WATERTOWN -- Four city taverns were burglarized over the past few days, according to the Watertown Police Department.
Detectives are investigating break-ins at B.J.'s Grill, 610 Mill St., Fat Boys, 743 Huntington St., Artie's Tavern, 329 High St., and Kicker's Lounge, 498 Factory St.
Lt. Frank J. Derrigo told Newzjunky.com that cash was taken, but declined to say how much or how entry was gained.
Anyone with information is asked to contact city police at 782-2233
A new crime spree in the fair city of Watertown or is it a continuation of the one last month where several busineses were hit...1 of which was hit twice in one 24 hour period? I guess NY State's fastest growing county and in particular its seat of government is growing in other areas besided population.
We're talking Crime.....and with no personal pleas from Lt. Frank Derrigo for the public's help this time around one has to assume that ol' Frank and the boys have it all under control.
Go Get 'Em Frank
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Greetings From PA
Taking a much needed break from house remodeling and moving. We had our 15' rental truck loaded Saturday and left bright and early Sunday morning. It was a very nice day for a drive. When Shelly pulled up with the truck one of our neighbors came out to help us unload again and his wife brought Shelly a couple of welcoming gifts. That was nice.
We still have the garage pretty much packed and will get to it before too long since we have company comming for the holidays. Zack has already made a couple of new friends and we hope to have him enrolled in his new school in the next couple of days.
The house there in Gouverneur is comming along. Still some painting and cleaning to do. Carpet is beng installed next week so that will be nice. I got the last couple of cermaic tiles down in the laundry room Saturday evening so when we come up this weekend I can clean, paint and grout.
Hope everyone enjoys the last of this nice weather this week before we are hit on the back of the head by reality....cold and snow.
We still have the garage pretty much packed and will get to it before too long since we have company comming for the holidays. Zack has already made a couple of new friends and we hope to have him enrolled in his new school in the next couple of days.
The house there in Gouverneur is comming along. Still some painting and cleaning to do. Carpet is beng installed next week so that will be nice. I got the last couple of cermaic tiles down in the laundry room Saturday evening so when we come up this weekend I can clean, paint and grout.
Hope everyone enjoys the last of this nice weather this week before we are hit on the back of the head by reality....cold and snow.
Monday, November 20, 2006
A Plea From One Of Watertown's Finest
City Police Investigate
East Side Business
Burglaries, Vandalism
(WWNY-TV)
"A little crime prevention goes a long way and if they want to take a good hard look at their business to see what they can add to the business to prevent further crimes, we'd greatly appreciate that," said Lieutenant Frank Derrigo of the Watertown Police Department.
City businesses that have been burglarized:
Gray's Flower Shop, Nov. 19 and 20
Jean's Beans, 259 Eastern Blvd., Nov. 16
Checker's Restaurant, 1857 State St., Nov. 8
Carvel's, 1850 State St., Nov. 8
Brookside Diner, 1873 State St., Nov. 8
What a crock of sh@t!!!
Why don't you just come out and say....Mr. business owner, if you had stationed a sentry out in front of your business, this would not of happend.
I say again....what a crock.
I'm sure that the Watertown Police Dept would greatly love it if the citizens made their respective jobs all that easier.
NOTE TO WOULD BE CRIMINIALS - - - - please commit your burgleries during daylight hours, pretty please.
Let's see, 12 days and 6 burgleries....all within a several block radius. Um, did they notice a pattern after the first THREE burgleries or what?? Maybe they need a few more in that area of town before Edison's Wisdom Indicator flickers on and they step up patrols in the area after dark?
Here's a good question.... Just how many of these officers actually live in the community in which they serve? My bet is many live outside the city of Watertow.....coincidently where the crime rate and the taxes are lower.
Go Get 'em Frank
East Side Business
Burglaries, Vandalism
(WWNY-TV)
"A little crime prevention goes a long way and if they want to take a good hard look at their business to see what they can add to the business to prevent further crimes, we'd greatly appreciate that," said Lieutenant Frank Derrigo of the Watertown Police Department.
City businesses that have been burglarized:
Gray's Flower Shop, Nov. 19 and 20
Jean's Beans, 259 Eastern Blvd., Nov. 16
Checker's Restaurant, 1857 State St., Nov. 8
Carvel's, 1850 State St., Nov. 8
Brookside Diner, 1873 State St., Nov. 8
What a crock of sh@t!!!
Why don't you just come out and say....Mr. business owner, if you had stationed a sentry out in front of your business, this would not of happend.
