PSoTD

I dunno, this caught my eye for some reason as something to do:

May 19, 2007 – Art Walk and Wine Tasting, 12 noon - 5pm, Downtown Mechanicsburg.

The event features artist's in area businesses and wine tasting at designated businesses (not all businesses will have the wine tasting). Wine glasses will be available for purchase before the event at the 2nd Floor Gallery on Market St. Proceeds from this event will help to fund "Concerts on the Corner" during the summer.

Mechanicsburg is a quaint little town outside of Harrisburg, and I could see this being pretty successful. I'm not tied into the Mechanicsburg Chamber or the local artist community, so I'm not sure who is involved or what the local art community can contribute, but if we're around maybe we'll do this.

There are lots of little municipal parks like this in Central Pennsylvania. This one is in Camp Hill.

The hangout on St. John's Road received a pretty good review from HarrisburgNightlife.

I really wish Aaron would continue with this blog. I really like the idea of figuring out the marketplace origins of a business's architecture.

There's nothing I can think of saying other than I'm very sorry, in so many respects, that this happened:

The military says an improvised explosive device is to blame for a Cumberland County man's death.

Commander Philip Murphy-Sweet, 42, of Hampden Township, was killed in Baghdad, Iraq on Saturday.

He was permanently assigned to the Naval Inventory Control Point, and was serving a six-month assignment, supporting Coalition troops in Iraq.

I didn't know this man, but I know that there's a family, including three small kids, and friends that are suffering now, and will continue to miss him. May the rest of us honor his and their sacrifices as we do what we believe is right to bring an end to the war.

Strawberry Square will become the new, temporary, home of Harrisburg University.

It's good to see all the enthusiasm going towards good ole' H.U. (I look forward to the cheerleading lyrics). There's even a countdown page with construction cam for the school, all within a pretty nice looking web site. Good for all involved.

We have two big sports chain retail stores on the West Shore that we go to for equipment - Dick's Sporting Goods, and Dunham's Sports.

Well, it used to be two. But quite frankly, the Dunham's on the West Shore sucks. Sucks like it's ready to go out of business kind of suck. I've witnessed chain retail stores behave this way before - lack of product, lack of competitive prices, lack of motivated staffing - and they usually go out of business pretty shortly once they get to this point.

I have gone twice to Dunham's for the kids in the past week - once for baseball equipment, the other time for softball cleats. It is closer to my house, and I figure, maybe they'll have what I'm looking for. But in neither case did they have adequate selection, let alone prices. Both times I ended up going to Dick's Sporting Goods, and both times I bought from them. It's to the point that now I probably won't even bother going to Dunham's, I'm that discouraged by their offerings.

And so, for me, they are already out of business.

Penn State offers one for kids. I think it's a GREAT idea, but I have one recommendation - offer it around the state. We live too far away to take advantage of a day camp in State College, but I bet if they also shipped it out to various Penn State schools around the state, it would be successful AND grow the Entomology Program at Penn State.