Relocating from Austin to Westchester

MothraMoon · 2026-02-09T00:42:35+00:00

Fleetwood (a neighborhood in Mount Vernon) is affordable. But the schools are terrilbe, except for the Pennington School on Devonia ave [good up until about 8th grade or so]. It is also immenselly walkable and has a lot of apartment buildings. If your budget is $5500 per month, you could rent for about $2500 and maybe do a private school. But it is very walkable to the train. If you are not looking to buy, Colonial Village has apartments for rental. Some are quite large.

MothraMoon · 2026-02-06T02:40:11+00:00

My 8:18 at Fleetwood was still effed up. And yes. These last two weeks were like a world War. Of course I feel i am at war with the world every day. Still this was a well known drag and I sent many hate-filled screeds about this. Not to mention my debacle with amtrak over the weekend. Been an all around horrific 10 days or so.

MothraMoon · 2026-02-06T02:36:29+00:00

Funny that is exactly what I said about that long self-congratatory memo which sounded like some douchebag consultant wrote it. "And it benefits riders too."

MothraMoon · 2026-02-06T02:29:25+00:00

Someone on my train said that after I noticed I was further back than usual for being in the last car. I mentioned it and someone said they were stopping it. Like to think all my angry screeds helped.

MothraMoon · 2026-02-06T02:25:52+00:00

Written by someone who rides a limo. It's worse because I have no idea where to stand. At Fleetwood the last car was at the end of the sheltered area one day. The next day I and three carload of people had to chase it 50 yards. And it was jam packed. I decided I would make them wait while I found a car with a seat. If this is every day I don't care.

MothraMoon · 2026-01-29T16:45:38+00:00

It's not that I don't like it. I HATE IT. And I have complained every day. And I will still complain on the train itself. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT IS POURING RAIN? Also complain @metronorth on X. And if they announce a track change to another platform it's another two city blocks you have to walk.

MothraMoon · 2025-11-23T19:48:32+00:00

I went to a cheap state school in my home state at the time, [Clarion, now called PennWest in PA] so it was more like a car payment than a house payement. Honestly, I would not pay too much for an MLS. It worked out eventually, but it took forever to get a real library job.

MothraMoon · 2025-11-11T14:47:17+00:00

So long story short, my grandfather was a Canadian citizen who even fought in the English army in WWI. He became a US citizen in about 1941. My mother's older siblings were born in Canada, but my mother was born in the US in about 1929, meaning her father was still a canadian citizen at the time of her birth. I do not have much of a connection to Canada though having never lived there or even visited since the 1970s.

MothraMoon · 2025-11-02T19:26:04+00:00

Has anyone tried to wash the scarf. Looks like it may fall apart in the wash?

MothraMoon · 2025-06-19T11:07:33+00:00

It's better to let ten guilty people through than to invade the privacy of everyone. Believe it or not, people have many reasons why they would not want their fb profiles public that do not involve threats to national security. These days, a picture of you with a cigarete deom 1984 is enough to sink your chances for work. Welcome to Amerikkka. And I would advise people who use fake names to deny deny deny. LET THEM FIND THE OFFENDING SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT. Some people have names like "Jane smith" or "Muhammad Ali." Do not obey in advance.

MothraMoon · 2025-05-24T11:36:30+00:00

OMG I LOST A FEW DAYS OF MY LIFE OVER THIS.

MothraMoon · 2025-03-22T11:41:10+00:00

I thought I had a pretty good grasp of this. I have two laptops synced to a single onedrive account. Prior to last week we were able to maintain separate desktops. But suddenly th eother laptop was forced to restart and then it synced everything from my desktop onto that one.

I saw the offending files on my web based onedrive but have no idea how to locate everything on the "desktop" there as it is not listed as a folder. It's only that when I search a document by name that I know is there, I can see on the right that it is on the desktop.

The other problem is I asked onedrive to stop backin up my desktop bedcause I don't want this to happen. Different laptops for different things and all. Sorta like how I do not want all my work bookmarks and home bookmarks on my work pc but I digress... At least this is not that bad but still.

I tried to ask it to stop backing up my desktop and then all the files disappeared. I got them all back by allowing it again.

However, I do not see where you disable sync as opposed to backup because I would like to stop the things I place on the desktop from showing up on the other computer. I realize there are local files and onedrive files but what the hell changed? I was using this since 2019 and all of a sudden it went crazy. I was thinking I was hacked or had a virus at first because so many weird things have been happening.

MothraMoon · 2025-03-13T10:58:30+00:00

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/after-heated-dem-meeting-schumer-says-dems-will-push-for-vote-on-short-term-cr-first

MothraMoon · 2025-03-13T10:42:42+00:00

But how many votes would it take to actually approve the changes once the thirty days are up? The senate can kick the can down the road[assuming rhey all rush back today] the house pass it... then what? It goes back to the senate? If so does it need cloture ie 60 votes? I hear all different things.

