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.
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
Mike Herman sent in a proposal for a new patio to replace the rotted wood deck. We met and confirmed the design. They got right to work. The existing wooden structure had been built ten years earlier directly on soil without any ventilation. It was completely rotted out. Pancho and Jerry suggested a masonry patio to replace it. Obviously this would never rot. $4000.
UTMH team meeting. Conversation with Ball Assoc. about PR. More with David Ackerman.
Doubles. Weather pleasant. Played extremely well. Lots of good exchanges at the net. Felt very active and engaged. Partnered with Joe Delamorte, Ted, and Paul Ambrose.
As usual for them KASHINC arrived at 8am sharp to begin work on the fence on the front of the house.
Mike Herman’s crew included Pancho who we know from his work on the underpinnings of the front of the house and the sun room project of two years ago and new people Jerry and Mike’s daughter Michaela. Jerry is Mexican but clearly born or lived in the US since early childhood, his English is native.
Pancho repaired the bricks in Bruce’s house next door. They made short work of tearing down the old stuff and erecting three posts in concrete for the new structure.
Missed tennis lesson. Met with Seth and Michael Lutman to discuss NY Rural Water Association project. Went there and ran through the work flow again.
Breakfast at Bob’s followed by shopping. UTMH – write new collateral about billing process, Troy Web telecon. Talk with Matt Almeida. Tooth cleaning. Looks like another tooth in upper left is infected and should be extracted.
Send this note and pictures to Ted and Chad Silver in ref a conversation we had after doubles night on Tuesday.
Subject: Warhol and the Last Supper
Chad and Ted,Here are some pictures of this work now at The School in Kinderhook. Chad, you are right about the materials.This might be my favorite Last Supper. But I also really like the Tintoretto version. Looks like a bunch of inebriates hanging out.
HAL Fundraising Committee meeting at Miranda Barry’s house. New member, Charlie Whittingham, experience fundraiser. He dove right in. Theresa Parsons, Gary Sheffer and David Murphy also participated. Charlie will bring some fresh eyes to our issues.
Ellen Feldman arrived for a weekend visit. Ted and Anne came over for our biweekly drink. Lots of talk about Paris since Ellen has just returned from her three month stay there.
Most of day working on UTMH matters. Several hours translating more material into Russian for the RPM app. Short conversation with Michael Queralt about his proposal, not sent in advance strangely, for re-writing the code for the whole RPM system. $90k-$100k.
More work on sorting through old web materials to consolidate here.
Mostly worked on furthering the consolidation of old materials into this website. Lots more to go. Contacted Harvey about going to Bantam Thursday and Friday. OK.
Any scratches??
Went with Karen to Home Depot in Catskill to buy some shades for the back room. Ended up spending $800 for two bottom up-top-down room darkening shades from Levelor.
Brief meeting with Seth and a call to SOMML. They are already on vacation.
Checked out the correct grip size for tennis. Reduced my wrap by one layer.
Played tennis with Ted for 90 minutes at 4pm. 92 degrees, intense sun. Sluggish, perhaps yesterday’s 3+ hours of tennis has its residual effects. Still managed to keep ahead of Ted, though I called off the set early. New wristband is a help. But this wrist problem may become disabling and require a rest period. Really tired at end of session.
Karen made her signature dish of chicken chunks with chopped cabbage coleslaw. Watched several The Closer.
Spent a good part of the morning weed wacking the back yard. Also trimmed rose bush. Also work on Russian translations for UTMH RPM app. Had to check lots of entries for current language common on the Russian web. How do you say PulseOx in Russian?
Went to Marigold Home in Rhinebeck to look into shades for the Sun Room which is now overwhelmingly sunny in the early morning. Hunter Douglas shades on display. Sales person worked up a quote for us. $450 of installation costs and more than $2400 for the shades themselves. This is obviously a no go. Next stop Lowes and Home Depot.
I found a container of roast lamb from David Drake in the freezer. Made up a version of roasted cauliflower and lamb curry. Karen declared it to be very good.
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.
Mostly more web consolidation. Discovered a new treasure trove of old files in DropBox.
Met with Seth about UTMH matters. Discussed Ole and his lack of production for the umpteenth time. He asked, “Should I talk with David about this?” Went to NY Rural Water Association to kick off new software project. I will be doing the workflow analysis.
Went to dinner at David Drake’s house in Catskill. Nice view out his back window.