I say again....what a crock.
I'm sure that the Watertown Police Dept would greatly love it if the citizens made their respective jobs all that easier.
NOTE TO WOULD BE CRIMINIALS - - - - please commit your burgleries during daylight hours, pretty please.
Let's see, 12 days and 6 burgleries....all within a several block radius. Um, did they notice a pattern after the first THREE burgleries or what?? Maybe they need a few more in that area of town before Edison's Wisdom Indicator flickers on and they step up patrols in the area after dark?
Here's a good question.... Just how many of these officers actually live in the community in which they serve? My bet is many live outside the city of Watertow.....coincidently where the crime rate and the taxes are lower.
Go Get 'em Frank
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Laundryroom Preview
This room is finally getting finished. It took about 4 years to do lol. When I bought this house this room was a bathroom. To the left in one photo you can see a shower. There was no tub and the toilet was in the corner.
The shower was removed and in its place will be a linen closet. The floor tile that is in the bathroom is extended into the laundryroom. The paint color in the laundryroom is actually a gray but looks more blue but is just what we wanted to bring out the color in both the wall and floor tiles. The bathroom will be painted the same color.
Not quite done yet with some touch up in the painting, trim moulding, tile and grouting to be done....and electrical for the dryer need to be brought up through the floor when I get around to it. Other than that all the plumbing, venting, electrical is all done.....ooops, and shelving for the linen closet.
Friday, November 17, 2006
The Dutch And Their Burqas
AMSTERDAM (Reuters)
The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the wearing of burqas and other Muslim face veils in public, justifying the move on security grounds. Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk will now draw up legislation which will result in the Netherlands, once one of Europe's most easy-going nations, imposing some of the continent's toughest laws against concealing the face.
"The cabinet finds it undesirable that garments covering the face -- including the burqa -- should be worn in public in view of public order, (and) the security and protection of fellow citizens," the Dutch Justice Ministry said in a statement.
The debate on face veils and whether they stymie Muslim integration has gathered momentum across Europe.
I don't recall what the ruling was in Florida where the state licensing dept denied a muslim woman's request for a drivers license as she refused to take off her burqa. All I can say or do is give you two thumbs up on that move.
I don't see this as any type or form of discrimination or alienation at all. Simply put, how valid can a form of identification be when you cannot identify the person in the photo. With the burqa covering all of the face 'cept the eyes there can be no validation of persona.
Cudo's to the Dutch I say for being at the forefront and not succumbing to the clamour that will definately follow.
The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the wearing of burqas and other Muslim face veils in public, justifying the move on security grounds. Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk will now draw up legislation which will result in the Netherlands, once one of Europe's most easy-going nations, imposing some of the continent's toughest laws against concealing the face.
"The cabinet finds it undesirable that garments covering the face -- including the burqa -- should be worn in public in view of public order, (and) the security and protection of fellow citizens," the Dutch Justice Ministry said in a statement.
The debate on face veils and whether they stymie Muslim integration has gathered momentum across Europe.
I don't recall what the ruling was in Florida where the state licensing dept denied a muslim woman's request for a drivers license as she refused to take off her burqa. All I can say or do is give you two thumbs up on that move.
I don't see this as any type or form of discrimination or alienation at all. Simply put, how valid can a form of identification be when you cannot identify the person in the photo. With the burqa covering all of the face 'cept the eyes there can be no validation of persona.
Cudo's to the Dutch I say for being at the forefront and not succumbing to the clamour that will definately follow.
CBS Jericho
The preview for the next episode was interesting. Supplies are dropped and when they are opened the people discover the supplies they thought were dropped from their own country are from the Chinese.
Now there are several scenarios that could explain this but first you have to divide them into two groupings....Chinese/Good and Chinese/Bad
First lets look at the possible benevolence of the Chinese.
A massive relief effort? Not likely since we would likely have enough internally in the US to supply our citizens. I would think we would be seeing supplies dropped from Canadian planes before Chinese. Where we would need help in this situation is in logistics. If we were unable to do so ourselves we would need help getting communications up and running to those rural communities.
Also, if Chinese were involved in a massive aide distribution it would make more sense for them to leave the supplies at our doorstep at a deep water port rather than doing the distribution themselves.....and by airdrop??? Unlikely
Chinese Bad
Ok, so I am making an assumption that the writing on the supply boxes was Chinese. It's in our view for what 2 seconds and it's asian. Could it be N. Korean? lol Well I could see them attacking us in search of a better diet but no.... Chinese it shall be.
