* My kids are
home after being away at camp for three weeks. Each year, it's amazing what
they bring home and don't bring home. So far, I've found several socks that
don't belong to any of them and a random pillow case that belongs to someone else.
Meanwhile, how did all three of them lose their camping / folding chairs?
* I averaged over
10,000 steps a day in July. It certainly helps to have two vacations in
the same month! First time I've averaged that many steps in a day for an entire
month since June 2022.
* I recently saw
a commercial for Nemluvio, a prescription medicine to treat eczema. While I
appreciate the usage of Black Box's Everybody, Everybody in the ad, replacing
Everybody, Everybody with Nemluvio, Nemluvio doesn't work. It's the same amount
of syllables, but it's just off.
As a
comparison, o-o-o Ozempic works perfectly.
* It's difficult
being a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. As of Sunday evening, the team is 51-68. At the
trade deadline, the Pirates did not trade three veterans with expiring
contracts, and instead, traded other players for individuals who likely won't
make the majors for several years. Understandable if the Pirates were in a
"rebuild," but the team has been awful since 2018. (In 2018, the team
finished with a winning record. Not in the playoffs but not awful.) While
it's possible that the Pirates will finally spend money and sign free agents
for 2026, based on the team's history with the owner unwilling to spend money
on players, this seems unlikely.
With all of
that written, the Pirates are an exemplary team compared to Sheffield Wednesday. The team has not paid players and staff on time in months, let
about a dozen players leave the team (or sold the players for well-below
market value), and the manager is gone. Oh, the North Stand is currently
closed, deemed unsafe. The entire team is a mess. The best case scenario seems
to be that the owner sells the team and maybe the team doesn't break a record
for fewest points in a season and somehow avoids relegation. To dream
the impossible dream!
Voting is underway through August 22nd for Pittsburgh City Paper's Best of PGH. I
love the fact that there's still a Best Blog category. There are so few blogs
remaining, and this is a fantastic way to highlight blogs and bloggers. This
year's finalists are:
Ana Eats Pgh
Horrorpgh
OneBURGH
Straight Facts
Podcast
What Sleeps
Beneath
Ana Eats Pgh
seems like a website and what she posts are reels, mostly on Facebook. Ana has
good stuff and maybe you can make a case that it's a video blog. Probably a
stretch though.
No idea what
Horrorpgh is. I found a substack that hasn't been updated since 2023. There's a
YouTube page with 8 videos, and some postings on Instagram.
Straight Facts
Podcast is a podcast. It's right in the name. It seems like they have videos of
their podcast on YouTube. Not a blog.
OneBURGH and
What Sleeps Beneath seem like actual blogs, so please vote for one of them.
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