Fitness & Yoga Channel

It is a rare moment when I flip through more than a few television channels before I settle with something I have taped already on my DVR. The other night I did just that and came across a Free On Demand Channel that was full of exercise programs.

If you have Time Warner in the City of Erie it's channel 537, the LifeSkool On Demand Channel. You will find here Fitness and Yoga programming; as well as Abs, Cardio, Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Toning and short exercises programming which you can do after the kids go to school.

On the same channel you can toggle right to Hot Cars, Karaoke Challenge, Kids $ Family, Love Life, Magic, Music, and Schirripa Cooks episodes.

Take the Test..McCain or Obama..

If you are still undecided who to vote for take this test from ABC news website. It will show if you agree more with Barrack Obama or John McCain views.

Presque Isle Evacuation

I was at the beach yesterday, a.k.a. Presque Isle State Park and it began to rain and everyone at the beaches started to evacuate the area.


I'd like to share some shortcuts that helped me get out quicker.

One key shortcut is when you are leaving the park and if there is lots of traffic near the Stull Interpretive Center (a.k.a. The Nature Center Beach) you can make a right and follow the beach road out towards the entrance of the park.

Another is if you are exiting Pettinato Beach (a.k.a. Beach 8) you can exit left to the main park road, which is quicker than following the one lane road towards the Parks Playground and towards the Lifeguard Center.

I recently visited some relatives in Maine who owned roosters , they said that the roosters feasted on the deer ticks. Why don't park rangers get some roosters in the Peninsula to eat all the deer ticks that could carry Lyme Disease?

Rainbow Around The Sun

Yesterday, while we were at Waldameer, I took these pictures of a Rainbow around the Sun. I have never seen such a thing and was truly thrilled.

I learned that when you see a rainbow around the sun, also known as "sundogs", there are high clouds overhead and that it's usually a sign that rain is on the way, which in yesterdays case was true. Those clouds are made of tiny ice crystals, which will refract the sunlight like a prism will.

I feel very fortunate to even see such a sight, and I also have to note that Waldameers new roller coaster The Ravine Flyer was so much fun, what a great ride.

The Thermometer

Thermo comes from the Greek for "heat" and meter from the Greek for "measure".

In the mid-1600's Ferdinand II, was the first to seal the thermometer isolating it against shifts in air pressure.

In the early 1700's Daniel Fahrenheit, a German physicist devised the temperature scale and the alcohol and mercury thermometers. The centigrade scale was devised by Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius.

Zip Codes

Zip codes were implemented by the Postal Service in the 1960s, and were designed to handle the era's growing population and increased volume of business mail.

The first number identifies the region, with zero being the Northeast and nine being the West Coast. Numbers two and three identify the metro area, and the final pair specify the post office.

Dressed by Hand Maidens

I recently learned the reason men's buttons are typically on the right side of a shirt and the reason women's buttons are on the left side.

Back in the day, the wealthier ladies were dressed by hand-maidens and it was easier to manipulate the buttons on the right side, facing the garment.