Bars as such still aren’t legal in the Commonwealth, it’s still the required 1980 food to alcohol sales ratio where no more than 55% of your sales can come from alcohol. There’s a move to change it such that you can have 75% of your sales come from liquor in HB219, but that’s been suck in the General Laws committee…

Also thinking of “best small cities”. You know for all the work they’ve put into fucking over the low incoming housing folks here, they also could have eminent domained the goddamn Landmark and knocked that damn thing down already. That’s more of a danger to people on the downtown mall than the brown people.

Oh I know, but the building is going in the parking area for Blue Moon, and won’t have enough parking for the residents, let alone the Blue Moon customers. The city’s development plans for West Main are effectively to take away the parking spots that do exist for the businesses, while also putting in housing without…

Oh yeah, I forgot, we’re supposed to be cool with the apartments being built over Blue Moon etc because there won’t be enough parking for the apartments, let alone Blue Moon when it reopens which will be awesome because people will have to walk and turn West Main into a pedestrian paradise! Nevermind that large…

Yep, and that they’re letting a bunch of apartments be built on Main for the UVA students that get out of low income housing requirements with paltry assessments of the ~$50k range is not helping. That city council spent all summer dicking around last year about the broken A/C in Crescent Halls and trying to just wipe…

While I guess it’s goid Signer spoke out, neither he nor the the city council or various city offices have touched upon fixing the major racial divides within the city of Charlottesville. New pocket developments are approved, that should link streets, but only attach off one, the one with houses owned by white people.…

Oh I am going to have to watch the webpage for our local cherry orchard. The Virginia and DC area had one of those early false springs where things bloomed and then we had a freeze for a few nights in a row. Last year, such a freeze took out the cherry crops here (and much of the peaches), but I hope this year things…

Yeah here our orchids go outside from May 1st to mid October-ish. That my tomatillos are already blooming and I’m not worried is a huge change from Colorado. Also a change from the homeland is finding ticks on the dog this early in the year, blech. I saw from all my friends in the Boulder etc area that everything is…

44 orchid plants went outside today. I finally saw my first pea blossom and during the week I’ve been pulling radishes here and there for salads. I probably have to retry planting pole bean and cucumber seeds as I may have planted them too early for central Virginia. I’ve also got 3 tomatoes bushing out already around…

I saw your signs on Twitter!

Is that a dress on Lauren though? It looks a lot like a stylized white jumpsuit with an amazeballs cape.

Sadly without the shuttle there’s no way to bring HST back. I saw some speculation last week about using Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser for servicing to put on new instruments and help boost the orbit, but that doesn’t have a big enough cargo bay to bring HST back :-(

JWST is not replacing Kepler, nor is it technically a HST replacement, it is doing predominatedly infrared science with technology pioneered by Spitzer.

Also, we have to make sure we get another Democrat Gov for the Commonwealth in November too since there are no consecutive governor’s terms here. *stresses out*

There was also a tweet thread yesterday that called out some things that made it look like RoguePOTUSStaff could be misinformation:

We need the House to do their job, namely the House Judiciary Committee for an impeachment and goddamn Goodlatte is the chairman. The same representative who has a big piece on the committee’s webpage all about how the Congress writes laws and the President enforces them, not even mentioning that the judiciary has a…

My Twitter timeline right now: You took Piers Sellers from us (awesome astronaut and Earth scientist) this morning, you better not freaking take Carrie Fisher too.

Except....in the Rockies and the Front Range you don’t quite get used to the smoke, because you’re always checking with your nose to see if the smell has changed and/or seems suddenly stronger. Because sometimes if you’re really lucky you’ll smell a nearby fire while it’s small and can be put out.

Well I didn’t serve in the military and I know it. Thank you, pamphlet of the US Flag Code from Girl’s State in high school.

You should also probably mention that besides the 1st Amendment issue regarding the flag, Title 4 of the USC Code, Chapter 1, Paragraph 8, section k states: “The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.”