An actual quote from an ex-roommate who worked for VSP:

"We don't have quotas. Just a certain number of tickets we have to write per month."

When I pointed out that was pretty much the definition of a quota, he just looked at me like he couldn't process words.

Thank you!

I was just going to recommend Senior Connections. They’re great..

The James would not be convenient to public transit at all. You would pretty much rely on the shuttle that they or VCU provides.

If you choose to walk from The James to the library, it's ~30 minutes. Also you would pass "Gilpin Court" which is a very sketch neighborhood that you might feel uncomfortable walking by--especially at night.

Yeah, but Bowlero is kind of the same thing. At Bowlero you are also paying for the bowling, and the disco lights, and the arcade, and whatever else they got going on. It's not the food, it's the experience.

I miss old school bowling alleys where you just went there mainly to bowl. We used to bowl league at the old AMF by the airport and it was like $3.00 a game and half the time they'd let you bowl cheaper and sometimes for free.

But there wasn't a demand for cheap bowling anymore. That's why AMF had to rebrand themselves as Bowlero and bring out the loud music, blacklights, bars, DJ's and 40 lane entertainment complexes. I remember they had that "Bowling is just the beginning" ad line, which is really just another way of saying "No one wants to just bowl anymore."

The Mills is not particularly "high end" as far as Richmond brunch-ish places go. But Richmond brunch-y places are inherently somewhat high end. Everything is, nowadays. Bars, restaurants, movies, even strip clubs are trying to upscale in their own weird way.

There are no working middle class-ish entertainment options because the working middle class has been steadily drying up in this country in a way that is unsustainable.

You can definitely see that in Richmond. We used to laugh about how the Richmond scene was just Greek/Italian and burgers. There used to be like 20 places in the Fan that would serve you a ridiculously oversized plate of baked spaghetti for $10. Most of them have closed. But now there are 20 breweries in Scott's Addition where you can buy $20 four packs.

Things are gonna go back to being cheaper, shittier, and probably more corporate. But not because corporations are driving prices up, but because big corporations can keep prices down. The local economy in Richmond is an upper-middle class boutique economy mostly dealing in luxury goods and services.

Every month, last few days of the month— never changes

They are going to spend $120k on temporary landscaping that everyone is supposed to admire from afar (not actually use the public property). The planning commission made the recommendation to city council back in the fall and it was approved. Not sure when it will start, maybe after they are done cutting down all of the trees on the street?

Normal day at Sugar Shack

They are definitely making it less green replacing a lot of permeable land with non permeable. Disappointing.

The lights for the monument are also still there, which is just super lazy.

Maymont is having their annual Herbs Galore sale on April 29th - a vendor there will likely have some. https://maymont.org/calendar/herbs-galore-2023/

Vietnam 1 or pho tay do are top tier. Sen and pho Luca are good but not on the same level.

Some of them did look dead, and maybe a professional arborist did look over them. However, felling an 80+ year old tree to install a non-green parking lot which will cost a lot to maintain seems like a very bad idea.

Awesome, thank you! Lol, I just moved into the area so I missed that opportunity, but I just sent an email…which means nothing but maybe they will remove the “closed” graffiti sign painted on the entrance

Damn I didn’t know all this about sugar shack guess I’ll get donuts elsewhere 😂🥴

Quota time, baby

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I heard it was going to be a Bennigan’s. I will not disclose my sources.

Country Style Donuts on Williamsburg road makes better donuts and they have better hours. Oh, and they won't sexually harass their employees and high school students, unlike the chode that owns Sugar Shack.

Treat Shoppe on Jahnke rd ALSO better donuts, AND food, and they serve ice cream and fun county fair foods and snacks. Bonus - it's Black Owned. And again, haven't heard of anyone there spitting in the food or sexually harassing people. Oh, and they hire the otherwise abled.

Two very fine donut shops that support the local economy without supporting a pedo -minded sexist pig and spit in food.

I've been seeing a lot more cops on 64W on my way to the office out in Short Pump this month

Maury also has some short trees in there.

Big trees are expensive I guess?

Office space flair scene all over again.

Especially around here.

What, empty flower pots seems like BS lots of stuff is dormant or outright dies in the winter to be replaced.

They're apparently revamping it, not closing it permanently. I hate to see the old trees being cut down though (unless they were dead anyway) but yeah it's supposed to be upgraded in some way.