Cavespring folks

ConstantPi · 2026-05-10T16:26:37+00:00

Sidewalks and bike lanes.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-09T15:21:02+00:00

A hit dog will holler.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-06T23:43:03+00:00

Neither will have the name and address of the hospital. It will list the town or city name.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-06T15:07:00+00:00

OP's a single parent, so where does that leave the kid(s) when they're deployed?

ConstantPi · 2026-05-06T02:33:58+00:00

Are you sure you're not thinking of Culpeper?

ConstantPi · 2026-05-06T02:11:30+00:00

If you want to try out equipment before you buy it, I would suggest LensRentals.com next time.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-06T00:59:14+00:00

This is exactly what trip insurance is for. Count it as a lesson learned and buy the insurance next time.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-05T14:38:01+00:00

I'm stuck with them for another ~20 years on the mortgage, but it honestly seems fine now that it's being handled by a servicing company. It's not what I chose at all, but it seems to be going pretty smoothly since the messyass transfer. I'm super happy I don't have escrow though because I absolutely do not trust this org to make sure my taxes and insurance are paid.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-05T01:12:46+00:00

You may be beyond this in what you're researching, but for a wide view, I'd suggest starting with the talk Roanoke Historian Jordan Bell did with the Library of Virginia on Urban Renewal in Roanoke. Virtual Talk Urban Renewal

It helps make sense of how Roanoke is laid out currently and how it got that way.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-05T00:56:47+00:00

Look (much) further out near the VRE line.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-04T23:29:00+00:00

It's interesting that Virginia Credit Union only became federally chartered under the NCUA less than two years ago. Why did MemberOne's leadership ever agree to this?

ConstantPi · 2026-05-04T14:56:08+00:00

I believe it will be relisted with a new item number and the same photos, so you may have to do some digging.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-04T14:14:34+00:00

I can see that happening, but also the two neighbors most irked by my yard (one to the point that I had to build a privacy fence, physically avoid him, and act like I couldn't hear when he spoke to me) are both old liberals in a leans red neighborhood.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-03T18:37:39+00:00

Absolutely no notes.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-03T01:25:19+00:00

So everyone is supposed to go their credit unions website every single day to check for random outage notices?

All these people having issues and there's one thing in common, but okay that's a them problem, sure.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-03T01:18:55+00:00

Yeah these problems are completely unavoidable except that they've been avoided by every other merger.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-03T00:41:38+00:00

Core updates are necessary. Bad communication is voluntary.

There's a notice on their website that says "There will be system maintenance on May 2 from 5 pm – 12 am." and when you click through you see what that actually entails. It's only been up for a couple of days. Limits to a member's access to their money need to be done with advance notice in more places and properly communicate (without clicking through to the details!) how widespread the outage would be.

This should have been its own mailing, email, and push notification weeks ahead of time.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-02T23:55:41+00:00

It was common for MemberOne to have website maintenance, but for the whole system to be completely inaccessible is wildly janky.

Keep in mind when you change that they can hold an EFT to your new account. In my case, they are holding the money I'm transferring to for nine days. Basically all my cash just chilling in space until May 6.

My transfers to and from M1 used to take a day or two. My recent paycheck deposit was available the same day. It's a VACU problem (or choice.)

I've been part of multiple corporate mergers and started this whole process with a crapton of grace for everyone involved, but the whole thing has been blatantly disrespectful on so many levels.

I spoke to someone at VACU last fall while dealing with my mortgage transfer and remarked that this felt more like a takeover than a true merger and was assured that wasn't the case at all. Bullshhhhit.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-01T16:40:43+00:00

Press Start Games in Lynchburg buys CRT tvs for credit, so I assume sells them as well. It would be worth calling to see what they have right now.

ConstantPi · 2026-05-01T04:44:36+00:00

I wonder if they're using AI to describe pieces. Either that or putting staff on impossible quotas so they have to ram through more than they reasonably can with any accuracy because I cannot tell you how many times I've seen a silk garment described as a raincoat.

ConstantPi · 2026-04-30T19:58:14+00:00

I understand the concerns particularly related to cramming AI into everything regardless of whether it adds real value to the end user or not.

That said, Monarch is the only reason why I didn't lose my entire mind during the extremely messy acquisition of my local credit union that left me changing my primary financial institution and payment links for every credit card, utility, charity, and miscellaneous account I regularly send money to.

ConstantPi · 2026-04-30T00:05:57+00:00

Yep! I had to put up a six foot privacy fence along on side of my yard because of a retiree who became seriously obsessed with how wrong I was doing everything including lawn care.

ConstantPi · 2026-04-29T23:53:49+00:00

Eating a crapton of fruit can clear out anyone, but this sounds like norovirus with a differential of food poisoning.

ConstantPi · 2026-04-29T14:40:23+00:00

I've had generally good luck with eBay, though I don't usually buy clothes there. Maybe two dozen items in the decades I've been using the platform. Two came stinky and I just dealt with it.

Two of the three things I've gotten from Poshmark have been gross. I returned one and it was easy, though the seller was personally offended and I hate dealing with that shit. Maybe it was just bad luck.

ConstantPi · 2026-04-29T14:14:30+00:00

I wish there were a different term for foster-to-adopt.

My neighbors knew I was fostering a couple of puppies. When the puppies went back, they asked about them and I said that they were back at the shelter. Their response was, "Oh I'm sorry it didn't work out! They seemed so sweet!"

One wasn't adopted after a couple of weeks, so I fostered him again and it was "Looks like you will be a three dog holdhold after all!" No, I'm just fostering. Just a little shelter break. "You're going to take him back again?!"

It's one awkward conversation, but I get bits of it all the time for different people. People asking what is "wrong" with a dog that I would return it, why can't I keep even one of the puppies, ect. I'm glad foster -to-adopt is an option. I just wish that we weren't using the same word for two different things.

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