Al's Blog-o-Sphere

It was such a nice evening tonight, I decided to walk up to the corner to the drug store to get a few things. It’s only a couple blocks and it’s something I like to do. It’s just so close it seems wasteful to drive, unless I’m on my way to someplace else. Continue Reading…

… and watching too. To the best music show on TV. Has been for years and keeps getting better: Austin City Limits.

I’m watching Bonnie Raitt sing “Angel From Montgomery” with John Prine. Either one of them alone singing that song is one of my favorites, together, just sublime…

Tomorrow: Off to South Buffalo for the Goin’ South Feis. Regardless of how you feel aboout the organization, you have to admit, they throw a good party.

I’m all for regionalism, but I’m really sick of everyone hyphenating Buffalo and Niagara together.

For instance, some years ago, the NFTA stole any hope of the Niagara Falls airport ever having an identity by renaming the Buffalo airport as “Buffalo-Niagara International Airport.” Isn’t that kind of close to “Niagara Falls International Airport?” Yeah, the Buffalo airport serves the whole area, we get it, but why steal the identity from the struggling NF airport? Why kick it while it’s down?

Lately, every time you turn around, it’s Buffalo-Niagara this, Buffalo-Niagara that. I’m sick of it. I live in Niagara county and, while I like Buffalo, they are two different places. Stop trying to make the rest of the world think otherwise. (They really don’t care, anyway.)

I suppose, when a casino opens in Buffalo, it will be called “Buffalo-Niagara Casino” Please, don’t include us in that fiasco. We already have our own…

Whatever happened to “Niagara Frontier?”

Well, I got rid of the entry page I had on the server. It was annoying me. I put it up there at first to just be a place holder, but it looked so weird compared to the clean lean look of the WordPress blog, I hated to make everyone hop through it.

So you can just use http://gritzmacher.net from now on to get here. No more /wp … it will add that for you.

You can still see the old page if you’re curious. Another copy of it is at http://ae2t.net where it has been sitting for a year or so. Before that, it has been here and there as my ‘homepage’ for many years with few changes. You can see the photos of my kids snowboarding in 2000. The page was already old when I added them…