Apartment Building, State St. - Albany, New York
c 2006 Curt Miller

The Daily bLog
Moving mountains. Facing adversity. It's really tough to deal with an uphill battle every waking moment of every day of your life. Such is living in a body wracked by disease, especially one so disabling that it even makes the most basic functions of eating and speaking all but impossible sometimes. Then, I take stock in the positive, look around me and count the blessings I do have. I also look for inspiration in the incredible accomplishments of others.

The building above represents a tremendous accomplishment. What looks like a fairly normal eight story, turn-of-the-twentieth-century brick building, was actually built about 250 feet and 90 degrees rotated from where it stands now. In 1928, the NYS Comptroller began construction of the new Alfred E. Smith building on the site where this building originally stood. I actually saw a movie that showed the building being moved the 250 feet to its present location on rollers, pulled by teams of horses!

And we think we've got it rough? What's dealing with MG compared with that?