Spent time trying to get Lightroom up and running to replace Photos app, and UTMH work. Went to play tennis with Ted at 2:30 pm. 40 degrees but little wind. Balls didn’t bounce much so many ball were hit at ankle height. Then we had snow flurries. Time to end the outdoor season?? When will the city take down the nets? Usually already happened by this point in the year.
Hung up banner for last DOG show of the year.
Watched more of Homeland and Ally McBeal
Off to Bob’s Diner for breakfast. Sat at some distance from others. Not as crowded as usual. Couple of cracks about practicing social distancing. Went to ShopRite. Parking lot was over half full. never seen this at this early hour. Some shelves, noticeably paper products and water were nearly bare. Meat in thin supply. Certain air of frenzy about some of the shoppers. We stocked up on canned goods. Also went to Walmart. Both places were sold out of tofu!
Walked up to Farmer’s Market on upper Union. Warren St. was quite empty. Noticed workers moving pews out of the Presbyterian Church. Maybe the roof project is going to get underway. The market had quite a few people. No Berkshire Bakery bread. Bought a bacon and gruyere quiche.
Largely a day lost to the strange vibe of the COVID19 pandemic.
Played tennis at Old Chatham for 2 hours with Ted. Felt like a break through. Much fluid play and more good exchanges at the net. Love the HardTrtu court
Woke up at 4:15 am to Karen talking to an airline agent to cancel her flight to Houston. She had awakened earlier to read the news that the NBA had cancelled its season and Tom Hanks and his wife were ill with the corona virus in Australia. Seemed embarrassingly late to cancel, but as it turned out later in the day others had also cancelled and ultimately FotoFest cancelled the balance of the event. Too many people from too many places including outside the US, probably China and S. Korea.
Glad she didn’t go. Seems like very much an unnecessary risk. We are in the demographic of those most at risk.
Emily and I talked about cancelling events and programs at the library. Need a policy.
Tennis lesson – started work on a knuckle-ball serve – combo top spin with slice.
The news is filled beginning to end with the coronavirus pandemic. Trump’s leadership has so far been more lacking than even his bad earlier performance might suggest. Again busy blaming Obama and the Democrats for the virus. People in his regime refer to the virus as the Wuhan virus.
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.
Spent several hours working through photos from 2018 to make a list of events. Also extended the project on ValuEdge history. Cleaned up a few family finance issues.
Karen’s new 27” iMac arrived. Got it started installing from Time Machine backup. Still working on it as we went to bed.
Played tennis with Ted at Old Chatham Tennis… only got one hour of court time. Worked on new grip for backhand. Ended set at 3-5.
Went to TSL to see Parasite (IMDB link), the Korean movie much talked about recently. Interesting, strange movie….
Doctor appointment with Marilyn Miller. Talked about right wrist, left knee – minor pain there – and shooting pains occasionally in legs. Left with appointment to Dr. Shin at Fish and Game Rd for wrist and knee. Blood work for leg pains. This may either resolve or narrow that issue. Rest of test results in good shape.
More work on the marketing brochure and other.
Tennis lesson. Saif now wants me to hit the backhand with a grip that very nearly mirrors my forehand grip. Instantly drilled lots of balls into the net, as he predicted. This new grip will greatly increase the top spin. More work on serve. Tossing the ball really high to slow down arm motion. Also keeping left hand pointed to ball for as long as possible.
Lots of UTMH work – support documents and new SaaS contract. Worked with John Friedman.
Tennis – doubles at Total Tennis. Good night.
Watching Major Crimes TV series.
On the way to Bob’s…..
7:28 am
Attended a marketing workshop at the library. This one given by staff from MHLS. Biggest surprise was to hear from folks at RoeJan Library that they only raise 30% of the funds from taxes!!
First visit of the season to Old Chatham Tennis Club. Played with Ted on the HarTru court. Lots of fun on this surface.
Early breakfast. eEllen Liburt came by to talk about her professional website
Met with Bill Stenehjem about HAL board. He is mostly interested in programming.
UTMH – various with Seth.
Tennis with Ted. Karen is teaching her online course
Met Dan Ronsani at library to talk about what he wants to do on the board,
Smoked some weed and had too much drink.