An Adirondack goal for the weekend…

Over the weekend, fellow TU community blogger Stephanie Snyder wished me a good weekend and hoped I would take some awesome fall foliage pictures.ย  “Happy fall foliage photo taking season!” she said. Yeah, I can do that… let’s see what the North Country looks like right now. The leaves are changing… sorta… slowly… I figure…

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K-Chuck Radio: What’s that instrument??

The normal set-up for a rock band goes something like this.ย  Lead vocalist, lead guitarist, bass, keyboards, drums. Now just imagine if someone added a few extra instruments to the mix.ย  Something that normally isn’t part of a rock and roll song… but somehow that song still becomes a hit, and that distinctive instrument becomes…

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Why I’m not “Charlie” or “Charles”

I know it’s on my birth certificate.ย  I know it’s on my driver’s license. Still, only a few people in my life – a VERY SELECT FEW PEOPLE – ever get to call me those names today. And with good reason. We do not get to pick our birth names. By the time we’re out…

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Is that Chuck’s artwork in the Stockade Walkabout? YES IT IS!!

So here’s the deal. Last week, a friend / blog reader contacted me.ย  Her cousin has redesigned some lofts in Schenectady’s Stockade area, and in addition to showing off the new living spaces, they need some artwork for the upcoming Stockade Walkabout open house.ย  They needed something that would show off the new lofts and…

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Cracking the barrier

I’m frustrated.ย  This should work, in theory anyway… But over the past couple of years, it’s become more of a barrier than a blessing. Yep.ย  I’m trying to make this Instamatic film do something special.ย  And it’s not cooperating. Yeah, I know that nobody’s making Instamatic film any more, I know that much of the…

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The Return of James Harrison!!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.ย  I am a Pittsburgh Steelers fan through and through.ย  Which automatically means that I detest the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Ravens, any team in the AFC East, the Dallas Cowboys, the Green Bay Packers, and any team that DARES to sign Tim Tebow to their roster.…

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Results of the 2014 Big E Photo Competition

Rough day yesterday.ย  Just absolutely rough.ย  Suffice it to say that I screwed some stuff up that shouldn’t have been screwed up in the first place. Yes, Chuck messes up in life.ย  So I’m in a bit of a self-loathing, Chuck-hating mood right now… And I need something, anything, to change my outlook.ย  Well, I…

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