My Flock Is Up...Again.
The Shepard needs to say a few things that have my flock upset lately. It's therapeutic.
1. Please stop using the YMCA as a free, all day, watch-my-kids-while-I-work babysitting service. It's grinding me. Hey, if it's a snow day, figure it out, but avoid dumping them at the Y and high tailing it down 279 to your gig.
2. Can somebody serve up a decent slab of fish during Lent? Are these things being pulled straight from Brush Creek?
3. Since we've had some snow lately, the sledding at the park has been robust. However, after two runs, I'm spent, washed out, kicked. What needs to happen in order to have a tow rope installed? Not joking.
4. Last week on 279 there was an old school Bonneville lurching along Southbound, clearly in need of a serious mechanic. Do us a favor, pull this gramp's car to the side of the rode and just walk away. Walk away I say.
5. Why do the bags at Pitt Airport take a new moon to be delivered to the belt? Unbelievable. That is seriously getting me flocked up.
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for your eyes only bonneville has been replaced with accord
avatar? gimli? some kind of viking guy? what?
The whole lent thing was established in me many years ago by numerous nuns and certain doctrine. As I grew older I could never quite figure it out though. For me, eating fish instead of meat is no sacrifice. I always found it funny that people think it is OK to sit down to a huge lobster dinner or an all you can eat seafood buffet but can't imagine eating a meat loaf sandwich during lent.
That being said, eating the processed fish parts you describe is your penenc. Peace Be With You
It's amazing what people will do with their children in order to get their tails to work. Neighbors, grandparents, friends, foes....just about anyone will do if it means dropping Tommy off and getting the heck out of dodge. These days it seems like nothing stands in the way of a parent who needs to get to work. Um, how bout calling off? How about not going in for a day?
I LOVE the tow rope idea. Won't happen though. They're too busy building tiny wooden decks at the pool that people are just lining up to rent out during the summer? What were they thinking....you could probably fit a bumping party of 6 or 7 of your best pepes on that deck. What a joke.
My dad is the head of baggage control of the GPIA. Watch what you say Shep.
First Watch sucks. Way overpriced. There are zero good breakfast joints around these parts.
Hey Blog Hog try Thompson Restaurant it has a great breakfast with a great price. I also heard of a place in Mars but not sure of the name.
I need your help then. Please tell Dad to speed up his workers at baggage. No disrespect, but it's as though they are walking the bags from the plane to the belt. What's wrong with getting them off, moving your A@@ and tossing them in the hoopper for belt moving. Seems logical to me.
First Watch is over Johnny. It's over.
Also tell your dad easy on the luggage you can't even buy nice luggage and it get ruined from the handlers.
Shephard, just out of curiosity what airline were you flying?
I'm right there with you on two things:
(1) A tow rope would be GREAT. If someone would make a formal request, it might actually happen.
Sidebar: I for one, would be a fan of the decks...IF they weren't so small and so far away from the pool...and maybe, just maybe, they had an umbrella for shade.
(2) As for the Pittsburgh airport, the issue isn't the airport, it is the AIRLINE you are flying. My bags take FOREVER on US Air, but I flew Northwest the other day, and my bag was on the belt before I could even make it to the baggage claim.
As for the others: First Watch is terrible. We definitely need more restaurants in Cranberry...but we need GOOD ones. I'd prefer independents over a chain, but I'd even take a good chain.
- #3 is a killer...busting a gut right now, side pain, the whole nine yards, whew that is some funny shit. paprr though knows the dark side well and the accord is ever so V6
- stop trying to be a big-shot eastsider...kids from the hood do not EVER say or spell "creek" it is "crick". The fish from old brushy all died in the first chemical war in cranberry when chemlawn decided to see what their poision would do to local waterways...boneheads
- First watch is again a little too...how did you say it?...boutiqueish for me. give me an IHOP and some syrup.
- baggage handling is in general weak. try travelling overseas... 3 trips to overseas destinations w/o bags upon arrival. what mysteries take place between the planes and the claims areas? gremlins doing all that handling and michevious play with contents and tags, etc.?
The tow rope is a sound idea but it does fly in the face of your oft remarked upon visits to the YMCA. why so winded after 2 trips? just steaming or saunaing away while there?
the darn sun decks at the pool have been a bone of contention with me since the carpenter fired the first nail. In all my years I've not seen a single simpleton use that wasted platform of lumber. I have to stop b/c my flock is getting up on this subject. It boils me.
For he who asked, I flew USAIR. Sure they get me to and fro but their slowness with my goods flocks me good.
If not a tow rope, I would suggest some type of base camp half way. A simple area where one can rest flat footed.
Nice to see you blogging again, Vader.
for the base camp, i say lets break into that pool, take one of those stupid platforms and place it at the mid-point of the long-run. the best action though at the hill is to build a ramp at the base of the steep run that is not officially part of the hills, right between the long hill and baby hills. you can get huge air here if you build it right, vader and M4S's built a monster earlier in the winter and almost broke a bone or two. that's my kind of fun.
US Airways has pretty much gone down the tubes. Their customer service is horrible. The last 3 times I have made reservations with them, they sold tickets as if they were flying 4-6 non stop flights per day and then canceled all but 1, usually the 5:50 am flight. I have quit flying them all together and fly Southwest when I can because everyone there is friendly and they are extremely reliable.
agree. if you can fly it do so. my only complaint though is that on the early morning or late evening flights, the stupid jokes some of these "stewards/stewardess's" really are annoying, lame and are the worst jokes of all...staged jokes that are easily predictable. just shut up and let me pass the time with my own thoughts...now that's a good conversation:)
you're free to move around.