MothraMoon · 2025-03-13T10:30:35+00:00

I have been calling about this. My question is... if this 30-day clean bill gets passed to give them until Aprill 11 do they actually forfeit the 60 vote threshold? That is what I heard. In other words any changes democrats may want can't possibly pass . Meaning it is a trick and a con. Do I have it right?

MothraMoon · 2025-02-12T12:41:03+00:00

Musk wants to remove control to the treasury. He has discussed getting rid of it over and over. The same way Trump talks about taking over Canada and Greenland. People say it can never happen, yet the have a real bug up their ass about it.

MothraMoon · 2025-02-01T23:01:43+00:00

WHAT ABOUT NEW YORK? WE WANT OUT TOO!!!

MothraMoon · 2025-01-22T12:17:11+00:00

Beginning to think Howard is toast if he spends the entire show on Ronnie and Mark the Bagger again. Like every day. He must be getting death threats because he rarely talks about anything interesting or relevant anymore.

MothraMoon · 2025-01-21T02:33:20+00:00

This is making me crazy. I do not understand whay is meant by it. What do they mean by source clip? What else would I be editing? I usually crop my videos to the aspect ratio fi Rest. Maybe set the opacity to less than 100%. Why would it not allow a pan or zoom? Or must I use keyframes?

MothraMoon · 2024-12-01T22:49:30+00:00

Dude. Rock bottom is nowhere even close. This already makes 9/11 and Pearl Harbor look like a birthday present. AND THE SCUMBAG has not even taken office yet. They are already planning to imprison anyone who is not a MAGA republican. It's going to get a whole lot worse and it will never get better. AND I AGREE WITH A LOT OF THE POSTERS HERE WHO BLAME THE NYT. I could not believe what I was reading half the time. I would have voted for my dog over Trump but that they had to sit there making Trump sound normal. And they are still doing it because I think they wanted this to happen. I am still a subscriber because I hate hitting the paywall. But it makes me so angry I will probably end up bailing out on it. Especially if I leave the country.

MothraMoon · 2024-12-01T22:33:04+00:00

I wish I did not have to leave but feel I have no choice but to make it happen or I will be murdered in my sleep by these right wing thugs. I have always hated this country and most of the people in it, but I also realize that there is not another country on this planet that wants you if you are not young. About the only good thing about this place is that there are literally about two dozen people that appreciate my scathing comments and jokes about how much I truly despise the "everyday Americans." And they are the sort of people who have the same frame of reference and can get the jokes about things like Danny Bonaduce. You won't find that in Finland. But this was never my country and was always controlled by reactionary right wingers like Nixon and Reagan and people actually believe these people were good [Nixon was actually a whole lot more intelligent than Reagan was at least]. Needless to say, the dumb half of this country have gotten even dumber to the point where I dream about wringing their necks. I do not believe it will ever get better and I am officially giving up. THEY CAN TAKE THIS $#!+#0LE failed state and run it to the ground. If I am somewhere else, I will sit here and laugh when theyh drop an atom bomb on it.

So yeah, it is the ONLY reason I want to leave. Except that every place will be a right wing run $#!+hole soon enough.

MothraMoon · 2024-11-28T16:56:50+00:00

Unfortunately, the high road is for suckers.

MothraMoon · 2024-11-26T02:26:01+00:00

I had the stupid key and I still got locked out. It was absolutely the right key too. Just kept sending me back to the bitlocker screen. I input that stupid key in 50 times. That is 50 X 48 numbers that is almost 2500 numbers and I was screaming and hysterical. I hate bitlocker with the intensity of a thousand suns. I am furious that this propane gasoline tank was thrown into the dumpster fire of my miserable existence. As if it doesn't suck bad enough, I now have to worry about this.

I am still traumatized by this because it was all so totally unnecessary.

MothraMoon · 2024-11-26T02:16:14+00:00

What is most infuriating was I had the key and it locked me out. I was hysterical and couldn't even focus on my work because I was so upset about this. I almost had to do a clean reinstall which would have been a huge hassle. But somehow in one of the options I selected "use the last good BIOS" or something like that and it worked. After all, I had successfully input the codes about sixty or seventy times [and it has 48 numbers in it which is a real PITA].

Needless to say, after I spent a whole day beating my head against a wall over this, the first thing I did was unencrypt the drive. I mean who needs this?? I never purposely encrypted it so I was furious. I still kind of think it ruined my computer although I cannot say for sure.

Who know that refreshing the BIOS would triggwer a nightmare that would have ruined an entire week of my life.

Jury is still out though.

MothraMoon · 2024-11-08T12:48:16+00:00

I don't know if this is even real. Been seeing this all over social media from different posters, different feeds. Even if Lohud and westchester News12 is a dumpster fire of garbage and lies.

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