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
Category: Travel News
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Gourmet Dinner
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.
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Rust Bucket
05/23/2024
By Andrea Menzies
Many people do not realize most school buses are rust buckets that are falling apart. This month they tried to switch me from teaching to bus driving, and when I could not pass the bus driving tests on rust bucket buses they fired me from both bus driving and teaching. Applying for bus work if you are already employed in Virginia means you will be fired from teaching. They did not inform me of this until after I applied for bus work, and would not let me work teaching hours I tried to work.
Bus replacement and repair is expensive so dangerous buses are kept in service. Bus drivers are blamed for bus wrecks when bus maintenance is to blame. Working conditions and not pay are to blame for the shortage. Bus drivers used to have a written test one page long, and now it is 4 tests of thousands of pages on hot and snow-weather driving. It is almost impossible to pass even if you are great at doing job tasks. I could not do many job tasks in April and May of this year that involved going into a room full of men with military shirts and tattoos for bus training. I was assaulted at Fort Lee military base in 2005, and had to go to rape therapy for PTSD, night terrors, insomnia, and nightmares for years afterwards until 2017. If you don’t like a guy at a coffee shop or dance club you can just leave. At a military job you are stuck day and night with them for months. Since then many employers have tried to make me work alone, unchaperoned, with men with military logos on their clothes, desk, arm tattoos, and walls. I hate them for doing this with all my soul. I got punished this month for not doing tests well under these conditions.
I find it interesting in a morbid way how many men and women that were never attacked tell me how I “should” feel about it and “get over” it. PTSD means you cannot do that at all. Medication and therapy has horrible side effects, and helps almost nothing at all. Donald Trump was a 13 times accused rapist that massively cut funding to rape programs across America in his presidency so I cannot go back to therapy without huge personal expense. My insurance does not cover it. I now cannot pay for treatment at all. If you were wondering how lack of therapy can reduce employment remember I was an honors student in High School, and a University graduate before rape greatly hurt my earning power. Lily Duran dragged me to a military dominated area called Virginia at a horrible time.
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Travel Time
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.
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Jbike Jacfit Review
By Andrea Menzies
May is National Bike Month so I am trying to focus on bike related information. Jbike is a movement tracker for bikes. My review of the Jacfit game’s Jbike device is there is no better video game on Amazon. I started using a Fitbit around the time I played World of Warcraft and other MMO games as long video games make you ache for fitness activities. Nintendo is the one video game company that was addressing this with Poke-walkers, Pokemon Go, and Fitness Boxing games. Most MMOs should have an app that syncs with step counters giving you in-game gold and healing potions in my opinion. I longed for a World of Fitness-craft step counter game. Many other people had this idea as I have seen many online versions emerge. Jackfit on Amazon is doing it the best to date with clear rip-off style segments of wolf pets, wendigo, yeti boxing bosses, and mummies that look rather like World of Warcraft game levels. The Yeti boxing boss looks like it was ripped completely from WoW games.
An eternal problem of repetitive activity is boredom. Without a group and feeling social it is hard to stick with it. My childhood asthma kept me from sports as a kid. Jackfit lets you be active with teams and clubs at your own pace at whatever time you are free. This is a great improvement from other old world methods.
Technically I review books and video games relating to books on my website. This game is not a change as many Jacfit levels mirror Pokemon Go as movements hatch eggs, train up pets, and gain food with healing. Pokemon has a long book and graphic novel line like “Pokemon Black and White” by Hidenoai Kusaka a favorite story of mine. Jacfit has a unique plot separate from Pokemon, yet has trainers, farms, eggs, and many quest battles in a similar style to Pokemon. To hatch eggs you must walk with eggs daily. Then with gold coins you win in game for movement you must buy seeds then plant them on the farm. Feed the grown seeds to pets to hatch them to adults. Exploration quests evolve pets to greater power.
One issue is Jacfit was made overseas by people who clearly speak English as a second language. It does not make the game unplayable. Yet when you win “You Has Win Day” may pop up on the screen in hilariously broken English. Man Google translate was not the friend of these guys. This only makes it more fun in my opinion. Peloton makes users pay thousands of dollars for a full team bike user experience, (I don’t have one and use a road bike but I have heard stories) and Jacfit does the same thing for around 30 dollars in price. I now have brand loyalty to this super fun game, and will keep using it daily. May is National Bike Month and this game is a great way to celebrate using my bike more. #Bike, #BikeFitnessTracker #BikeGame, #NationalBikeMonth, #Hatch Jbike Jacfit Egg
Shark fit bike sensor. 
Yeti boxing boss looks just like World of Warcraft.
The Pokemon series is like Jacfit. 
Rank activities against other players. 
Desert fortress gives in-game gold. 
Crystal mushroom land unlocked with gold. 
Bats are everywhere in a darkness castle. 
The beach is a quick gold path. 
Heated bike tires win winter land gold.
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National Bike Month
By Andrea Menzies
If I seem to be posting more about bikes and bike products it is because it is National Bike Month.
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Happy Mother’s Day
By Andrea Menzies
Happy Mother’s Day 2024 to all the women working the lifetime full time job of motherhood. I gave gifts to my mom Anne. My daughter bought me a table packed with chocolate and crepe fruits so sometimes being a single mother is worthwhile.
Table of gifts. 
Alexandria and Anne before brunch. 
Mother’s day cup. 
Card for me. 
Fruit Crepe Brunch. 
Candle gift fun from Alexandria. 
Mint chocolate gifts. 
Alexandria and Andrea on a part day. 
Alexandria and Andrea party day 2. 
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Zizzo Bike Trainer Is The Best Thing On Amazon
By Andrea Menzies
Zizzo Magnetic Trainer is the best fitness product on Amazon in my opinion as a reviewer. I tried more than a few, and they did NOT get my heart rate up. For real fitness to happen you have to get the target heart rate of a person in range over 115. Many things are calling themselves fitness products that do NOT do this at all, but thankfully Zizzo Bike Trainer is the real deal.
In addition I have tried many cheap bike trainers that were huge and loud. The small folding Zizzo bike when used with the Zizzo trainer is small and quiet. On a pretty day when you feel like using a bike the small Zizzo bike can go to the park without even needing a bike rack for your car. On weeks with lots of rain the Zizzo can still be used at the house for a good workout at target heart rate range mixed with plenty of sweat. The Jacfit fitness game has a good heart rate monitor on it, and that fits perfectly on the Zizzo bike with a trainer. It takes up less space than bikes with trainers I used in my room in the past, and is a joy to use in comparison. Peloton charges a thousand dollars a bike for a good home group workout experience, and Jacfit mixed with Zizzo do it for a $30 installment payment price tag. I am glad I found a quality product and experience that does not break the bank as every gym I have tried in Virginia has been a horrifying money pit rip off. #Nationalbikemonth, #bike, #bikelife
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New TicTok
I have a new TicTok as my old one got hacked. I managed to get control away from the hackers, but now I must start from scratch. Add me here. In addition my Snapchat sent out hello messages. This was an automated message and NOT me trying to talk to people. Thank you for your support in an age of social media being weird.
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Spring School Day
By Andrea Menzies
Teacher work day for me at Clover Hill High School today. Temp jobs have not ended my main teaching work.
Frozen History 7 Publishing Book Review Podcast 