Jessamyn’s 2019
in Bullet Points and Hyperlinks
2 min readJan 18, 2019
This worked out well last year, so I am doing it again.
January
- Teaching Excel to Jess, iPhones to Sandy, tablet to Ynez
- Hanover visit with Joanne
- 15 Wikipedia articles in 15 days (and #1Lib1Ref)
- Meals at Sara’s
- Library potlucking
February
- Rochester Drop-in Time
- Energy audit at Dad’s
- Superbowl nums at Kate’s
- Psychiatrist meeting mostly good
- Doctor meeting very good
- Hilowbrow blurb thing
- Interviewed for this thing about Hampshire
- Sinus infected after seeing Bow Thayer at Babe’s
- Telemedicine
- No AZ trip
March
- Town meeting and voting!
- First VHC Access committee meeting.
- Interviewed for podcast.
- Sarah b’day party.
- No colonoscopy needed!
- Maple Sugar Open House
- Organ lecture w/ Xtina
- Loudon Wainright
April
- China Moon wedding
- Breach podcast
- Told I won’t be on TED podcast :(
- Jim anniversary — comedy & Wayside
- Wisconsin webinar
- Spring Break!
- Book Marks interview
- Lemon accounting 🍋
- St. J talk went very well
- Scams talk went well
May
- MD/DE talk went very well
- Won 100 lbs of cheese 🧀
- NHLA talk went great + bonus bog walk
- Take home colonoscopy test
- Road Rally in Chelsea
- VLA conference + passports + brag deck+ scams talk
- Dinner with Alice
- First cheese delivery
- One Town at a Time premiere
- Windsor Library sub
- Dick Todd’s service
June
- Miss VT pageant house manage
- Milton Schwartz research
- Tour of American Precision Museum
- Greg memorial service
- Headed to Westport June 20
- Joined 251 Board (declined ED role)
July
- Gabriels for 4th with Jim
- Forrest visit (new light switch)
- Ridge has AC
- MEFI20 & Kate visit
- Long great weekend with Jim
- French Warm Showers folks
- Shingles pain comes back, I fight with it
August
- CNN opinion piece
- Jimmy’s memorial service
- Two Randolph Herald articles: 251 Club, 183 Club
- Get rid of chairs!
- Meet GregPC from LibraryLand & hang out twice
- Childnado VII
- PawSox game and Motown fireworks
September
- Inconclusive doc appointment
- Low-key birthday at home
- Online Searcher piece published
- VHC board meeting in Shelburne
- Not one but two boxes of cheese!
- Heat goes on September 19 🔥 and off again
- Rick & Sarah BBQ and Jimvisit
- Two weddings in one week
- NPR interview goes well
October
- Mammogram is normal
- Two interviews in one day!
- Heat goes on again Oct 3
- OPLIN Webinar goes well
- Yom Kippur with Satcowitzes
- VT 251 Club talk goes well
- Florida trip & talk is good!
November
- Rusty at Chandler & Jim long weekend
- Long Kimball staff meeting
- Marketplace interview
- VHC conference slightly long
- Stayed with Dave/Linda
- First 251 Club board meeting
- ENT says “You are fine”
- Thanksgiving & Buy Nothing Day at Kate’s place
December
- Jimsmas!
- Eyeballs are OK
- Xmas bird count
- Third (or fourth) cheese delivery
- Made some money with Respondent.io
- Solstice bonfire
- Westport holidaytime, lighting all eight Hannukah candles
