There's a pair of little old church ladies that volunteer 4 mornings a week at my train stop to pass out big bags of food and snacks and a giant homemade cookie to passengers bc Amtrak doesn't have a food car on that line. They've been doing it nonstop since Covid.

Then, they found out that that/

The person who was hired to replace my hot water heater has already come and gone in about 40 minutes. If I didn't work at two this afternoon, I'd probably still go out and enjoy the festivities.

I do want to note my (public) displeasure for the now-open light rail alignment in 2018; but in general, I have not liked it as far back as when the alignment was chosen by the Board in 2016(?) xcancel.com/JpRimbauer/s...

It's old enough that the service sticker has phone numbers without area codes, as all of those areas (Seattle, Everett, the Eastside, and South King County) were in area code 206 until April 27, 1997. Plus there's the date July 16 1996 that someone wrote on there as well.

seems like an easy fix for the US to just adopt the sensible EU regs! bsky.app/profile/bubb...