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Oct 30, 2012

Frankenstorm Flooding 2012

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Hurricane Sandy caused serious flooding in York County.  The Conewago Creek was at least three times its usual size.  Roads were closed, lines down, power out.  Hurricane Sandy left her mark.  ~P.

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Oct 29, 2012

Win a COACH HANDBAG!!

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 Easy as it can get to enter!  Remember, you must get back to me with the password!  ~P.  Image

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Oct 28, 2012

Virtual sinning isn’t cheap

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No, it’s not a good way to start an essay. Ok, over that.

Facebook rules the world in a round-about way.

Yes, I know GOD rules the world.  Please don’t comment to me that I am going to hell, I should be murdered, burned, suffer for all of eternity.  The effect of those comments wore off after the first three.

When you want to communicate quickly, you use Facebook to get your message out fast and as far-reaching as possible.  Instantly, you have just shared something, any bit of info sent electronically across the Internet, has just been released to the entire world.

Hell, even the word Internet is capitalized.  It just became a proper noun and Facebook has become the link around the world that all connects us with God.  There are churches, preachers, priests, pastors and more online.  We all can be friends on Facebook, in fact, friend is now a verb; “Friend me, I’ll accept.”

The ability to touch the lives of people across the world instantly is a phenomenon that no one really talks about.  Facebook is similar to a constantly in motion subway.  People are able to jump on and off at will, with a click of their mouse.  The ability to jump on and off a moving subway car comes at a price.  Once information is shared, it is on the Internet forever.  The good, the bad, the ugly.

Just wait.  I’m telling you right now that on December 21st 2012 the Internet is going to crash.  Maybe permanently!  Imagine a world without the internet.  You can’t do it can you? 

The internet is many things: a link connecting most of the world to each other, a place to gather, a place to share information, a place to proclaim your belief of God (or not) and a place to sin.  So much good, yet always there are the bad things that come from the Internet, meet on the internet, troll on the internet.  The internet is not a safe place.

The Internet is my virtual life.  Facebook connects me with the world and it is God’s filing system.  God knew humans would get smarter than our britches and organize an endless, eternal pulse of energy that relays all our information effortlessly.  Now we are screwed.  

So I proclaim stuff all the time.  I make shit up-from scratch-but I’m serious about God.  That all knowing alien in the sky.  Heck the Mayan’s even knew about Jesus Christ as his name is mentioned inside a ruin site as a returning prophet of the future.  The visiting speaker on campus said that in his lecture in Demester Hall.  That hall was packed to the gills.  Standing room only for the witty speaker and his fresh take on the Apocalypse.

Poor Dale was stuck beside a guy with body odor issues.  The dude beside me kept drifting off to sleep and even had the nerve to snore during this very important (to me) lecture.  If he had become louder with his rudeness, I would have woke him and told him to get the hell out because he was ruining my listening experience.

I have many direct links to the Internet.  The average person has at least one, but most likely, more than one.  In total, I can access the web on: York College campus, my phone as a hotspot and direct link, Dale’s phone, my laptop, my son’s phone, Dale’s office, any McDonald’s, Rutters’, etc.  Short of living in an undeveloped country, the Internet is available to everyone.

I read the sins of many on the Internet.  The stories of murder, rape, child abuse, tragedy.  This world is a disgusting place that causes my stomach to twist into knots.  If God is looking down on us and here to save us, how can life as we know it continue?  Humans have disappointed God in every possible way. When will that change?  Ever?  Please God, take me on December 21, 2012.  I am ready for your call.

Could the apocalyptic signs talked about in the Bible be true and we are nearly at the end of the world?  No one knows but God.  He is the only one who knows the true end of days.  The preparation for the end of days is easy.  Get right with God.  Admit your sins and ask his forgiveness.  The truth will set you free.

Free Internet would be great.  It cost a fortune to have access at home and virtual sinning isn’t cheap. 

~P.

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Oct 26, 2012

Holy Sh*t~Did that just happen?

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I try to let Ying poo every chance he wants to.  That is, to poo outside.  That is the main goal here.   His form of pooping is funny to me.  Probably not Ying.  But I try to be encouraging for his benefit.  He of course loves the attention.  (He likes any attention.)  So I just decided to video his process.  Here is what I really got:

I bumped my phone or something and it stopped recording. I started again. We walked across the driveway…

I called the police (one) came.  Cop (d0n’t know who, no card.  I had mine for him…) he mentioned my name has been involved in two calls recently.  I said yes but not related.  He said, “oh”

I told him I had her on video (and she knew that) but he didn’t care to see it.

