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
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.
Hoboken United Synagogue, Park St.
We are the old farts. Looked around for Goldie, Dave, and so on, They are all long dead, We are the old generation. Very cheery sunny space. Good social vibes, relaxed ambience. Service was over 2 1/2 hrs long. Lots of up and downs. Cast of dozens of relatives and a bunch of rabbis. Carole and Bill Myers, Barry and Honey Barman were all from that side of the affair. Continue reading
Breakfast with Noah and Nyla. Waffles made from Joy of cooking. Blueberry sauce.
Conversation about photography, photobooks, Thanksgiving in Philadelphia with Stephanie’s extended family. John showed up at 11. Chat about Ackerman’s contact with Blake, Stephanie’s son, and farms in the area. He is a charming asshole.
Rest of day largely spent setting up this diary.
Evening of TV – Scandal, The Wire, …..
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Back on SATURDAY 02/28/03 I started the YIP Project.
Snow on spiral stairs. Forecast 4-6 inches. More than 12 arrived. But, very fluffy.
This began as a picture-centric project with just captions below. As explained elsewhere, I have been plagued by a bad memory of my day-to-day life. So my first swing was to keep a digital camera with me and take pictures every day. Here is the first, following a snowy day:
Work is well underway on the Pamela Worden Flash movie project. Miriam Goodman stopped by and proffered some advice on the project. As with every project I do, this one is taking several times longer than anticipated.
A messy desk is SOP for me.
Scribbling on the white board with Terry Burton & Sherry Gordon preparing proposal for Six Sigma project at MKS.
Off to the Sports Palace in Central Square
Dark matter and energy make it to NYTimes
WMAP project reported in the NYTimes. Front page below the fold. There is dark matter and dark energy. The universe is 13.7 billion years old.
A relatively cheap little satellite has confirmed astrophysicists theories that most of the universe is filled up with stuff they call “dark matter” and “dark energy”. I have called my brother Ed about this and he assures me that Parker (nephew age nine) will shortly have this all figured out.
The back of Simmons Hall located on Vassar St. Steven Holl Architects. This was a bit of a surprise seen at night. Karen and I had visited it during the day when the multi-colored facade seems a key feature .
Temperature at 7am.
Sink drain clogged up. Resisted drain snake, required industrial strength chemicals.
Prep for colonoscopy. Cancelled next day because of blizzard.
Kinnaird St. Cambridge during snow storm.
A Harvard house along the river.
About 6 PM. Record 27.5 inches of snow, but still nothing like the Blizzard of 1978 that lasted for two days and was accompanied by 50 mile per hour winds.
Taking advantage of the record snow storm, we stayed home. This lead to a catching up on old New Yorkers. “to Google” has entered the everyday vocabulary. The most amazing thing about Google is how wonderful its search capabilities really are!!
After Karen and I did our Kinnaird St,. duties we walked over to Richard and Nancy’s house on Harvard Street to shovel their sidewalk. They had taken off for a “school teacher’s holiday” to Florida. When we got there we discovered that their tenant had done an excellent job. So, with an excess of moral energies we found Dorothy and Jim’s car on Pine St. to extricate.
Pine st. Cambridge
A favorite dinner spot with Linda Larson. Best ambience in Watertown.
KCD at the Sheraton in Hartford, scene of our weekend “holiday”.
A real destination breakfast spot in Hartford. Replete with the owner of 30+ years hobbled on crutches on a corner stool.
Mel Bochner at the Wadsworth in Hartford
Atheneum Museum
Breakfast in Avon, Ct. Second day of continuous rain
new Apple 14.1 inch iBook put into service.
Seen in the bathroom at work… did someone misplace a fig leaf?
envelope for the CD
Help Pamela Worden set up her show on Church St. Cambridge. Included a computer showing the video I made, “House Book” an animation of her artist book about her husband’s decline.
