Blog of Josh Hall

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That’s the plot of land a block up from my old apartment and across the street from the Hill House and Kaufmann auditorium.  http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=15219&ie=UTF8&ll=40.442897,-79.98166

So, looks like I’ll be stopping for dinner on my walk home for work.  Oops, no eggs for those brownies?  Don’t worry, I’ll walk 2 blocks to the grocery store.  Oh shoot, no milk, what will I ever do…Guess I’ll just have to walk over and get some in my slippers.

Save-A-Lot is going to have breakfast with some city officials tomorrow at the Grand Concourse down at Station Square.  Looks like is completely separate from the arena talks, which really might sweeten the deal if the peguins are going to chip in something.  They turned down starting a store in 2004, but a lot has changed in 4 years…

 If there was a grocery store on my way home…I might actually eat.  I eat once a day currently, if that.  I go grocery shopping once a month.  The biggest problem is that i have to eat all the perishables with a week or two of purchasing them.  If there was a grocery store on my walk home where i could pick up some fresh peppers, tomatoes, and fish and such, I’d do it every day.  I would definitely take up cooking as a hobby if i had that resource so close to me. 

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New songs uploaded to the Myspace page!

This will parallel any thoughts in wonder about how atoms and molecules decide to come together and make a body.  How they can keep adding other atoms and molecules, and we call this phenom "growing", but at some point, they just decide to stop adding more.  So strange.  I have a big scar on the back of my right hand, and I laugh at how scars come to be.  It’s as if the atoms and molecules are ticked off at you for interrupting their work, and they say "Screw you, we’re not going to work there anymore."  and then there are some less bitter atoms and molecules that are like "oh, come on guys, we got to do something, we can’t just leave a big gaping wound for him."  So then some others join in and say, "fine, but we’re not going to make it look pretty, just cover the hole and then we’re done."  And there it is.  Some slacker atoms and molecules didn’t want to finish the job.  But then you have over achieving atoms and molecules of the chamaleon and gnute, they’re like, "Hey, you just took away our tail!  We were using that!  F.  Now I’m going to have to start all over."

So I have 3 options for busses that go downtown.  the 81a, 81b, and 81c.  The 81a and 81b follow centre avenue and run every 20 minutes.  That’s the problem.  These bus routes are just about identical, and they’re always right behind eachother.  I mean, RIGHT BEHIND eachother.  Sometimes one will pass the other because the first one is picking up all the people and it has none.  For days like today, where I just miss the bus, it’d be nice if they moved one of the bus routes 10 minutes back or forward, so that a bus would be coming every 10 minutes.  That’d be swell.  Friggin Port Authority!  Get your financials straight so you can start focusing on service!

I’m going to put it out there because it’s true.  I want to write a novel.  I have tons of ideas written down on note pads for stories and characters, but never really get beyond that step.  I’d love to write something like Palahniuk.  If worse comes to worse, I had an idea for a series of books, sort of like the "Whatever : for dummies" books.   It’d be something like "A local’s guide to : Pittsburgh"  and it would contain all the underground info about the place that only locals know.  Sure it’d have the incline, primanti’s, etc  but it’d also talk about the mattress factory, the O, student rush, when to get a tour of Heinz Field, all the running paths at schenley, places to catch live music, etc.  Details!  because of the potential of outdated information, a website would go along with it (of course!)  something like localeyes.com or localize.com and each city would be a subdomain, pittsburgh.localeyes.com