Category Archives: albany

Milk! MILK!

We got about six inches of nasty, wet, heavy snow here in the last twenty-four hours or so, and we’re sup­posed to get more. It’s unpleas­ant. It lit­er­ally took me 45 min­utes to drive about 100 yards on my way to work this after­noon. Peo­ple are out of their minds.
On my way home, I stopped at

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

Irony

The Dinosaur BBQ is look­ing to open a restau­rant in Troy. Yay, I say!
My cel­e­bra­tion politely ignores the fact that in decades of liv­ing in, then peri­od­i­cally vis­it­ing Syra­cuse, I have never vis­ited the orig­i­nal Dinosaur. Details, details. I do have a lot of great t-shirts from there, though.

Appetizers, Potter’s Tavern, Raymertown, NY

Sweet potato fries and stuffed baked pota­toes. Both were won­der­ful. You know you’re using some fan­tas­tic bacon when I can’t get enough of it–I usu­ally pick bacon out of things or avoid it entirely. This, I might even eat a piece of on its own, and I haven’t eaten bacon by itself in about twenty

First Baptist Church sign, At the Warehouse, Albany

I like At the Ware­house, but none of the old things lying around ever strike my fancy.

What’s with my camera?

I thought I’d post a visual aid to show what’s still wrong with my cam­era after it came back from the repair center.

Yeah, the flow­ers are not sup­posed to be that nausea-inducing shade of pink.
Check out this super-cool rain­bow inside the foun­tain, though.

Baby ducks

Poor pic­ture because my cam­era is old and cranky, but here are the sweet lit­tle baby ducks I fol­lowed at the park today.

Like an electric blanket! For muffins!

I stopped by a church garage sale over near SUNY on Fri­day evening.  I didn’t buy this bun warmer, but it made me smile for some rea­son. I like say­ing “bun warmer.” I also really love the avo­cado cof­fee per­co­la­tor in the back­ground.
Most of what was at the garage sale, like this bun warmer, seemed

Maybe I should just move.

It is unbe­liev­ably weird to see a story that we broke at Con­sumerist on Mon­day as a “details at eleven” teaser on the local news before “Lost,” com­plete with exte­rior shot of the restau­rant where it happened.

Canines, cupcakes, and the hazards of butter

I hadn’t made cup­cakes in a while, so I decided to make some up for my trip north­ward to see Naomi and Mark’s new place, and to meet their new dog­gie. DOGGIE! I didn’t have the sup­plies on hand for home­made dog treats, but human cup­cakes I could do.
I pulled out Amy Sedaris’s book, where the