Happy Birthday Mom
Well Wednesday was my dad’s birthday and today is my Mom’s birth day. So Happy Birthday Mom, I love you, I hope you have a good one.
What do Lutherans do on a Saturday night?
Well if they are a member of First Trinity, they might find themselves at a Graduation party (congratulation Jonathan). We had “Dance Dance Revolution”, and Karaoke. It was great fun, one of our Pastors did Elvis songs, and I got 2 videos of it, here and here. I also got a lot of pictures of[…]
It does not take long for google to index my pages (when I put an entry in)
I just looked at my log files, and found that people are finding my site from google with search terms that hit my web site for an entry that I put in just the day before. It is cool that google indexes my site almost once a day.
The City is cracking down on scalpers
The City of Pittsburgh is limiting scalpers to a limited area, I think this is a good start, but I believe that the city should make scalping illegal; my opinion is that scalpers are the scum of the earth. They try to buy up all available tickets then try to sell them for more then[…]
Suspicious package scare on the Roberto Clemente Bridge (near PNC park)
To top off my bike ride today, I saw some news coppers over the north shore, so out of curiosity I bike on over there. As I come up from the bike trail I get told by a police officer to get away from the bridge (the office was not being bossy or anything like[…]
Today’s 3 hours on the bike
I did a bit of a different ride today, I rode up to the civic arena, and when deep into the heart of the city on the city streets, not something I would recommend for the faint of heart but I did it. I toped the day off with a bit of excitement (see next[…]
eBay
This is getting annoying I been trying to list something on eBay for the last 2 weeks, but I can not get to eBay, they seam to be very very slow, I started to load the page 10 minutes ago, and only now are the images starting to download, and this is the fastest is[…]
Happy Birthday Dad
Today is my Dads birthday, Happy Birthday Dad, I love you.
A car wreck
Today on my bike ride I saw the remains of a car wreck in the strip district at around 5pm (click here for a picture), It looked pretty bad, but it did not look like any one got hurt, but there was gas spilled, and it looked like a car tried to make a left[…]
Referendum on the May 17 Ballot
On the day of the Primary there is also going to be a vote on a referendum. It is being promoted as Growing Greener environmental bond. Since I have a bit of a distrust for referendum’s on a election, I looked further into the act that is in question. I found the text from the[…]
Wild Turkeys
Today when I started out on my bike ride today, I saw a couple of wild turkeys in the path, by the time I got my camera out they were off the path in the woods, but I did get a few pictures of them. Also I got some great pictures of the Point state[…]
Happy Mothers day
Mom if you see this Happy Mothers Day, I hope you had a good one.
Biking today (new personal best speeds)
I went on a nice short 1 and a half hour bike ride today. I am very happy with the speeds I made today, coming back from the city on the jail trail I was going between 18 to 21 mph the whole way, this is about 8 to 11 mph faster then my old[…]
Hair Cut
Some of my friends have been getting on my case about getting a hair cut, so I thought I would get the cut they have been teasing me about for the last year or so. BOO Well they have been trying to get me to shave it for awhile so I though I would not[…]
Got a great bike ride in today
I went out for a great bike ride today. I got to try out the new toe clips I got on Monday, and I have to say I am impressed with them. I was going 50% faster then I did before with the same effort, and I did not have to down shift as soon[…]
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Recent Posts
- weight loss continues, but end is n… by Michael O'Connor
Today I weighed myself and came in at 130 pounds. When I started I set a goal of 125 pounds. So only 5 more pounds to go. I am a long way from where I started, I started at 300 pounds on March 31, 2022, it been about 15 months since I started this diet.[…]
- A summer snack by Michael O'Connor
With summer coming buy, and me still on my diet, I came up with a snack, I have always enjoyed popsicals, so what I am doing now, is I am taking those water enhancers that say they have 0 calories and use that as the flavor for my popsicals, and I have some popsical makers.[…]
- My apartment setup. by Michael O'Connor
For my friends I did a video to show my friends how I have my apartment setup, because I did some changes to the living room and the bedroom. Here is the video
- An updated picture of before and Af… by Michael O'Connor
Posting a new updated before and after picture. First one was taken in 2021, the second picture Just this last weekend.
- Today is the 1 year anniversery of … by Michael O'Connor
March 31, 2022 was the day I hit 300 pounds and decided to loss weight, today I weigh in at 135 pounds. To date I have lost 165 pounds. My goal still remains 125 pounds, so I only have 10 more pounds to go. I feel so much better, later on I will post a[…]
- Meal prep for the week by Michael O'Connor
Today I did some meal preping for this week. Cooking both in slow cookers. First dish, is a ham and veggie soup contianing Ham Potatos Celery Spinish Carrots Onions Veggie Stock With the amount of stuff and what I put in it, the whole slow cooker has about 1200 cals in it, this should make[…]
- Weight loss continues by Michael O'Connor
Today I did my daily steping on the scale this morning, it read 140 now. So since I started my diet last March, I have lost a total of 160 pounds, and only 15 more pounds to go, till I can start working on keeping the weight off. But I been feeling a lot better[…]
- Weight loss continues by Michael O'Connor
Today, when I did my morning weight in my scale read 143 pounds, so to date I have lost 157 pounds. And now I have only 18 more pounds to go.
- My Backup internet. by Michael O'Connor
In the past I have used a 4G T-Mobile hotspot, that was costing me about 50 a month for 10GB of data. But for that same 50 I could get T-Mobiles home internet. So I cancled the hotspot line and added the Home Internet for my backup internet. First they say there is no data[…]
- Just setup a local Plex server by Michael O'Connor
So in my journy of cutting the cable. I just setup a Plex server for my local network. I have a lot of mp3 still that I ripped from my CD years ago. Now I wonder if I can rip my DVD to the Plex server, not to replace them but to have them accessable[…]
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