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[homedk]

In addition to reporting suspicious behavior to the police, I think it’s important to give the staff at Camp Long a heads-up about this guy. I forwarded them a link to this forum thread today.

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Here’s a link to Camp Long’s website & contact info: http://www.seattle.gov/parks/Environment/camplong.htm

[Al]

Dear Sir, I was riding my bicycle down Fauntleroy southbound this afternoon. As you may know, there are no bicycle lanes this side of the street, only “Sharrows.” I was happily riding about 20 mph, to the right, so traffic could pass me, but this put me perilously close to the “door zone” even if I wasn’t right in it. Just beyond Brandon, I saw a woman leaning into her car with her car door wide open, blocking part of my path. I put out my arm to signal a leftwards movement (my left arm parallel to the roadway) well before I needed to move.

Several cars pass without any notice of me at all. By this time I’m slowing down and gesturing to my left wildly. I hear you slow down behind me yet as I pass the OPEN DOOR what do you do but not move over to give me more room but stare at me with a WTF? look on your face, shrug at me like, “What?!” As I’m yelling at you “OPEN DOOR!” I ask you to pull over if you’d like an explanation of why I SIGNALED in plenty of time for ANY vehicle to see what was happening.

Unfortunately you didn’t even seem to see the woman, the door, or my gesticulating left arm or understand what it means. You may have just thought a cyclist was doing something “weird.” Pay attention next time – maybe you’ll find out what was actually happening.

[moxilot]

During a recent trip to Portland, I learned about ‘maneuvering zones’… because I got a ticket for being in one. In parallel parking areas, there is a two or three foot gap between every two spaces marked with yellow striping and your vehicle cannot extend into that area. This way, no matter where you park you will have a reasonable amount of room either in front of you or behind you to get in or out. I don’t think the city paints the residential areas, but they definitely stripe the downtown curbs.

After the initial frustration over the ticket, I thought it was brilliant.

[ALS]

I am interested in removing our existing concrete patio/walkway that runs the length of the side of our yard and extending the grass all the way to the fence. I know we can rent a jack hammer from Home Depot to break it all up, but anyone know how to dispose of all that concrete afterward? Bonus if there’s any sort of eco-friendly option!

[Mrs.Mom]

Carson – I most certainly did not sign a waiver and I would love for you to ask them to produce any such waiver when you go in the next time! As a matter of fact they didn’t verbally warn me that the process could damage the coat either and I even inquired as to the process they use since it was very specific on the care tag. To the contrary, Lizzy informed me that they use the label to decide the process to use and it was perfectly safe. I understand them defending their position of not giving a refund but lying about it is suspect and unforgivable! My jacket was actually in great shape, with the exception of a tear in the mesh lining on the inside left (you know, above where it snaps inside to keep snow out) and the Velcro closures had come loose on the outside. I have gone from mad to infuriated knowing that they would blatantly lie, but sadly I am not surprised.

Dyn99 – I did dispute the charge and have just received a refund through MasterCard. At least now I won’t have to pay someone to damage my property.

I am saddened by the whole experience and I agree with JoB, I too am sick of being blamed for being provided an inferior service or product.

[WSN_Helen]

Yeah, unfortunately the Best of Alki & Chinook Book ones are all that we have out there right now. The percentage ones will be making an appearance, I expect, sometime after June and they can be printed from our website. I don’t know if this applies, and maybe it might, but if you are a senior or could convincingly pass as a “youthful 60” there is a 10% off every Tuesday coupon located in the newsletter at the WS Senior Center. Happy spring to you & I hope we get some better gardening weather this weekend!!

[KBear]

It doesn’t matter whether there’s parking only on one side of the street, or how wide the street is, or whether you think it’s safe. It’s still illegal to park facing the opposite of traffic. However, it is understandable that many people don’t know this, considering how little the law is enforced in Seattle.

[WSN_Helen]

susieq29: I have seen a few of the Best of Alki coupons (the $10 off $50 ones) brought in after being printed from this website –

http://www.tbopusa.com/coupon.php?couponid=3794

Also, FYI, bulbs and Walla Walla sweet onion sets are now 50% off. There are still a few packs of big, beautiful Dahlias left and some Gladiolus.

[Duckitude]

Hi Alki: Like I noted earlier, I think there are situations in which parking the “wrong” direction is safer than otherwise, or, at least equally safe. However, as noted by other comments here, those are somewhat rare situations. Hopefully, and, as far as I can tell from this last experience and other sitings of parking enforcement in our neighborhood is that they are loathe to ticket “wrong” way parked cars. They could have ticketed several cars for that in our neighborhood and have chosen NOT to. In this instance, they really wanted to ticket the driver who parked into my front bumper, but couldn’t for anything but parking the wrong way.

