(e:joe) and I are heading to Pittsburgh tomorrow for his sister's birthday. (e:terry) can't make it because he is sadly stuck in tax mire. I never stayed at an omni and really wanted to stay at the Omni William Penn
in downtime PA because it looks exactly like the statler on the outside but seems totally remodeled.

All the statler hotels look similar This one was built in 1940 versus ours which was built in 1907. I also stayed at Hotel Pennsylania in New York with my tortoise Sahara in 1996. Our train was damaged traveling between South Carolina and New York, so they put us up there. I never realized till now that it was so much like the Statler. I remember thinking the inside lobby was so fancy at the time.

Here are pics from the Pittsburgh one, lets hope it lives up to the name.

Had a great time at the elab circus event last night despite the non stop tooth pain. It was cool to dance on the moon.

The parade was fun although cold. At least it was sunny and nice to have all the people around as blanket, kind of like a flock of penguins.

Despite all of the mega freakin tooth pain, I managed to have fun. I don't know how I am going to make it till April 11th if the pain is like this the whole time. (E:joe) asked if I needed anything, to which I responded, 'yes, a gun for my face.". Its really almost totally unbearable pain that you can't ignore.

I bought so many gluten free beers. I'm not sure why but I think all the years of avoiding gluten with (e:Matthew) lessened my ability to digest it. Anyways, they have really come a long way since the sorghum, rice beers. These new ones are just regular beer with all the gluten removed. Kind of like the lactaid milk of beer.

I gave up my St Patrick's pants for some new better fitting express ones. Luckily, this lebonese leprochaun fills em out nicely.