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A Change in Cadence
According to WordPress, today marks the 77th consecutive day that content has been posted on this blog. Unfortunately, this post marks the end of a.k.a. V.J. as a daily enterprise — at least until next May. The Fall 2023 semester is just a week away at the time of this writing. I’ll be teaching two Continue reading
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Numbers Game
The past couple weeks, I’ve been gradually dipping my toe back into baseball, after largely ignoring the sport for the better part of two decades. It’s been fairly easy to pick up where I left off. There have been some rules-changes and I don’t know the majority of this generation of players, but for the Continue reading
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Fool in the Rain
This year for my birthday, I got a waxed-cotton jacket. You don’t see a lot of those here in the U.S., but they are popular rain gear/outerwear in the U.K. I’ve been wanting one for a while, as I like the look and they always seemed a good fall/spring choice for the wet and dismal Continue reading
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“We”
A few days ago, I was in a grocery store and overheard a couple of young men discussing the Bills’ prospects for the upcoming season. One of the fellows kept referring to the team as “we” (e.g., “We need to get consistent production from James Cook!”). I cringe a little bit when I hear sports Continue reading
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Ox Creek
Ox Creek is a tributary of the Oswego River, located primarily in the Town of Granby, a little south of Fulton. I drive over the creek every day on my way to and from work. There’s nothing I know of that’s particularly noteworthy about Ox Creek; I just find it pretty. There are summer days Continue reading
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Lock O-3
I tend to think of my hometown of Fulton, N.Y. as being a pretty typical Rust-Belt municipality. There are factories — some still operating, some abandoned. There’s a small downtown area that has never really flourished at any point in my lifetime, as opposed to say 70-100 years ago, when by all accounts it bustled Continue reading
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Biking It
Back in August 2020, at the height of the COVID lockdowns, I decided I wanted a bicycle in order to get some exercise and break up the monotony of my work-from-home existence. Approximately everybody else on the planet had the same idea at that moment. Bicycles, and exercise equipment in general, were practically impossible to Continue reading
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Tornado Warnings with Cake
It always rains on my birthday. That’s not a complaint or a lament. It’s just a fact. I know it’s going to happen, so I never plan anything weather-dependent for that day. Yesterday, Mother Nature provided the expected rain early in the day then, later on in the evening, she took things to the next Continue reading
About Me
Researcher. Marketer. Teacher. Father of adult children and dogs. 20th Century holdover. Central New York native. Long-suffering Buffalo Bills fan. History nerd. Traveler. Vintage advertising enthusiast. Hat wearer.
a.k.a. V.J. 