Zoo day!

Saturday morning Pittsburgh woke up to such promise of a spectacular day that my sisters and I headed to the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium with our gaggle of children.  We didn’t realize it was Mr. Rogers’ Won’t You Be My Neighbor Day at the zoo, meaning free admission for kids, meaning all of Pittsburgh [...]

Best headline ever?

Found on the Post-Gazette’s main page:

Am I outing myself as some sort of sci-fi nerd or would you say “frack” and “frak” have gone pretty mainstream?
Either way, I think the effects of “fracking” are “babies” … or “getting caught doing girls in the public bathroom.”

Make Room for Kids Update

Two exciting updates!
1.  The Make Room for Crazy portion of the Make Room for Kids/Christmas Crazy for Kids fundraiser has added exciting new prizes:

Two RIP Packages for The Scarehouse.  The RIP Package includes four RIP tickets, meaning you don’t have to wait in line, plus a free CD and a free shotglass.  Each RIP package [...]

Curling: Ur doing it wrong.

I’m sure by now, it being 2:30 in the afternoon here in the sunny Burgh, you’re sitting at your desk wallowing in the 2:30 o’clock doldrums because 5:00 seems SO. FAR. AWAY. and you’re stuck inside on this gorgeous day.
What you need is a good belly laugh, and I’m going to give you that belly [...]

PennDot FAIL

You think somewhere in the process, some PennDot employee would have noticed she was actually changing her last name to FUNK.

Now the question is this … do you ask for a correction or do you show up at the DMV with a camera card with this name on it and see if after they finish [...]