Tag Archives: tennis

3/26/2019 – more diary projects, DOG marketing, UTMH, tennis

Tuesday

Richard Yatzeck

Good discussion with UTMH team. Talked with Sam and Gayle as well as Seth.

Sent out numerous press releases for the first show of the year at DOG.

Mostly worked on old diary entries from 2011 and new Projects. Also made changes to the CSS to remove some of the very heavy font styling…..

Added long letter to Yatzeck from 2012 about his book Russia in Private. Yatzeck died recently at age 86.

Sent note to Taft in search of Walter Foley, a teacher at Taft when i was there. He sponsored my second ISP project. Not clear why he supported a very middling student. Also sent email to Walter Moswkalew another Taft teacher with whom I studied Greek. A bit of nostalgia I guess.

Read some more of Jill Lepore’s These Truths. Interesting parallel between two fights during colonial period, one over representation and the other Slav Rey. She notes that only the former was victorious through the Revolution.

Tennis

Karfen went to Yoga with Anne Bertran-Dewsnap. I went to tennis at Total Tennis.

3/22/2019 – UTMH, road trip posting, tennis, Karen, Chinese food

Friday

Good talk with Karen about the UTMH situation. She said to back off on the idea that my management style doesn’t fit. Focus on chaos of the situation. Then, Seth called to say that he has arranged to meet with David. 

Meeting w David and Seth went well. David took responsibility for Wexelman and other parts. When I asked about the budget for marketing events he nodded without answering my real question about how much money we have. Concluded on strategy for Gayle and Ole. We’ll make this a biweekly event. 

Feel less oppressed and depressed with more clarity amongst the three of us about the situation and my obligations and theirs.

More work on the Feb 2011 road trip posting  

Tennis with Ted at Old Chatham Tennis on clay for two hours. 4-6pm. Played well. Lost two sets 6-4, 6-4. Exhausted.  

Photo sent by Jonathan. Taken at opening reception for Photographuc Resource Center Exposure 2018 22nd annual Juried exhibition where Karen was one of 11 photographers displayed. 

Chinese food from Red Chopsticks for dinner.

3/20/2019 – assessment response, travel photos, Anita Harris, UTMHH, tennis

Wednesday

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. 

3/13/2019 – transformational learning, work, tennis

Wednesday

Late breakfast. More research about adult learning models. Transformational learning.

Walked to PO w Karen.

More crap about Gayle Gendron. She called WW and accused him of going behind her back to Seth. David is ready to part company but wants to involve a lawyer. Told him that was unnecessary. Seth is equivocating. trying to get commitment from Brandon about support and training responsibilities.

Walking back home:

 

Looked at city re-assessment documents. The comparables don’t make sense. Set up appointment with GAR Associates.

Wrote part of a posting about learning strategies on AD.

Tennis doubles at Total tennis. Played very well, especially serve. Tossing the ball high. Then discovered on the way home that I had left my phone at TT. Drove abck. Building left unlocked. No phone. Went home and look on iPad with Find My Phone app. It was opposite St. Jospeh’s Catholic Church on Spring St. in Catskill. After some calls to Paul Ambrose found out it was at Steve Horniak’s house. Drove over and retrieved it at 10 pm.

3/6/2019 – work and tennis

Wednesday 3/6/2019

Most of the day taken up with UTMH. Met with David A and John Friedman to talk about commission contracts. Also discussed leasing finance arrangements. David continued to ask about what Ole, Sam and Gayle are doing. Need to bring more discipline to their work. Then met with Seth. Ryder Cooley also there. Then, talk with Anita Harris. Finally Ole Breuning at Verdegris. Maybe I can get him more focused on home health agencies.

Cold all day. 12 degrees at 8am.  Walked back from One Hudson City Center at 3pm. Windy and cold all the way back.

Tennis doubles night at Total Tennis. Played very well. First set in particular. Won three sets. Very unusual. Played with Ray Siecinski at the end.

 

3/5/2019 – work, colonoscopy prep,and tennis

Tuesday 3/5/2019

UTMH team meeting. Quite brief because Seth did not attend. Spoke with Ball Consulting about dropping monthly retainer and going to a time and materials basis for future press releases. They will work on a white paper this month.

Went to CMH to meet with Lynn Carollo about colonoscopy in April.

Total Tennis at 6:30. Played doubles, three sets. Included Nicholas, a young pro who knew that I take lessons from Saif. Played quite well. Many good rallies. Tony Sarowitz, Franz ?? and Kevin ??  were partners also.

Pictures from ~1/3/19 at Andrea’s house.

Picture from August 2015 – at top of Mt. Greylock.

 

3/1/2019

Friday 3/1/2019

Up early again, 5:30am.

UTMH: Talked with David Ball and Greg Turner at Ball Consulting. They essentially repeated their rather narrow focus on press and media relations when asked again how they might help reach our new target markets. Perhaps now Seth will be satisfied that we can jettison them as a monthly retainer. Move to time and materials basis. 

Prepared materials for tomorrow’s HAL board retreat. Couple hours work. Spoke with Miranda Barry about the meeting. She continues to be quite sick with a cold.

Chatted with Matt Almeida who had done very little this week.

Played tennis with Ted at Old Chatham on the clay court. 1 1/2 hours. I played very badly.

2/28/2019 – DOG, UTMH, Tennis

Thursday 2:/28/2019

Up early, 4:45am. DOG web forms. A little UTMH. 

Went to History Room at the library to participate in a psychology experiment for Caitie Hilverson, daughter of Liz Dolan. Involved solving a puzzle. . Tower of Hanoi.  After 3 rounds with 3 disks one try at 4 disks. Solved that in 17 moves, one more than the minimum. Then was asked on video how I had solved the puzzle.

Tennis lesson. Need to focus more on early prep with feet for ground strokes. 

Made carrot mushroom loaf. A favorite. 

2/21/2019 Moodle,Tennis, UTMH

THURSDAY 2/21/2019

Late start, then work on Moodle at Learn.AmericanDelusions.com. Added new course focused on getting oriented and started  

Tennis lesson  lots of top speed rallying from baseline  Backand getting better  spent time on high backhands at net.  Also doing spin serve.

 

UTMH / talked withSeth about Troy Web  they don’t seem to understand our business model  nor are they  contributing creatively. Need to have top level conversation  about fixing things.

Karen went to new reading group engagement at girls only book club.