Manchester native John Stephen is running as a Republican for New Hampshire’s First District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. A former director of the state’s Department of Heath and Human Services, Stephen will likely have to defeat not one, but two U.S. Congressmen to gain office. Two-term former Congressman Jeb Bradley will be Stephen’s opponent in the Republican Primary, with the winner facing current incumbent Carol Shea-Porter. From Stephen’s perspective, neither party served the state particularly well in recent years.

The Concord Community Players, an 80-year-old amateur theater group, were supposed to be performing The Full Monty this month. Alas, Concord folk will not be treated to undressed neighbors imitating out-of-work steel workers imitating male strippers on stage.

I saw this column written by Kevin Cullen in the Boston Globe a while back that I really liked, in which he started each sentence with "I'm so old that" to show how much has changed around Boston. So after giving him the credit for the idea, I'll appropriate it for a sports version.

Cinco de Mayo is less a Mexican version of July 4 and more an American excuse to celebrate Mexican food and culture.

Lesson learned: free is better than cheap any day.

How did I come across this rare, precious tidbit of totally not obvious knowledge? Why, Craigslist, of course.

I’m moving again. I don’t think I’ve really acquired that much stuff in the past 15 months, but the new place is smaller. And that’s a whole lot of time for stuff to go obsolete. Using the tried-and-true method of putting small, light things (like a cell phone and a bunch of remote controls) on eBay, where shipping is a consideration, and larger items on Craigslist, where folks pick up your junk locally, I went to work.