For those of you interested in an update about the feral cat situation in Richmond, the following is information from http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-07-28-0179.html:

The amount of drivers that honk at bikers would make you believe that they were in the right. However, most of the time….you’d be wrong in believing that.  This past weekend I was a victim of one such annoyed car driver.

If you picked up a Sunday paper and flipped to the business section you would have seen the article that I wrote about funerals and how Baby Boomers are using technology in the funeral business. While writing this story, it really got me thinking. I mean this story really got into my head. What is my generation doing when it comes to being prepared for death?

There are moments in a reporters’ work life where there is nothing to do. 

I would like to preface this entry to say that Richmonders are really nice people. And even if it really seems like they’ve never seen a Hijabi (Muslim girl with a scarf on her head), they are still polite and even smile when I catch them staring. 

Also, especially in the inner-city, it seems like the older African American men always say “Asalamu Alaikum”* even though they are not Muslim. I would have to guess that this is because many of them may remember the days of the Nation of Islam and/or Malcolm X. A couple times it looked they were trying to remember what to say, and then after I pass them, they say “ASALAMU ALAIKUM!”, and I have to turn around to say “Wa Alaikum asalam!”**
The only time I’ve ever had any ... interesting ... instances (whether in Toledo or Richmond) was earlier this week.