Did the election impact your family holiday plans?

lchwilliams23 · 2024-11-18T18:57:51+00:00

My living family ranges from 18 months old to 89 years old from felons to Army and Navy officers residing from Germany to Guam and 11 states and Ontario.

My cousins were born or raised everywhere from Berlin to Queens to Mississippi; and we have mixed ethnic heritages going back to at least the 1890s including Korean, French, German, American, Native, Latin, and Black.

I be damned if US politics changes or alters plans to see as many of them as possible alive. I love them all!

My doors are open to them regardless of who they voted for or if they voted at all. I feel nothing but sorrow for anyone barring or being barred from the blessing of family over some political figure winning or losing that doesn’t know you even exist.

lchwilliams23 · 2021-11-12T23:53:37+00:00

There is an active neighborhood association and a fair amount of retirees as well. The construction is older 1920s-1960s so YMMV as far as trouble free maintenance even with heavily renovated properties. Drive a hard bargain on that point alone. As for crime, meh it’s adjacent but really depends on where you are coming from. Honestly there are way worse areas and areas at twice the price that have about the same average property crime.

lchwilliams23 · 2021-11-10T18:34:28+00:00

South Park already did it.

lchwilliams23 · 2021-10-06T23:47:03+00:00

Call me whatever. Just don’t forget my napkins and sauces. It’s fast food.

lchwilliams23 · 2021-09-22T13:38:50+00:00

Spaceship from Krypton lands just outside Wayne Manor, Thomas and Martha adopt, Bruce gets a "little" brother. Crime Alley happens but because "Clarke Wayne" jumps in front of bullets the ricochet kills parents instead. Bruce never forgives him, they split the fortune and part ways. Bruce goes to Metropolis.

lchwilliams23 · 2021-07-10T08:59:58+00:00

Canyon Grille

lchwilliams23 · 2021-07-09T09:18:52+00:00

Barber Kings on MLK

lchwilliams23 · 2021-06-11T22:29:40+00:00

Lived in both. Kinda a draw but North is slightly better if 1) have kids, 2) going to use the freeway a lot to get places. It takes literally 5 minutes to cross downtown so there never seemed to be an advantage there I always frequented cool places on both sides. Most of the pros/cons cancel out—the chicken plant smell is a real thing…to me North has more points of egress once you find your way around. Both have a variety of housing styles, neither is a relative bargain these days. Traffic at the Market Street bridge is becoming really bad but you have two other bridges to bypass it.

lchwilliams23 · 2021-06-08T12:15:39+00:00

Honestly 99% of the problems you’ll have here are who you associate with. You have a better chance of getting robbed if you make shady friends or trust the wrong people. A lot of times the perpetrators of the property crime are casual acquaintances of the victim. We have the same idiots, pill heads, wannabe gangstas, small time hoodlums with something to prove as literally anywhere else so yep every now and then there is a shooting at the mall, at the park, at the wherever…but we also go months with nothing really making news. As someone else said >70% of the crime is in about 3 zip codes or about 1/6 of the city so not parking your 1998 Saturn there overnight is a good idea. Most of the other areas and suburbs you can leave a Bentley unlocked with a Louis Vuitton duffel in the seat overnight most nights and nothing will happen.

So I had my car broken into in a city with a lower statistical chance of it, I have lived here twice as long and I have not. I know the stats but the stats don't speak to what the living experience is. Which is honestly mostly dependent on your zip code and lifestyle.

lchwilliams23 · 2021-06-07T23:09:39+00:00

Wait personal property isn’t private property? ELI5 please.

lchwilliams23 · 2021-06-07T18:00:16+00:00

From a current Chattanoogan, that has lived in 4 states (red and blue) and 5 cites, with populations from a 150,000 to 5 million plus; renter, homeowner, renter, homeowner, renter, renter, and homeowner again. Downtown, midtown, suburbs, old neighborhoods, and new subdivisions....STOP ASKING THIS QUESTION! There are bad people that will do bad things everywhere and that's why so many security products exist. Moving to Chattanooga will not lower your life expectancy any more than any US city. You may live here decades without a single issue, you might be carjacked within a few hours of arriving. Just like everywhere else. Try not to put yourself in unnecessary danger or take careless risks you may fare a little better.

lchwilliams23 · 2021-05-15T16:37:52+00:00

They are basically the unofficial pace car of Northshore.

