get ahold of Torrey. Left message.
Breakfast with Linda Larson. Helped her with voicemail.
Lunch with Ruth and Paul Richards at Paddy’s Pub in West Netwon. He looks gaunt and slowed down. She is recovering from difficult diverticulitis with infection. Nevertheless they are in good spirits.
Then off to Museum of Fine Arts. Got there too find a line out onto Huntington Ave of people waiting to get in. Turns out the first weekend in each month the Bank of America buys everyone with a bank card free admission. So, off to the Griffin Museum with Esther. Not very interesting.
Stopped by Legal Seafoods in Tech Square for a cameo drop in where Jimmy and Dorothy Nelson’s extended family were celebrating Matt’s birthday. Her brother the lawyer looked quite depressed.
Dinner at a trendy, over-priced Italian joint on Main St., Sulmona. I was very grumpy.
Setting off by noon for annual Super Bowl followed by trip to Florida for cousins’ dinner at Flo’s pad.
Checked in with UTMers. Packed. Left Hudson by noon. Arrived at Esther’s by 3.
Saw The Favorite at Landmark. Disappointing ending.
Then dinner. 
Over-rated food.
Started with breakfast looking over Flo’s water feature pond with roaring pump across the way where a sink hole had opened.
Drove to Wakodahatchee Wetlands Preserve – we’ve been here before. Lots of birds, reptiles, etc. One mile walkway over swamp. Continue reading
Breakfast at Esther’s house. Picked up Ellen Feldman and drove to Addison Gallery in Andover.
Excellent exhibitions. Disturbing series on the Manzanar Internment Camp by Ansel Adams, very propagandistic. Surprising show about Triple Candie group that showed things in a warehouse on 126th St in Harlem during the ’70s. See the slide show of things I liked here. Also revisited a Charles Sheeler painting Ballardvale. The ship models in the basement are still a treat.
Drove down to Wollaston Beach in North Quincy. Both beachfront clam shacks were closed for the season. Duh!! Found Burke’s Seafood just off 3A in North Quincy center. Meltdown averted. Food was good, ambience excellent local.
Seen in front of Catholic church around the corner on 3A. Superbowl is tomorrow. Guess Jesus is on the Patriot’s side.
Saw this at Landmark in Cambridge with Ellen Feldman. Outstanding, compelling. Baldwin, as noted earlier in the Fall 2016 at HAL workshop, still speaks to us.
A Kendal Sq. eatery favored by Elfel. Drove to Belmont to stay with Bill and Nancy. Arrived on schedule at 8:30 pm sharp.
A throwback. Still good. Still cheap.
Follow up appntmnt with Jeanne Pierce. Blood work good. Gave me a referral to Fish and Game for the benign positional vertigo.
Updated UTM overview flyer for RPM. Talked with Matt Almeida. Opened mail, paid bills, finally found cataract instructions bundled in with the ones for the hydrocelectomy.
Left for Cambridge for Super Bowl weekend at 12:30. Arrived at Esther’s house then to movie.