Does this make me more of a geek?

So I tried the new (to me, anyway) thing on Giant Eagle's website where you can create a personalized shopping list, either by typing items, or choosing them off of lists of previous shopping trips (which of course they know from my "Advantage card"), or clicking on weekly specials, or on items they've "selected" as…

Spring is springing

This evening's run/walk (mostly running this time) was the trail at Brush Creek Park. I think the next time I'll try to remember to bring the GPS so I can measure the distance, but I think it's somewhere around 3 miles, with rough-ish terrain in parts. I didn't bring my cell for pics, but it…

Y’know.

I wish I'd brought a garbage bag. Next time. 0406081318.jpg Another disturbing thing I saw on my walk was a woman and her young daughter coming out the door of their house, on the front lawn of which was a sign saying something to the effect that a chemical lawn treatment had been applied, and…

Better things to do with our money

I ran across this interesting website the other day: The National Priorities Project. Here's what the site calculated that we in our little county in southwestern PA could have done with our share of what's been spent so far on the Iraq invasion/occupation:   War cost And obviously, that's only the cost in dollars spent…