It’s ‘girl’s weekend’ at my house, (3 women + their 7 daughters under 5!) , so I got greenlit to get a hotel for the weekend and chill! I booked the Stamford Plaza Hotel on Summer St., a former Sheraton now under new management. I didn’t want to go far or pay alot of money, [...]

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After this storm, we could all use a good handyman/mechanic – mine is excellent, very affordable and available now. Email me for deets.

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(Above) A VERY eager couple can’t wait to see if Chef Ramsey has successfully taught Sabatiello’s how to cook a steak to order. The full Sabatiello’s Kitchen Nightmares episode is viewable online here. I have never seen the Fox show “Kitchen Nightmares”, but I had to watch most of this episode to see them rehabilitate [...]

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Kitchen Nightmares Vol 2. Now on DVD Fellow Fairfield blogger Stamford Talk was dining on the set of “Kitchen Nightmares” when it shot at Stamford’s Sabatiello’s Restaurant last February. Show teaser: Sabatiello’s is over $1 million in debt and the hot-tempered owner isn’t helping. Check it out tonight at 8 PM on Fox. Just a [...]

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My fellow Stamford area bloggers couldnt care less about all my techie talk, so I figured I would help round out today’s AppleFest with a traditional rant about something local – Stamford Town Center. I hate it. Once you get to Stamford Town Center, you are met with a horrifically complex and poorly signed parking [...]

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I could not live without my Garmin Nuvi GPS unit. When I originally got it, very few people had aftermarket GPS systems – now I see them stuck on windshields all over Fairfield County. Starting with the Nuvi, GPS systems got a hell of a lot easier to use, and are now about half the [...]

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I live close enough to the Stamford Train station that I could use it to save a little time by grabbing one of its many express trains once in a while – but I don’t. First off, the exit for the Stamford Metro-North station is the *first* exit where I-95 traffic officially comes to a [...]

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