I see the tree is still stuck on the dam though.

The past few nights I've been having a tough time breathing. And its weird, it has been an annual thing at this time of year for me for 4 or 5 years now. This year hasn't been as bad as 2020 was, but its been worse than '21 and '22.

If you can't have a rooster, then there really isn't much point in having chickens. Unless you are primarily interested in feeding all the varmints and hawks, I guess.

In my opinion/experience, getting out of the Granite Hill neighborhood before that light went in was gambling with your life. People fly thru the Food Lion intersection, so making a left out at that intersection at Melbourne was a blind crapshoot.

Several factors. Newer roads in the Short Pump area, designed and built in the last 20ish years, compared to city roads that were built a century or more ago. Henrico's overall infrastructure is newer, and without digging up budgets, I'd hazard a guess Henrico thus doesn't need to spend as much money in water/sewer/drainage maintenance and can focus more on road maintenance, whereas the city has to maintain a dense and aged infrastructure network.

Stayed toasty all night, and surprised the kids with pancakes for breakfast. Gotta do a little more wrapping this morning and then its going to be a lot of in-law time.

Turns out, some things we developed 100 years ago were, in fact, good but we took a wrong turn somewhere along the way. Probably right about the time WW2 was over and the U.S. had an abundance of labor, resources, and manufacturing capacity when the rest of the developed world was in shambles. "You, too, can have your own car!" "You, too, can own your own half-acre 10 miles away from the office!" Unsurprisingly, that kind of inefficiency doesn't work well outside of peak economic conditions, and the "old" ways are being rediscovered.

On a whim, I ordered the "boneless wings" (so, nuggets, really) from Pizza Hut a few months ago and opted for their hottest sauce. Strangely enough, they were really fucking hot. I wasn't expecting them to be that hot, usually national chains are kind of wimpy so that they don't upset any idiots with something that is too hot (like any fast food place with their spicy, but not really, chicken sandwiches).

So there you go. Pizza Hut had some hot ass wings.

Every time I visit Florida, I am reminded why I could never live in Florida. Its flat, hot, humid, gritty, sun-bleached, and full of rednecks and assholes from the northeast.

The Keys are pretty nice, though.