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7/24/2019 – PT, work….

Wednesday

Corey Smith, physical therapist and sports trainer who I have worked with at CMH PT on Fish and Game Rd. several times over the past three years, showed up for a private session. I wrote him earlier about what I felt my objectives are:

Here are a few thoughts about what I’d like to accomplish.
 
Get into an every other day morning routine of exercises focused on balance, flexibility and strength. 30-40 minutes would be sustainable. I want to use a floor mat and simple tools like rubber bands and small weights. Develop a set of routines that will hit the major components of the body in a rotating cycle.
 
Do these objectives fit with your private practice? I might guess that I would need three or four sessions to get started. Then occasional tune-ups. Obviously I am open to your direction and expert advice.
 
So we got right to it. We used the exercise bands I had purchased earlier and he brought along a couple of extra toys, Indian club and exercise balls. I took notes and we took pictures so that I can remember what to do. I turned these into a document:
Now I just have to actually carry through on this exercise program.
 

UTMH

Met with Seth to prep for the meeting at 3pm with David and Cameron. Two topics: Troy Web and Ole Breuning (see Friday 7/19/2019). But, first, Seth needed to talk about his conflicted feelings about spending so much time at this point in his life endlessly working on things that may not interest him so much any more….. This is a conversation we seem to repeat regularly now. Then we got to the Troy Web mess. David and Seth confabulate the need to move on in development work with the earlier contractual commitments they made to TW for a share of revenue. At any rate I got Seth to come up with a framing statement to contain the discussion. This will be especially valuable for Cameron who is not up on all the details.

Met for an hour withSeth, David, and Cameron. Finally resolved to pay TW what UTMH owes under the contract and initiate the SaaS development project. Also, importantly from my perspective, they agreed to retain Michael Queralt and the Nicaraguan guys for the work on a future state map. David never brought up Ole. Don’t think he forgot. He and Seth are avoiding the unproductive situation with Ole. Perhaps there is also a deeper relationship between Ole and Cameron than I know about. I kept quiet.

6/13/2019 – UTMH, web, tennis

Thursday

7:30 am PT with Corey Smith. Very good session. Hip feels much better. Less pain, more mobility.

Afternoon spent in UTMH meeting with Michael Queralt, Seth and David in technology review. He appears willing to help us identify better platform and new developers. Very nice guy.

Michael Queralt

Tired by end of day, but substantially recovered from illness. Constipation finally over.

5/13/2019 – rain, gray, cold, work, nonfiction book group

Monday

Nasty weather continued. Finished reading Susan Orlean’s The Library Book for tonight’s book group meeting. More writing in the essay Tinkering with Capitalism – homeostasis. Physical therapy with Anna Marie Zietsman. Lots of muscle and ligament stretching right hip. Met with Seth around UTMH matters. Received draft of marketing pieces from Pauline Decarmo. Was appalled to discover how bad the writing was. Sent note to Seth with angry comments.

Library nonfiction reading group was small. But discussion of Orlean’s book was buoyant.

 

4/22 – 4/23/2019 – mostly sick…trip to PT….

Monday and Tuesday

Spent most of these days mopping about. Low energy.

Tuesday, UTMH team meeting was buoyant. Sam missed it due to some call. Otherwise Wexelman and Ole held the floor. Some good ideas about details of how doctors use the UTM:RPM reporting tools.

Saw Anna Marie Zeitsman at Fish and Game Physical Therapy. She had me walk around the building. Noticed that my right hip is slightly immobilized and so I am swinging my whole body forward skewing the gait a bit. Overall she still finds things to be in good shape with further opportunities to put off hip replacement. She also noticed that my toes don’t stretch up as much as they should. 5 degrees deflection instead of 10. This could account for my two recent tripping events on the tennis court. I am shuffling my feet.

Received this video from Nan. Anna doing the bars.

Tuesday – 3/7/2017

Worked on library volunteer site most of day. Solved the problem of keeping two different type of volunteers visible until processed. Then they automatically show upon Active lists. 

Went to PT for second visit w Susan Sheldon about vertigo she repeated treatment to try to overcome lingering problems on getting up from bed. 

Tennis nets are up early this year!!

Boring UTM telecon w Seth, Ole & Gayle went on for almost an hour. Need to work on marketing plan. 

More Homeland and The Americans followed by 30 Rock.  Karen still coughing. 

Wednesday – 2/22/2017

Up early to get to Fish and Game Rd CMH Physical Therapy by 7:39am. Hour long session with Susan Sheldon to treat my vertigo. Charming, thorough, and very practiced. She does 8-10 Epley Maneuvers a week. An hour later I was well on my way to bring cured. 

Felt kind of buzzed for the rest of the day. 

Worked on Fundamentals of Capitalism essay for Jonathan. Also more work on UTM marketing strategy. 

Brief walk up the street.

Wide pine boards being as;caged from Savoia bldg.

Ellen Feldman came to work with Karen. Cooked chicken for dinner. 

Went to bed early. Very tired. 

Friday – 1/6/2017

PT w Anna Marie Zeitsmann. Reviewed my home exercises in detail.

Talked w Matt Almeida. UTM meeting with Seth and Ole cancelled because David A went home early not feeling well  

Hudson HS Girls basketball at Coxsackie-Athens HS at 7pm.  Score was 25-4 after first period,  final score 79-27. Game over at 8:05pm  

Stopped at Rive Gauche in Athens for drink with Dave Drake.

 

 

Tuesday – 12/27/2016

PT with Corey Smith. Took boxes to UPS. Played with new camera.

From Columbia St.

Telephoto from Columbia St.

Went to library. Published a posting, “A Note on Jobs & Unemployment” (http://currentmatters.markorton.com/2016/12/a-note-on-jobs-unemployment/). At Karen’s suggestion left out paragraph about adjunct professors in the universities.. Might expand that into seperate posting.

Karen decorated some stuffed animals.

Neuron

This arrived in the mail from the Prison Policy Initiative.

Thursday – 12/22/2016

Late start. Appointment for PT with Anna Marie Zeitsmann. Finally understand focus on upper back muscles. Got new headlamp for car. 

Lunch at Camea with Ole Breuning and Seth Lachterman about UTM matters. Good discussion. 

Worked more on Angry Old White Guy essay. Also some library emails about marketing.  Slow cooked beef for beef stew. 3 hrs at 215 degrees.

Spoke via Skype for 30 minutes w Torrey. He was hand holding a cellphone so his head bounced around during the whole conversation.  He and Jane are at their Christmas house above the beginning of the Great Ocean Road west of Melbourne  We talked about redefining human identity in contrast to the neoliberal concept.  Jane came into view at end  She announced that her doctors have pronounced her cancer free  Quite amazing for lung cancer that seemed quite late stage six months ago.

 

 

Thursday – 12/15/2016

Cold weather is here. 21 degrees at 7am. Probably the high for the day. PT with a new person because Corey unavailable. She added new exercises. Also suggested moving computer screen closer to prevent craning of neck.  Continue reading →