Month: May 2010

The project was to turn 4 rooms (2 of those are kind of 1 giant room) plus a small hallway from similar to the below (old, very warn carpet) to the second picture. Family took off Wednesday to be out of the way. Seemed reasonable enough–basically a room a day. Yeah, right. First there’s moving…

Today JoAnn and the kiddos headed down to the Portland area as part school/field trips, part visiting her family down there, part mini-vacation away from me, and part getting out of the house while I work on the flooring. That was the plan anyway. I’d expected to start early afternoon, but, well, work got in…

So…JoAnn and the kiddos are headed to Portland Wednesday through Sunday. A field trip for them, visiting different areas down there like OMSI, Portland Children’s Museum, Portland Zoo, etc. Vacation for me? Ummm…no. I’ll be working. And more importantly, ripping out nearly the entire carpeting from our downstairs and putting in flooring. And did I…

Still waiting on the response from Councilman Mello, but not holding my breath, despite the hits to yesterday’s post from the City of Tacoma’s network. The only response thus far as been from the Pierce County Democratic Party Chair (and frankly, I don’t think he looks anything like a chair, but I guess that’s yet…

The below is the recorded podcast of the Frank Shiers show from yesterday. Move the slider to a little before the 10:00 minute mark (remaining time–intro is about 11:00 minute mark, but then there’s a commercial). Anyway…this is Tacoma City Councilman Ryan Mello defending the AZ resolution before the Council. More audio at MyNorthwest.com What…

So Tacoma decided, after spending hours upon hours at last night’s Council meeting–on a resolution that is nothing more than a lame attempt at political showmanship and clearly has little if anything to do with Tacoma–to delay the vote until next week so that it can pass. Despite actually voting on the resolution Courage, right?…

…and in preparation for that, I’ve got a special surprise. As I noted yesterday, those Tacoma City Council members who choose to support this resolution rather than do what they were elected to do (that is, if not clear enough, to govern TACOMA) risk not only losing support for themselves, but having constituents actively campaign…

Tomorrow evening the Tacoma’s City Council will take up Resolution No. 38034, which is summarized as: “Expressing opposition to Arizona’s State Law Senate Bill 1070, “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act”; and calling for a boycott of the state of Arizona and Arizona-based businesses.” The News Tribune had an outstanding editorial yesterday that…

Plans are underway for an Islamic mosque to be built at Ground Zero in New York. And if that’s not bad enough, the opening date is September 11, 2011–the 10-year anniversary of 9/11. Tolerance has its limits. Read the rest of the story here.

Despite my ongoing attempts at avoid Seattle at all costs, JoAnn was recently contacted (because of her blog) by the Giant Magnet organization and we were invited to the by-invite-only opening last night. And thus my track record of avoiding Seattle failed yet again. The opening including abbreviated acts by some of the performers of…