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  • No Speaker

    By Andrea Menzies

    Everyone keeps trying to get me to work in Spanish speaking jobs this week. I do not speak Spanish. Any person in my family speaking Spanish learned it from a book. My parents worked travel jobs in France and Germany when I was a kid. They were both U.S. citizens born in the USA, and I was born on US soil. My passport says I am a US citizen. I mentioned to a few people I spoke other languages as a kid at lunch one day, and I am from Texas. The other languages were German and French as my dad worked in Germany. It is a seriously prejudice and disturbing trend I see in Virginia that they think all Texas people are originally from Mexico. You put me in a class filled with kids from Mexico they may get killed with me not understanding them at all in an emergency.

    This is why I am leaving Facebook: A conversation someone said to me on there. Ronaldo AquinoIsn’t there an app or two for that? I saw this old Chinese woman using it with a nurse. Ronaldo Aquino Andrea Menzies It is slow as a nightmare to whip that out in class. Also students use slang that is not programed into apps so that is not a real option for teachers at all. I tried it and students misbehave like garbage ever second a teacher tries to use Google translate. Thank you for being an example of why I am quitting Facebook. Everyone criticizes me and gives me NOTHING but STUPID answers to my every statement.

  • Good Grades

    Good Grades

    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.

  • Prize Won

    Prize Won

    By Andrea Menzies

    I won three prizes for the SunnyFit app gold metal New Year’s Resolutions contest this week! They really send awards won with fitness points on the free app! I have asthma and a heart murmur so I must do fitness very slowly like one mile per hour. Yet slow and steady win the race. The little bracelet I was not surprised they sent me for free, but the bike cadence sensor was really nice and also free! My podcast review is this is the best fitness app on the Internet. #Winforfree

    Free SunnyFit towels.
    Free SunnyFit bracelet.

    Asthma medications are what I must take before workouts.

  • No Need

    By Andrea Menzies

    I have been employed at 3 jobs that do drug and alcohol testing in the last 5 years. I am still employed as a teacher, and work temp jobs in the summer that do drug and alcohol tests in the summer. Below is a segment of a copy of the LabCorp drug test receipt for one of them called Kelly Services. I have never failed a drug or alcohol test at any job. Yet someone sent me 3 advertisements for counseling and rehab this week and there is no need. Years ago some married men in the military tried to force me to have affairs with them. I would not do it, and millions of lies have followed which are their attempts at vengeance. The lies say I am disabled (I am not) and do one million pounds of crack as I can legally prove I am not under the influence. I am not a perfect person, I have a heart murmur and asthma, but this is seriously overkill in the illegal stalking department. One of the reasons cops need a search warrant to search houses is we do have a constitutional right to privacy in the United States.

    One of my many passed drug and alcohol tests.

    One of my many asthma medications they do not all fit in one pocket as I carry them daily.

  • Double Workout

    Double Workout

    By Andrea Menzies

    Woot, I made it to a 180 day workout level for my New Year’s Resolutions app workout on SunnyFit. I normally go on a health kick for New Year’s Eve but seeing a friend’s death online really made my workout urge double.

  • Ed Books

    Ed Books

    By Andrea Menzies

    Ed gave me his paperback copy of Time Enough For Love years ago. Now I can never give it back because he was found dead this week. One of the reasons I started to review books online was that many friends used to lend me books and talk about them constantly in Texas and Louisiana when I lived there unlike Virginia. I redownloaded the book to remember my lost friend this week.

    A last song request by Ed. https://youtu.be/SkMQ1IYf4r0?si=DryeuwrnCuoC5Mru

  • Scary Obvious

    Scary Obvious

    By Andrea Menzies

    I did not make up Captain Obvious it was a book character before it was an advertisement character. I used the character as I joked in one of my previous posts that it was obvious that men should NOT be violent, killing, and abusive to wives, and was unpleasantly shocked at how many abusive Internet troll men were publicly loving the idea of hurting women. This is how women end up single and divorced like myself abusive men are very real. Prejudice against women is very much so alive and well on the Internet I am sad to say. You men only made it easier to know what people to put on user-block.

  • The Cutest

    The Cutest

    By Andrea Menzies

    It is not the Holiday Season without the cutest picture ever of Gizmo. This inspires me to learn more keyboard, and music in general.

  • Death Hotel

    Death Hotel

    By Andrea Menzies

    I spent the night in a Maryland death hotel. I am moving to Maryland in the next couple of years, and was staying in a Days Inn hotel in Laurel, MD while seeing tourist sites, music band nights, and working on the moving paperwork. Recently Baltimore Soundstage had the Sisters of Mercy play so I like the area’s incredible music scene. (I have seen many other great bands there, this one just made it clearly the best music scene.) Currently Maryland hotels require a hundred dollars in deposit money BEFORE you even pay for the nightly fees. Many webpages on Expedia and other booking sites mentioned NOTHING about the fees making check-in hours longer and more of a hassle than I had expected. This is very dangerous as some exhausted travelers may not be able to pay fees, and may fall asleep at the wheel. Then as I went to my room the hallway was covered in crime scene tape! I heard gun shots in the night! Then the lobby was covered in fire trucks, cops, and ambulances in the morning for check out. Another murder had happened in the night where a husband killed the wife as she was staying with another man! Here is your community service message from Captain Obvious: “Dear men getting dumped: killing the female only destroys your life more!” If the bullets hit bystanders it is a worse problem. You were dating you don’t own her like a car. What the heck is happening at Maryland hotels that they are charging huge deposits, and are covered in murder tape non-stop? I wanted a holiday adventure, but not a disaster. Fortunately I was not hit by bullets, but I did not sleep great. However the room was pretty cutely decorated in my review I give it three stars because it truly tries not to be a murder nightmare. Sadly Virginia has been an even more disgusting horrifying nightmare than the murder hotel so I still liked Maryland better as Baltimore Soundstage recently had an amazing Sister’s of Mercy show, constantly books other great shows, and Virginia had nothing at all.

    Murder crime scene tape 1.
    Murder crime scene tape 2.
    Me before getting dressed up after the road trip.

    Nice decorations in the room even as it was murder-central.

    Many jackets on for the cold.

    All hotels in the USA have this Bible due to constant demon attacks. Just joking… Maybe.

  • Trip Canceled

    By Andrea Menzies

    I had to cancel my trip to Maryland this weekend. I had tickets to see a big reunion concert, DJ night, and was meeting friends. Yet my Google Pixel phone broke, I could NOT replace it quickly, and everything was connected to that phone’s two factor authentication. The travel tickets were on the phone’s apps. My concert ticket was on the phone apps. Then how do you get around after you get anywhere if Uber and Lyft are apps for the phone, and your cheap replacement flip phone can’t use apps? Buses don’t even have paper schedules to read most of the time, and most bus, subway, and train schedules are on the phone apps. Many cab companies that use the phone numbers don’t even take cash most of the time as they are now super expensive. Thanks to my old phone being garbage that broke my trip plans were destroyed. I was really looking forward to that show and seeing Maryland friends. Oh well, I will never forget how much better Maryland music was compared to Virginia music, and I can make new plans after I get a new phone. I can’t have a broken phone EVERY day of the year as I use it daily for transportation to work. Not having a phone is like not having one of your hands in modern day.

    Modern phone irony jokes. Getting transportation, cab use, and phone use is harder in modern day.