The most true thing on the web right now is people admitting how much they miss having enough money to go out. Gas, cover charge, parking, dinner it all has massively increased to impossible amounts of expensive. I used to go out in Texas with 20 dollars, and come back home with most of it in tact after seeing a concert. Men claim on websites they will pay for dates and never show up, and so you can only go out when you have extra cash yourself. My phone used to be lit up like a Christmas tree before I moved to the toilet known as Virginia. It is particularly annoying as Halloween has great concerts finally headed near here, and all of it looks expensive as a nightmare. No haunted house costume with a chainsaw looks as scary as the prices to get gas for the trip to the haunted house. #scaryhalloweenprices
Happy Birthday to Alexandria Menzies who I went to Octoberfest and Jason’s Deli for birthday party lunch. It was particularly important for Anne to have a nice day before she had to go into the hospital. We ended up not staying at the Octoberfest as the vendor prices and nasty food were horrible. It reminded me that every cell in my body hates the downtown area of Richmond, Virginia. My review is that all of Virginia rates one star for having horrible music and food. I still love seeing music and eating, but going on road trips to other states is the one way to be near anything good.
My mom Anne has cancer and starts the surgery this week. She will have many rounds of surgery and chemotherapy for the issue. I had to have surgery this week at the hospital as well. I need everyone to wish us “get well soon” this week. Bad health issues have been hitting us hard this week. #2026 Cancer Surgery #cancersucks
Happy Bastille Day holiday to France. I was traveling in France for the first Bastille Day I saw as a kid. It is also celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana in the USA as it was originally a French colony. Many people still speak French in the area.
I just got the email I passed another class! I am taking a masters degree at night school, and passed three classes at the new school. I passed 2 classes at another school, but they were charging double the tuition I agreed to so I transferred. 5 classes in a masters degree program have been passed by me in 2025 and 2026. It is a stressful program, but filled with great information. I wish con-artist scumbags had not tried to destroy my ability to go to school when I first moved to Virginia. I would have loved to have gone back sooner. I am a lifelong learning fan.
June and July mark my last trips in 2023 to downtown RVA near the entertainment district in Shockoe. I take screenshots of my last check-ins to remember it has been years. I used to go to the Fallout dance-club and clubs around in Shockoe Bottom area as it vaguely reminded me of far better music clubs in other states with good concerts, friends, poetry readings, and dancing. Going out used to make people friends. My phone was lit up like a tree with friend calls. Unfortunately, Shockoe is a garbage-toilet filled with human sewage con-artist identity theft robbery scumbags. It is not just occasionally filled with bad jerks in downtown Shockoe, VA it is ALL jerks there. My last night there I had to flee in terror from people trying to rob me and force me to buy garbage property, and stealing my information for fraud. I changed addresses from the first place I lived in Virginia, and they instantly knew and demanded I update my information. How did they know unless they were USING my information behind my back without permission? Oceans of credit cards I didn’t apply for kept asking me for contact information correction. A real problem of showing ID cards to get into clubs is everyone sees your card and can copy the information for fraud. I am so glad I used fake ID cards and addresses with them so all their scams would fail. I barely got away. I still love live music as I lived in far friendlier towns for years. I am careful to ONLY buy tickets for road-trips to shows in other states for music and friends as something horrific is happening with nightlife and making friends in the Virginia local areas. Since vowing to never talk to downtown Richmond people my life has improved massively, I am passing night school, and I wish I had never made the mistake of wasting time in Shockoe. I am saving my money to move forever to a less horrible area. My review is I desperately tried for years to find a place in Virginia that is not a garbage-toilet, but it is all a disgusting garbage-toilet. #HateVirginiaForever
I noticed that I forgot to re-post Mother’s Day photos for my family at Waffle House and Applebee’s restaurants for the dinner celebration. These were originally posted on the Foursquare Swarm app as check-ins. My review is Waffle House is not just for skits on Saturday Night Live, and actually has good brunch food in the Virginia area. Applebee’s is always yummy for not too much money.
Left Alexandria Menzies and on the right Andrea E. Menzies at Applebee’s. Alexandria Menzies, Anne Brockett, and Andrea Menzies at Waffle House.
Anne Brockett left, and Andrea Menzies at Applebee’s Grill for Mother’s Day 2026.
I got tickets to Xymox a band I have two records and countless songs from on CD! I would like to thank the Baltimore Soundstage for putting on this great show of the band I have loved since I was a kid. Too bad it was almost too expensive to do, as corporations have made going out an expensive nightmare. The Xymox band are a big hit amongst Siouxie and the Banshees band fans as they are a famous European band.
I have also seen the Sisters of Mercy play at Baltimore Soundstage on September 17 of 2024, and VNV Nation April 1, 2024, and Depeche Mode September 7, 2017 in the area so I know it will be a good show. All the above listed bands are top 40 popular bands from Europe. Virginia only has horrible garbage music playing so I know I will have to get an apartment near Baltimore to hear any good music.
