tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30861464700226379482011-11-20T18:03:59.000-05:00Claudiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04978618450576974979noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3086146470022637948.post-82080872018684881742011-11-09T14:48:00.015-05:002011-11-20T18:03:59.061-05:00

After five days of a seemingly ever-unfolding sex abuse scandal at Penn State University, Coach Joe Paterno has today announced his retirement at the end of this season.A stunning and sorrowful end to a stellar career, it will be said many times in the coming weeks. On October 29, Joe Pa surpassed Eddie Robinson of Grambling to become the winningest coach in Division 1 history with 409

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When I walked into The Plaza on Friday, 8/27, I asked, as I usually do, "Busy today?". My Assistant Manager, Bob, observed that The Plaza had been crawling with buses. I inquired what the occasion was. Bob replied, "I dunno, some religious group." So, very soon after at Coffee Paradise, a busful of these people converged upon us. Addressing the nearest name-tag-chested patron, I asked, "So

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Tonight's (Friday, August 20, 2010) episode of ABC-TV's "What Would You Do" featured a segment where young child actors stood on a sidewalk looking lost, crying, and asking for help from passersby, to see how many people would actually stop and help. Through two days of filming, over 1700 people passed by the children. 47 actually came shining through. People, we can do so much better.Yesterday,

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Well, at the rate technology's going lately, the speed of light's the slow lane. I've definitely at times in recent years "limped on down the shoulder on the rim". But not today!I'm the recipient of a new (to me) IPod Touch, a b-day present from a real great guy I work with named Adam. This was Adam's little treasure before, but since he's moving on technologically, I'm the beneficiary of his

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"Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana"Insanity is defined as doing the same things over and over, expecting different results." -- Dr. PhilThere's a new show on SoapNet, courtesy of the CBC, called "Being Erica". The premise is that every episode allows 30-something Erica a do-over, assisted by her mentor, the ever-wisdom-quoting Dr. Tom. Tonight's episode

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OK, so everyone has a life philosophy of some sort, right? Even if we may not be able to articulate it, and have never really thought about it enough to organize it down to a few simple phrases or paragraphs, I'm assuming most of us walk around with a set of beliefs we operate under most of the time. Shoot, that dude that wrote "All I Really Need To Know, I Learned In Kindergarten" made a mint

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Mr. Meyers was a cop. First and foremost. He was a loving husband and father of six. We lost Mr. Meyers November 4th. I ran into my old friend Scott at the library November 8th and learned of his death from cancer. It is a huge loss.Mr. Meyers was an officer with the Penn Hills Police for many years. He was a big man, both physically and spiritually. He was an honest, hard-working, old-school cop

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Hey, People!Just a short post to throw a few thoughts out.In the future, I thought I'd introduce something I'm gonna call "Snapshots". "Snapshots" will just be short posts on a random thought or two that cross my mind, or a recipe, or something like that. Point being, they will be shorter. Reason being, of course, I'm too busy with life to mess with long entries, and you're too busy to read them.

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Well, Hi! Long time, no post. I have been so busy. Lotsa life got in the way, wasn't that what somebody said? Mine's a long list. To wit:1. Started college. Computers 101, and Logic 101, which I dropped because I didn't enjoy it, do well in it, or see the point of continuing a torturous elective.2. Spent from mid-September to mid-October with vertigo, which I've had a touch of before. After a few

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Well, hello again! I won't even apologize for not posting. That's getting old, and do I have a readership anyway? I get the feeling I'm mostly talking to myself here, yet I keep on, because even if no one comments, someone may be reading this. Maybe I'm relevant to someone, and even if not, this blog is a journal of sorts for me, and as I have not been journaling much in a written diary, this

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Well, hello, one and all! Long time, no post yet again. Apologias yet again, also. Between the Open, illness, the 4th, etc...will things ever settle down?We'll boil the weight issue down quickly: I have been between 183# and 183.5# this whole time -- 183# Monday the 2nd, my most recent weigh-in; and at 30 1/2" this whole time. I have only exercised one day, June 18th, I spent a half hour on the