First though we have to think for a moment of what we know so far and assume that what we know is credible. The nuclear explosions were done by terrorists, that much we know. The Chinese could be involved in one of two ways. One they could be taking advantage of our situation (assuming they have forces in country)or they could have employed the terrorists acting as surrogates for themselves.
If you think back several episodes to the refugee...he did say "they're comming". Could he have meant Chinese? Possibly. One thing though....with the FBI agent still having access to communications wouldn't the word have gotten out through the network of an invasion?
That aside, what is it with this split season???? Lost is doing it and now Jericho??? I thought with Lost it was a great idea to drive up interest, keep viewers glued to the new show to get snippets of upcomming episodes.
But why Jericho?? I don't think the show is doing exceptionally well and the past several weeks I am not sure if it has been in the top 10.
UGH!!
Now there are several scenarios that could explain this but first you have to divide them into two groupings....Chinese/Good and Chinese/Bad
First lets look at the possible benevolence of the Chinese.
A massive relief effort? Not likely since we would likely have enough internally in the US to supply our citizens. I would think we would be seeing supplies dropped from Canadian planes before Chinese. Where we would need help in this situation is in logistics. If we were unable to do so ourselves we would need help getting communications up and running to those rural communities.
Also, if Chinese were involved in a massive aide distribution it would make more sense for them to leave the supplies at our doorstep at a deep water port rather than doing the distribution themselves.....and by airdrop??? Unlikely
Chinese Bad
Ok, so I am making an assumption that the writing on the supply boxes was Chinese. It's in our view for what 2 seconds and it's asian. Could it be N. Korean? lol Well I could see them attacking us in search of a better diet but no.... Chinese it shall be.
First though we have to think for a moment of what we know so far and assume that what we know is credible. The nuclear explosions were done by terrorists, that much we know. The Chinese could be involved in one of two ways. One they could be taking advantage of our situation (assuming they have forces in country)or they could have employed the terrorists acting as surrogates for themselves.
If you think back several episodes to the refugee...he did say "they're comming". Could he have meant Chinese? Possibly. One thing though....with the FBI agent still having access to communications wouldn't the word have gotten out through the network of an invasion?
That aside, what is it with this split season???? Lost is doing it and now Jericho??? I thought with Lost it was a great idea to drive up interest, keep viewers glued to the new show to get snippets of upcomming episodes.
But why Jericho?? I don't think the show is doing exceptionally well and the past several weeks I am not sure if it has been in the top 10.
UGH!!
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
NASCAR
By Nate Ryan
USA TODAY
NASCAR's popularity might have reached a plateau. As its top-tier Nextel Cup series nears the end of its first network TV contract, there are signs fan interest is lagging and a 15-year period of growth is sputtering.
Tracks don't release figures, but estimates from NASCAR reports show crowds have decreased in a third of the races this season. Fewer than half the Cup races were sellouts, and that includes two at the 92,000-seat grandstand of California Speedway east of Los Angeles, NASCAR's largest market.
The Allstate 400 at the Brickyard on Aug. 6 drew a crowd estimated by The Indianapolis Star at 240,000 — about 20,000 shy of capacity at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It was the smallest turnout in 13 seasons at the track that ranks in prestige on the Cup circuit behind only Daytona International Speedway.
Well, don't that beat all. Seems the well has dried up as far as the watching cars drive in circles crowd go. With the advent of the latest technologies and um...yes, those pesky RULES, even crashes are down year over year.
Promise a fiery death, a few spectacular crashes a season and throngs will return to the track and tv faster than a sunday-go-to-meetin' preacher will drop his pants for a male crack whore.
USA TODAY
NASCAR's popularity might have reached a plateau. As its top-tier Nextel Cup series nears the end of its first network TV contract, there are signs fan interest is lagging and a 15-year period of growth is sputtering.
Tracks don't release figures, but estimates from NASCAR reports show crowds have decreased in a third of the races this season. Fewer than half the Cup races were sellouts, and that includes two at the 92,000-seat grandstand of California Speedway east of Los Angeles, NASCAR's largest market.
The Allstate 400 at the Brickyard on Aug. 6 drew a crowd estimated by The Indianapolis Star at 240,000 — about 20,000 shy of capacity at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It was the smallest turnout in 13 seasons at the track that ranks in prestige on the Cup circuit behind only Daytona International Speedway.
Well, don't that beat all. Seems the well has dried up as far as the watching cars drive in circles crowd go. With the advent of the latest technologies and um...yes, those pesky RULES, even crashes are down year over year.
