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An eleventh-hour grant will allow this website to continue unabated. I thank you, and the Planet thanks you. Potential readers, however, may not *stifles guffaws*
We’re moved into our new digs, across town from the old place, and are unpacking and settling in nicely. All of our fellow travelers are alive and well. Special thanks to [...]

Well now…if you’re from Encore Property Management, LLC, or Imperial Manor apartments in Greece, NY, you probably don’t want to read this one.
As reported in modblog, June 21, we had a few rough nights because of the sheer incompetence and criminal negligence of those worthies. Monday the 17th, a “work crew” led by a musclehead [...]

Sooooo, where was I? Oh yeah, leaving New York State. Good idea.
I have visited NYC twice…hate it. Makes Chicago look and sound tidy. The rest of the state revolves around the city and its needs…Albany being a haven for suckerfish and other percentage-shavers, as well as clueless current Governor David Patterson. Rochester politics are a [...]

New York, I never loved thee. Most of the time it was quite the opposite. Even when I was younger and my family spent a summer in Avoca, trying to get established, I didn’t like you much.
This despite the rolling hills, the foothills of the Adirondacks, which I loved to wander. I wasn’t unconscious of [...]