Tag Archives: Jesse London

10/29/2019 tennis, Jesse and Anna, lecture at Bard

Tuesday

UTMH team meeting and other work.

Tennis lesson with Saif.

end of outdoor season at Total Tennis

Jesse and Anna

 

Architecture Lecture at Bard

Dr. Jenny Shaffer presented a lecture entitled “Harnessing the Past to Create the Present: The Multiple Lives of Charlemagne’s Chapel at Aachen, ca. 800-2019″. Lecturer is friends with Ted and Anne. Interesting for its traversal of so much European history.

in the Steel Plant building at Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY

4/14/2019 – web projects, diary, tennis, dinner at Barnwood, photos from Holland

Sunday

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.

3/18/2019 – HAL, travel photos

Monday

Cold weather returns – 29 degrees at 7am.

Went to library at 10am to interview Tina Lesem for admin asst position. Very bright, verbal, experienced. Great candidate, Hope Emily hires her right away.

Spent most of day wrestling with travel photos. Re-organizing, downloading stuff from iCloud. The travel file is almost 100 GBs. Started to split it in half. 

Avoided talking with David Ackerman. Seth is away.

Found a pile of little travel notebooks. Earliest dates back to 1989 trip to Cascades. Read aloud over dinner the entries for our HK-Vietnam trip in 12/2008-1/2009. One note about how Vietnamese treat children was a reminder. “Everywhere people pick Jesse up almost without asking. He is paraded around and played with. Seems that there is communal ownership of babies.” This happened on the street in Hanoi and also in a restaraunt somewhere where the wait staff, not having much too do, came over and took Jesse away. We had lunch in leave and he was entertained.

June 2012

Monday – 6/11/2012

Raised $1 million at investor meeting with UThisMe LLC.

Tuesday – 6/19/12

35th wedding anniversary. Tennis lesson in the morning. Went to movie in Millerton. Best Marigold Hotel. Then dinner at Escoffier Restaraunt at CIA in Hyde Park. Excellent and extravagant.

Wednesday – 6/20/2012

Temperature reached 96 by 1pm. Retreated to bedroom at 4pm. Spent most of the day catching up on bills and other personal admin. Sent letter to Jesse returned by HK post office for inadequate address to their new address.

Talked with Harvey Meyerson. Spent evening in AC’d tv room.