The only thing greater than standing inside the comfort of your own, warm home, as you watch the snow falling outside, is knowing that you don’t have to deal with all that falling snow, ice and all the other drivers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now before you think I’m some kind of lousy jerk (well, if you don’t think so by now) I NEVER ask my mom to make dinner for me. I’m not forcing a 90 year old woman to make me a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not too surprised that this stretch of road was a sheet of ice. Christy Park is a small neighborhood and is part of the city of McKeesport. It’s no secret that McKeesport is impoverished, and underfunded cities like this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I point out, in the last panel, the attitude I feel here at Siemens, because it’s such a drastic difference from how my last job at American Textile Company was. At that place, you always felt as if you were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, if the rapidly outside dropping temps are any indication and the local weather people are right, we’re in for some VERY cold temperatures over the next few days. I chose to take the highways because my other route has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I tend to think that weather forecasts as only educated suggestions. Yeah, what they see on the charts, maps, dopplers, etc… may have all the signs of a huge snowstorm, but a sudden change is always possible. But come on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back in the ’90’s when I lived in Kansas City, I would often do my grocery shopping late at night. Sometimes as late as 2:00 or 3:00 AM. Once, on a Late Friday/early Saturday morning, I saw this very disfigured[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not complaining, mind you. The fact that they were calling for a bad snowstorm and all we got was rain, until the early evening, when we got just a few flurries, isn’t a bad thing at all. It’s just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Growing up in Westmoreland County of Southwestern Pennsylvania, my entire 12 years of public school was in the Norwin School District. Now I’m probably walking down one of those paths of an old man saying; “In my day…” but I’m[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was frantic. My car was stuck at the end of my driveway, with the back end out in the street and now one of my cats had somehow gotten loose and was running away from my house. Frantic, frustrated[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…