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Well, hi! Long time no post. Sorry about that; a busy May at the plaza, gettin' with the program.Let's get the weight over with:Weight - 5/21: 184 1/2# (+ 1/2#); 5/28: 188# (+3 1/2#); 6/4: 186.5# (-1 1/2#)Waist - 5/21: 30 5/8" (+ 1/8"); 5/28: 31 3/8" (+ 3/4"); 6/4: 31" (-3/8")Well, let it be said: Everything that could go wrong, did. We were in training at the plaza for 10 days, getting up at 5

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Well, first for the weigh-in:Weight: 184# (-1/2#)Waist: 30 1/2" (-1/4")A fair amount of ice cream passed my lips this week as I ate a small portion 3 different days. Though I was careful to have strawberries/bananas and almonds with it as a sundae, I was also careful to melt butterscotch chips w/ a little water in the mic to make butterscotch syrup too. Luckily, I was also careful to work out 3

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Hello again!I'm doing my little weight deal a day early, as I will be out early tomorrow with very little time to weigh in.Weight: 184.5# (No change)Waist: 30 3/4" (-1/8")I guess I'm just lucky I didn't gain weight. Since my mowing day on Monday, I had a blister on my left heel that you could have lost a compact car in. I really didn't walk around on it too much until Friday; it was very sore.

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Well, hi!Can't believe it's been just shy of a week and I haven't posted! Well, let's talk a little about weight:Weight: 184.5# (-1#)Waist: 30 7/8" (-1/8")To be honest, I'm a little surprised. I was hormonal all week, with breast soreness and I constantly felt like I was hungry again 2-3 hours after I ate. I ate a whole chocolate bar I bought from a kid selling them outside a local store, plus 3

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(Note: this post was started on Mon. 4/23, interrupted by an electrical storm, continued Tues. 4/24)Well, time to check in with weight again. Pretty good news to report this week.Weight: 185.5# (-1/2#)Waist: 31" (-1/4")Not bad. I only worked out 2 days on the treadmill. I intended to get out and hike Friday and Sunday when the weather improved, but I wound up going thru a bit of an ordeal making

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Well, a sad week. This post will probably be pretty long. Those of you who object to reading "novels" might therefore want to skip over this post. Monday's tragic happenings at Virginia Tech have knocked the Don Imus thing off the radar, at least for now, but I did promise to address that issue. So here goes. First of all, let it be said that I am caucasian, and therefore cannot relate to how

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Well, check-in day again already! Happier weight news: Weight: 186# (-2 1/2#) YAY!!Waist: 31 1/4" (-1/4")I must say, I'm at a loss. I'll never understand the mysteries of losing weight. 1 or 2 weeks out of the month, my weight will stay the same; 1 or 2 weeks out of the month I'll lose 1 pound; and then 1 week I'll lose 2 or 3. Go figure. I'm having my period, so I really expected to stay the

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Got a letter with an interesting question in the mail yesterday. The Smithsonian, for some unfathomable reason, thought they would like to solicit my opinion (!!!) on any number of things, so to that end, the darlings sent me a questionaire. Most of it was forgettable, and I did not trouble myself to do anything beyond drop it in the circular file. But one query from it has been on my mind today:

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Definitely a smorgasbord today. First, let's get the weight thing over with:Weight: 188.5# (Again!)Waist: 31 1/2" (- 1/8")Please make allowances. I am writing (trying to) while the damn fool cat wants to play fetch. Anyway, bad week for weight. My TMJ, nothing more than an occasional nuisance in the past, bothered me enough that I had to take a muscle relaxant for it, leaving me too tired on

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Well, Happy Easter, one and all! I hope you all have an enjoyable Easter, even as we all shiver. For many of us, Easter is colder than Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's was. And that sucks big time.Ran across an interesting blog while meandering the web today: http://katestopglobalwarming.spaces.live.com Especially her 4/6/07 post, "Top Ten Carbon Neutral Things To Do In The Sun".Many

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Hello, everybody!It's great to be talking to you! First, some introductions are in order here. My name is Claudia. I live in the Pittsburgh, PA area. I'm 41 years old. This is my first attempt at a blog, so bear with me, I'll try not to be too boring.I first got the idea to write a blog from my local TV station, WTAE, Channel 4 (ABC); they suggested those of us fighting the battle of the bulge

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