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RebelliousFlaw asks: Below are 10 words. I would like you to take these 10 words and write the first word that comes to mind which you associate with the words.
These are mine, feel free to copy these ten words to your blog and do the same—link back so we can see your word associations.
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Today just wasn’t that great of a day for many here in Pittsburgh. My emotional roller coaster has hit all the points from low to high today.
Sad
After work tonight, I found out that my grandfather died this morning. It wasn’t a particularly great shock as he’d been succumbing to alzheimers slowly over the past couple [...]

This week I want you to tell me who this woman is by what is in her “Junk Drawer.”   Imagine that she went rifling through that drawer in a last ditch panic looking for her misplaced keys the morning this picture was taken, and she, instead, found something she had forgotten about.  What was it that [...]

Hello again, Monday #
Finally home from work. We’ll see how much writing I get done tonight. #
Long day so far. Lots to get done yet. #
Time to go home…I’m starved #
Middle week. More fun stuff to work on! #
Squeeze in a few words…then off to bed. #
Working. Refresh Pittsburgh tonight. #
On the way over to [...]

This month’s Pittsburgh Twitter meetup (or tweetup) occurred in combination with the Mattress Factory’s opening reception for PREDRIVE: After Technology, an exhibit in the annex gallery, just down the block from the main museum space. Similar to the last gallery opening I attended at the Mattress Factory, those in social media (bloggers, etc.) were invited [...]

This week’s Friday 5 is all about using stuff in ways they weren’t originally meant to be used but come in handy that way anyhow.

1. When did you last use the edge of a coin (or a knife blade) as a screwdriver?
A couple weeks ago: the batteries in my bike light had gone kaput and [...]

Tonight was quite possibly the best and most well attended Refresh Pittsburgh events I’ve been to. We met at the AlphaLab offices on the south side of Pittsburgh. They have a nice open middle portion of the space that works out quite well for medium to large group meetings. In all, about 40 people were [...]

On the afternoon of September 27, after the Podcamp Plugin session at Northland Library, I finally was able to visit the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (which are actually in the same building/complex as part of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh). I’ve had a membership for quite a while [...]

Find details about the Neighborhood Walk on the Rust Belt Bloggers site as well as a list of others’ walks.
With my job, it makes it difficult to get outside and take photos of the neighborhood where I have my apartment as it’s dark when I get home. But I figured I’d take a few photos [...]

With the Colts winning their game against the Steelers yesterday, it reminded me that I really ought to finish up this book review post.
Back in April I finally got around to finishing Comeback Season: How I Learned To Play the Game of Love, by Cathy Day. I first heard of Comeback Season after Cindy read [...]