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So at around 5:00 last night, I was working on a couple of projects – just a crafting thing, mind you – and waiting for a basketball game to stream online. Then the lights went out.  Poof. Darkness. Wait a second.  I paid my light bill.  I ALWAYS pay my light bill.  What’s happening here?…

My morning routine involves waking up (yawn), writing this blog, taking a shower, getting dressed, making breakfast, and then driving from the Town and Village to Downtown Albany.  That’s a short ten to fifteen minute drive, depending on traffic, along Interstate 787. Yesterday, we had the first significant snowfall in the area, and my 15-minute…

As you know, I’ve been battling an increase in telephone solicitation calls, including scammers, spammers and slammers.  They use spoofed phone numbers to trick people into thinking it’s a local call, or they wait until you answer and then they hang up, which confirms that you’re a real person and would like oodles of cold…

So yesterday was another date night.  Dinner and a movie.  We saw A Star Is Born, yeah there’s going to be some Oscars distributed with that film attached to the statues.  No question. Before the movie, we stopped at the l9ocal Johnny Rockets retro diner in Crossgates Mall for a nice little late afternoon /…

So … let me recap. Last year, after the Times Union and I parted ways, they started soliciting me to get a subscription to their newspaper.  You know, the “two questions on a meaningless survey and you get thirteen free Sunday issues with a hidden caveat to have your name secretly signed up for a…

What did I recently say?  If you scammers, telemarketers and swindlers continue to cold call me and try to steal my money, I’m going to clown you in my blog.  And I’m going to record the clowning so that EVERYONE can hear how stupid you are. Case in point. “Chad” from “Credit Bureau” called me…

Oh, you wacky telemarketers, robocallers and scam artists.  You don’t get the hint, do you? I’ve gotten tired of playing around with these clowns who call my phone at all hours of the day and night, trying to swindle me out of my hard-earned money. I’ve already programmed many of the repeat callers to automatically…

There have been recent protests in Albany by the Poor People’s Campaign.  These protests, which have disrupted traffic in the downtown Albany area, are designed as a non-violent alert to the systemic problems of racism and police brutality and pay inequality.  Noble effort, to be sure. The City of Albany sent the organizers of the…

I swear, there are days when I watch the evening news and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is standing at the podium, trying to answer questions from the assembled reporters, and trying to give answers that reflect our President’s position on life, the universe and everything. And it took me a while to…