Promise a fiery death, a few spectacular crashes a season and throngs will return to the track and tv faster than a sunday-go-to-meetin' preacher will drop his pants for a male crack whore.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Life in PA
So Zack was off from school this past Thursday and Friday so....since I needed to do some laundry why not drive down to see Shelly a day earlier than she expected us?? lol I really did need to do some laundry but I figured I could also get some work done. It does take some time to get your license and registrations changed.
I had all the documents I needed for my license. You need to have your license first before you can register your car. I had the route all set from Mapquest on where to go so off we went Friday morning.
We get there and you take a number and wait to be called. There were two people working then one but there weren't many people there. After 10-15 min I was called up. I get to the eye exam and had to read from a machine that had a rotating 3 column display. My vision is ok and my script is probably 3 or 4 years old but it really hasn't changed. I get to the last one and the guy says read the one on the right.
Right??? lol I only see two?? You have a problem with your left eye don't you?? uh...yeahhh (thinking my glasses must have given THAT away). I have a lazy left eye and astigmatism. He hands me a form and says come back after you have an exam...we're open today til 4.
Ok...now my idea was to get my drivers license and get at least one car registered so we wouldn't have all three cars on two different sets of insureance policies. We're switiching from Travelers to AIG and saving $1000 per year. So off I went in search of a Pearl Vision or something similar.
I was on a one way st in a plaze but there was alot of stores and plazas that kind of reminded me like Arsenal St back home so I knew there must be one nearby. So I got back onto the interstate and came around near to where on got onto the one way street the license place was. I am probably driving a little slower than I should but damn....if there was a vision place I was set to find it.
Bingo!!! There was one and as I pulled into the parking lot of the plaze I noticed....damn, there's that license place....about 30 yards from the vision center. lol how convenient. I walk in and ask if they take walk ins and 30 min later I had my paper and was back to the license place. Script for glasses changed so minimally that I don't need new ones.
So, when I left the license place I was number 77 and when I took another number some 45 min later they were on number 88 and my new number was 22. So the one guy was done with one customer and looked up to the now serving sign and called out 89. The lady who he just helped turned around and said no, you're on 90.
Anyway another customer is helped and about 15 min later the guy looks up at the sign and says 89. Someone else is waiting on but I see a patern here and if he doesn't go to a new number I am jumping line lol. Sure enough, some 20 min later..."89"!!! My turn....10 min later I have my new license in hand.
They may need extra help on that counter. lol
So if you were thinking you can get your plates at the same place as your license....nope. It appears PA has outsourced that part of it. It's their state and they can do as they please. You have to go to what is called a messenger service but first you need to have the VIN on your car verified and you can't get that done at a messenger service.
To make a long story shorter. I went to AAA, they gave me a form to take across the street to a dealer who does inspections where he wrote the VIN down on this form and signed it and then it was back to AAA to get the plates.
Since I have three cars I need to repeat this three times but I have to do it myself since the cars are titled to me.
For the other two, since they are financed, I need to get permission from the finance companies to have them titled in PA.
Well, at least one set of NY plates gets turned in today lol.
I had all the documents I needed for my license. You need to have your license first before you can register your car. I had the route all set from Mapquest on where to go so off we went Friday morning.
We get there and you take a number and wait to be called. There were two people working then one but there weren't many people there. After 10-15 min I was called up. I get to the eye exam and had to read from a machine that had a rotating 3 column display. My vision is ok and my script is probably 3 or 4 years old but it really hasn't changed. I get to the last one and the guy says read the one on the right.
Right??? lol I only see two?? You have a problem with your left eye don't you?? uh...yeahhh (thinking my glasses must have given THAT away). I have a lazy left eye and astigmatism. He hands me a form and says come back after you have an exam...we're open today til 4.
Ok...now my idea was to get my drivers license and get at least one car registered so we wouldn't have all three cars on two different sets of insureance policies. We're switiching from Travelers to AIG and saving $1000 per year. So off I went in search of a Pearl Vision or something similar.
I was on a one way st in a plaze but there was alot of stores and plazas that kind of reminded me like Arsenal St back home so I knew there must be one nearby. So I got back onto the interstate and came around near to where on got onto the one way street the license place was. I am probably driving a little slower than I should but damn....if there was a vision place I was set to find it.
Bingo!!! There was one and as I pulled into the parking lot of the plaze I noticed....damn, there's that license place....about 30 yards from the vision center. lol how convenient. I walk in and ask if they take walk ins and 30 min later I had my paper and was back to the license place. Script for glasses changed so minimally that I don't need new ones.
