Tag Archives: tennis lesson

12/10/2019 – more prostate action and tennis

Thursday

Went to see Dr. Subudhi at CMH. PSA value now 5, up from 4.7 8 months ago. This is following a trend over the last few years of rising PSA numbers. He repeated a DRE and found that he could still feel the small (~1/8 in bump). But given negative results of the August biopsy I am no closer to a conclusive result. He suggests another blood test, 4Kscore. This test provides a good assessment of risk of aggressive cancer versus “indolent”.

Tennis lesson with Saif. Lots of work on backhand and volleying. 3 ball drills coming to the net.

7/30/2019 – HAL, clean up, tennis lesson

Tuesday

Did some of the standing exercises with the exercise bands….monster walks….These Indian clubs showed up in the mail:

Ducked out of the UTMH team meeting today. Cannot stand the blather…. Caught up on HAL stuff. Set up meetings with board members…looked at ellenliburt.com website in advance of tomorrow’s meeting with Ellen. Spent time getting ready to transfer the new UTMH website to the domain. Also watched more videos about prostate cancer and treatments, especially robotic prostatectomies. Updated my exercise protocol pages.

Sudden, quite violent thunder storm with hail descended at about 1pm. Power went out. Took Karen to library on the way to Saugerties. Tree limbs and trees down over in Catskill.

Tennis lesson at 3pm. Worked on hitting backhand crosscourt. Spent a lot of time on crosscourt rallies, both forehand and backhand.  Ended with serve. Saif seemed pleased that my toss is finally high enough to slow down the swing of the arm and racket. Ted Dewsnap showed up for Saif’s next lesson as I was leaving.

Put a big pile of recycling out. Got rid of many computer boxes that have been upstairs in the barn for ten years. Started working on new motion detector light over door to office. Will come in handy when the shorter days return in a couple of months. 

Karen made a real meatloaf with a mixture of veal, pork and beef. Excellent.

More Boston Legal

7/2/2019 – work and tennis

Tuesday

UTMH team meeting. Meeting at NYRWA to move project to next phase. Invoice UTMH. 

Tennis lesson with Saif at 4pm. Lots of work on  ground strokes, especially proper follow through with arm. Wrist bothering me more especially trying overheads. Good work on tossing the ball higher on serve. Still have not found the grove.

Waited around until 5:45 for the first of the doubles guys to show up. Once again got stuck with George and Henry because they show so early. Dreadful first set. Last set was competitive. Ted and I against Joe and George. BUT, not so smart to schedule a lesson before two hours of doubles. I was dead.

Joe and Paul announced that Bill Zvoboda had entered hospice. We took a group photo to send to him.

(left to right) Ted Dewsnap, Kevin Kelleher, Bob Gegen , George Traver, Steve Horniak, Joe Capobianco, Mark Orton, Justin Misevcis, Paul Ambrose, Frank Rosa, Henry Congegrane, Chad Silver

Today’s doubles group started out with these four guys:

(Left to right) Bill Zvoboda, Marty Darling, Joe Capobianco, Paul Ambrose – circa 25 years ago

6/27/2019 – work, tennis lesson

Thursday

UTMH work, then more work consolidating old stuff into this website.

Tennis lesson. Worked on top spin. Saif set up a chair at mid court. I had to hit the ball over the chair and still have it land in the court. Also more work on getting toss of ball on serve really high.

Karen went off to her Woodstock critique group.

5/2/2019 – work, HAL, tennis

Thursday

Feeling substantially back to normal.

Energetic UTMH team meeting, minus Seth and Ole, concerning Tony Kieraldo’s social media campaign. Spoke briefly with Emily from HAL.

Tennis lesson. Very demanding. Ended with work on serve. New image of throwing the right shoulder up towards the ball. Ball needs to be thrown very high.

Nets up and ready at Total tennis.

4/11/2019 – HAL, tennis, TV

Thursday

Met with Emily Chameides at the library. We’re going to make this a regular deal. Complete review of all the issues. Emily is on top in a firmer way than just a few years ago. 

Tried out making a travel book for the 2011 road trip. First on Lightroom. Too much work. Then tried Blurb’s app. Too much work. Told Karen that I wouldn’t be making a book. 

Great tennis lesson. Volleying. Slice serve from new stance. Cross court drill. Move towards ball. Don’t wait for the ball. 

Watched a few minutes of Russian Doll. Remembered that Harvey and Betsy said it picked up. So watched two episodes. Jury is out. Then something else. Then a couple Veeps. 

Black bean gorp. Leftover chicken.

4/4/2019 – little work, tennis lesson, hang DOG show, Andrea

Thursday

Puttered around most of the morning. Met with Seth briefly at noon. Got RPM apps working in prep for meeting with Ray Velez Monday.

Tennis lesson at Total Tennis in the afternoon. Mostly worked on backhand and serve. Not getting some sort of wrist motion on the backhand. New stance for serve is still uncomfortable. Right foot is set behind the left turning the chest to face the side fence. More natural slice action.

New pickle ball courts at Total Tennis.

Came back to home. Carla Shapiro and Ruth Wetzel who are curators for this first show of the season showed up. Hung show.

Dave Drake came by with a pot of gorp for dinner.

Karen told me that Andrea had called to say that Brad (Fallon) had broken up with her. Something along the lines of “where is this going?”.

 

3/28/2019 – work, DOG, tennis lesson, Maria Manhattan, work

Thursday

Carla Shapiro came to work with Karen on the installation of the season opening show. She is one of the curators. Brought me a present.

Worked on UTMH example pilot project financial analysis. Talked with David A. about Ball Consulting retainer.

Karen had an appliance repair guy come from Ackermans up the street. Leaky dishwasher. Cleaned. Told us that repairing the electric lighters on the cooktop would cost ~$188. We’ll go on using the gas lighters that cost $2.

Tennis lesson was focused topspin backhand. Need to simplify and slow down. 

Attended event at the library. Maria Manhattan’s The Box Lunch. Very amusing.  PerfectTen girls made update addition.

UTMH meeting w Seth, Brandon, and James to review backend admin features.  Useful meeting. Lasted until after 10pm. 

 

3/21/2019 – UTMH, travel posts, tennis

Thursday 

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.

3/7/2019 – library, work, tennis….

Thursday

Met with Miranda Barry at our home. Discuss transition issues when I become president again. More about starting a foundation and setting up a Fundraising Committee. 

Only a little UTMH work.

Met briefly w Cheryl Lacona about June exhibit at in the gallery. Think she is going to put too much stuff in  room.

Tennis lesson. Lot of focus on early prep for strokes. Racket up. Also change in stance and racket position at ready at net. 

Karen went off to meeting with Woodstock photog. group.

Wrote AD piece on Reich’s video Monopolization of America.