I was wondering if I get tickets to a movie tomorrow night, and I have had the following problem with Fandango, most of the time it just times out. And the few times that it does not I get a server error, I find this fun, then when you want to check them at the different movie theaters, they do something incredibly stupid, they redacted you to fandango. I just tried to get a screen shot, but fandango is not coming in, I find it very funny.
I got this notice in my INBOX today about the about the Outdoor Festival from Venture Outdoors. If the Weather is good on Saterday I will be headed there in the morrning, on my bike.
5 Days until the Largest Outdoor Festival in the Region!
Venture Outdoors Festival Free!
Saturday, May 21, 2005
10:00 AM 5:00 PM (Rain or Shine)
Pittsburghs North Shore Riverfront Park near Heinz Field
Free parking for Venture Outdoors will be available at Gold Lot #1 (you must enter the lot before 3:00 PM)
Everyone (from beginners to experts, kids to seniors) is invited to come out and try a new activity, learn about a wide array of clubs and organizations, buy some of the latest gear and discover all the great outdoor amenities we have in the region.
Quick Facts about all the things going on:
100 Exhibitors Bring your questions and some spending money
Climbing Wall 24 feet of rock climbing fun
Fishing Try your luck with over 20 species of fish in the area
In-line skating Start with the basics or learn some new tricks
Bike Rides Take a guide pedal around town or along the trails (bring your bike and join the fun)
Kayaking See how it easy it is to learn
Canoeing A perfect way to explore the rivers
Dragon Boating 20 paddlers, 1 drum, tons of fun
Frisbee Golf Play a couple of holes
Mountain High Sales – Outdoor technical gear, apparel, and footwear at 30%-80% off Retail pricing. Marmot, Keen Footwear, Vasque Footwear and Atlas snowshoes. Also clothing, boots, tents, sleeping bags, camping, stoves, snowshoes, accessories and much, much, more!
Pittsburgh Voyager – River tours 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM
Adventure Sports Magazine Pick up a free copy at their booth
Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group- Demo of Search and Rescue dogs 1:00 PM
American Adventure Race Participants will be passing through all day help cheer them on!
Bike Pittsburgh Smoothie samples from their Bike Blender
Brier Hill Farm One word Llamas
DCNR – Rubber stamping activity for the kids plus free Hike for Health Guides
Construction Junction – Salvage art
GASP – Test drive a hybrid car and hear the motor purr
Boy Scouts Greater Pittsburgh Council Visit the Scout Funmobile
Keystone Concessions – Electric-assisted mountain bikes
Mesa Creative Arts Center – Reiki and mini tuning fork healings, plus a small medicine wheel
Massage therapy Experience this technique from 2 different providers
Conscious Healing – Energy psychic readings
The Woodmobile Learn about PAs great forests
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts – Hand made paper and other crafts
Yoga Tent Yoga sessions throughout the day with different instructors
Unicycle and Juggling Come test you hand eye coordination
Drumming Circle 11:00 AM, 1:00 PM, 3:00 PM along the river (bring your own drums if you like)
Nature Walk 11:00 AM Patterns in Nature
Food- Sree’s, Mung Dynasty, Joes Hot Dogs, Rita’s Ice and Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream and New Hope Coffee
Girl Scouts 11:00 and 12:00 Songs and Games
ROCS! Award Come find out who is this years winner!
On top of all the activities and events be sure to get your entry in to win more than 30 different cool prizes! With all this cool stuff happening you want to get there early and enjoy the full day. Dont forget to bring the sun block and dress in your adventure clothes!
This festival is the perfect way to kick-start your summer!
I would like to welcome all the new visitors that have come to my site from the Lutheran Blog directory. I have seen a lot of hits from it today. And I hope you all had a good Pentecost Sunday. I go to First Trinity Lutheran Church in Pittsburgh PA It is a very good Confessional Lutheran Church. We use TLH for our hymnal, I love the Elizabethan language in it. I really do not like the 2007 hymnal that they are working on, I have downloaded a copy of the liturgy section that they are working on, and I really don’t like the updating of the language.
It looks like bob O’Connor has won. I got a strong feeling that he is just WRONG for the city, but the sad thing is since he is the democrat nomination he will win in November, but one thing is for sure, this O’Connor will be out campaigning against that O’Connor, I doubt it will make much of a difference but I should try. To much is hanging right now, and the city is bankrupt and he will just drive it further into bankruptcy.
