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Category: Road Trip News

Road Trip News

  • 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.

  • 50 Years Rocky

    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.

  • Dance Fun

    By Andrea Menzies

    Halloween is great for dancing parties for people of all ages. I am dusting off my dance trophies I won from dance school competitions when I was a teenager in anticipation of fun Halloween dancing.

    Dancing helped me escape stress enough to graduate high school on the honors program, and to graduate University. I am happy a dancing part of the year has hit again.

  • Scary Year

    Scary Year

    By Andrea Menzies

    This cartoon is too true in 2025. Plans for Halloween activities in DC areas now have to balance around troops everywhere.

  • Thanks For Wishes

    By Andrea Menzies

    Thank you Internet friends for wishing me a happy birthday. It is bittersweet in that I don’t get to see all the long distance friends I miss so much very often. I am happy to see them wish me a happy birthday, but unhappy that it reminds me I can’t visit them more frequently. It does remind me that I used to be far more socially active, and that I will go to nearby towns to make many new friends soon for events this month. I am a single woman that very much hates having no man to date. Halloween is a great time to meet people at events in towns not in Virginia at all.

    • Note by far my favorite birthday gift was the Garmin 935 fitness watch and fitness band. Oh so inspirational for biking fun.

  • My Birthday

    By Andrea Menzies

    Today is my birthday, and my watch became a cake picture! Thanks in advance for the birthday well wishes!

  • Bike Daniels

    Bike Daniels

    By Andrea Menzies

    Join me on the free to use Garmin app for the virtual event Bike Daniels Park. You do not need to be in the park to participate.

    https://connect.garmin.com/modern/event/7304c110-0fcd-486e-b28f-0e6b93f6cedd

  • No Breaks

    No Breaks

    By Andrea Menzies

    I was given one lunch break in a week of work this week teaching at Bird High. I had to file a supervisor complaint as a co-worker locked up my bag with no permission while giving me no breaks. In addition I was sick with an intestinal infection and asthma, and badly needed prescription medicines that needed to be taken with food to be able to work. It was in the locked away bag. I had none of it when needed. My co-worker was nurse Rachet from the Cuckoo’s Nest movie. I am transferring as of this week. This is why I am constantly applying to jobs far away from this area of Virginia, and am planning to move far away. The many sadistic people are very imaginative, and given total power without supervision.

  • Expensive Mark

    Expensive Mark

    By Andrea Menzies

    I play video games online, chat, and go to concerts with some DC friends. One had this joke yesterday. Crime is actually down in DC this year. They say we don’t have enough money for government programs helping low income people. Yet we have money to deploy troops for crime? It is a LOL level joke. It is a very expensive thing to be marked safe from near me. Rich landlords all over the USA have made rent nightmare level expensive on apartments and houses. Then they make homelessness a crime to fill for-profit prisons. I find it extra scary that BBC news was the only news source that openly and fully was critical of the political move.

    Joke of the day.
    From BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7ypm6zxp2o
  • Video Chant

    Video Chant

    By Andrea Menzies

    You know you have been teaching for a long time when the videos about classroom blood born pathogen warnings start to have dialogue you can recite and chant along with while watching. I can say the end of the video’s sentence before the video even says it. At least it helps me make all A grades on the quizzes at the end.