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11/9/2019 – HAL and Tennis

Saturday

On the way to Bob’s…..

7:28 am

Attended a marketing workshop at the library. This one given by staff from MHLS. Biggest surprise was to hear from folks at RoeJan Library that they only raise 30% of the funds from taxes!!

Tennis

First visit of the season to Old Chatham Tennis Club. Played with Ted on the HarTru court. Lots of fun on this surface.

7/30/2019 – HAL, clean up, tennis lesson

Tuesday

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

5/13/2019 – rain, gray, cold, work, nonfiction book group

Monday

Nasty weather continued. Finished reading Susan Orlean’s The Library Book for tonight’s book group meeting. More writing in the essay Tinkering with Capitalism – homeostasis. Physical therapy with Anna Marie Zietsman. Lots of muscle and ligament stretching right hip. Met with Seth around UTMH matters. Received draft of marketing pieces from Pauline Decarmo. Was appalled to discover how bad the writing was. Sent note to Seth with angry comments.

Library nonfiction reading group was small. But discussion of Orlean’s book was buoyant.

 

Tuesday – 3/14/2017 – big snow storm

8am

Karen informs that it was snowing at 3am. I was asleep. A few inches at 8 am. 

 

Noon

Noon

3pm

 

 

6pm

 

 

Spent the day in the house excepting a couple of forays to shovel  

March Trip Packing List

#todo
☐ 6 underwear
☐ 6 socks
☐ 6 t-shirts
☐ 6 shirts
☐ 1 pants
☐ 1 sweater
☐ baseball hat
☐ sun glasses clip on
☐ bathrobe
☐ toiletry bag
☐ pill cases
☐ antacid
☐ laxative
☐ amoxicillin
☐ anti-viral
☐ viagra
☐ oil
☐ toothpicks
☐ nail clipper
☐ nose clipper
☐ sports coat
☐ rain gear
☐ lightweight jacket
☐ camera + case
☐ extra camera batteries
☐ camera battery charger
☐ iPad
☐ iPad case
☐ backpack
☐ iPad power supply
☐ iPhone charger
☐ iPhone earbuds
☐ notebook
☐ airplane cushion
☐ power outlet adaptors
☐ passport
☐ Black garbage bags
☐ Cardboard

 

3/12/2017 – Clark and Mass MOCA

Sunday

Karen is worried about the snow storm forecast for Tuesday into Wednesday. Possible impact on our departure.

Trip with Dave Drake to The Clark and Mass MICA. Big exhibit of Japanese wood block prints st Clark.

Mass MOCA was as usual underwhelming and a bit annoying. It’s part of the contemporary art puffery machinery. Vast spaces and poles of money to support the production of art that is not very interesting  one wouldn’t plan a revisit to see any of it.

Lunch with beer at a place in the complex run by a Brian Flach’s brother Danny. 

 

Saturday – 3/4/2017

15 degrees when we got up. Winter is back for sure. Bob’s Diner for breakfast followed by quick shopping at Price Chopper. Home for coffee then a walk up to the indoor Farmers’ Market for Berkshire bread. 18 degrees. Cold fingers and face on walk back going into a stiff wind.

Karen noted this house on S. 6th St. again. Odd arrangement; maybe complex elevations inside.

Read much of a new NYReview of Books.

Went to library at 4 to see how the Living Library program was going. Karen talked with Jeff Rigby about repairing a book; I made paper birds with Pamela Badilla.

Off to TSL to see BEHEMOTH (BEI XI MO SHOU) a 2015 movie. Very compelling scenes from strip mining for coal in Inner Mongolia. Workers and goat herders lives in a tumult. Moved on to iron production. Workers with lung diseases. Ended with scenes in a ghost city of apartment towers somewhere west of Beijing. A tour de force about unrelenting uncontrolled exploitation of the earth and people by Chinese state capitalism.

Tuesday – 1/24/2017

Still sleeting in early morning. Sound of snow plows. Lower back very sore.

Cancelled meetings with UTM. Seth told me that David Ackermsn had a kidney donor.  Schedule is unclear. Money has arrived from Melvilles  

Karen insisted that I call Dr. Rivard, the surgeon. After fifteen minutes on hold he said the back pain had no connection with surgery. Call GP. Karen brought heating pad and Tylenol. This helped. We’ll wait this out   Continue reading →