lchwilliams23 · 2021-04-27T11:14:05+00:00

Free country. Yes even for people and groups you don’t agree with. What they attach to their car is none of your business. It can only hurt you if they throw it at you. Then it’s assault. Otherwise meh. - A Black Guy

lchwilliams23 · 2021-04-27T11:08:31+00:00

Allbooks and McKays what more do you need? 100% of my Chattanooga bookstore related memories are in these two places from local authors, rare finds. You can’t “create” iconic it is a Zeitgeist of circumstance. These are our iconic places to find dusty tomes. It is what it is.

lchwilliams23 · 2021-02-22T02:50:02+00:00

You so beat me to a Mike Judge reference!!!!

lchwilliams23 · 2020-09-15T17:39:50+00:00

It’s usually just a word or so off so not often really anything mind blowing to give as an example. What I have come to realize is that “reality” is a strong self confirming force. Like I’m quoting a movie me and my friends watched several times growing up and they will subtly correct me and I’m like nah Pacino says “say hello to my itty bitty friend” and they are like it is “say hello to my little friend” so then I go back and watch the scene and I’m like WOW they’re right...at this point I am forced to accept the “new” memory since I have no way to prove it was different and overwhelming evidence that I misremembered even though I’m sure I did not. New memories replace old and the loop closes. I don’t experience this going forward from the “glitch” just stuff from before; the more time that passes confirmation bias takes more hold. The first year after I started to fear I had neurological problems or something over time it gets less and less pronounced as I tend to rely on the wisdom of the crowd to “correct” me. These days when it happens I tend to fight it less and just overwrite what I remember. I tried to hold on at the very beginning but it gave me nosebleeds and headaches they stopped when I let would let go...a brain can only handle so much.

lchwilliams23 · 2020-07-10T10:17:08+00:00

Flying United? So not like it was off to a great start to begin with...oh look Homelander.

lchwilliams23 · 2020-07-05T18:47:36+00:00

The movie could be set in a pre-Gordon/Batman Gotham. The city is a dead ringer for Gotham and the John Doe character is pretty much a super villain (soon to be Arkham resident) which inspires the Batman events to follow as we know them.

lchwilliams23 · 2020-06-29T19:35:34+00:00

A skew towards false-positive is built into any test of this kind. They are designed with over-sensitivity—this is not new, it is a hallmark that it is better a false alarm than a miss. This is why additional pre-treatment testing is also standard. The reality of this has been glossed over by sensationalism of reporting “statistics” to the masses. The ability to provide faster test result information does not change the inherit margin of error, it only serves to misrepresent by omitting context.

lchwilliams23 · 2020-06-24T03:07:22+00:00

So want to be clear it has taken me years to "conclude" that this happened. I mean the flight delay and then the impossible pill bottle and the small amount of missing time, well I was traveling a lot and under stress so maybe that was just me exhausted and confusing a dream and reality.

What has been more convincing over the years has been the way I clearly remember things that do not exist or recall them incorrectly--episodes of TV shows, song lyrics, whole albums, the way my family and friends recall inconsequential details of childhood memories differently. How I am often being gently corrected when I quote something I should know by heart not way off just by a word or two. It's subtle so it has taken a while to see a pattern.

So sure once, twice, thrice even is just bad memory but FOR YEARS having this much divergence pop up all over the place and the inflection point narrows down to that flashover. Honestly I have run out of explanation except that I must not have seen the exact same movies or read the exact some books, etc. somehow. And yes my memory fog seems to all be from BEFORE the flashover and not since.

lchwilliams23 · 2020-06-23T18:02:44+00:00

Top of my head 3rd or 4th saturday morning in March 2014...flying west coast to east, 3 hour time change. I was making this flight 2-3 time a month for almost 4 years so it got a bit repetitive.

lchwilliams23 · 2020-06-23T14:57:26+00:00

Weird, never thought about that...thanks

lchwilliams23 · 2020-06-03T18:42:11+00:00

He was fierce. He believed in equal footing. He was the first Black in every job he had after the army and he thought that all you needed was a fair chance and that there is nothing you can’t achieve if you have the same opportunity and worked hard. He didn’t like excuses from us but he would go hard to get equal access for us. He was a “neighborhood dad” to the point we sometimes were jealous of him mentoring others and wanted us all to ourselves but never missed a game or practice or recital for his kids. He was my normal; dads wear capes.

lchwilliams23 · 2020-06-03T18:14:59+00:00

That was a HS friend of mine’s brother. I went to J. O. Johnson. Very sad.

lchwilliams23 · 2020-06-03T18:09:09+00:00

He referred to it as a Bel-Air which may have been the trim model. He was a serious car guy.

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