Whether she actually makes a meaningful and lasting impact on this city I love so dearly—particularly in terms of the twin issues of rampant homelessness and the mega-corporate stranglehold of Amazon—remains to be seen, but I sure hope she will.

but a key element of governing is hiring competent and experienced people to fill in whatever your own gaps are, and it sounds like she's doing that.

At the town hall I once attended during the campaign, she seemed a little out of her depth (albeit not nearly to the degree as the other candidates not already in office),

My sisters all had a very good attitude about it, though. "It was memorable!" Beth said. Indeed, it was: the year we couldn't see shit, but we had a great time anyway!

And I actually measured this on a map: the fireworks footage you see here is about 500 feet (152 meters) away from the base of the Space Needle.

We truly thought maybe they didn't even launch the drones, but I learned later that they did—we just couldn't see them through the fog. As you can see here, we could barely see the fireworks, and I had taken us closer to the Space Needle than I ever stand in an effort to see better!

He also told me around a hundred flights each day have been canceled because of zero visibility. DUE TO SMOG. I never heard of such a thing. He's going to be breathing that shit for three weeks, and his mom actually *lives* with it.

Steven said “You’re flaming!” and because I didn’t see him there, I quickly turned my head—and Steven quickly added, “I don’t mean you Matthew.”

WELL WHY NOT

These aren’t reindeer. They’re elk! Come on, sheesh.