UTMH team meeting….meet Leon Greene, CEO candidate with David Seth and Cameron. Very broad experience in tech and software, bright, good strategic mind. Need to work out future compensation issues before starting four month intro engagement.
Tennis lesson with Saif. Rapid ground stroke drills, serve, toss ball high, slow down the swing from rear drop position, hit up on ball for depth. Knee pain of last week gone.
Spent too much time working with a plugin to add tables of contents to web pages here and on AmericanDelusions. Decided in the end to drop it here because of a conflict with Timeline. Also talked with Karen about my spreadsheet of travel events. She added some I had forgotten back in the early ‘70s.
Tentative travel list without Karen’s edits:
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Met with Erin Marshall and Ryder Cooley at UTMH. Lengthy discussion of document standards and user roles and permissions. Have asked Troy Web for a roles and permissions matrix. They should be able to produce this easily.
Seth and I talked with SOMML. After what seems to be more than a year of preparatory work they have actually started to sign up patients at Albany Med. Also spoke with David about upcoming meeting with CEO candidate Leon Greene next week.
Rare completely clear sky behind the Catskill Mountains on the way to tennis about 5:30pm.
Doubles at Total Tennis. Played quite well excepting serve which featured way too many double faults. Left knee bothered me towards the end of the session.
Went to CMH for blood work. Avoided UTMH team meeting. Spent time on archived Riverside Business Coach website at rbc.markorton.com. Also more work on markorton.com. Set up a page of links to favorite stuff on RBC website.
Met with Seth. David is not acting on the contract we need for Petrov deal. Wexelman is in orbit.
Stopped library to talk with Emily about meeting with Mayor next week.
Tracked back to ValuEdge entry on website. Lots of interesting stuff.
Mostly more web consolidation. Discovered a new treasure trove of old files in DropBox.
Met with Seth about UTMH matters. Discussed Ole and his lack of production for the umpteenth time. He asked, “Should I talk with David about this?” Went to NY Rural Water Association to kick off new software project. I will be doing the workflow analysis.
Went to dinner at David Drake’s house in Catskill. Nice view out his back window.
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.
Sun early morning and mostly bright during the day – temperatures in low 60s. Almost spring like.
UTMH – meet with Michael Cole and Melissa Scherrif at Columbia County Mental Health to discuss the app project. Seth too. Then, in the afternoon Seth and I met with SOMML – contract finally signed. Also complained to each other about David’s behavior. Seth as frustrated as me. Talk again with Tony Kiieraldo about tomorrow’s telecon with David about the social media campaign.
Also did more work on the Tinkering with Capitalism essay.
Went over to Susan Rubin’s house at Crosswinds to assemble and put up a spice rack. Easy task. She shoed me around her two-bedroom townhouse. Really very well laid out, comfortable, with an amazing array of closets and fittings. She is very obviously very involved with yarn type projects. One large closet entirely devoted to yarn storage. She sent this picture.
Finally got call back with results from colonoscopy. Everything normal. Turns out cut off age is 75. So another procedure in 2024. Also received call back from Dr. Subudhi about prostate MRI. Something there; need to do biopsy to establish whether it is cancer and what type. Need to research this a bit. Won’t do it until after return from Europe. He is a dreadful communicator.
Played doubles at CGCC. Lots of fun. Joe’s grand son Dalton played. Very agile and quick with pretty terrific strokes. Kevin, Joe, Ted, Dalton, Paul, Ray, Tony and me. 4 sets. Played until dark. Down pour as we were leaving.
Still underpowered from cold. Foggy and low energy.
Met with Tony Kieraldo at Rev about UTMH matters. He told me about his music tour in Europe and Lebanon. We talked through a new social media campaign to develop leads for UTMH. Bright guy. Also met with David and Seth. The, late afternoon Ole. Missed an appointment at PT with Corey Smith. This has not happened before.
HAL NonFiction Book Club – picked up Erika Born out in Ghent because Nick was busy and couldn’t come. Good discussion of Drawdown edited by Paul Hawken. Emily, Karen, Lisa Stewart, Erika Born, Nancy Kuster, Michael O’Hara, Ruth Tamaroff, Juan Flores(new) and Bob Braunlich from SunCommon in Rhinebeck. Michael gave a good description of how a carbon tax could be implemented.
Up promptly Tuesday morning. Enema in preparation for the prostate MRI up in Latham at ImageCare. Arrived at 10:30 back in car at 11:40. 30 minutes in the machine. Wait for the results.
Emily called from the library to discuss how to handle requests from Register Star for video from security camera on second floor that may have caught the altercation between Tom DePietro and John Friedman during a Common Council meeting last week. Camera belongs to Galvan but is recorded on our equipment. The police had come by earlier and taken a copy with Galvan’s permission. Emily will refer them to Galvan for permission to release.
Long nap in the afternoon. Dinner at Dave’s in Catskill. Karen made a salad and I made rice pudding. Lamb, saag paneer, yellow sauce, cheese cake by Hazel.
8 pm looking west.
Starting to feel very depressed about UTMH. Little progress, frustrated with people, lack of budget, remote management may not be working for me, David’s craziness….. what to do??
Meeting with Seth at CMH. Project continues to be doing well though their sense of urgency is low….
Worked on February 2011 road trip project blog February 2011 road trip project blog elsewhere here. Very good work set up with drag and drop of photos in the post.
Tennis lesson was excellent. Working on reforming the drop off the racket of the back swing on the backhand side.
Spoke with Alan Harris about his Euphorium.buzz business for an hour. His wife is the actress Charlayne Woodard. He is brother of Anita. Love stone product. MrCheckout opportunity. Strange guy. Obviously very ill.
Karen went to her book group. Smoked last of the weed. I fell asleep at 9:15 pm or so just after she returned.
Most of morning worked on response to new real estate assessment on 114.
More work on February 2011 road trip photos.
Spoke with Seth then Kurt Lozier at SOMML. Ole reported on his conference at NY Home Health Association meeting yesterday.
Anita Harris.
Tennis doubles at Total Tennis.
Hip is bothering me. UTMH team meeting at 11. Seth and Gayle repeatedly talking past each other. Overall good review of last weeks training sessions in Brooklyn. MSA ready for SOMML until Erin finds errors in contract. Seth backed away from meeting with Ball Consulting in which i would ask them to give up retainer and move to time and expenses. Ole has a proposal going to Elmwood Home Health in Buffalo.
Talked about frustrations with UTMH at dinner with Karen. She suggested a written list of tasks to be presented to owners. Don’t let them off the hook. And remind them that my term is limited.
Didn’t go to tennis to give hip further rest.