Political rant
7 years ago our state senate voted unanimously (40-0) to try to fix our redistricting process. Today they voted to undo all of that 
I will be honest and say that I think the country might be better off if congress was different than it is now, but I also don’t want gerrymandering.
Even though I don’t really like my current representative, I like the concept of my district and I think that it is fair and relatively representative of where I live compared to some others I’ve seen and lived in. If they go in and screw up our map, odds are I either get packed into an even more conservative district or I get put in a district controlled by people I don’t relate to who are far away over the mountain.
Then what happens after this current moment passes, will we keep skewing our districts forever? Will future presidents continue to perpetuate this? Will my vote never matter again because there are like 10 billion more people in nova suburbs? The candidates in my district now campaign on issues like access to the internet and agriculture, if my district changes will the rest of us that don’t make $200k a year get forgotten because we’re not necessary for getting elected anymore?
Just wanted to get some of my thoughts out
I made a bet with my friend when we were going out tonight that the guy who was meeting up with us would be wearing shorts (feels like temperature is 1F / -17C) and she had to buy me a drink because he did in fact show up in shorts
I passed a pickup on my way home that had a single bumper sticker that looked something like this and I’m just baffled
like dude what????
incoming massive photo dump because I am too lazy to make multiple posts
About a month ago I decided to take a spontaneous trip to Canada with my brother for a few days, here are the things that we saw:
Day 1 ~ Home → Niagara → Toronto
Day 2 ~ Toronto → Ottawa
Day 3 ~ Ottawa
Day 4 ~ Ottawa → Montreal
Day 5 ~ Montreal → Home
… okay you can move on now
every now and then I have to look up easements for work and sometimes the maps are just in comic sans for no reason which I think looks really funny on a legal document
A picture for every month of 2025:
January - Snowy morning, VA
February - High Rock, WV
March - Dog in mud, VA
April - Mt Rogers, VA
May - Harpers Ferry, MD
June - Pic Paradis, Quartier-d'Orleans, Saint Martin
July - Lake infested with lily pads, WV
August - The same lake from a tower, WV
September - Ridges, VA
October - Deep fog, WV
November - Shenandoah River, VA
December - Flags, Ottawa, Canada
here’s my 2026 bingo card I was working on last week but it was hard to think of 26 things
looks like I got one already yippie
anyway I got lots of other stuff I’ve been meaning to post so I’ll be starting that probably tomorrow
normally I check the news when I wake up but I’m sick and slept in this morning. I go down to get some food and apparently we bombed venezuela and abducted maduro
wow what a way to start the year
assuming I don’t go anywhere tomorrow, here are the counties I saw for the first time in 2025:
it’s been super windy today and it must be having an effect on the power lines outside the office cause every now and then there’s a little
IT made me an admin account today at work and I was struggling to think of a good password
I finally came up with one but it kept getting rejected. I was sure I had all the requirements right, but eventually we realized that the issue was I accidentally used the username as part of it lmao