Best sledding spot in Pittsburgh??? I used to hit Schenley Park's long hill, but it's just too crowded!!

Alright, so I have a dentist who is AMAZING. (Thank you to whomever recommended Dr. Kristen Ream on a previous post.) My one problem is that I can't really afford to just pay out of pocket for all the things I need to get done and keep up with my bills now that work is slowing down so much.

Could anyone recommend a good Dental Insurance plan for the area? I've looked at a few and they either want an arm and a leg or don't offer any information online. Which ones do you have? Which ones work for you?

Thanks!

I just snapped the leg of my roommate's heirloom dining room table. Broke straight through the wood, so a new piece of wood will have to be shaped, rather than piecing this one back together, and I owe it to the roommate to make sure it's as good as new when it's fixed.

Are there any good furniture repair places around here? Ones that will do a bit of woodwork?

I live in Regent Square, so by preference I'd like to go to a place somewhere on the east end, but, honestly, if I don't fix this ASAP she's going to murder me in my sleep, so I'm definitely willing to travel.

Where in Pittsburgh area (preferrably Oakland) is it possible to buy fresh pork? Fresh as in just brought from slaughterhouse, never frozen.
Thanks in advance.

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All were for icontests & I never posted them to my journal;P

Total Icon Count: 19

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One of my Facebook friends from Texas made this pithy observation: When the temperature in Texas begins with the digit “1,” it’s supposed to have two more digits after it, not just one. The cold snap of 2010 is sweeping across the state. It was in the forties this morning but should be down to freezing by supper time and may not rise above freezing for the next 24-40 hours. Saturday should be back into the forties again. Another Texan friend suggested that I send this weather back to Canada. I said that I tried, but they sent it back because it was too wimpy.

The wind is also supposed to arrive later on this afternoon, creating a wind chill near zero degrees F in some places. Meh. I was once in Minneapolis when the mercury temperature was -40 and the wind chill was -70°.

Another empty night for television. I watched Law & Order: SVU but it felt like a rerun of an old episode, and once the witness/victim was forced to read HIV slogans from slides I just about gave up.

Didn’t get any writing work done this morning but I’ll make up for it tonight as I’ll do some editing while listening to a football game with one ear. I also hope to finish Sleepless by Charlie Huston. It’s not my favorite of his books by a long shot. One thing he’s doing that is irking the crap out of me is backloading character explication. Very late in the book, he’s putting the brakes on forward momentum to talk at great length about the backgrounds of the major characters, things we should really have known about them earlier in the book. I also find it hard to imagine Park stopping to pen these lengthy journal entries that represent his first person narration, especially since they contain information that he wouldn’t want to be caught possessing. The book makes me think about Chinatown, for some inexplicable reason. I’m hoping to get ARCs of the new Michael Slade and Joe Hill books shortly.

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[56-67] - Various Disney (incl. "Tarzan", "Cinderella", "The Sleeping Beauty", "Beauty and the Beast")
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For those of you in the Chicagoland area and other Midwest areas within our distribution area (and Kentucky!), Three Floyds will very soon be releasing Admiral Lord Nelson and 2010 Behemoth.

Get ready for awesome.

It felt good to be back at the keyboard this morning. This was my first day of normal writing sessions of the new year — my first since before Christmas, in fact. I’m still working on revisions to a 6000-word story and I managed to get through six pages this morning. I hope to trim at least 300 words during this pass and then do one more clean-up pass before running it past the editor again.

Here’s the book trailer for the forthcoming anthology Evolve, which contains my story “A Murder of Vampires.”

This weather is good business for the home supply stores. They are selling out of insulation for pipes. Starting tomorrow night we’re supposed to dip down well below freezing for three consecutive nights. We also have a slight chance of snow or sleet for tomorrow morning.

An idle week for television. NCIS was new last night, with geeky McGee going bananas over jet packs. The jousting between Gibbs and the lawyer was fun. I also watched “Allons-y,” the Doctor Who Confidential episode that accompanies part 2 of The End of Time. It’s clear that filming was an emotional process for all involved, especially for Tennant who got choked up when the crew called him back under false pretenses after his last shot for a “golden wrap” moment. I was also intrigued to learn that the first time Russell T. Davies met Matt Smith was on the day that he showed up to film his part of the regeneration scene. The previous Confidential showed how tedious it was to film the Master scenes where Simm is everyone. He had to do about 24 wardrobe changes over a 4-hour period just to do the press conference scene where he is every journalist in the room (and everyone else, too).

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I got a speeding ticket that was far enough over the speed limit that I'm going before the magistrate later this month. It's my first offense, first time doing this sort of thing ever (and let's hope last).

Any tips, experiences? Most of the people I know don't seem to want to discuss their brushes with the magistrate. While I'm sure they won't be a horrible creature of Lovecraftian horror, I'm getting unpleasant vibes about this.

Hello everyone..

My fiance and I are setting up a mini cross country road trip this summer to hit as many baseball parks as possible, one of our stops is PNC Park, I was curious as to what the best and easiest way to park is or whether public transportation is the best route. Also if you do use public transportation, what time do buses? subway? whatever stop just in case extra innings or what not.

Also where are the best places to stay in town, location wise? where to avoid? anything else you think would be good to know?

Thanks so much.
Tobey

So I was paroozing the tags and couldn't find what I needed so if someone knows where to find this if it was previously posted I'd be muy gracious...

Otherwise, I am looking for a place to take up a few skirts that happen to be too long. I live in Bethel Park so anywhere in the immediate vicinity of the South Hills would be great. Some place that will take the measurements and everything without me having to do so prior is necessary. Thanks in advance!!

I bought these last year:  Tecnica Attiva v80's in a size 25.5 (good for women's 8-9 size shoe) and I wore them once during a ski weekend with my husband up at Holiday Resort.  I cannot use them this year since I'm currently 7 1/2 months pregnant, and I honestly don't see myself skiing for awhile.  I'm asking for $325 OBO (they were about $420 brand new last winter).  Respond here on the list if you're interested and a way that I can reach you with more details.  I live in Evans City (near Cranberry Township) and work downtown. They are very very comfy!

The Houston Chronicle had a jaunty front-page article this morning about how the temperature in Houston is going to be lower than the temperature at McMurdo Station in Antarctica on Friday morning. The forecast low there is 21° and we’re supposed to get down to 19–the coldest it’s been around here in 14 years. I recall, however, my first winter in Texas when it got down to 4° around Christmas, back in 1989. Pipes burst in people’s houses everywhere.

I’m still watching Men of a Certain Age and the show is maturing, I think. Less awkwardness and more relevance. The scene with Ray Romano and his daughter’s ex-boyfriend was probably his best thus far, and Andre Braugher’s resolution of his problems with the city was classic, too. He found the key.

Learned this morning that The Stephen King Illustrated Companion won in the non-fiction category at the London Book Festival, which honors the best of international publishing. I won’t be going abroad for the award ceremony, which is later this month at Grosvenor House in London, but it’s a nice little nod to the book. I purchased the last available copy at the local B&N yesterday, taking advantage of the 50% discount.

Originally published at Bev Vincent. You can comment here or there.

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(including Mulan, Pocahontas, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid & Aladdin)

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