Tag Archives: UTMH

2/4/2020 – UTMH, tennis…

Tuesday

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.

1/29/2020 – web project, work, tennis

Wednesday 

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.

FaceTime with kids in Leiden
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Tentative travel list without Karen’s edits:

June 1982 Karen, Jonathan & Mark take Green Tortoise bus from Harvard Sq. to Los Angeles
September 1983 Mark and Karen cross Canada by train
November 1984 Karen and kids go to Virgin Islands
March 1986 Puerto Rico
April 1986 Mark in Milan (work), Paris w Harvey Meyerson
May 1986 Karen to Dueseldorf (work) then Rome and Paris
March 1987 M & K in Jamaica
August 1987 Mark to Taiwan (work) then Melbourne
February 1988 M & K Big Bend National Park
June 1988 Family in Southest
December 1989 Karen in India
June 1990 M&K Washington DC, Virginia and West Virginia
March 1991 K&M Mexico
September 1991 Karen hikes White Mountains
June 1992 K&M travel with Ed and Meredith to Glacier National park
October 1992 Karen and Andrea trip to Southwest and Albuquerque Balloon Festival
March 1995 K&M go to Paris
April 1996 K&M got to Florida, east, west Everglades
October 1998 Karen and Mark travel to blues festival and elsewhere. Helena Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Memphis
December 1999 Karen goes to Vietnam
April 2000 Karen Jackson Mississippi wi Linda Larson
June 2002 Karen Mississippi w Linda Larson
May 2005 Singapore
May 2005 Korea wedding
June 2005 Jon and Nan wedding Cambridge
April 2008 K&M Savannah and Charleston
February 2009 K&M Florida, cousins’ dinner
December 2009 K&M Hong Kong & Vietnam
February 2010 K&M Florida, cousin’s dinner
February 2011 South-Alabama-Texas-New Mexico-Oklahoma-return
December 2011 HK – Bali
December 2012 Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Penang
February 2013 California and Arizona
December 2014 Australia with Jon, nan, kids, visit Torry and Jane
August 2015 Northern CA and Sapoznick wedding
December 2015 West Coast w AJL & kids
October 2016 Road Trip – Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago
February 2017 Florida road trip by car, cousins’ dinner
March 2017 Leiden, Utrecht, Maastricht, Barcelona, et al
August 2017 Phillip Johnson House
August 2017 Art Exhibit Rogers
October 2017 Leiden, Cologne Freiburg, Brussels, Antwerp, et al
February 2018 Road trip – Florida, New Orleans, Gulf Coast, cousins’ dinner
May 2018 Netherlands-Lisbon visit with Torrey and Jane
June 2018 Bus Trip – NYC – Atlantic City – Cape May – Philadelphia – NYC
October 2018 Netherlands – Sicily
February 2019 Superbowl Cambridge, Florida Cousins
April 2019 Philadelphia and Washington DC
December 2019 Leiden, Vienna, Morocco

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.

1/27/2020 – web project, UTMH, non-fiction book group

Monday 

Spent most of the morning working organizing the photos of our various trips. Increased list size and started a spreadsheet with dates and places. Also worked on finding a whole page template for the Projects pages  

Telecons with Yehuda Reiss and the NYRWA team. 

Surprisingly good turn out (9 people) and discussion tonight at Non-Fiction Book, especially so because most didn’t like the book Songs of America by Meachem. Fortunately the playlist I found to accompany the book was very good. 

1/23/2020 – Doctor, UTMH, Tennis

Thursday

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.

1/21/2020 – personal web work…

Tuesday

Went to CMH for blood work. Avoided UTMH team meeting. Spent time on archived Riverside Business Coach website at rbc.markorton.com. Also more work on markorton.com.  Set up a page of links to favorite stuff on RBC website. 

Met with Seth. David is not acting on the contract we need for Petrov deal. Wexelman is in orbit. 

Stopped library to talk with Emily about meeting with Mayor next week. 

Tracked back to ValuEdge entry on website.  Lots of interesting stuff. 

10/29/2019 tennis, Jesse and Anna, lecture at Bard

Tuesday

UTMH team meeting and other work.

Tennis lesson with Saif.

end of outdoor season at Total Tennis

Jesse and Anna

 

Architecture Lecture at Bard

Dr. Jenny Shaffer presented a lecture entitled “Harnessing the Past to Create the Present: The Multiple Lives of Charlemagne’s Chapel at Aachen, ca. 800-2019″. Lecturer is friends with Ted and Anne. Interesting for its traversal of so much European history.

in the Steel Plant building at Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY

9/23/2019 – UTMH and flower bed

Spent most of the morning and early afternoon doing UTMH chores. Shipped new conference backdrop and flyers to Chicago.

Then screwed together boards for first flower bed. Finished digging out the flat spot, leveling the frame, and then back filling with the excavated soil. Off to Lowes for 5 big bags of top soil – 2 cu. ft. Very heavy. Used some of the soil to fill in around the new stairs to the patio. More follow.

Steak for dinner. A rarity. Very good flavors. Cooked on thrill outside. Second time since last Spring. Sat out on action  for smoke afterwards.