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There it is.  Right there in an auction hundreds of miles away.  You can get it.  You have enough money to purchase it.  You just have to find a way to place your bids and have them accepted by the auction house. You could call in your bid (like a “phone bid”), and be that…

I never know what blog post from the past five-plus years will garner a reader response.  So I was surprised when someone contacted me about this four-year-old article. Background. Four years ago, I won an eBay auction for a “Chuck Miller Ford” dealership badge.  Although I’m a General Motors person, I thought that the Ford…

According to this news report, Bombers Burrito Bar Matt Baumgartner, who also owns Wolff’s Biergarten and several other business ventures in the Capital District, will premiere his new breakfast-themed restaurant, “Breakfast Cereal,” this weekend. The restaurant, which will open temporarily in the shuttered Sciortino’s Diner (previously the Miss Albany Diner) on Broadway in Albany, will…

According to this link, a deal has been made to repurpose the Washington Avenue Armory as the building for a new car dealership.  The deal, which will be finalized today, will have Armory Garage open a satellite sales dealership at the century-old former munitions depot and entertainment center. “We really need a place to show…

According to this link, the troubled bar Kokopelis, which has been shut down since January, will reopen under a new name.  The bar, which has suffered in the past from various outside brawls and fights, will reopen tonight under a brand new name, after going through a thorough renovation and upgrade. The upgrade was prepared…

According to this link, the United States National Architecture Preservation Society has awarded Albany’s Central Warehouse storage facility one of its top honors.  The building, which at one time was a cold storage and refrigeration complex, has been designated a “National Preservation Award” winner by the Society. “Our members are extremely pleased by the preservation…

In the past, I’ve dealt with my loose change by pouring my coinage into a metal savings bank, then taking that bank to Price Chopper and dumping the loose change into a CoinStar sorting machine.  Rather than paying nine cents on the dollar to CoinStar for their services, I instead change the money for full…

Every so often, I need a little “eye bleach” from all the tragedies in the world. I need something to give me a respite from the wars and famines and bone-chilling weather and gloomy despair that I see on the news and in my social media feeds and in every other location. Of course, seeing…