Would I have called in the car for parking the wrong way? No, no one does that in our neighborhood, even though we get tons of that going on here since we live right at Lowman Beach Park. However, locking you in, and essentially kidnapping your car is another issue entirely. Making you late to work is another thing. Screwing up important appointments is another thing.

On the issue of ticketing such in your face parking carelessness, in this day and age of video surveillance, we now often have the evidence of who parked when and how. In fact, there are now video cameras that are so small and mountable on your dashboard that you can pretty much record most of the day as you drive along, park, etc. In fact, I don’t know if it is standard equipment on any cars yet, but I bet continuous video recording will be an option you can get on a car pretty soon, if not already available.

In this particular case, as noted above, I had the video that showed the exact time, the exact parking style, etc. Slam dunk ticket or tow as far as I am concerned.

People who are so careless won’t likely learn from a minor parking ticket that that kind of parking can really screw things up for someone unless the get towed, car impounded, or a large fine.

In fact, this person was so oblivious, they got back in their car later, with a ticket on the driver’s side windshield, under the wiper, and drove off not even noticing it. Ummm… not sure what they are smoking or drinking, but it must be powerful stuff…

[AdmiralRob]

OK. Here’s exactly what happened! It happened to our 5 year old daughter.

No one on our WSLL team is elitist, or racist because we are in the WSLL. We have all genders and races on OUR TEAM.

The SWLL team we were playing was being extremely aggressive towards our players. Blocking the base paths as our kids were attempting to go by. The SWLL team also fielded a catcher in FULL GEAR. WSLL teams do not field catchers for Tball games. There was a coach instructing the catcher on how to be a “big league” catcher. Standing behind home plate “teaching him”. As our players reached home base, the catcher would block home plate and apply a hard tag. A number of times the tag was in our player’s face. Their coach encouraged this as the proper way to play catcher. Our parents were dismayed as the players were getting hit in the face!

One of our parents approached the coach and said things were getting out of hand, and suggested that it wasn’t very good sportsmanship. This coach came over to the backstop and said “Hey, you want to fight Mother F-er?” Unbelievable behavior in front of kids. Another one of their coaches yelled at our parents saying we were a bunch of whiners and told us to “shut up”.

The final straw was when our daughter was coming to home plate. The catcher who was much bigger than our 5 year old, blocked the plate and slammed her to the ground onto her back. The coach behind the plate jumped up over our daughter who was on the ground and yelled “YOU’RE OUT!”… Then congratulated the catcher on a great play as our daughter lay shaken on the ground. They never even attempted to help her up or see if she was OK. The game was halted after this… She was shocked and scared for quite some time with lots of tears. She cried pretty much uncontrollably the entire drive home.

I can’t believe this has happened at a Tball game. It is unbelievable to me. FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR KIDS, our team isn’t playing against any SWLL team again, and my understanding in talking to other WSLL Tball team parents is this specific SWLL team has been fully removed from playing any WSLL teams. However, the other SWLL games are still scheduled. I feel real bad for the SWLL kids, especially this team. It’s not the kids’ fault their coaches reacted in this manner, and it’s too bad they are being punished.

[Ken]

I can recover it if the drive itself is still recognizable by any computer. I do drive imaging for every computer I work on.

I usually use ubuntu live or clonzilla but I have several other tools that can recover data even from damaged, erased or lost partitions.

I work for donations only and if you’re unemployed, on SS or SSI or on public assistance of any kind I can do the work for free.

If you want to learn how to do it yourself, I can talk you through it over the phone, but you will need another computer with a cd drive and a connector like the original drive.

My email address is linked to my name above and my google voice number is:

8010fix

(206) 801-0349

I am up early. Real early. So you could drop it off before work and I could have it ready by afternoon.

Chances are I could fix the pc also. I like the ones other people say are dead :) If it’s really dead I can recycle the parts for others or pull them to add to your replacement.

Clark5080: Hard drive standard op temp is pretty high. Max temp will boil water pretty quick. Most of the time heat damages the CPU. Next most likely is ram, GPU/videocard and power supply. Some mainboards will survive the overheating of the cpu but not a power supply failure.

If the magic smoke got out then the board, chip and often ram, are toast.

[alki_2008]

@dhg/duckitude – what about when only one side of the street has parking, and there’s barely more than one lane of traffic in the “street”. In that case, is there really a “correct” side of the street to park on? It would mean going all the way to the end of the street and then pulling into someone’s driveway to turn around in order to park on the ‘right’ side of the street in such cases. And since there’s essentially one lane of traffic, then pulling out either way poses the same danger (traffic can be coming from in front or behind you no matter which way your car is parked).

