Today in our series of Pintastic NE videos I bring you the Glimmerhold Arcade of Manchester NH which had a room in the club rooms area of Pintastic NE 2023:
There are not a lot of token based arcades still out there and they also publish a large selection of board games as well.
Their site is here and they’re looking for help btw
The Susanna Gibson story, the nurse practitioner in Virginia running for state who is apparently selling her live sex shows online is the definition of click bait for media.
And while the censored still pictures are all over the net at the moment there is one aspect of the story that jumps out at me, and that’s the financial one.
The various stories all note that Gibson asked for premium payments for those watching her perform online. If you wanted to see a particular sex act the viewers online had to pay for ahem…services rendered.
And that brings me to Salary.com and the average wage for a Nurse Practitioner in Virginia:
The average Nurse Practitioner salary in Virginia is $121,463 as of August 27, 2023, but the range typically falls between $112,710 and $131,956.
Now I’ll concede Virginia can be an expensive state to live in but it would seem to me that a nurse practitioner in the state just might make enough cash that she doesn’t need to sell premium sex acts displays online to keep the home finances intact.
If I was the GOP I’d be pushing the idea that the Biden economy is so bad that a highly educated nurse practitioner have to pimp themselves out.
Your daily video from Pintastic NE 2023 today is a glimpse of the Extra Ball Lounge consisting of games Gabe has brought from his own large collection for people to play
Yesterday the rain came in a way it hasn’t been in about 35 years when one of the bridges in Fitchburg over the Nashua river was washed out in a storm, yesterday it was Leominster’s turn the rain kept coming down and the city was drenched, bridges washed out, basements flooded, sink holes appearing and route two the major artery east into Boston impassable.
I’ve not gone outside to shoot any video myself because the last thing Leominster needs is another person on the roads filming while they’re trying to clear to get blog posts.
Leominster Mayor Dean Mazzerella has been in office practically forever and it paid off yesterday here he is from facebook
and from a press conference today:
There is likely no mayor in the area more familiar with the various departments of his city and it seemed to me that they were really on the ball in terms of getting people out. You really can’t stop the rain if a front decides to pause over your area but the various crews allowed the city to weather the storm without loss of life and given the degree of flooding is quite an accomplishment.
Last night people were in dire straights in they had to head west or east on Route 2, to wit:
That is the primary exit from Route 2 for people going into the center of Leominster or into Fitchburg and it’s the primary exit to take route 2 east To Boston or 495 or Devens etc. People were stranded for literally hours on this road
With route 2 flooded people needed to take side routes such as 117 and with the side roads in conditions like this:
That simply added to the disaster because it diverted cars to these locations which the police and fire had to deal with.
What’s really going to hit people for six as the British would put it is the fact that many of the places that got nailed don’t get a lot of flooding. I suspect few if any of the residents whose basements are underwater or foundations were washed out had flood insurance so the cost of repairs is going to be astounding.
I have never had a better illustration of the parable of the house built on a solid foundation then when I saw this video:
The damage to personal property is likely going to be at least in the tens of millions possibly in the hundreds of millions, perhaps the governor can divert some of that illegal immigration emergency money to help rebuild and re-locate the people here.
Given that Massachusetts is one of the most reliably blue states in the country one might except the Biden Administration to come through, but given what we’ve seen in Maui located in an even bluer state I don’t know if that will matter. Time will tell in terms of how both the state and the feds do here.
On a personal level I was briefly trapped on the road with DaWife and my oldest who had just finished Eucharist Adoration together in Fitchburg as we were going to go to dinner together. We were on airport road when the emergency message came through and frankly there was no place for us to go so it took about an hour to turn around and hit a restaurant near my home in Fitchburg that had no issues.
But the real good fortune for me was that Pintastic NE 2023 had been moved and because of that move I had requested this day off weeks ago. If not I would have if I was luckily barely made it to work in Devens for around 3 pm. (the first drops of rain began at 1:10 pm in Fitchburg) and getting out at midnight I would have found every road home impassible at best and at worst would not have been able to clearly see dangers in the road that would have been submerged by water. I’m frankly a little iffy on what route I can use to get to work today but I guess we will see.
