This isn't a defending Stoney comment, but GRTC sucked before him and will suck after he leaves. It's always been bad.

I'm thankful to have family and inlaws all in town and that travel isn't a factor in our Thanksgiving. They help with the young kids a LOT. Wife is off work all week while I work most of the week and the kids have childcare and school. She deserves the rest.

The firm that I worked for last year is! Great place to work, I only left because I had an opportunity to get back on state VRS benefits. Shoot me a PM!

The birthday book is the best

Grateful that the mother in law is doing better than expected after an ER visit and week or so long stay in the hospital. Also grateful for the restraint my wife has shown with her frustration at mother in law's husband in regards to his arrogance and narcissistic tendencies.

One example: the hospital suggested that when she be released, she be released to hospice. She is to eat soft foods like applesauce and pudding, and her exercise is to walk up and down the hallway with assistance. What's he do? Feeds her a hot dog with bread, and puts her on the treadmill, just to show the doctors that she can do more than they think.

And then he accuses the wife of just being after her inheritance. If that were the case, why would she be upset with you for going 100% against the doctor's orders?

Chris taught Bayliss everything he knows

It’s not

You got this!

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Finally got the adults we exchange gifts to agree to skipping it this year so that’s a big relief to us (and probably them as well) in this season of huge unexpected bills. I’m thankful to have a family friend to host us for Thanksgiving on Thursday but I still have to come up with an appetizer and a dessert to bring.

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Help sent!

Hopefully those antibiotics kick in sooner than later

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My cold bones felt that

Including contacts in the exam makes it $140 so you get two RXs and some savings for purchasing both products (or order wherever)

So jealous about billy strings and the goose tab shows! We had tix but ended up having to be in Florida for a week.

This week I’m happy it’s short and I’ll be doing a lot of writing from now until Wednesday evening.

Husband and I had a really busy but productive weekend. We have a new mattress that will be delivered this week (yay!), I made red beans and rice that will be lunch leftovers for the couple work days, and I made a practice pie so I'll have dessert every night this week!

Thankful for a mini getaway with my partner this week! Looking forward to our thanksgiving gathering when we get home. We’ve lost 3 family members this year who will be sorely missed so extra thankful to spend time with the family ❤️

Unsolicited advice: may I suggest a cargo bike with e-assist? The long-tail models are great for hauling older kids. @ rva.cargo.bikes on instagram hosts semi-regular meetups in warmer weather where you can test ride others' setups. We ride our kid around in a dutch style box bike and it's totally changed our family's happiness level for the better.

ya'll are pathetic

Husband sick last week w/ COVID. I'm still negative though. Thanksgiving with family cancelled for us. We're bummed, tired and lonely. 2022 has been a hell of a year for us between moves, new jobs,.and just general midlife adulting. Thank God for weed and streaming services

Sorry to hear that. Your comment made me feel less alone having a depressed weekend too, and I’m also in need of a job change. Wish you all the best

I need to proactively track down some sleds. Can you find these easily here? No matter how old I get, I need to bomb hills after a snow.

I've started riding the bus recently and it's exceeded my expectations. It's been very clean and not too late most of the time. But, you should always go by the real times from the gps bus tracking on the app. It's been good to me to substitute at least 50% of my car driving, not the best to rely on completely (since most of the bus stops don't have any shelter or benches).

My only gripe is that many parts of the city and county haven't developed sidewalks or safe areas to bicycle in. There's bus service out to the Broad street intersection of Innsbrook. But, so what? You get dropped off in a ditch or gutter on the side of the road.

No job is worth sacrificing your mental health. I hope you find your groove

Here’s how the tracker apps work, to my knowledge: Each bus is outfitted with a GPS tracker that links to the app and should give you real-time information on your bus’ location. If the app picks up a bus on the tracker, it will give a pretty accurate arrival time +- like a minute depending on traffic, number of stops, any special needs passengers, etc. If the app does NOT detect a GPS tracker, it will revert to the scheduled arrival time - the assumption is that the tracker is malfunctioning and the bus is actually on-schedule. What’s much more likely ime is that either the bus driver called out and there is a gap in the route or the bus got so backed up that the app thinks it’s scheduled for a later arrival time. If I don’t see a bus icon on the map, I assume it’s not coming at the scheduled time.

In general, bus service in Richmond is pretty reliable, at least compared to other mid-sized American cities. It sounds like you got really unlucky that multiple buses were out in a row.