4:00 a.m. Cab arrives to pick me up at my house. It’s Surgery Day. Crack of morn. Today is the day when I stop walking around with a broken foot … and begin walking around with a recovering foot. 4:30 a.m. I arrive at Albany Medical Center. My surgery is first thing in the morning. …
Read MoreGodspeed, Mike Huber
It’s August of 2009, and I still don’t know how Mike Huber found me. But I’m kind of glad he did. I had spent three years blogging, off and on, with a personal online blog. Maybe it was read by three or four people, or maybe two people and a bunch of spambots, I don’t…
Read More“There’s a horse named Frontier Town racing today, Chuck!”
It’s Sunday morning, and as I’m trying to get all my plans together before my surgery date – wash my clothes, some last-minute shopping, a couple of hours blocked out to see La La Land – I received a tweet from my friend Frank. And it was a very interesting tweet. @chuckthewriter hi Chuck,!thought you…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: How’s your medical coverage today?
As many of you know by now, I’m undergoing foot surgery tomorrow. The surgeons will remove the broken bone that isn’t healing properly, and then I’m looking at crutches, casts, orthotics and physical therapy. And while I’m on my last day before the surgery, I figured I’d have a little fun and come up with…
Read MoreTwenty men versus a Chevrolet in a snowbank
Imagine you’re driving along a cold, snowy highway. You think everything’s okay … and then suddenly you lose traction, you don’t negotiate a turn, and you slide off the road and land in a snowy ditch. Ugh. Now you have to figure out how to get back on the road. There’s no traction under your…
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Why didn’t I think of this before?? Oh yeah … I did …
So the other day, I blogged about taking an old Kodak Stereo camera, shooting some pictures of the Toll Gate Ice Cream parlor in Slingerlands, and turning the resulting photos into a three-dimensional cinemagraph. You know… and got this picture for my efforts. And after reading some of the blog comments about the project, I…
Read MoreBest of our TU Independent Blogs, January 19, 2017: Ten for Thursday
Welcome to the weekly recap of the Times Union’s best and brightest, the independent and community bloggers who give their time and their talent to entertain you every week. These are the bloggers who write what they want, when they want, to bring you intelligent thoughts, interesting topics, and provocative ideas. And right here, every…
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Toll Gate Ice Cream in 3-D
The Toll Gate Ice Cream restaurant in Slingerlands has always been, for me, a mental recharging station. I’ve enjoyed their burgers and fries on my trips to Thacher Park; I’ve noshed on their grilled cheese sandwiches when I’m trying to think of a new photographic concept. And with that in mind … I tested out…
Read More“These numbers might not be good enough for surgery …”
I had expected this gall for days. Prior to my foot surgery next week, I was to receive a call from an intake nurse who would ask me several questions about my medical history (past and current), to make sure I was healthy enough for surgery (ha ha, healthy enough for surgery – if I…
Read More“These numbers might not be good enough for surgery…”
I had expected this gall for days. Prior to my foot surgery next week, I was to receive a call from an intake nurse who would ask me several questions about my medical history (past and current), to make sure I was healthy enough for surgery (ha ha, healthy enough for surgery – if I…
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