Road Trip News
By Andrea Menzies
I am glad to be returning to work today at a second job. The first few weeks of summer vacation were great when I had no work hours at my job, but now I am completely bored playing too many games. Schools really need to reduce summer vacation to 1 month. I am back to earning money for my piggy bank today.
By Andrea Menzies
The new Guild Wars 2 update looks amazing, and my review so far is five stars. The game world has become increasingly amazing in preparation for the expansion Janthir Wilds which will be available August 20, 2024. At the price of $24.99 on Steam for prepurchase it is not too pricey. Some people worried the new houses will make it too much like Sims, but I love MMO games with houses so it should be a change for the better.
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I have played a necromancer since the first Guild Wars, which is still available on Steam games. The many zombie minions, and damage over time spells make it as good as wizards and rangers in other games. Guild Wars lets you play in teams with online friends, but it also lets you pick up NPC characters in town with game gold to play group quests solo if you want solo runs. The new game has had me replaying the old game, and both have loads of wild and exciting fun. Add me to friends online as Poedaughterz and Poedaughters if you need help with the game. Poedaughterz the necromancer is where I am online most.
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By Andrea Menzies
The greatest myth told to children is “you can be anything when you grow up” as a profitable job. No you are not going to be a cowboy, artist, rockstar, zookeeper, and astronaut as most people have learned. You go where the money is or you suffer.
By: Andrea Menzies
Epic Bike Raid Day – Today was raid day for my video game group that meets in the park. In addition I just got my folding mountain bike fixed, my transition lens sunglasses on, and my Bauhaus band shirt washed. Since I am single and have not had a date in months I have no choice but to get so fit from bike riding men from other towns find me attractive. I have not been to DC or Maryland since the VNV show in April, but I have future plans to go. I am now super sore from a full day of many miles of bike riding. It is no longer National Bike Month, but bike riding remains my daily hobby. In addition I hit a new record on Jacfit Fitness App for miles biked in one month, and I started in April and hit 200 miles this week. I wish-listed an electric bike yet never bought it, and so I had to do all the miles with natural human power.
By Andrea Menzies
No life has no problems as when we fall we get back up again yearly. Many thanks to my out of state friends in Texas, Louisiana, Washington, and Maryland that showered me with phone and Internet messages of help and support when I was going through a rough time last month. I was not wanting June to have bad budget problems. Interviews, jobs, and returned calls have been the welcomed activity for this month. Sometimes change has to happen to bring improvements, and a better job that uses my University degree is in the works.
By Andrea Menzies
No Texas and New Orleans friend and family reunions this summer. I was planning a road trip for May or June of this year. As a teacher summer off is one of the perks of the job, and many teachers have RV travel plans. Unfortunately major work melodrama hit like a sledge hammer, and I am stuck in town a while longer. Oh well fall has good travel fun as well.
By Andrea Menzies
For Memorial Day weekend I usually post pictures of my Lieutenant Colonel father Neil Menzies before his death from military service wounds when I was a child. I am the baby in these photos. I still use USAA for some of my banking because he created my account. An extreme reminder how many families have been touched by war in the United States.
05/24/24
By Andrea Menzies
Life may be rough right now but at least I have a good bike to ride. Life was easy when going outside to play was the only goal. #Nationalbikemonth #Bikelife
05/23/2024
By Andrea Menzies
If a starving man was kept next to a gourmet dinner his hunger would be that much more painful. I recently got another letter from the club called The Mercury in Seattle, WA I used to belong to when visiting. Oddly I have had less problems meeting guys at dance clubs than jobs. If you don’t like a guy at a coffee shop or dance club you can just walk away. If they annoy you at work you are just stuck there non-stop day in and out.
It is nice to know some parts of the world like Seattle, WA, New Orleans, LA, and Austin, TX remember me fondly, and want me to visit and be a friend. Virginia is an unfriendly nightmare to live in. Unfortunately, Seattle is not a “little road trip” away it is a huge expensive visit, and move I can’t afford. It is more a bit of torture to know how surrounded by a metaphorical gourmet feast of friends and good times I could be in right now without living in the unfriendly crime pit that is Virginia. It is causing emotional agony at this point. Virginia is more of a Hell when I see other places are a Heaven.
05/22/2024
By Andrea Menzies
Lily Duran is the name of the person who forced me to move to Virginia. She followed a man to Virginia, and then divorced him. She made my mom follow her, and I needed my mom to watch my daughter after my divorce. My sister Lily borrowed my first car a Geo Metro without asking as she was high on meth and totaled it crashing it into a tree when she was a teenager. I still have the paperwork saved on this crash. Living in the violence filled crime area of Virginia has been an agonizing and horrifying experience. I have never had actual fun in downtown Virginia, and I used to love concerts, dating, having friends, and going out in other towns. People have tried to rob and beat me every time I have tried to go out in Virginia. Every man I have tried to date in Virginia has been a robbing and beating abuser. I usually have to flee in terror from a really bad night every time I have tried to go out In Virginia and meet friends.
I plan travel far away every second that I can. Life is great and people are nice to me the second I leave Virginia, and yet I am forced to abandon my family when I go away. I need to meet people I can stay with more frequently in other towns near here. I have fully given up hope of meeting anyone nice in the violence pit hole of Richmond. There are many web pages that list living statistics for towns, and ridiculously high rent and crime are verified by many independent sources for the Virginia region. I battle daily to save enough money to move away to another area, but if Lily Duran wasn’t stubbornly clinging to Virginia I would not be forced to stay here at all.
