Mark Rand

Valerie's uncle, David, a physicist and NASA astronaut, gave her a ride in both his own Gulfstream G280 owned and one of NASA's Northrop T-38 Talon two-seat supersonic jet trainers.

I'm considering moving Coastal City to the tip of the Delmarva Peninsula.

Didn't have photographic reflexes and run a school for training thugs?

I'm moving the house to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, possibly near Beacon Street and Shady Avenue, the highest point in the city's neighborhood of Squirrel Hill and close to Beth Shalom, a Conservative synagogue. Melissa Anders, an elderly woman who is under a nurse’s care and a member of the Trismegistus Council, the leading alliance of benevolent magicians and occultists, is the owner. Eve Baxter, BSN, RN, is her live-in nurse. Marie is her housekeeper. There are also two cats. One cat, a seal-point Siamese, stays close to Melissa, while the other cat, a calico, stays close to Marie. I'm still working on the revamped layout.

I thought you might want to see plans of the high school I wanted to base Juan Madera High on.

I'm working on updating Bay City University. The California Academy of Sciences isn't going to have the city's only planetarium. Bay City University will have one, too. Its staff wear royal blue flight suits and its Zeiss Mark IV planetarium projector rises to the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Cal State East Bay is the basis for Cal State San Angelo. UC Berkeley is the basis for UC San Angelo.

The Downtown office crisis could be worsening, with nearly half of all office space empty by 2028 and more than two dozen buildings in danger of foreclosure, according to one confidential report. In addition, K&L Gates Center is facing a possible sheriff’s sale after a foreclosure by its lender. And the owner of the Grant Building is trying to stave off a possible foreclosure after its lender claimed it defaulted on a $38 million loan after it failed to extend or renew the lease of a key tenant. They aren’t the only buildings in Downtown struggling to stay afloat amid high vacancies caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and hybrid work policies

Just looking at the current weather reports, I'd say that San Angelo is being deluged by rain and the parts of the county closest to the Sierras are having a blizzard.

My opinion is a "Teen Champion".

I think s/he is a great character.

The University of Pittsburgh will launch a doctor of chiropractic program in fall 2025, a move that will introduce the first program of its kind in Pennsylvania — and the sole doctor of chiropractic program at any public institution in the country.

This really isn't grandiose, but I had Foxbat kidnap someone in order to get Mickey Mouse's autograph. I also had the idea of him using a helicopter in an attempt to steal a cell phone tower. It would end up with the helicopter getting impaled by the tower, screwing up cell phone signals, and requiring the local medevac helicopter to transport people to the nearest trauma hospital.

Upstream from the Smithfield Street Bridge is the Panhandle Bridge (officially the Monongahela River Bridge) carries the three lines of the Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s Light Rail Network across the Monongahela River. The name comes from Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, also known as the Panhandle Route, which operated over the bridge. Near the southern end of the bridge, the rails split with a single track going up to Allentown. This was used for a former light rail line, but it is still in use as a detour during maintenance work and service disruptions. The private right-of-way, which goes under the Liberty Bridge, ends at the junction of Arlington Avenue and the McArdle Roadway (which climbs Mount Washington. Like the Smithfield Street Bridge, the Panhandle Bridge is a lift bridge. The tracks continue along Arlington Avenue. The Liberty Bridge, which was completed in 1928, connects downtown Pittsburgh, to the Liberty Tunnels (or Liberty Tubes) and the South Hills neighborhoods beyond. It crosses the Monongahela River and intersects Interstate 579 (the Crosstown Boulevard) at its northern terminus. Unlike the Smithfield Street and Panhandle Bridges, it’s a two-leaf bascule bridge. Just before the bridge end of the Liberty Tubes is an intersection with the McArdle Roadway. The control rooms/tenders’ quarters for the Panhandle and Liberty Bridges share the top floor of the building housing Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s First Avenue Station and Garage. An intercom line connects it with the Smithfield Street Bridge control room.

The Smithfield Street Bridge is a lift bridge on Pittsburgh’s Monongahela River that once carried light-rail vehicles (trolleys or streetcars) as well as regular vehicular traffic. It’s control room/tender’s house is on the top floor of Station Square’s Landmark Building, an office building with a restaurant on the ground floor. Suzanne Snow, who suffers from allergies and asthma, is the 7 AM to 3 PM tender. Pamela Griffeth, a former cat burglar, is the 3 to 11 PM tender. Jenilee Snow, Suzanne’s sister, who also suffers from allergies and asthma, is the 11PM to 7 AM tender. The girls love the cat burglar look and patronize The Light-Fingered Lady, a cat burglar-themed bar on East Carson Street.