Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Pittsburgh Has Finally Started Fixing Some Potholes! Hallelujah!
I have only lived in Pittsburgh since August, and I absolutely love it here. Like anywhere though, there are some problems, and for the most part they are very minor. When we moved here people were complaining about the potholes, but it really didn’t seem bad to me at all. Well, that’s because it was [...]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
It’s January 8th, and it’s 66 degrees in Pittsburgh.
I can’t believe it. 66 degrees! From now on I’m changing the phrase to, “I think I’ve died and gone to Pittsburgh.” I mean seriously… this is incredible. This is supposed to be the time of year when we suffer in the cold, all bundled up in layers, and I was out walking with my [...]
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Awesome Deep Sea and Giant Squid T-Shirts
Over the weekend my wife and I went to a great craft fair in Pittsburgh called Handmade Arcade. One of the vendors that really caught my eye was a t-shirt printing joint called SquidFire out of Baltimore Maryland. They have a great, unusual take on deep-sea creatures, and they have all kinds of stuff with [...]
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Hanging Out in Leonia New Jersey
I’m spending a long weekend with my cousin and family in Leonia NJ. Today we went to the bakery, and were met at the door by the largest pile of butter I have ever seen. It was awesome. Worth Their Weight in Butter: My Cousin Scott and his daughter Frances at Balthazar Bakery in Englewood [...]
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Found the Best Labeling of a Box Today
We’re still unpacking, although the end is now in sight. Here is a photo of the best of the labels so far: Only one of them refers to yo-yos. Can you tell which one?
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Moving in Three Days
Yes, it’s true. Just three days until Lenore and I move to Pittsburgh. There is a lot of work yet to be done and I am tired. Part of the tiredness might have to do with the fact that I drove almost 300 miles today, and it is currently 1:27 am.
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Friday, May 18th, 2007
Apartment Hunting in Pittsburgh
This is WAY harder than ever before, and it doesn’t help that we have a dog either… or that we have standards now. In case you haven’t heard or figured it out, we’re moving to Pittsburgh.