But you can.

~P.

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Oct 25, 2012

Affordable Pet Grooming

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Getting Handsome Again

Today I got a treat.  I didn’t have to bathe and clip Ying.

Let me tell you, he stunk.

I met Amey Neidlinger for the first time today at Posh Fur.  Amey specializes in individualized grooming services with quality products for your dog or cat at a reasonable price.

While grooming Ying,  Amey told me about herself and her business.  She graduated from The Pennsylvania Academy of Grooming in Indiana, PA in 2007.   She has always had a passion for dogs and even refers to herself as part dog.  Her love of dogs is what pushed her to pursue a grooming business.

Posh Fur is a spacious, pet-friendly location.  Amey prefers customers let their pet in her care so she can give them her focused attention and in return, the pet will give her their focus.  Owners can be distracting to their pets during grooming.

Ying was pampered from head to toe:

First his ears were clipped and cleaned out.

Toenails clipped.

Foot pads shaved.

Bathed with yucca shampoo.

Shower massage rinse.

Hair and skin conditioned.

Towel and hand blown dry.

Hair trimmed and skin shaved.

Doggy cologne.

Ying enjoyed the hydrosurge bathing system and Amey’s drying technique.  Kennels are not used at Posh Paws.  Drying is a hands-on procedure only.

All of Ying’s information was written onto a client card.  Not just his name and breed, but scars, skin tags, birthmarks, brand of products used, and clipper blade size.  Oh, and my information too, of course.

 

Some other services Amey offers are flea bathing, teeth brushing and manual anal expression.  Services for cats and dogs start at $25 and upwards depending on services needed.

Amey was knowledgeable about her products and services.  She and Ying got along wonderfully and I feel confident in her ability to make Ying as handsome as a hairless dog can look.

Looking for a friendly, affordable groomer for you pets?  Call Amey Neidlinger at 717-332-6681 to schedule your pet’s individual pampering session.

Tell her Girlboxer1970 sent you and get $5 off your first grooming session!

Fresh and fluffy,

~P.

 

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Oct 23, 2012

Chewing with your mouth open and other annoying habits humans have

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My day has flown by but I accomplished much.  Some were just little things, like acing a test in History of Rock and Roll class or developing film I shot.  I had a five minute conversation with Tesla.  That girl is just my ball of sunshine.  There were bigger things, of course.  When isn’t there bigger things going on in my life?

Between my classes I went to the library to do some studying for my R&R quiz.  While trying to keep twenty songs in my head I was interrupted by a cell phone call.  It wasn’t a number I recognized.  That’s because the West Manchester police don’t usually call my digits.

So I am told to take down the audio of John having a meltdown in the front yard over a purple jacket (still missing) and how I make a big deal about him chewing with his mouth open.  Yes, I did tell him when he chewed with his mouth open four-plus years ago, but what does that have to do with anything we were discussing?

Meanwhile, Tesla has to either listen to me be berated or be pulled into the conversation by her dad.  He drills her, forcing her to answer his questions.  She is upset, scared and confused.  She, like me, didn’t get what the big deal was.  She had another jacket on and eight more upstairs to choose from.  It had to be the jacket she wore from her dad’s household.  I don’t know why.  It’s a control thing.

What do I get when I arrive home today? My neighbor up my ass about walking my dog around the yard.  Correct answer!  Good job, you must follow my life on Facebook.  Even though I pick up Ying poo, she feels the need to be nasty to me.  I don’t even look at her and she verbally attacks me.  Get a life!

Minding my own poo,

~P.

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Oct 21, 2012

Mom & Daughter Skin Care

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Oct 20, 2012

Dr. Karen Morris-Priester

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Humanities Lecture Series

 

The ability to relate to someone’s story on a personal level can make all the difference.

Dr. Karen Morris-Priester & Professor Nancy Eshelman

Between classes I ran into Nancy Eshelman.  I was lucky enough to have adjunct professor Eshelman, a retired journalist for The Harrisburg Patriot, for two writing classes at York College.  She asked me if I was attending the lecture by Dr. Karen Morris-Priester.  I hadn’t heard about the lecture that was part of the professionalism lecture series.  Eshelman recommended I attend because like herself and me, Morris-Priester was a former alternative student.

