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The first half of this decade I started a thing that I thought would be my foreverthing. The last half has been figuring out what to do with my life after it died.
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Sticktoitiveness
I signed up for the 50-mile version of the Cap2Cap ride this coming May. I also signed my 11yo son up for the same thing?
“Training” starts tomorrow! Whatever that means! I’m looking forward to and simultaneously dreading working on sticktoitiveness with him. It’s not either of our strong suits.
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The most energy efficient way to iron your button-up shirts is to wear them the day before you need them.
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If you're not wearing a knit hat with a puffball on top are you even alive?
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New Orleans
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I missed my transfer, but found this cool pic.
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I'd like to read more stories about how the City needs to improve life for bus riders and fewer stories about how the City can punish bus riders.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is that muffins are cake.
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I just met someone who knew three people from Richmond...AND I KNEW THEM ALL.
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Survivor loved ones visit gets me EVERY. TIME. 😭
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Honestly, school rezoning presented a nice (but brief!) opportunity to disagree with my friends about something other than a downtown arena.
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The older I get the more my writing sounds like Henry James.
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2009/2019
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Don’t worry y’all, leaf blower guy has upgraded to leaf vacuum guy. Love how my neighborhood sounds like an airport tarmac on Saturday mornings.
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To the guy wearing two back packs skateboarding down the sidewalk chugging milk out of a gallon jug, I salute you.
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My son’s 10-year-old friend taught me how to ride up a curb on my bike! 🤘🚲🤘
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Ironically, the song most often stuck in my head is Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car.
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My son and I have set a goal to eat an entire jar of salsa in one day, which I’m pretty sure meets all of the SMART goal requirements.
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The piece of fried bologna I had at City Diner this morning was perfect.
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Waiting for the bus at 2nd & Broad
The bus stop at 2nd & Broad has to be one of, if not the, busiest bus stops in the entire city. It services the #1ABC, #2ABC, #3ABC, #12, #78, and #87. That’s 16 total bus lines. It’s seven more routes than what the existing Transfer Plaza handles during the day. It’s one bus every 3.75 minutes on average. It’s a lot of buses.
Yet this bus stop has no shelter. It had no benches until some kind soul put out two wooden benches of their own—then, maybe shamed into it, the City and GRTC installed two “official” metal benches. Regardless of seating, on a day like today—cold, windy, rainy, and snowy—it’s a shit place to wait for a bus.
While the City pushes towards an enormous redevelopment of downtown—a project that includes a multi-million dollar GRTC Transit Center—bus riders today are forced to wait for their next bus out in the elements. And no matter how nice, expensive, or expansive the proposed NoBro Transit Center will be, hundreds of buses will still stop at 2nd & Broad and hundreds of bus riders will still wait in inhospitable conditions. The City could fix this tomorrow—no multimillion dollar, TIF-funded, once-in-a-generation opportunities necessary. Just put up a couple of shelters so folks can feel like a person while waiting for their next bus.
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It doesn't happen often, but thank you to the driver who was paying attention when I wasn't and didn't kill me with their car.
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In the Dark Times, before the End of Ages, we measured ourselves by how many impeachment podcasts we subscribed to.
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She may not dare to make that judgement
From The Thomas Jefferson Hour, The Republic on the Brink of Collapse:
We have read, and I believe, that if there could be a secret ballot in the Senate, twenty Republican Senators, at least and already, would vote to convict the President and remove him from office. Perhaps thirty. In other words, there is a widespread tacit agreement in the most senior political body in the United States that it would be best for the republic if Donald Trump were removed from the Presidency using this legitimate constitutional tool. But it will not be a secret ballot. Even if Senator X believes the president should be removed, even if he thinks the president should go to prison, she may not dare to make that judgment for fear that an angry mob of Trumpites will burn down her house, or shoot through his windows, or run her down while jogging. I am not joking. The fear of the wrath of Trump’s supporters is real, and it goes well beyond fear of being primaried in the next election cycle.
This is terrifying and something I hadn’t thought about. He also talks briefly about a Cold Civil War in America—another terrifying thought that I hadn’t consider but feels pretty true.
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Pro tip: Don’t email the new Councilperson-elect and call her by the name of the county Board of Supervisor who resigned and fled the country. 😬
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A Perfect Day™
- 5:30 AM: Good Morning, RVA
- 8:00 AM: Second sleep
- 8:30 AM: Bedbound email processing
- 9:00 AM: Breakfast & coffee
- 9:30 AM: Writing
- 11:00 AM: A David Allen Daily Review
- 11:30 AM: Actual work
- 12:00 PM: Food burrito
- 12:30 PM: Actual work that require serious brain
- 2:00 PM: Bike ride OR ASMR vids
- 3:30 PM: Actual work that does NOT require brain
- 4:30 PM: Inbox zero
- 5:00 PM: Welcome home the other members of my family with open arms
- 6:00 PM: Cook “dinner”
- 7:00 PM: Eat “dinner” & watch Survivor
- 8:30 PM: Drink bourbon & watch Vampire Diaries
- 10:00 PM: Read
- 10:06 PM: Fall asleep
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