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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:00 |
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On this day in history:
1782: Nicolò Paganini, Italian composer is born.
1787: The Independent Journal publishes the first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay arguing in favor of ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
1858: Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States is born.
1904: The New York subway system opens for business.
1939: English actor and comedian John Cleese is born.
1971: Some dude named Scott is born.
1997: After a record drop in the Dow Jones index, Wall Street cuts off trading for the first time.
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Monday, 26 October 2009 14:12 |
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It's funny how times (people) change?
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 04:51 |
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Nothing! That's what I have to talk about. Well it seems that way anyway. I actually have had a busy few weeks, but nothing really seems worthy of writing about. The moose was exciting, but since then I have been racking my brain to come up with something interesting to write about. Like I said, it's been a busy week, I even made a trip to NYC to see the Yankees in game 1 of the ALCS (thanks Tom.) They won, it was a great game. It was a little cold for baseball, but still, a great game. But other than that, it's just normal day to day stuff. Yard work, work work, getting ready for winter, etc... Maybe that's it? It's the change of seasons. The weather has turned too quickly from summer to fall. In fact, we kind of skipped fall all together. It's cold! The days are short, and I miss summer already. We are in limbo between summer and winter. Sot that's it, no pictures, no tale of a trip that we have taken, no witty story about something funny that happened. I've got nothing, it worked for Seinfeld, I figured I would give it a try... Enjoy.
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 03:50 |
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Just a quick update. The leaves have changed, and a lot have already fallen. we are past peak up at the lake, but I have a couple of pictures from last weekend when the colors were better.   But the real excitement happened on our way home on Columbus day. We have been going up to the Adirondacks for a long time, and have seen a lot of wildlife over the years, but this was our first encounter with a Moose. I named him Christopher because of the Columbus day holiday. I borrowed a couple of these photos (taken by Ted Merrihew) from the article in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. Check it out.    It was amazing to see this young bull moose just hanging out by the lake. He didn't seem to care about the 50 or so people stopped along the road gawking at him. I wonder what we will see next? Oh and there are a few more long distance pics of the moose in the gallery.
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 01:47 |
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For those of you not familiar with the capital of New York, we have a performing arts venue that because of it's architecture is commonly referred to as "the egg." It is really more of a sculpture than a building on the Albany skyline. Instead fo trying to describe it, I'll just show you. 
Well for my upcoming birthday, Brenda surprised me with tickets to see former Yankee center fielder Bernie Williams perform there this past Tuesday night. You see, Bernie, born and raised in Puerto Rico, is also a classically trained guitarist. 
The opening act was a young blues guitarist by the name of Patrick Droney. Patrick's skills on the guitar were impressive, and I look forward to hearing more from him as he grows into his skills a bit more. Then after a short stage reset, Bernie came strolling out in jeans and an untucked shirt, no pinstripes, or baseball glove. Just Bernie, 8 band members led by renowned saxophonist Richie Cannata, and his guitar. The music, a combination of Latin, funk and jazz, was smooth and polished. There was a good mix of instrumental songs written by Bernie, along with a few covers of recognizable tune with vocal accompaniment by Eren Cannata. Bernie explained the inspiration for each of his original songs, and of course the crowd broke out into a "Bernie Williams" chant when he talked about his time with the Yankees.
All in all, it was a good show, and a nice night out. But there wasn't any baseball.
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