Karen was a child of the Harrisburg projects.  She grew up poor and found herself pregnant at the age of sixteen.  Refusing to drop out of school, she graduated and began working.  After having five children, she then got married.  By her own admission, she was doing everything the wrong way.

Her first jobs were secretarial and in the food service industry.  In time, she opened her own beauty salon but she never forgot her desire to study medicine.  Karen wanted to take evening classes at the community college in Harrisburg but her husband continually put her off.  Behind his back, she registered for classes, starting at a remedial level and didn’t tell him until the night of her first class.  It didn’t go over well with her husband but next to having her five children, sitting down for her first class was the most exhilarating feeling she ever experienced.

Attending part-time, it took Karen six years to earn her Associates degree.  She was working as a nurse at the Camphill Prison and registered at York College to earn her Bachelor’s degree in nursing.  Her life was stretched to its limit working fulltime and attending college fulltime.  The break she had between classes she would nap on the couches in Schmidt Library to get through the day.

Still, that little voice in her head continued to bring up her true goal, to become a doctor.  Karen made an appointment with her advisor and asked what classes she would need to take to eventually become a doctor.  She began taking the required classes for a medical degree.

“There were times with the electric was turned off until I could get caught up on paying for it.  I didn’t want people to know this because I don’t let other people tell me what I can do and neither should you because they will rain on your dreams.”  The electric was always eventually turned on.

Karen was accepted to a six week summer program at Yale for underprivileged minorities.  She was honored to be accepted and threw her heart into her classes.  Her determination paid off.  The university invited her to apply as a fulltime as a medical student.  She started the program two days before turning forty years old.

From Yale she applied at Harvard’s anesthesia program and was accepted and graduated using her own “Four P Plan” to achieve her goals.

Be Prepared: set goals, be ready for opportunities to fulfill those goals.

Be Positive: let people support you and surround yourself with those people.  Let “your haters” be a motivator to prove them wrong.

Be Persistent: take a step back to realize what needs changed.  Make those changes and keep moving forward in pursuing your goals.

Be Present: people watch what you do in situations.  How you accept challenges and new opportunities.

By following her own program she has reached her goal of becoming a doctor.  An unexpected reward for all her dedication was Johnson and Johnson Corporation paid off her school loans and gift tax of $220 thousand dollars.   Hard work does have its rewards.

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Oct 20, 2012

Tesla’s first camera 1

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I gave Tesla my old digital camera on the condition she take care of it.  She filled her memory card so I’m going to download her first series of photos.

My mini-me photographer.

I just reviewed Tesla’s photos.  ROFLMAO why are kids so fascinated with their poop?

~P.

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Oct 18, 2012

Gordon Parks Exhibit at YCP

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Gordon Parks Crossroads Exhibit at the Wolf Hall Cora Miller Gallery was hosted by Dr. Debra Willis.  She was his mentor and shared his life and work with the filled auditorium.  She took us back in history when she first met Parks, to interview him as a photographer.  What she found was Parks focus was always on family life, religion, work, the war, discrimination, death, women working, gangs, crime and more.  His camera recorded them all.

Gordon Parks 1912-2006

Parks makes a statement with his photos.  His portraits of people were unusual and he loved to use mirrors and available light.  He was particularly interested in discrimination of African Americans.  Parks interviewed his photo subjects, learned about them, and followed them home.

1948 Red Jackson & Hervie Levy look on at slain gang member Maurice Gaines

Red Jackson, legendary gang leader, let Parks drive him around as a chauffeur and photograph his life.  A gang leader’s life also included death, beatings and fascinating photographs.  There was that little stint with the Black Panthers: where Parks’ shoots his camera.  (Inside joke if you’re a photography buff.)

1970

Muhammad Ali, back in 1970 is legendary.  Parks subject is a well-known and loved boxer.  He captures Ali with perfect lighting.  His whites are crisp and his blacks are black.  The gleam of Ali’s skin is captured right to the drips of sweat on his chin.  This is exceptional photography.

High fashion photos on the street

“Bring the fashion to the streets” was Parks breakout idea.  Who needs a mannequin when models move and pose on their own?  Models on the street, at store fronts, bridges, sidewalk, etc wearing the hip clothes became the rage in photo advertising.  Parks pioneered that genre.

Dr. Willis said, “Gordon Parks wanted a photo to tell a story.  He wanted to make a difference with his camera when he was live and a hundred years after he was dead.”

The public is welcome view Parks exhibit at The York College until it’s closing November 12th.

Welcome!  ~P.

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