Well I got home from work and worked on moving my Betta from the 2.5 gallon tank to the 10 Gallon tank, he is not really happy with me right now. While I was at it, I did a lot of aquatic gardening, I took a lot of plants out of the 20 gallon tank for the 10 gallon tank, the kind that do not need to be trimmed and replanted, the kind that when you trim them you have to trash the trimmings, and I moved all the ones that when you trim them you replant them to the 20 gallon tank. Then I went thought the 20 gallon tank trimming down all the longer ones. I replanted the trimmings where the old plants that I took out were. I also put some of the old deco that I used in the tanks away. It will take a bit of time for the 20 gallon tank to “recover” from all the trimming but when it does, it will be totally over grown with plant life, and the 10 gallon tank will not have the over grown problem that the 20 gallon tank will have, and I want it that way for both. This should also shake up the social order in the 20gallon tank.
I found a list of blogs by Lutherans It would be nice if it was LCMS centered but oh well. I submitted my site, I hope that it gets listed. I wonder if they plan to do some syndication like the Pittsburgh Bloggers site does.
Well I did it, I voted today; I went down and voted on the 3 things my voice would matter in. The 2 referendums and the special election for the state senate. Being a republican I did not bother to vote on the primaries, it not like it would have mattered, the republicans never win anything in this city, and besides I did not look into the platforms of what they people in the primary stood for, so it would not have been wised to vote, in them, I just looked in to the special elections issues. Now the only question remaining is should I bother voting in November? Is November an local only election, therefore it does not matter if I vote or not, or does it include state and federal stuff, if so then my vote matters and I will vote.
But by tonight we should know who the next major of the city is.
I saw a nice 10 Gallon tank today in a store for about $10. and I thought my Betta (named Stroustrup) could like a new bigger home, right now he is in a 2.5 Gallon tank. I have gotten it home now, and filled it with rocks and water, tomorrow after I get home from work I will move some plants into it, and the rock from his current home, I will steal some plants from the main 20 Gallon community tank (that place is stating to get to many plants in it, as I clip the plants and replant the clippings) I will probably take some of the decorations out of the 20 Gallon tank to free up more room for plants as I continue to clip them in there. I will probably also move some of the clippings from the main tank to the new tank as I clip them in the future. I will have to get some aquarium fertilizer for the 10 Gallon tank since I will only keep just the Betta in it, with no other fishes.
Well this week is National Bike to work week. Just some of the benefits to biking to work, it is better for your Health; you don’t really have to sit in traffic (therefore it is more relaxing) [and for those of you that are into preserving the environment, it does not cause pollution]. You do not have to waste time looking for a parking space, and when you do find one you don’t have to fight for it.
And for those of you who would say put your money where your mouth is, I do bike to work, most days, during the spring, summer and fall. And during the winter I walk to work, and when it is raining (or as in the spring and fall if it is to cold)
I checked into Sunday’s scanner net this week, it was fun, it lasted a bit longer then it was planned to last by the net control. I got some good information, I was wondering about what frequency the TV stations use to communicate to their choppers, and to the people that they send out to do news stories. I was given a link by a K3FSS, which has a lot of the Frequencies in the Pittsburgh Area, for different things. After getting this page I spent about 30 minutes reprogramming my scanner for what I wanted, I have now 3 banks of frequencies. Bank 1 is the Pittsburgh public safety group. Bank 2 is the Collages around here (Pitt and CMU). And Bank 3 is the TV stations intercommunication Frequencies. I will have to go though the list on that page more to find other things that might be fun to scan though.
They say that in the next 5 years that the internet might die because of spam, well I am starting to think it might be sooner, I am getting so tired of all the spam, this last weekend I got well over 100+ spam messages all about some fake stock about to move, I guess it is time to lower the number of points that Spam assassin uses before it labels something as spam, right now it is at 6, I am thinking maybe I should drop it to 3. I am so close to just turning off all email that comes from addresses of people I don’t have in my address book. And yes I do say spammers are evil! And I say all spammers are stupid and evil.
I just read about the other referendum on WPXI’s web site. After reading the article and seeing a talk show on the race (here) I don’t think this is a good referendum. Yes cutting jobs in government does sound good, but the jobs they want to cut, are important ones, and I don’t thing they should be cut. Also I don’t like the idea of the jobs that they are putting on the cutting block here should be political rewards, they are the court clerk, prothonotary and the register of wills (maybe these two should be combined as the bill proposes but they should not be political appointments) and a few others, they want to take the row offices from 10 people to 4 people, I don’t think one could cut a office well over 1/2 and still expect things to work, yes Pittsburgh needs to save money, but if we do the wrong things it could end up costing the city more money in the long run. So for this referendum I believe I will be voting “no” on it.
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.
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 the party. It was alot of fun
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