April 17 Run: Colfax School for perhaps a Frick Park run

Next run will begin at the Colfax School at Beechwood and Douglas in Squirrel Hill, and we'll enjoy some early springtime in Frick Park if it's not too muddy, or snowing - which is almost exactly what this blog says last year at this time, proving yet again that April is the cruelest month.  (However, the forecast is for 70 and sunny!)

Last week we met in Highland Park, and Joanne took us in the other direction - to Stanton Heights - which are very high!  But we all made it and saw some excellent views, not to mention streets and houses rarely encountered in our usual travels.  The Tazza D'Oro was inviting as always, and as usual we covered a lot of bases:

• Kosher cakes
• Iontophoresis - new way to ingest pharmaceuticals electronically, next we will put USB ports in humans
• the origins of the phrase "jumped the shark"  - Happy Days? Really?
• something I can't remember but it included the question "Was it because they couldn't smell him under the dumpster?" 
• Thriftique Sale, April 14-17 - 51st St. in Lawrenceville
• Book:  Nathan Englander's For the relief of unbearable urges
• The blitz episode from How I met your mother
• the excellent apple dumplings at the cafe! And, I found the children's book that they reminded me of - also endorsed -