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  • Check In

    Check In

    By Andrea Menzies

    Dear New Orleans friends please check in on blogs or social media. Let me know if you are okay. I am working teaching jobs right now because I graduated University with a bachelor’s in New Orleans before hurricane Katrina, and my completed high school diploma party was in Austin, TX. I still visit friends every year or two in these areas for birthdays, baby showers, concerts, and anniversary parties. I was scheduled to go to New Orleans for New Year’s this year, and would have been right next to Bourbon Street on New Year’s Eve. I was in a pretty dark mood when my car broke down, and I had to cancel all my December plans, and missed friend time. It seemed like random horrible luck. Now I know someone must have been praying for me pretty hard, and the bad luck was good. There was a horrible bombing on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year’s Eve, and now I live in fear that people I know may have been sitting right there in areas I recognize on TV news. I have gotten some texts, but some more messages would be appreciated.

  • New Years Past

    New Years Past

    By Andrea Menzies

    It was New Year’s Eve years ago that I gave life to my daughter in Texas surrounded by a boyfriend, friends, clubs, concerts, and parties. Without my dating and friends my honors student daughter would not be alive. I hate my sister Lily Duran forever for dragging me to the toilet hole called Virginia where I have no boyfriend, no dating, no friends, and no parties. I have no real joy in the sewer of agony and crime that is Virginia. All my doctors tests showed me healthy, virus free, and clean at this month’s doctor testing, but that is not good enough here. People in Virginia have been blocking me from dating fearing I will get attacked again. If men attack women it is the attackers that are garbage NOT the woman. The horror is the clearest of all on this New Year’s Eve the worst I have had in years which used to be the best night of all. At least with a new year I have hope to get back to the fun places, people, and times.

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  • Game Ring

    Game Ring

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am going to ring in the New Year playing PC video games. I have reactivated some PC games on Adventure Quest 3D (user Poedaughterz Blue Dragon server free on Steam games), Genshin Impact (user UID 683053596 Poedaughterz), Guild Wars 1 and Guild Wars 2 (Poedaughterz on Steam), Pokemon Go (user ID 942584611615), Rec Room (@poedaughter7 free on Steam), and Tarisland (Eu-1 Poedaughterz free on Steam games) to chat with friends. If you know me online please add me to friends. My vehicle is not working well enough this month to drive to my favorite nearby towns in freezing rain. Downtown Virginia has no other thing to socialize with, but criminal human sewage I have fled in terror from years ago. Every Virginia dance club is a disgusting liar pit I NEVER want to see again in my nightmares. The great thing about online chat parties is the game provides hot looking battle clothes, music, hairstyles, and digital taverns for drinks, and you don’t have to spend a million dollars on Lyft and Uber when you have a mount in the game. Game parties are the obvious wave of the future.

  • Hog Holidays

    Hog Holidays

    By Andrea Menzies

    How did I not know “Hogfather” the British holiday comedy has moved from Netflix to Amazon Prime? Santa gets kidnapped by ghosts and the Grim Reaper has to save Christmas. It sounds scary but it is way more PG Monty Python than scary. I watched it on Netflix as I have been a fan of Terry Pratchett since I was a kid, but it shot over to Amazon when they made the “Good Omens” book into a TV movie. I am rereading the books on Kindle this holiday for certain my review is the book is amazing.

  • Not A Luxury

    Not A Luxury

    By Andrea Menzies

    In the early 2000s I tried to join the Army to get full time work and healthcare. A year and a half later I had not finished basic training due to asthma attacks, never got benefits or healthcare, and had to go to rape counseling for years due to extreme military abuse causing depression. I graduated high school on the honors program, and completed my University degree as I had no depression before then. Lack of healthcare began horrific pain in my life lasting years. Our healthcare system doesn’t sometimes blame the victims; it always blames the victims. I still don’t have healthcare from my job. Bernie Sanders did not win the presidential election, and a man was elected that has tried to destroy what few advances Obamacare was able to make. He also destroyed funding to female rape programs as he has been accused of rape 13 times. People are shot every day, but the CEO killer is making the news due to the fear that he may be the first killer in mass waves of violence against the government unless real changes happen. #CEOkiller #2024HealthNews #LuigiQuotes

  • Pickings Slim

    Pickings Slim

    By Andrea Menzies

    I have decided to try online dating again since I am sick of being single. Unfortunately the pickings are slim. It is my vow to never date a man from any part of Virginia due to my absolute soul deep hatred for every square foot of Virginia. My every attempt at socializing in downtown Virginia has ended in death threats and fleeing for my life. In Texas this never happened at all.

    In other news my new mini travel bed is so great! I am super prepared for a new road trip.

  • Good Behavior

    Good Behavior

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am a teacher right now, and there are big debates on how to be a role model for behavior. Meanwhile when I was a kid people watched cartoon characters blowing each other up, and that was just a-okay. In real life no one is perfect.

  • Last Day

    Last Day

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am still working at Amazon, but about to go on leave. My other job called me two weeks ago needing me to work more hours so I put in notice. One of the rough things about being at a crazy job is they are all crazy jobs, and you just have to find what crazy works for you. At Amazon they drug test constantly so at least it leaves a long paper trail on me not being a party animal at all. I have never failed a drug test at any job, and this reference helps prove it. Ironically a huge set of news reports dropped on Amazon right as I was packing up.

    https://6abc.com/post/make-amazon-pay-protest-what-know-strike-planned-black-friday/15602746/

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Happy Thanksgiving

    By Andrea Menzies

    Happy Thanksgiving To All!

  • New BlueSky Profile

    New BlueSky Profile

    By Andrea Menzies

    Bluesky is a new social media app people are using. My profile is here @Poedaughter7.bsky.social if you want to add me to friends. I am fully terrified of how many crazed right winged politicians keep showing up in news photos with social media owners these days. Also my email is getting packed with spam from all the social media that said it would “never” sell my information. I can see why people want to try something new. Old social media uses an algorithm to decide what we “want” to see, and it often picks very wrong. Somedays I think we should all just switch back to Myspace, Yahoo, and Livejournal for updates.

    Here is the NPR story on Bluesky:

    https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/g-s1-34898/bluesky-traffic-surge-after-election

    The day after the presidential election, the social media landscape shook.

    On Elon Musk’s X, more than 115,000 users deactivated their accounts, the largest-ever mass exit from the platform. At the same time, traffic on Bluesky, a smaller rival to X, began to soar, with daily usage climbing some 500% in the U.S., according to data from Similarweb.

    “We’ve been growing by about a million users a day for several days,” said Bluesky CEO Jay Graber in an interview with NPR on Monday. “It’s proving out the model that we thought would be the right approach to social [media]: Give people the tools to control their experience and they’ll have a better time.” Putting more control in the hands of users is what distinguishes Bluesky from X, formerly Twitter, and other rival social media sites.

    Rather than having one “master algorithm,” Bluesky allows for a more personalized experience. By default, there are three main feeds: One shows accounts you follow, another shows what your friends follow and a “discover” feed surfaces posts linked to your interests.”