Category Archives: travel

Visual Week in Review: Sort of New York Edition

My phone bat­tery died before the actual meetup started, partly because of some enter­tain­ing all-day e-mail exchanges. So enjoy ran­dom things that I thought needed to have pic­tures taken of them over the course of the day while I was trav­el­ing down to New York, and look­ing for sweaters.
Don’t ask. I need sweaters.

Visual Month in Review

I like my visual week in review posts, but I haven’t done one in a while. So now that I’ve located an SD card reader and finally trans­ferred things over, here are all of my cam­era phone pic­tures since mid-September, instead!
Included adven­tures are dog-sitting, an ill-fated trip to New York City, a night out in

Last of the tax-powered trains

My Dad is back, and com­ment­ing on the high speed rail pro­posal and the cur­rent state of Amtrak. He took a train from Albany to Syra­cuse after bring­ing my new car to me, and loved it. Mostly because he had more or less a pri­vate train car.

Hometown Road Food

The B’ville Diner is a reg­u­lar old diner located in my home­town of Bald­winsville, New York.  It’s one of those places that you just sort of take for granted.  It had a big remodel in the early ‘90s, I think, and it became less of a dive and more of a place where you’d actu­ally

An almost lethal level of pastiness

As an exper­i­ment and as an incred­i­bly tiny energy-saving mea­sure, I decided to take a bus from work to the mechanic where I dropped off my car this morn­ing. I had a ride to work from the garage, which made my life much eas­ier since I didn’t seem to wake up until a few hours

Monster Accord Jam

AJ and I met up after work today. We had two hours to make it about thirty miles away from Albany to the speed­way where the mon­ster truck rally was being held. (What, you thought I was kid­ding? We’ve both always wanted to go to one.)
We missed the Thruway exit while hav­ing a spir­ited

I really don’t travel anymore

The Amer­i­can Library Asso­ci­a­tion annual con­fer­ence is going on now, in Ana­heim. The cost of air­fare to Cal­i­for­nia and my cur­rent finan­cial sit­u­a­tion mean that I’m not able to go, and unless I have some­thing spe­cific to attend for and a track, I’m not sure I can han­dle the onslaught of things to do

An imagination conference this year

I’ve been kick­ing around the idea of going to one of the ALA con­fer­ences this year. More likely Mid­win­ter since it’s in Philadel­phia. I could drive there as opposed to fly­ing and…renting a car, as well as stay­ing in a hotel, like I’d have to do at Annual in Ana­heim, which has the advan­tage of

Big Picture » Winnipesaukee

Big Pic­ture » Win­nipesaukee
Silly French reporter. Ken­neb­unkport is in Maine! That’s, like, a WHOLE OTHER STATE!
The close of this entry amused me so much, I just had to trans­late it out. The entry is about how the French pres­i­dent is tak­ing a vaca­tion this year on Lake Win­nipesaukee in New Hamp­shire.
One of the

The Siege of Troy

This past week of dri­ving to Troy every day has made me real­ize that I never, never want to have a job with a long high­way com­mute again, unless I’m work­ing sec­ond shift or oth­er­wise odd hours so I don’t have to deal with traf­fic. Our high­way traf­fic here isn’t that bad, in the