Category Archives: NY Giants

Take some time to write Thank You notes

Posted on September 11, 2025 by AverageAndy

While watching a Sudoku solve on the Cracking the Cryptic, Simon Anthony mentioned that while recently traveling, he read an article in the NY Times by Glenn Kramon about the benefits of writing Thank You Notes. Not just for gifts, … Continue reading →

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Here comes Fall

Posted on September 2, 2025 by AverageAndy

Hope everybody enjoyed the Labor Day Holiday. Crazy to realize we are now heading into fall (although many businesses have already forced the fall season on everybody. Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS have all had Halloween candy out for the past … Continue reading →

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Random Thoughts for a Friday

Posted on August 22, 2025 by AverageAndy

A little late, but sad to see that Terrence Stamp passed away last week. I remember him as General Zod in the original Superman and Superman 2. He also played Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. The Mets … Continue reading →

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Survivor 48 has a winner

Posted on May 23, 2025 by AverageAndy

Survivor 48 came to an end, and crowned Kyle Fraser the winner of the $1,000.000.00. He was able to convince the jury that he did indeed outwit, outplay and outlast them all an deserver to be the winner. Thus ended … Continue reading →

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Familiaris – David Wroblewski

Posted on March 10, 2025 by AverageAndy

Back in the summer of 2009, while on vacation in Dewey Beach, DE, I was looking for a new book to read. There was a local bookstore in town promoting summer books to read. Looking at the list of recommendations, … Continue reading →

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<Here we go again>

Posted on February 10, 2025 by AverageAndy

Out and about on a Monday, looking for a new job, and reflecting on the past week. My mind is a bit scattered, and I am having a tough time focusing and am hoping that writing stuff down on this … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year (2025)

Posted on January 2, 2025 by AverageAndy

Despite the tragedy in New Orleans, along with the craziness of a Tesla full of fireworks catching on fire in Las Vegas, and a bunch of yahoos shooting people at the nightclub in Queens, NY., I hope everybody was able … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (Days 18 – 26)

Posted on December 26, 2024 by AverageAndy

Hope everybody enjoyed their Christmas / Chanaka and got to spend some time with friends and family Writing every day is much harder than I thought, especially if you throw in Christmas on a Wednesday. I’m going to try and … Continue reading →

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Seven, Eight, Nine

Posted on December 9, 2024 by AverageAndy

Realizing I have some sort of phobia about writing to this blog from home. Both Satuday and Sunday, I told myself I would find time to write, and both days, I came up with excuses — Don’t want to write … Continue reading →

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31 Days of December

Posted on December 4, 2024 by AverageAndy

Going to try and write something each day during the month of December. Since today is already the 4th, you will get 4 things today. 1. Big win for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks over Richmond last Saturday. This team is … Continue reading →

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