Michael P. O'Connor archive
Date : July 2006

Congrates to Matt and Erica

Categories: Friends
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Published on: July 29, 2006

I wish to send out my congratulations to my friends Matt Wilson, and Erica as they were joined in Christian Marriage today.

Floyd Landis wins the Tour de France

Categories: Biking, News
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: July 23, 2006

Well not only does the US keep the yellow jersey, Pennsylvania own Floyd Landis wins, from what I under stand he is from Landcaster PA. PA rules. The Tour this year was really exciting, and very close.

Got a new rear wheel cassette

Categories: Biking
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Published on: July 22, 2006

I went up to Bike Tec (the bike shop I always go to, they are good people and know what they are doing) because I was having trouble with the rear wheel cassette for my bike. When ever I switched into gear 7 on the back the chain would slip. When I went up saying[…]

Finally a map site for Bikers

Categories: Biking
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Published on: July 19, 2006

A site to give directions for bikers I have been hoping for something like this for a while, a site that give directions on how to get from a Point A to Point B with bicyclists in mind. I will probably abuse this site 😉

Bush vetos his first bill

Categories: News, Politics
Comments: 6 Comments
Published on: July 19, 2006

I think he should have vetoed more by now, but this is a bill that needed to be vetoed. It is wrong to kill a unborn child for personal gain. I know many are trying to change the terms used to talk about these unborn children, that is a step to dehumanize a human. But[…]

RPG

Categories: Friends, Play
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Published on: July 18, 2006

Tonight, I had some friends over to play some RPG. About a year ago I got a book titled “The Lord of the Rings Role playing Game” the core book. Well tonight my friends and I finally got to do the first chapter in the adventure. It took a few hours, but it was worth[…]

I have noticed car drivers have been more agressive as of late

Categories: Biking, Politics
Comments: 2 Comments
Published on: July 18, 2006

Over the last few days, I have seen drivers of SUVs being more aggressive as of late, trying to run bicyclists (which I am one of) and bikers off the road. And I think I have figured it out, today I saw a few commercials for the hummer, and they are encouraging people to drive[…]

The PVG

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Published on: July 15, 2006

I just got back from the Pittsburgh Vantage Grand Prix. I was working as a ham with the other hams to do the communication for the race. I was working at turn 5 there. I will also be working on it tomorrow, I will be going in late since I do have church in the[…]

Linux on my iBook

Categories: Technology
Comments: 1 Comment
Published on: July 13, 2006

Well I could not get my iBook to boot with the Mac OS X on it, it always freezes just after I log in. There were no files on it that I wanted to keep, so I blasted the hard drive and installed Linux on it. It is working now, it is nice to finally[…]

My leg cramps

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Published on: July 12, 2006

I have blogged about it before, about how I have had leg cramps. Since that time the leg cramps were getting really bad. Well I think I finally found something that helps with my leg cramps. I picked up some Protein drink mix, and it has helped. How did I come up with Protein as[…]

Well it happend

Categories: Biking, News
Comments: 5 Comments
Published on: July 9, 2006

Well today I finally saw in the Tour De France something I have wanted to see since last year. Some one in the break away group win a stage, well it looks like Sylvain Calzati (of Team AG2R Prevoyance) did just that with the second place winner being 2:05 behind him. It was cool to[…]

USS company Picnic today

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Published on: July 8, 2006

Today Union Switch & Signal had its company Picnic today. I tried the SlingShot (the new ride at KennyWood) I will admit it scarred me out of my skin. But I got some good pictures today. but I hit many of the rides today, and go my $8 worth for the ticket.

The War on Christmas continues

Categories: News, Politics
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Published on: July 8, 2006

For those of you that don’t believe there is a war on Christmas just check out the last line of the of this artical, “Hopefully, a device like this one will be out in time for winter solstice.”.

What a day of biking

Categories: Biking
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Published on: July 4, 2006

Well today I biked out to my parents home. Today I finally defeated 18th street, going up Mt. Washington. I am so happy that I defeated Mt. Washington, but my legs are going to give me major trouble tonight, but it is worth it, I can now say I beat Mt. Washington. I did something[…]

Lutheran Carnival

Categories: Church
Comments: 4 Comments
Published on: July 3, 2006

For this Lutheran Carnival I will look at a confessional Lutheran of recent times: Bo Giertz. I picked Bo Giertz because one of my pastors (Pastor Eric Andrae) has studied and written on Bo Giertz extensivly. Bo Giertz was born August 31, 1905. Bo Giertz served as Bishop in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1949-1970. Bo Giertz[…]

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