By Andrea Menzies
Part of why I am not going to Saint Patrick’s Day events this weekend is the high gas prices. Here are some funny jokes I saw about it online. It is strangely comforting to know I am not the only person cancelling plans due to high gas prices.
By Andrea Menzies
I feel music festival envy in spring as Mardi Gras and SXSW are in Louisiana and Texas in February and March. People are desperately trying to get to New Orleans and Austin areas I used to live in, and my timeline is filled with fun photos making me desperately home sick while Virginia is completely garbage.
By Andrea Menzies
No matter what downtown you live near tiny electric scooters and gun violence are now normal. I thought I was living in the worst U.S.A. area, but then an old area I used to live in has suffered a bad shooting as well. Cold weather and a collapsing economy are making tempers flare in many areas. People want to blow off steam seeing music, but rent and parking downtown now seems to cost one million dollars. Uber and cabs are now extremely expensive. Music fans now park at a nearby hotel, and scooter a couple of miles into downtown areas. Unfortunately no area is safe anymore. The result is crime scene photos covered in tiny scooters that are a strange mix of the childlike and the morbid in one glance. I seriously do want to buy a tiny bike-scooter after seeing tiny scooters all over the last set of Austin music district murder photos. The scooter people were the ones that lived.
By Andrea Menzies
I have not gone out in Virginia in years and drive to Maryland because downtown is a giant gun No-No. Local news just said they had ANOTHER mass shooting. I have no boyfriend, or husband, and have not even had a kiss on the cheek in years. When I tried the singles nights in Virginia not only was the music horrible, but a hail of gunfire made everyone hit the ground hiding every two nights. This did NOT happen when I went out in Texas and Louisiana. My social life was constantly better in both states. Virginia really is a bad place to live in horrible ways. Lifting gun restrictions as the American economy goes to crap was a really bad idea.
By Andrea M.
It is okay not to be a perfect person, and to try to live again. I may have had problems in the past, but I made all A grades in my accredited night school master’s degree program in 2025 so that counts for something.
By Andrea Menzies
People often ask me why I buy so many books on road-trips. Here is an example of why I am trying to drive to escape Virginia. I text my daughter and mother many examples from the years I had to get rape therapy after I was in the military, and how military wife teachers torture me daily when I am working at my teaching job. I found a new school I have to put on-block this week due to a co-worker constantly screaming.
By Andrea Menzies
Here is a new article posted February 4 on BlueSky about the latest horrible things META has gotten from Trump. Huge profits, and almost no taxes for social workers or school teachers like me. More people should be outraged, but the news is not posted on Facebook. 13.7 billion not paid in taxes, and people wonder how teachers with degrees like me lack healthcare in America.
By Andrea Menzies
My Facebook is now deleted. The real page for me at https://www.facebook.com/PoedaughterFH7/ is now on delete. I may reactivate it years from now if a friend dies, and I want to post RIP before deactivating it again. Facebook thinks the “real names” policy makes it easier for school friends to stay in touch, but if you ever had military men pointlessly try to abuse and harass you to death like I have it makes it SUPER easy for men who want to stalk and abuse women find them online and harass them. People who want to commit identity fraud can easily find your work, home, and school information, and use it to impersonate you. Going on vacation? Facebook helps people who want to rob you know when you will not be home to guard your stuff. Facebook used to claim it would be spam free, but now wants to sell expensive things every two seconds on marketplace and expensive and useless online dating. It is a shower of advertisements. Worst of all the Facebook founder Zucker-jerk is totally dumping funding into terrible politics. I have to at least try to lower the content that is driving the spam Olympics of Facebook. Many other people are so fed up with social media funding jerks that Livejournal has actually been getting traffic again, and there is a new social media refugee group on there. In addition Bluesky has dedicated itself to social media that protests the agenda of mainstream social media. People wonder where the money is coming from to fund the evil actions shown daily on TV, and every Facebook click creates user traffic that funds expensive advertising.
P.S. I know Instagram and X are just as bad in many ways, and I am cutting back on using them as well. Tumblr, BlueSky, Live journal, and WordPress are the only places I will post from now on if I have an update.
By Andrea Menzies
Even more people have been blocked as AI that are not. One of the dangers of AI is that people will be banned and demonetized as AI falsely all over the net. Facebook has blocked me 4 times saying I am not me and am AI as of this week when I saw someone else being called not themselves.
By Andrea Menzies
I made all passing grades at university night school class this semester. Today has had bad ups and downs, but it had the good news of passing grades for the semester in night school. I even got an A grade. I transferred out of the first grad school program I was in due to cost issues. The new school has been far better with prices and schedules. It gives me hope that more positive changes in my life are on the horizon after the cold and dark of Virginia’s disgusting nightmare experiences are over. I have only felt disappointments and agony in the truly horrible location of Virginia.
