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I’ve been on my father-in-law’s case about him hoarding junk all around his house. So last Saturday, my wife’s aunt (his sister) and I went through his living room and, with the tacit understanding that we would look through things before indiscriminately throwing them out, we bagged up huge contractor bags full of garbage, we…

Whenever my wife gets angry at me for something, she brings up this little nugget – “The reason we bought this house was that I thought I married a handyman who could fix or repair anything!” Moi? So while my wife is visiting my daughter in Seattle for a week, I decided this would be…

Those who know that I play competitive trivia know that I like playing as a lone wolf, a solo player among teams of 3 and 5 and 17 players. While that has worked for me in most trivia games around the Albany area, it hasn’t worked as well at Brown’s Brewing, my Wednesday night hangout.…

So here’s the story. Last Saturday I drive up to Barre VT, home of the Vermont Frost Heaves of the Premier Basketball League. The plan was to get action shots of the Frost Heaves as they try to secure a wild card berth in the PBL, as well as get photographs of the new Montreal…

First off, I’ve never really been a fan of Crapola City, but when the store declared bankruptcy and started selling off everything they had, I did pick up some nice bargains here and there – mostly memory cards, blank CD-R’s and DVD+R’s and the like. Today was the final day of Circuit City’s existence, so…

Unlike the PBL’s Central Division, which the Battle Creek Knights have already sewn up, or the PBL’s Atlantic Division, in which the Manchester Millrats could take the division title this weekend with two wins, the PBL’s four-team Eastern Division is still too close to call. The Wilmington Sea Dawgs and Rochester Razorsharks are in a…

See that truck over on the right? That’s part of my brand new article for RoadKing, “Tears For a Bulldog,” which was just published this week. I traveled to Hillsborough, New Hampshire, where a local resident had collected over 100 different trucks, haulers, pavers, plows, bulldozers, etc. Click on the link above and read the…

Well, what was supposed to be a quick trip to Montreal this weekend ended up becoming a more fulfilling trip to Quebec – and then to Burlington, Vermont – for two games of PBL action. First things first. My original plan was to go to Montreal and take pictures of the new team that replaced…