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Wednesday – 3/18/15

Snow shower over night. 19 dgrees this morning.

6:40 am Snow shower over night. 19 degrees this morning.

UTM work in the morning. Lengthy call with Jan. Planning for next six months or so. He told me that he is negotiating a contract with David to work full time and be CEO. Told him that I am supportive though dubious of getting David and Seth to march in a straight line or follow any line. Also told him that I want to take over the CMH and other customer operations so he can focus on investors. We developed a good beginning of an outline. Promised to get him a draft done today si that we can talk further about it tomorrow. Continue reading →

Monday – 3/9/15

Spent most of day on UTM. Met with Jan at Columbia Memorial Hospital for talk with Katie Cullen, head hospitalist. She is enthusiastic about the app. Wants to bring more of her people into using it. Ran over to Fish & Game Rd. office of Chris Gorczinski. He had his admin, Kacey Quirk, with him. Similar discussion.

IMG_9383Went to Albany to meet up with Karen and David Drake for a movie, Leviathan, and later dinner with Dave’s new girlfriend Liz. Need to find her last name. Continue reading →

Thursday – 2/26/2015

Worked on UTM. Spent time on phone with Tim Varney at Troy Web on new iTunes Connect provisioning system. Still very unclear how this works. Also cleaned up more of the investor presentation. Drove to UAlbany. Jan is sick so he attended most of the meeting by telecon.

Talked with Anita Harris for first time since late November. Karen had a photographer in for a portfolio review so I met Chad Weckler at Verdigris to talk about the makerspace project. Next steps, check in that we are on the same page philosophically.

Tuesday – 2/24/15

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Temperature 6:30 am

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Temperature 10 am

Walked to UTM at 10 am. Slow meeting with Jan, Seth and David.

Stopped at Moto for coffee at 2:30 pm. Worked on corporate organization trends essay.

 

 

 

 

Bob's mocha latte

Bob’s mocha latte

Bob and Marie Rasner came in. Bob likes to talk. Told stories of his corporate life.

UTM call with Troy Web about new Apple app provisioning process. Procedures still unclear.

Karen has gone off with David Drake, SJ Williams to movies in Albany.

 

 

Friday – 2/20/15

IMG_9035 2The cold is not ending. Temperature at 7am.

Met with Agi Clark at Cascades to explore possible modes for her to engage the library project. 90 minute discussion. She has owned a house in Taghkanic across the lake since 1976. Now living on Warren St. as an experiment. Background on the creative side of advertising. Not a committee person. interested in engaging the poorer parts of the community. Knows Joanie Hunt at Promise Neighborhood. Also spoke of the need to video everything we do. Perhaps get a high school student involved.

Talked with Seth about UTM. Disaster with Troy Web last week not managing Apple app licenses and loosing connection to the CMH app. New CMH website now in web developer slow down…… still spelling errors in the text. More about the aggravations with Angie Keefer. He also now had some nagging damage to right shoulder from a fall earlier in the winter.02202015-UTM-scrn grab

 

 

Thursday – 2/12/15

FullSizeRender 19Drove to Albany for a UTM meeting with Belvedere Home Care for a requirements gathering meeting. Jan Woodcock led the process. Very active customer inputs from four staff & CEO/owner.

Then on to UAlbany for the regular weekly meeting with the students.

My visit to Albany Made Here Creative Space at Albany Public Library was cancelled due to illness. Will see this next week. They are building this in partnership with Etsy.

Finished last of season five of  The Wire. Now have seen the entire series again. Still most compelling TV.

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Tuesday – 2/10/15

FullSizeRender 18Shoveled garage doorway out so that I could drive car to UTM. In the end, though the storm carried on for almost 24 hrs. it only left 8 inches of snow here.

Meeting at UTM with Seth, Eliel and Jan to discuss development costs. David stuck his head in but did not attend. After almost a year we are still in a situation where there is no plan or none that anyone is adhering too.

Left UTM meeting to come home for a meeting of the HAL Nominating Committee. I scheduled this on Tuesday because David had cancelled the regular weekly UTM meetings on Tuesdays. Because of the repeated snow storms, this committee meeting has been rescheduled twice. Today, out of six members, only Marie Rasner and Gwen Gould showed up. Still a good productive meeting. Talked a somewhat reluctant Gwen into serving as Treasurer for one year. Brian Stickles who I bumped into at KASH just this morning has committed to being Treasurer next year after he finishes his MBA.

Karen decided not to go to Boston tomorrow because the snow storms – 77″ of snow in 17 days – have paralyzed the place.

Wednesday – 1/21/15 – back to UTM

Gym in the morning. Lasted only 15 minutes on bicycle. Very out of shape.

Met with Seth for first time since December. 2 hr history of last six weeks at UTM. More craziness because David continues to drop people into the mix with no consultation or plan. Latest is Angie Keefer who is another of David’s infatuations. She appeared at a meeting last December and claimed to know things about web design and user experience. No evident experience on mobile though. While I was away she caused a ruckus attacking the revised website as outdated before it was even launched.

 

December 2014

Monday 12/1/14

Worked on diary after breakfast. Found old Year-In-Pictures files from 2003 thru 2007. I used several different software tools. Will have to manually recreate the diary from this material. Then I can build further entries based on picture metadata and calendars.

Also set up Projects. Fire Connections, Ugly Buildings, Forensics movie 2003.

Lunch with David Drake, Lauren Schaeffer, & Karen at Relish across from train station. Lauren was much more relaxed though notice communicative than usual.

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Went up to Seth’s office to test CMH app. Still very buggy. Troy Web is not doings good job. Can’t reply to messages multiple attachments get lost.

Came me back home by 4:15. Richard Goldberg and Nancy Seymour had arrived. They had come from Baltimore after Thanksgiving in Philadelphia. Had drinks. Went to dinner at Wasabi.

Richard has finally retired from teaching. He is 69.

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