WAYNESWORD for LATE FEB. 2010—

 CHINESE NEW YEAR & NEW BUSINESS CORROLARY

We’re past Chinese New Year now, I saw the fireworks to prove it up behind Skidmore one Thursday evening as I drove north on Broadway back towards my new stone-faced office--  I’d first come out of Four Seasons on Phila Street when I’d heard the first explosions, and was looking south at a dark Congress Park—there was no celebration there, and no reason for one as far as I could see.  I first thought the mid-week festivities might be erupting for some reason from the Racino—the former & still functioning/now thriving Saratoga Harness Track has often been a site for fireworks, mostly on the traditional holidays.  But the effect of the echoes through town made it sound as if the sky-ruckus was coming from that direction.