So, when I left the license place I was number 77 and when I took another number some 45 min later they were on number 88 and my new number was 22. So the one guy was done with one customer and looked up to the now serving sign and called out 89. The lady who he just helped turned around and said no, you're on 90.
Anyway another customer is helped and about 15 min later the guy looks up at the sign and says 89. Someone else is waiting on but I see a patern here and if he doesn't go to a new number I am jumping line lol. Sure enough, some 20 min later..."89"!!! My turn....10 min later I have my new license in hand.
They may need extra help on that counter. lol
So if you were thinking you can get your plates at the same place as your license....nope. It appears PA has outsourced that part of it. It's their state and they can do as they please. You have to go to what is called a messenger service but first you need to have the VIN on your car verified and you can't get that done at a messenger service.
To make a long story shorter. I went to AAA, they gave me a form to take across the street to a dealer who does inspections where he wrote the VIN down on this form and signed it and then it was back to AAA to get the plates.
Since I have three cars I need to repeat this three times but I have to do it myself since the cars are titled to me.
For the other two, since they are financed, I need to get permission from the finance companies to have them titled in PA.
Well, at least one set of NY plates gets turned in today lol.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
It's been a little hectic the past several weeks. One project is just about finished...with just a tad of touch up painting and putting up quarter round moulding around the dining room cabinetes. Other than that...the room is done!! I know lol...about damn time and it only took me what 12-13 months.
The room originally had carpet over linoleum.
Now there is 25 yr Pergo laminate floor with stained beadboard wainscoting, basebaord and chair rail. The chandelier was replaced and the ceiling done in an Armstrong wood grained ceiling plank. To give the new lighting some more dimension I raised the ceiling around the lighting, forming recessed box.
The room had built in hand made cabinets...that were built on site amd so many nails there simply wasn't just removing them. No, it involved something like a reciprocating saw and sledge hammer lol. It really looked hopeless if the tought was to strip them and refinish them so out they went.
In went two new base cabinets. If I was staying I might throw in two top cabinets but that isn't the case. I topped these off with a cermaic tile counter top.
Now since we are talking about a 100 year old house you will run into spots where the walls are not perfectly straight. That is why they used lath and plaster...you could hide it better. Drywall is not as forgiving and heavy moulding even less so. So there are a couple sopts where there may be a slight gap in between the moulding and a wall....painters caulk takes care of that. That is the white line over the left cabinet you see.
I don't get into work like this very often so for some I am learning as I go. It was my first laminate floor and it came out very nice and was very easy to do but there places where I could have done better and you learn as you go as with anything in life.
Hopefully this week I will have some pics of the laundry room upstairs. I am getting close to having it ready for primer and paint. It is comming along alot better than I expected.
Shelly is painting the living room and I will have some pics of that in the next couple of weeks. We are still on track to rent another truck and move the rest of the stuff down south in a couple of weeks. I should be able to put this on the market by Dec 1st.
The room originally had carpet over linoleum.
Now there is 25 yr Pergo laminate floor with stained beadboard wainscoting, basebaord and chair rail. The chandelier was replaced and the ceiling done in an Armstrong wood grained ceiling plank. To give the new lighting some more dimension I raised the ceiling around the lighting, forming recessed box.
The room had built in hand made cabinets...that were built on site amd so many nails there simply wasn't just removing them. No, it involved something like a reciprocating saw and sledge hammer lol. It really looked hopeless if the tought was to strip them and refinish them so out they went.
In went two new base cabinets. If I was staying I might throw in two top cabinets but that isn't the case. I topped these off with a cermaic tile counter top.
Now since we are talking about a 100 year old house you will run into spots where the walls are not perfectly straight. That is why they used lath and plaster...you could hide it better. Drywall is not as forgiving and heavy moulding even less so. So there are a couple sopts where there may be a slight gap in between the moulding and a wall....painters caulk takes care of that. That is the white line over the left cabinet you see.
I don't get into work like this very often so for some I am learning as I go. It was my first laminate floor and it came out very nice and was very easy to do but there places where I could have done better and you learn as you go as with anything in life.
Hopefully this week I will have some pics of the laundry room upstairs. I am getting close to having it ready for primer and paint. It is comming along alot better than I expected.
Shelly is painting the living room and I will have some pics of that in the next couple of weeks. We are still on track to rent another truck and move the rest of the stuff down south in a couple of weeks. I should be able to put this on the market by Dec 1st.
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