jenk

If you are looking for it, I would suggest Rxtra Care U & I Pharmacy in Bellevue. They have both the mist and the shot, and are taking walk-ins from 11am to 5pm weekdays. I think I waited all of 5 minutes while the older couple ahead of me got their vaccinations after filling out my paperwork. Being on asthma meds I got the shot, which was $20.

Thanks skydancer for suggesting them. :)

Still here. Have been shifting my sleep/wake schedule a bit earlier, partly for work reasons and partly to be in the same time zone with jw1776 and skydancer.

What's your body clock? quiz - I scored a 14, right on the cusp of moderate & definite night owl. I think the main reason I scored that high was that I've been working to get to bed early enough that I can wake up without the alarm most mornings.

A ban on some prerecorded automated calls sounds nice, but the ones that are exempt from the ban are the ones we tend to get. And no, I don't mean we get lots of reverse 911 notifications or calls from the airline saying our flight is delayed (I tend to sign up for text notifications about flight changes). These days the automated calls we get are political, and of course the politicians can't be bothered to ban those.

Sci-fi and fantasy origami. o_O

stealthcello & s00j walked into Soulfood and Clint asked them to play tonight. They called vixyish & tfabris and thus from 8pm-10pm they will be Kitten Sundae at Soulfood in Redmond. I'll be there if the incense doesn't drive me off.

Anyone going?

Bellevue Arts Museum ArtsFair - http://www.bellevuearts.org
Bellevue Festival of the Arts - http://www.bellevuefest.org
6th Street Fair - http://www.bellevuedowntown.org

Times page on all 3 fairs.

Redmond has a traffic cams page now.

Also, the annual Redmond traffic insanity will be the weekend of July 11. In similar fun, there's more info on the 520 construction too.

In kinda-local news, my weather widget (from here) says sunrise was at 5:14am and sunset will be at 8:58pm. It's the time of year where people keep saying, "They're closed already? But it's only - Oh," where "Oh" means they've looked at a clock instead of assuming from the abundant daylight that it's before 7.

(Yes, it is Summer in Seattle...!)

Up here in Redmond the sun is rising before six, and it's not setting until 8:30, which is nicer than the 4:30 in winter and hey! So far it hasn't screwed up my sleep patterns yet! And it does still get dark!

I liked this writeup of Klingon.

[Creator and linguist Marc Okrand] cribbed from natural languages, borrowing sounds and sentence-building rules, switching sources whenever Klingon started operating too much like any one language in particular. He ended up with something that sounds like an ungodly combination of Hindi, Arabic, Tlingit, and Yiddish and works like a mix of Japanese, Turkish, and Mohawk. The linguistic features of Klingon are not especially unusual (at least to a linguist) when considered independently, but put together, they make for one hell of an alien language.

...and this tackles the question of whether the modern 1st-world food supply is more or less safe than it used to be. One example is the recent peanut butter recall; modern tracking meant we could identify loads of foods that used the factory's output, but modern distribution meant there were thousands of products using peanut butter and paste from the one factory. Bagged lettuce means a bad head can be scattered among many bags and affect more people. Then there's Ms. Tardiff, a California nurse, who bought organic and less processed foods whenever possible, including raw milk which caused in an intestinal illness and nerve disease. She woman still can't stand or use her hands. Her illness was caused by campylobacter, which is killed by pasteurization.

1. It's raining.

2. Jet City Pizza - at least the Redmond location - has closed. The Redmond Jet City number now rings Garlic Jim's.

3. Courtesy of Slog and Seattle PD comes this brief lesson in how not to get a job.

• 17:22 At Qwest Field for "inaugural" home game of Sounders FC. Xbox green everywhere.
• 17:40 The 3 Lions bartender is 3 rows ahead of us :)
• 17:56 Marching band is playing in the south end zone. I count 6 tubas. We are on the NE side.
• 18:13 State governor: Small boo. MLS commissioner: Polite applause. Drew Carey: Wild cheers.
• 18:16 There are women in choir robes and sounders scarves spread around the stadium.
• 18:24 ...and I realize I forgot my gloves. D'oh.
• 18:44 Bought me some peanuts and crackerjack...oops wrong game :)
• 20:10 Qwest Field, home to surprisingly tasty $5 non-Starbucks peppermint mochas.
• 20:23 Sounders 3, NY 0.

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If you are not familiar with Washington State geography, here's a quick synopsis: ( Read more... )

Short form? Ground transportation to / from Seattle royally sucks right now.

Why am I explaining all this? Well, The Stranger, one of Seattle's weeklies, is printed in Yakima ... which is on the other side of the Cascade mountains. From their blog:

Since it's printed in Yakima, a semi truck filled with tens of thousands of copies of The Stranger is sitting on the other side of the 10-feet-deep body of water that used to be known as I-5. We tried Snoqualmie Pass first (closed due to avalanche conditions). We tried White Pass (closed to mudslide). We tried air freight. We tried water. We tried throwing the phone at the wall and screaming at everyone the publisher could find at four in the morning.

But all is not lost: Today we reprinted the issue at the Seattle Times printing facility in Kent (no joke) and it will be on streets this afternoon.

Enjoy this week's paper. It was very expensive.

I'm not saying it's a collector's edition, but daymn.

In related news, I'm glad jw1776 got milk this morning.

ETA: Stevens Pass is open now. Not that there's any guarantee it'll stay open...

• 21:54 They PLOWED our street! skydancer broke down the berm between our driveway and the street so we could drive to see friends today.
• 21:55 Everything was fine until we got to the friends' unplowed street. Batterymobile was skimming the snowpack as we slid through the slush.
• 22:16 See also tinyurl.com/7pzhja

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• 09:04 It's snowing again in Redmond. Looks like there's at least another inch or two on the cars.
• 09:44 I think I'm ... bored. With snow. This is odd.
• 12:13 From the Boston Globe: How to Make an Igloo. tinyurl.com/ysvzxv
• 17:44 Would it be mean to place an Amazon Fresh order?

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Replies to the Amazon Fresh question were "Yes, very" and that tithonium tried for a delivery last Sunday and it was canceled due to snow.