Trying to decide how much I should be in public. My parents were with us during the first half of the week and my dad tested positive for covid on Wednesday night. We'd last seen him Wednesday morning (at which point, he tested negative - with flying and a potential exposure four days prior, they were being extra cautious around us).

We're 72 hours out without symptoms and I tested negative, but it's weird how in the first half of this pandemic, we would have been expected to stay home for ten days and now we're told to just go out into the world and watch for symptoms. I don't want to make other people sick! I know three older people who have died this month from covid.

people drive like Belvidere is a race track and those crosswalks can't take the impact.

I rented from there for 2 years (2018-2019) and it was awful.

I also experienced “broken” thermostats and 80-90 degree living conditions. They didn’t do shit about anything I reported.

When they started incorporating the trash pickup service Trash Fairies, I tried to opt out because they were charging an extra $30/month and I could take out my own trash- but I wasn’t able to. I can see how that service could be helpful for some people, but half the time the TF staff would either just not pick up the trash, or throw the trash cans all over the hallway.

When I tried to move out early, they said I had to pay for the rest of my lease so I ended up sticking out til the end- then they charged me $700 for roach treatment when it was infested when I moved in. They claimed that I should’ve been reporting it all the time but after a while of “treatments” (this infestation was so bad that roaches were coming out of the outlets) I gave up.

I would never recommend the Towers on Franklin to anyone.

Better half is working so I should start on my resolution to read more. Hitting up either Rosie's or PLP for a 7pm toast because this old lady rarely makes it past 830 anymore.

I want to be stuck at work but my car is out of commission and now I’m off work for the foreseeable future. Which is awesome in the sense that it’s going to crush my spirit, thanks universe 😌

But I do have butter chicken and I’m trying to figure it out. I am not a fan of waiting on insurance companies tho.

I swear those groups of joggers in Westhampton have a death wish because who wears dark clothes to go running in thick fog?? I swear I almost creamed a few of them because they weren’t visible until I was right up on them.

Whoa. That’s some perspective right there. Thanks for providing me “the most interesting thing I learned today”.

Certainly better than my usual PBR, maybe I can throw in a splash

There was an accident near that intersection per the active calls list around that time. Not sure if it was changed to a checkpoint or just doing some paperwork.

Is anyone doing anything, apart from house parties, that isn’t a shitty cash grab tonight?

Feel like everything is “pay $10-20 to be allowed into a place, and you get a 1oz pour of the cheapest sparkling substance known to mankind! What a steal!”

The programs just rent space from VCU, they aren’t university sponsored/affiliated.

And/or I think people who are neurotypical *

Started day out taking my teen to swim practice.

We’ll spend the evening having fondue as we do every NYE. Cheese then broth. We received the fondue pot for a wedding gift. Just celebrated our 17 year anniversary yesterday.

Happy New Years!

We’ve all driven in Miami and Maryland and though they are crazy, they are more predictable. In Richmond you never know who is a crazy driver and who is normal and who is trying to compensate for the high number of crazy drivers which then it turn causes their own driving to be erratic. Then you have to do all of this while being tailgated and with another person just chilling in your blind spot.

Mutant sewer folk? The politically correct term is CHUD

Did anyone else in the Manchester or nearby neighborhoods notice a weird smell in the fog this morning? Took our pupper out twice around 7/8a and both times there was a chemically smell in the air (not the usual smells that can sometimes waft through the area under the right conditions).

My husband and l recently found Dorey Park, it had several open fields.

How does the bike rack connect? I have been looking for one

Gotta love a partially correct pedant. Why make up things to be mad about? It means both, prolly from ultimate heights

That's a fun idea. Gonna give that a try.

E-Loteria on broad is pretty good

Kroger should have rice noodles.

For a much larger selection, try New Grand Mart (I’m going here myself later this morning!) or Tan A on Broad Street should have em.

It’s because people treat Main/Ellwood like the downtown expressway

🏆 10 points awarded to the word nerd. Don't get me started on the misuse of penultimate either.

NYE plans fell apart. I'm not remotely upset by this.

With some luck, it will be a quiet night of eating bone-in pork chops, drinking whisky, and watching Glass Onion on Netflix.

Tomorrow I'll be up early to plant onions.