No Wonder The Stock Market Stinks…

He’s a brief glimpse into how our financial markets have become so screwed up lately.

Celebrity Sighting

About a month ago, as I was sitting in the gate area at LaGuardia waiting to fly home, I saw a really short, bald guy who looked familiar.  Not familiar like “Hey, I know that guy from high school”, but more of a “I think that guy’s sort of famous, where have I seen him” [...]

Congratulations Needlenose

Yesterday, the Red Sox announced that they will waive their normal requirements for retiring players’ numbers in order to retire Johnny Pesky’s #6.  No Red Sox will ever again wear that number.
All I can say is that it’s about time.

Barnyard Politics

Okay, I know I’m really, really late on this one, so please excuse the delay.  But I did want to mention how odd I found the entire “lipstick on a pig” outrage from a couple of weeks ago. 

A Running Question

I’ve been paying a bit more attention to runners lately, probably because I’m hoping to run a 5K some day myself. (Quick update – down 15 pounds, jogging one of my ten daily laps around the track.) One thing that I see regularly and still don’t understand is people who jog into [...]

A Quick Peeve

There are few things that annoy me more when I’m in a local restaurant than scanning the steak section of their menu and seeing them call a strip steak a “New York Strip”.  I understand that’s the common name for that steak in most of the country, but that cut of meat is known by [...]

5K Update

Briefly, let me bring you up to speed on my diet/exercise progress toward completing a 5K some time this coming Spring.