Yeah for us!! I’ve been waiting for this! Next time someone ask my route and what it is like, I’ll just send them a link!
Brier Dudley’s Blog | Google Maps gets bike routes, built in Fremont | Seattle Times Newspaper.
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The Passing of an Era
Mar 2
It’s been years since I’ve been there and met “The Man” – you can never forget it. I’m going to have to organize a office lunch to pay tribute. Gene Porter passed away yesterday.
Obituaries | Gene Porter, the man behind the hot sauce, dies at 71 | Seattle Times Newspaper.
I realize that they have to increase the fare every year. It seems to me that this was not quite the schedule they first promised, and with the economy just now starting to stop spinning out of control – we get to pay another 50 cents to get to work.
The Washington State Transportation Commission is proposing increasing fares from $2.75 to $3.25 for vehicles with transponders and from $4 to $5 for those who use the toll-booths.
Too Close to Home…
Oct 8
This espresso stand in this robbery is in my neighborhood. Time to start making sure alarm is set every night.
In My Own Back Yard…
Sep 25
We are spending time this weekend on a small island in the San Juan’s . Maybe we should stay there until this blows over 
On the edge of the Western plains, in Spokane, Wash., the reports of significant student sickness started coming in this week. By Thursday morning, nine of the area’s roughly 300 schools were reporting absentee rates in excess of 10%. H1N1 had arrived with the end of summer, just as expected.
via Ahead of Schedule, H1N1 Flu Season Arrives in the U.S. – TIME.
So we got a robo-call from our bank saying that there were suspicious charges on our Debit Card. Boy were they right. The one that tripped the alert was a web site in South Africa. I had the card canceled, but not before a bunch of other charges had gone through. There were a bunch of $1.13 from “ME.COM”. Now being an iTunes and a mobile me user I still found this odd. Even though I had purchased Music last night, the description text on the statement always says “APPL iTunes” .
I confirmed with Apple that yes indeed, someone is using the ME.COM description as a front for fraudulent Charges. Hoping that if you did visit the site that you would say “Oh, look it’s just apple, those must be the songs I bought…”. Don’t fall for it. Your card number has been compromised. Call your bank.
So don’t let this fool you. If you see a ME.COM that looks like you’ve been buying music .. don’t skip over it. It’s a fraudulent charge.
Now I just hope that with my banks help we have nipped this in the bud before they drain my account.
I have been wanting to switch over to the PayPal Secure Card method for online transactions. Guess it’s time to do that. Their plug-in does not support OS X though. The Secure Card method generates a Visa Debit Card number that you can use one time. So in a sense it’s a throwaway Debit Card number.
Note: It could have been a lot worse, because the bank called our home phone. If Robin had not been there to get the call, we would have been doing this tonight and who knows how many charges later. I’m going to give the bank my google voice number. That way if it happens again, the news will not be sitting on an answering machine all day.
Ship Ahoy! I mean DUCK!!!
Sep 10
OK, so for some time we have had this small wooden model of a schooner on the ledge in the entry way. I came home tonight and found it on the floor below. I knew what happened right away. Sofia our Russian Blue was probably picking on and chasing Otto our Rag Doll. Otto likes to hide from Sofia behind the sarcophagus (yes, we have a sarcophagus) and he had knocked it over to get there is the past. Never has he knocked stuff over the ledge though.
So here is the fun part of the story. I pick up the ship and I feel a tug. My first thought was that I was standing on a piece of rigging. Nope. It seems the ship went nose first to the floor and that the bowsprit went right into the floor like wooden nail and taking some of the rigging with it. Not sure how I’ll repair this or just sand it down. I figure that the bowsprit See the pictures.
If I did not know better, I would swear that Sophia was on the ledge and waiting for just the right moment for Otto to walk by… but that would be too much like a cartoon
