NWBuck

Yup. Stay away. It's terrible- rains all the time, and just crawling with homeless/antifa/addicts/hippies. 😏

Possibly off topic (at least this new course of dialogue), but I have some friends and former students who work as legal advocates for persons who've escaped human trafficking (Seattle has quite a bit, being a major port city to Asia). That persons are exploited sexually is tragically factual, the majority of persons trafficked are enslaved in roles that are more "labor" based- Domestic labor, agricultural work, sweatshop production. One of my colleagues often says that the focus on sexual exploitation is important, but it also provides a convenient distraction to the fact that all of us benefit from (in her language "are complicit in") the larger amount of human suffering due to our participation in an economy that emphasizes low consumer costs and high corporate profits over human dignity and thriving. It's a perfect connection to the modern GOP- Focus on sex, use "save the children" as a rallying cry (without meaningful actions), and ignore the things that might implicate and undercut their corporate donors. Back to your discussion of Barbie

Hasn't helped my productivity

True. I'd give the other four guys on my team $1M each to help me out.

Interestingly enough, I found a wad of $5 bills in my ex's nightstand once. (no pics, because you probably already have them).

Attaboy, Nuke.

SeaTac has this new option... really handy: I dropped off my bags and used this to walk right through the check-in/screening process (the time of the appointment doesn't seem to matter, as long as you have one)

Look, all I know is that 1974 had both Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, so it leaps pretty near the top of the list for me. Oh, there were a couple other flicks in there as well- Godfather Part 2, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Chinatown, Death Wish, The Longest Yard, Towering Inferno, The Great Gatsby, Murder on the Orient Express, Foxy Brown, Emmanuelle, Uptown Saturday Night Ummm... is this code?

How terrible their breath was

Should have gone to the Home Depot instead... close to Lowes on Aurora, but in a much less "colorful" location.

Yup. That's how I remembered it as well....

Sahale Arm is one of my bucket list overnights... Boston Basin too.

In-laws live a quick drive from this... my brother in law and I do the ten falls trail from opposite directions to see who can finish it the quickest.

Saw it last night. Fun, but didn't seem to be a part of this franchise... Maybe it was the director, but this didn't have any fun/joy/heart to it. Other than the (great!) callbacks to classic characters, there wasn't a moment where I felt 'excited' watching this. While it's possible that this is due to my being dead inside, it was just missing 'something'. As an example... previous movies would have an opening sequence that would only nominally be tied to the movie itself, and would end with some sort of "aw, shucks" moment that would then transition to introducing the main story. This one didn't have that same lighthearted introduction or the 'fun' transition (other than 'old man Jones' pissed at the Beatles). Good movie, I would have enjoyed it anyway... but being an "Indiana Jones" movie, I has a dissapoint.

Well, it's 2315 now... Maybe we'll get lucky by 0700

Fixed

And (allegedly) a bunch of former Twitter tech staff... who Elon fired

Updated for accuracy

When I moved from the midwest to Seattle in the summer of '99, I figured I could just drive until I got exhausted and then grab a motel room for the night. What I didn't count on was A) I-90 is empty as shit across South Dakota/Wyoming/Eastern Montana and B) that I had decided to make this drive during the Sturgis Rally. So, first night of travel, somewhere in BFSD I discovered (at 11:30 PM) that there weren't many hotels/motels and the ones that did exist were booked solid for hundreds of miles. I kept driving. About 2 AM (4 AM, since my brain was on Eastern Time), I decided to try one more place. Pulled up, walked in, and the "proprietor" said- "He just got the last room" as he was pointing to a dude just completing the paperwork. Dude looks up at me and says- "You look like hell... I'll split the room with you". Looked at the innkeeper, who shrugged and said "two queen beds". So, in a combination of youthful arrogance and exhaustion enhanced stupidity, I agreed. Was an uneventful experience (dude ended up being an ordained minister who worked for a national non-profit... we actually knew some of the same people), but certainly falls in the category of "What in the hell was I thinking?" Slept in the backseat of my car (was pulling it behind the moving truck) the next night somewhere in the mountains between Missoula and Spokane.

Michael McCready joined in tonight in Seattle...

"If you would have complied, etc etc etc...."

Michigan plates... that tracks.