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.
Category: Review News
Reviews on Items
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Flip Phone
By Andrea Menzies
I have a flip phone now, and managed to get my phone number on there and working. I have traveled back in time to flip phone days. Everything on the Internet uses two-factor authentication, and so you can’t do anything without your number. I don’t know what made my old phone break. It was not wet, it did not drop, and it had been working great that morning. By night it barely switched on. I am shopping for a new brand of phone to use now, and got something basic until I know what new thing will work for me. They really need to stop programing phones to break. Instead of inspiring an upgrade it has inspired me to switch companies. I use Google maps to get to work, and a million other job calls are sent to my phone. It is a bad money blow for sure.
Hand drawn cute outline illustration of retro cell flip mobile phone. Flat vector old mobile telephone with buttons sticker in line art doodle style. Call device icon or print. Isolated on background. -
Voted
By Andrea Menzies
I finally voted after verification of my address four places. One of the reasons I was ranting about people not believing my address yesterday was they were trying to keep me from voting this week. I was still doing address verification at the social security office today. I can’t believe it is a mistake in a wild political year that people wrongly mixing up my address was a mistake. Why did four government places have it wrong only at voting time? I have a big family in many areas, and I visit them. Nothing normal is happening in any government building these days. Hopefully balance will restore to political power someday soon.
Voted
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Location Not Real
By Andrea Menzies
Dear Internet my location is not real. It has literally NEVER been real on social media or the Internet for years. It is my sad misfortune that when trying Internet dating years ago men tried to drug me, strangle me, punch me, and their female friends tried to help them. I don’t want to give abusers a guide book to my front door. I sometimes visit school friends and family in other towns and check in to crowded and well lit dinner, dancing, or theater locations. This does not mean I live there. There are a million app location spoofing programs on the Internet like BlueStacks. I mentioned what online school I was going to, and had to transfer out of that school after making 2 grades of “A” partially due to hackers attacking my student account. I mentioned the name of my online school on social media which I will NEVER do again. One of the reasons cops need a search warrant to enter homes is Americans have the constitutional right to privacy. It is against the law to invade a female’s privacy, and all the information people think they are getting may be very wrong and NOT real. Forcing women into marriage with abusive men is not a good goal at all. I am trying to keep in touch with a few student friends when I post things not jerks. Google the phrase “location spoofing” and BlueStacks is the leader in emulator tech. These apps have become popular as human garbage tries to track women online.
*Special note I now have “Moon, South Dakota” listed as my home. I have never been there and DON’T plan to go, but I am showing off how stupid and pathetic people that believe everything they read on the Internet are daily. Now when people ask my address I can say it is on “The Moon” to see what level of idiots they are. I got 4 letters from the government claiming I need to update my address as I have moved this month, but I am living and working in the same place.
Many people have noticed the Internet destroying privacy. 
Women have bad problems with Internet privacy. 
It is easy to get a false impression from the Internet.
Google the phrase “location spoofing” and BlueStacks is a leader in emulator tech. These apps have become popular as human garbage tries to track women online. -
50 Years Rocky
By Andrea Menzies
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Rocky Horror Picture Show being played on Halloween. Fun fact, when I lived in New Orleans I was both Columbia and Magenta in two different productions of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at Loyola University New Orleans and the Prytania theater near campus. They wanted me to do more shows, but I was a university student with oceans of homework so I lacked the free time for that activity. I will always love how many fun friends I met doing a fun and campy Halloween show with many school friends. Fortunately there are a few places near my mom’s house in Virginia showing the Rocky Horror, and so I can still go there a bit. My review is it is a great show at any venue.
Columbia, Frankfurter, and Magenta in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. 
The NPR article on the 50th anniversary.
