Tag Archives: UTMH

3/25/2019 – UTMH, more Projects, NF Fiction Book Group

Monday

Karen left for Cambridge before 7am  She stopped at Linda Larson’s aptmnt to install Microsoft Office. She ha Soup Group.   

Spent most of the morning working on UTMH matters. Ole at Verdrigris, Sam, Seth. Hoping that Ole will really focus his attention in home healthcare agency associations.

All that’s left at 6th and State St.

Walking back from meeting with Seth at One HUDSON City Centre I decided that I will stop eating anything wrapped in plastic or foil. Got to loose weight.

Also worked on a couple more Project entries. Business Cards (see below) and the library movie. 

Nonfiction book club at the library. Much better and longer discussion of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee than I much expected. 

Great lamb chops. Karen chided me for not finishing AND sending letter to Walter Stitt  so I did that  

3/21/2019 – UTMH, travel posts, tennis

Thursday 

Starting to feel very depressed about UTMH. Little progress, frustrated with people, lack of budget, remote management may not be working for me, David’s craziness…..  what to do??

Meeting with Seth at CMH. Project continues to be doing well though their sense of urgency is low….

Worked on February 2011 road trip project blog February 2011 road trip project blog elsewhere here. Very good work set up with drag and drop of photos in the post.

Tennis lesson was excellent. Working on reforming the drop off the racket of the back swing on the backhand side. 

Spoke with Alan Harris about his Euphorium.buzz business for an hour. His wife is the actress Charlayne Woodard.  He is brother of Anita. Love stone product. MrCheckout opportunity. Strange guy. Obviously very ill.

Karen went to her book group. Smoked last of the weed. I fell asleep at 9:15 pm or so just after she returned.

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.

3/12/2019 – work, Hudson Creative, tennis

Tuesday

UTMH – Spoke with Sam M about his sales work. Progress is slow. Asked him to send a weekly summary. Team meeting at 11 was chaotic and filled with re-hashings of the mess created during the install of Wexelman and Darby on the test server. Bad decision to do that. Gayle has to go. She is abrasive, pig headed, just plain difficult.

Spoke with Seth further about Gayle. Then Brandon about his taking over implementation and training.

More research about self-directed learning.

Got Chad WAeckler reconnected to various Hudson-Creative accounts,

David A. called about Gayle.

Tennis at Total Tennis. Played 3 sets with a guy named Paul as partner. Won all three sets. Served well. Mixed results on volleys.

3/11/19 – HAL, work, car, Torrey

Monday

Weight 231. Need to cut out all eating outside of the house.

Worked on re-writing facilities use contract for the library. Meet with Seth to watch him train Gayle Gendron on the set up of new customers. Slow, frustrating. In the end she is such an obstructionist…. perhaps Brandon can take on this role. Time to cut losses.

Walked back and forth to Seth’s office. Very nice weather ~ 48 degrees.

Dave Drake drove me over to pick up the car at Wards Auto.

Went by tennis courts at the school. One net up and kids playing. Spring must be upon us.

Talked with Torrey for 45 minutes. Ended with discussion of adult learning models. My AD learning project. The Cycle of Excellence – deliberate practice.

via Skype.

Dinner – leftover chicken, salad and coleslaw with mushed cauliflower with cheese.

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.

2/26/2019 – work

Tuesday – 2/26/2019

Hip is bothering me. UTMH team meeting at 11. Seth and Gayle repeatedly talking past each other. Overall good review of last weeks training sessions in Brooklyn. MSA ready for SOMML until Erin finds errors in contract. Seth backed away from meeting with Ball Consulting in which i would ask them to give up retainer and move to time and expenses. Ole has a proposal going to Elmwood Home Health in Buffalo.

Talked about frustrations with UTMH at dinner with Karen. She suggested a written list of tasks to be presented to owners. Don’t let them off the hook. And remind them that my term is limited.

Didn’t go to tennis to give hip further rest.