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 the face value, as high as they can, it just like a loan shark.
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 that she was just doing her job) So I go up and find that there are police, fire, and EMT trucks all there, I did not know what was going on at that time, but I see news crews all over the place, so my curiosity is peaked even more. Well then I ask some other guy that was there with a great looking camera what was going on and he said it was a suspicious package on the bridge. I did get some pictures of it, click here to see pictures.
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 post)
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 has gone for a long time, and it is not like I am on a dial up connection I have 4 Mb download speed, I wonder what is going on. I tried it on Mozilla on Linux Mozilla on Windows and IE on windows, and it just does not want to come in, I have tested other web sites and they all come in at top speeds, but eBay just is not coming though. I just need to list a Dictaphone on eBay for my church, but I can not get to eBay to list it.
Today is my Dads birthday, Happy Birthday Dad, I love you.
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 hand turn from a right lane, and got smashed by a SUV. The Fire department was there also.
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 PA senate (warrning the link is a PDF) on the act. The good news is as the law is writen now, there should be no new taxes. This is going to issue bonds to raise the money for this act. Also they do, for the most part, spell out what the money is to be used for. I do have a bit of a concern about the phrase “other environmental initiatives” in the text, but for the most part I think this might be a good referendum to vote “Yes” on. We do need to be good stewards of the earth God did give us. So after looking into the text of the bill I think I will probably more then likely vote yes on this one.
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 park fountain, the sun to my back, making a beautiful rainbow on the face of the water. I finally finished the bike ride off with a trip up Greenfield Avenue from the Jail trail to Frank St then returned down Greenfield Avenue and though Schenley park. The great thing about biking up a long semi-steep hill is the knowledge of the trip back.
Mom if you see this Happy Mothers Day, I hope you had a good one.
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 cruising speed, and I am very happy that I kept the speed up for the whole length of the trail. Those toe clips I got for this year are really worth the money, and if any one is considering them, I would say they are worth it, I got the $20 ones, the ones you don’t need the shoes for, I have a friend that said that the ones that take the special shoes allow you to be more efficient at the pedal, but since I am not really racing I can play around with these toe clips that just are a small plastic cage you slip your feet into.
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.
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 as I usually have to, and I was able to keep the gears in a high setting then I normally have to. I got some good pictures at the point, also I took some videos, I might put the video up on my site later, but the pictures are up already.
This is just scary, a movie that my sister loved as a youth, is now looking less like fiction and more like perverted experiments. The one line that a friend of mine said was odd was “immediately killing any that display human-like behavior” and then he proceed to ask “what exactly would be considered human-like behavior” All I can say is that the researchers are not themselves showing human like behavior, I just get the image of Dr. Frankenstein’s lab when I read reports like this.
I got in email today that the Red Cross will need some help this Saturday. I would go but I have made a commitment to my church 6 months ago that involves a meeting tomorrow at the same time, I will probably tune my HT over to 146.09 to see if there is any activity on the are about it, but here is a link to more information. this was first posted about at unspace And he has put out a general request to get the word out. If you have a blog with readership from Pittsburgh please repost this information.
I just got a notice in the mail about the Greek Food Festival this year. They usually have very good food there. I will probably see if I can organize a group from work to go over for lunch some time next week. The nice thing is that the place that has this festival is less then a 5 minute walk away from the building I work at.
Well I been Furlough durning this goverment shutdown. I have decided to not waste the time. So I took a Skywarn class and got a skywarn certification. That was on Friday Oct 3rd, so now I am a weather spotter. Then last week I spent studing to upgread my Ham radio License from Technitian to[…]
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I think Nintendo is make a mistake with the “game key cards” the new digital only game cards that Nintendo is doing. With the situation where more 3rd parties are doing those instead of a real game card. I will not buy a game that not fully on the disc or on the cart, which[…]
Well looking at the new switch 2 that is to come out soon, I originally was excited and was thinking of pre-ordering it. But after the news of both the system, and the games, my doubt started to set in. Then I looked at the launch line up, and found none that I wanted. And[…]
So far this year we have gotten some great JRPGs Persona 3 ReloadedShin Megami Tensei V: VengeanceLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth And there are still more coming, coming on the 5th of July the one I am most hyped for The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak and latter this year we are getting Metaphor:[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
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
Posting a new updated before and after picture. First one was taken in 2021, the second picture Just this last weekend.
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[…]
