New York native Nick Galusha, 20, is one week into a mission that he expects to take 10 to 14 months — to visit all 50 states on a total budget of $50. On Wednesday, May 8, Galusha arrived in Manchester, the third state on his list, with 67 cents in his pocket and a goal to hit the rest of New England’s major cities in about a week. Galusha’s travels can be monitored from his Web site, WheresNickNow.com.

Andrew Moerlein, sculptor and faculty member at The Derryfield School in Manchester, has seen large, expensive houses in New Hampshire with little or no original artwork on the walls. In contrast, there are small apartments in Manhattan with thousand-dollar paintings squeezed next to each other in the little available space.

Alex Speier wrote a story in the New Hampshire Sunday News about a month ago that made me bristle. He used first- and second-year stats of players who’ve joined the Red Sox in the last few years as evidence to suggest newly acquired players need a year to adjust before they really contribute in the expected way. As I read it, I said to myself, I’m not going to write about it, I’m not going to write about it, NO, I’m not going to write about it.

Natural Choice Market in Hooksett will hold an open house on Saturday, May 17.

You probably don’t worry much about software licenses. If you’re like most people, when you install a new piece of software, you come to the step displaying a whole mess of legalistic text in a tiny window requiring 200 PgDn key presses to read and you say to yourself, “Whatever, just click Next as soon as it lets me.”