Until about two weeks ago there was a Confederate monument down the street from me. Until about two years ago there was a street named Confederate Ave just a few blocks from me.

Has anyone lived here and also in Buffalo, NY? If so I'd love to hear how you would compare it to Richmond...

My today: hopefully go for a run before heading up to DC-area for a few days

Just for contrast, I recall tenant protection laws are much stronger in NYC. If a building's boiler broke down in winter time they would deploy an emergency boiler truck: literally a boiler on a truck, parked outside, and piped into the building's heating systems. Dozens of companies in the metro area would rent these out.

That's not to say every landlord would comply (ahem, NYCHA), just to paint a picture of how much renter laws vary from place to place.

According to a temperature sensor I put in my crawlspace, the crawlspace got as low as 33.3F. That is pretty close to freezing---enough to make me nervous about water pipes down there. I'm dripping my faucets hopefully...

Really I just want them to add a public road (at least for bikes and peds) connecting Robin hood road and Sherwood at approximately the middle of the block. It would allow for north-south travel while avoiding Brook and Hermitage.

I finally finished the kids' main presents: built, wrapped, deposited. Break for pizza-movie night with the kids. All calm here.

I am gratified to hear from a friend of mine in Canada that his son is out of the hospital, at least for the holiday. I first met this kid 14 years ago and it boggles my mind that he is taller than me now.

Thank you. Access isn't the problem. I can listen to full episodes of Brian Lehrer on wnyc.org.

I'm wondering if there is an analogous show down here and if so what is it called?

Related question: I really like talk radio that discusses local politics. Back in NY I would listen to the Brian Lehrer show, but I haven't found anything comparable for Richmond. Does anyone have suggestions?

I'm glad. It's a fun idea, I just hope OP keeps themselves safe

If there's enough money involved, people will try to determine your real life identity ("doxing")

Think this through. If you pledge to regularly visit it and add more money, you are incentivizing randos on the internet to dox you or to follow you around IRL. That's probably not what you want to do.

Yeah, why not?

I just rode past there on my evening commute up Brook. There was bumper-to-bumper traffic for the length of Sherwood Ave.

If your flexible, maybe go vote at a different polling location

In line to vote now at diversity. Line wraps around the corner, but moving quick

Edit: line wraps twice around the inside. About 30 minute wait

The narrative that transit is only for poor or working people bothers me. We should strive to make transit good enough that people ride it by choice, not merely by necessity. I want it to be so good that people consider it more convenient than driving their private vehicles.

A side benefit of by-choice ridership is that, historically speaking, wealthier riders have been more successful lobbying for service improvements.

Just looks like a normal bridge to me.

There's lots of running here. More 5k races than you can shake a stick at. Also monument 10k and Richmond marathon.

I accepted a job offer last night. It's a good opportunity and it will force me to learn a lot of new things (which is good), but there's a lot of emotion leaving my old job of 8 years.

Back in 2020 when everyone has suddenly lost their income, I decided to donate to a food bank at a neighborhood church. This was a difficult decision for me because I don't support the church generally, but at the time, that is where all the hungry people were going to seek food aid (literal lines wrapped around the block!), and the church was better poised than anyone else to translate that money into real help for people in my neighborhood. My only regret is that the church did not qualify for a charitable gift match from my employer (only 501.3c non profits) which would have doubled the monetary value of my donation.

Said another way, I'm an atheist but I don't treat my atheism so religiously to get in the way of helping people.

> It's currently a dingleberry.

Some people hope Richmond will remain a dingleberry forever.

> easy rail access to DC

I wish it were a bit easier. It should take 1 hour, not 3 hours.

It's just been a very "meh" last week or two. The world cup has been nice, but everything else sucks.

Comparing for FY21 is silly and meaningless. One should compare to FY19 or FY18 if they want to glean any insight.

Call the billboard company, get a quote, start a gofundme. I'll contribute but I'm way too lazy to organize

A big bold "BE GAY DO CRIME" billboard would go nicely there.