Hey Baby, How 'Bout Caulking My Tub?

Today was spent prowling around the Great Northeast Home Show with friends Mariam and Stacy. And you know? This beats bar hopping any day. There's twice as many men and they all know how to fix a leaky faucet.

Stacy fell head over heels for a kiosk called "Basement & Crawl Space" while Miriam flirted with the "Fresh Coat Painters" and I went all googly-eyed over "Solar Made Simple."

We had found HGTV-nirvana under two gigantic roofs, the Times Union Center (formerly known as Pepsi Arena) and Empire State Plaza Concourse. We toasted to our good fortune with 3 plastic cups of Chardonnay sold at the concession stand squeezed between an exit corridor and "Carpet & Flooring."

We left with as many business cards as we could realizing that, sooner or later, we'd have to whittle it down to one contractor not ten. I went so far as to even accept a free estimate maybe two.

God knows what will become of me after all my gutters are clean.