So on my way to getting my coffee and coupons inserted in the local newspaper, I accidentially read the news. I've not been known to pour over the columned words all that carefully, also I watch the news every night so why would I read the same news....huh? But today, something drew me in. I was sorting and discarding like I always do to get to my gems, but today in the Capital Region section, "Local" to us oldsters, I spied an article written by an award winning journalist, Brendan J. Lyons, Senior Writer. If anyone ever doubted, never no more, he only writes on the best stuff and is always worthy of a look-see! Today he writes about my new boss, Daniel McCoy a fellow who locals know he just "won" the Albany County Executive race (he was unopposed), so to have a scandal so early is always a treat. Albany politics be damned, a scandal anywhere that politics has been intrentched as long as the machine in Albany is always a fun dish sampled from....so I read it. A confusing though not that unusual story about time off, time someplace else and time incorrectly written and sworn to on some type of timecard. Ok, enough of that nonsense, we will have many more years of this type of thing.
My next adventure took me to the Unwind section of the T.U. and to the Life section written by local journalist and blogger Kristi Gustafson Barlette (yes, she does realize her initials are KGB) the dangers of wearing your wedding ring or not and when and where you should take it off. Since I don't have one and don't wear rings it was not very important to me, other than the survey done where people said it was acceptable to take it off when pawning it, now that I like. The same page but not a local writer, Felix Carroll gives us a look into his childhood and guesses that today's youth are not as physically adventuresome as he and his friends. Well ok Felix, but I bet they can load an app like nobody's business, so, um there!
My trail then leads me to another story in Unwind, Travel and the fact that there is another "Manchester", ok cool, I'll give this to mom and she can file it away with other trips that we have yet to go on...
Continuing on the path...by now coupons are in a neglected pile...Arts and the fact that my "around the blogesphere name double", Colleen Skiff is resigning from an art gallery in Troy, NY. Well, Col I hope you have a great retirement and please use a different name when responding to a blog. Now the bottom of that same page is an interesting historical event that Abraham Lincoln, yes that one, was in Albany in 1861. Thank you Amy Griffin, frequent contributor to the Times Union for our history lesson, I'd love to see more of that so let's see something about the Schuylers and the Van der whatevers please!
Finally, yeah ok I prattle on a bit, in the Unwind section is "Flavor" written by Senior Writer and local blogger Steve Barnes. Here he answers some questions about "whatever happened to Nicole". Nicole Plisson was a local restaurantaur who made a go of two restaurants, all highly acclaimed and oft missed by the local foodies. She explains that that breast cancer and all that surrounds that horrible disease was what happened, and why the least of her worries was how to order lettuce from a local produce company. A concise piece that shows us while we are all carrying on our merry way, there are people who are trying to, well, just live.
Ok, one more, I know I lied up there, but KGB (see what I did there) had one more piece in today's paper, in the Health section, page one, above the fold (yes, I watch newspaper movies) where she explains about Anti-gravity yoga, ok so I like the Anti-gravity part and reading it says if rides at amusement parks bother you......I stopped, yes they do make my tummy hurt and therefore I will not be trying this yoga. Anyway don't you all know that exercise can kill you, no? Well, just read the TU from a couple of weeks ago, "don't tase/taze me bro", but that's for another time.
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