Tag Archives: Swoon

1/30/2020 – DOG, web project, tennis, dinner

Thursday

Got up at 5:30 am. Worked on updating DOG website for the next season. Then worked more on the timeline here.

Tennis lesson at 11 am.

Troubled left knee was concerning. But once I got going it proved to be just a little annoyance occasionally. Saif introduced the idea that I should be flicking my wrist during my ground strokes. I seem to have interpreted earlier instructions to indicated keeping the wrist immobile during the stroke. Flicking the wrist involved letting the racquet drop below the ball and the flicking the racquet in an upward direction as the arm carried through the stroke. Will have to work further on this.

Big revelation was the time we took with my serve. He pointed out that I am rushing the whole arm motion from then time I toss the ball in the air. Now that I toss the ball quite far up I can slow down my back swing and the wind up to only accelerate during the last quarter or so of the whole swing path. This worked wonders. I hit one ball after the other over the net most landing in very close to the service line. I also had time during the serve motion to think about where I was hitting the ball.

HAL Meeting with Mayor Kamal Johnson

Held meeting with the mayor to provide him with an overview of library operations, future plans, and budget. He is very young, Emily did her usual good job. Gary Sheffer spoke about the History Room. Theresa Parsons chimed in; Bill Stenehjem was present. Toni Koweek represented the Friends and gave a longer than necessary description of their activities. Very good meeting. He is quite familiar with the library but hopefully this gives him a better view of ours issues and the overall program.

Dinner with SJ Williams and Pauline Decarmo

Went to Barnwood. Were horrified at the announcement that there was no fried chicken available. Did eat our dinner. Lots of chatter. Followed up with visit to Dave Drake at Swoon for drinks. Very crowded at the bar. Pauline and I talked about her billing practices. 

6/23/2019 – walk, gallery, tennis, drinks

Sunday

Went for walk up Warren after breakfast. Great weather.

Walked down to train station to see Noah off. Train was l;after than he told us. He was outside the house when we walked back. Brief chat with Noah, John and Stephanie.

Gallery duty.

Played tennis with Ted at 3pm. Felt very sluggish and generally lousy. Drinks with Dave at Swoon.

6/16/2019 – DOG, drinks

Sunday

Rained pretty much all day. Breakfast at Bob’s. Very crowded due to Father’s Day crowds. Shopping at ShopRite. Later went to Natural Foods on Healy Blvd. Mostly a putter day. 6 people in the gallery.

Halo over mashed potatoes next to us.

Japanese mushroom salad

Scene at bar at Swoon.

Drinks at Swoon with Dave behind the bar.

 

On the way home

Window display at Limner.

Dinner

 

5/17/2019 – work, work, dinner out

Friday

UTMH – met with Pauline Decarmo about collaterals printing. Notes to new sales people. Re-wrote the Tinkering with Capitalism essay. Mostly re-arranging text and eliminating extraneous material.

Telecon with Troy Web. 25 minutes wasted on project management tasks they should know how to do and be doing them. Then rambling discussions, frequently amongst themselves about various trifles. We have to get rid of them. They are expensive but not contributing.

Met with Michael Queralt with David and Seth. 3 hour discussion. He is very experienced technologist and entrepreneur. Next steps may be interesting. He is knowledgeable of the healthcare marketplace. Nice guy to boot.

Spoke with Tony Kieraldo about renewing the utmhealthcare.com website.

Sent note to Linda McNutt and Mike from Kach Inc. about the repairs to the front lattice and gate.

Wrote note to Sam and Dan Sapoznick about blockchain technology mentioned by Queralt.

Walked up to Swoon for dinner. Big crowd at bar when we walked in. Gave up on sitting at the bar and sat at a table for dinner. Two Dewars and two dinners $85. Ole Breuning and Crystal Heinz came in. Ole and I spoke of UTMH matters. I told him that we had been stuck for twenty minutes on the name of a guy sitting at the bar . Finally recalled, Victor Amendola. Ole said, “It was a senior moment.” I corrected him, “It was a senior intermission.”


Karen noticed these fire connections with upside down medallions.

 

5/12/2019 – rain, cold, DOG, drinks at Swoon

Sunday

Cold, rainy, rain. Breakfast at Rivertown Lodge with Dave and Daniel Drake. Food so-so. Conversation buoyant.  

DOG had some visitors despite weather.

Worked on new keynote capitalism essay. Biggest new claim concerns the ubiquity of regulators in every system except the economy.

Then a bunch written on the What Matters essay. 

Drinks at Swoon with Dave. Talked about Karen’s book project. Maybe pre-sell 500 copies.

Watched more Unforgotten and The Closer.

Sunday – 4/12/2015

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Stair Gallery sign

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new store

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Boundary marker – Greenport-Hudson at corner of cemetery.

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Boundary marker – Greenport-Hudson at corner of cemetery.

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Boundary marker – Greenport-Hudson at corner of cemetery.

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Won’t open until Spring 2016

Long walk up Warren over the hill thru the cemetery and back. 4.5 miles. Nice weather.

Went to Swoon for Scotch after the gallery closed. Left credit card when we left.

Spent my nap time in the afternoon taking screen grabs on my iPhone of businesses in Hudson. Posted an article, “Hudson Going Dark on the Web” on currentmatters, Facebook, HBC listserv, and Facebook Hudson Community Board.

 

Sunday – 4/5/2015

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Went to Swoon for Scotch after the gallery closed. We think we will reinstitute this tradition.

David Drake showed up. First time he had been in since he left a year ago. People still bring up Enid. Seems inappropriate at this point.

Lisa Kenneally still works there. No sign of Mark. But Lisa’s parents came in for a birthday dinner. Her father was a scuba diver doing underwater construction. Lisa thinks that he and I look a lot alike. Nice guy.