@duckitude – the issue I can foresee with ticketing that type of parking would be situations like…you park 20 inches from the car in front of you, that car leaves and another car parks and reverses to only 6 inches from the front of your car…who would the parking officer ticket? Your front is only 6 inches from the back of the car in front of you. Do you get the ticket, or the car in front of you? Parking enforcement would have to witness the parking job to know who to ticket.

[KatherineL]

The Washington Native Plant Society has Fritillaria affinis listed in its plant sale this Saturday. http://www.wnps.org You need to get there at or before start time. The choices thin out fast.

[Duckitude]

Hi: I don’t personally see a big problem with parking on your own strip, no matter whether it is paved or not… other people’s strips, yes, yours, no. I suppose that wouldn’t be a good idea of there are water meters or other city or state equipment located there, so that should be taken into consideration…

Some strips aren’t big enough and sidewalks should not be blocked for anyone, even if you are parking in your own driveway but parking across the sidewalk part of your driveway, because it makes for safety hazards for walkers, kids, wheelchairs, scooters for the disabled, etc.

But, then, I missed some really good points about parking the wrong way earlier, so I may not have much credibility here…

Take care, Ron

[alkicafe]

A year has gone by since we took over Alki Cafe last spring. What a great year we have had!

John and I would like to thank ALL residence of West Seattle for welcoming us with open arms making our first year of ownership easier. We have met so many great people last year as a result of owning Alki Cafe. It’s truly been a bless to John and I.

As many of you know, we worked hard all year trying to better serve our customers. We painted interior walls, added outdoor seating, upgraded equipments, all the table surfaces have been refinished, but most important of all, we focused on giving quality service to our customers. If there had been any time where you were not happy with our service or food, John and I would love to hear from you. We will make sure that your next visit will be a pleasant one.

We have received endless requests to open for dinner. John and I have been also working on that. We are adding draft beer and happy hour menu, and we will announce the starting date for that as soon as possible. There are so many ideas that we would like to implement for our Cafe, so please be patient with us as we slowly reach our goals. Your input is appreciated. If you like to communicate with us, please e-mail us at http://www.alkibeachcafe@comcast.net.

We hope you can join us this weekend and celebrate Mother’s Day. We will be offering some new menu ideas as “specials” during this weekend. Thank you to everyone once again.

Warm Regards,

Sharon Bang

[luckymom30]

We tried Adborable Pet Lodge in Burien afew years ago, it was nasty. dirty, dogs left in crates no daily exercise. Then we tried Pet Care Center on Avalo Way the staff was very professional and friendly. Our dog cried so loudly at Pet Care Center the police were called because her cry sounded like someone was abusing her! That said we still refer friends to Pet Care Center. And we also used West Seattle Animal Hospital they staff is great, Dr.Johnson is the best and they kept our furry friends happy, well-fed.

[Mrs.Mom]

I know that REI would likely take it back, but it would not be right to return it when it was Corry’s that ruined it and not REI who failed to provide a quality product – especially after so long. I did take it into another cleaner’s earlier today and they stated that although the waterproofing can wear out on GORE-TEX, causing you to need to re-spray it with a waterproofing product such as Scotchguard, the fabric itself should never fail. They suggested that Corry’s had likely used too high of a heat to dry it, causing the fabric itself to fail. :(

[carterbiosea]

AS a reminder that karma works both ways, I will probably be enrolling our puppy Dory (and maybe our 4 yo dog Lola for a refresher) in Mary’s puppy class after seeing the link from this post.

[hoffanimal]

What about parking on a “green” strip bewteen your house and your neightbor’s when the said strip is paved? I don’t get why this is a problem. I got a warning from parking enforcement on this. I sometimes park on it when my kids are playing basketball in our driveway. We live at the bottom of a hill on Trenton near 16th and westbound cars come roaring down it. The way I figure it’s safer for the car to be up on the strip than out in traffic. In theory the car on the street slows traffic down, but in practice that doesn’t work.

[Duckitude]

dhg – yep, I think I get it now. You are absolutely right. Review mirrors are better in the parking situation than trying to see through a vehicle. Conclusion: Parking in the wrong direction should be an offense from a safety standpoint.

[pixel pusher]

Big second for Seattle Home Maternity. They are amazing and helped my wife and I the whole way through our first birth. Heather was our mid-wife, but we also saw Marge for some of our visits. Both were excellent!! They are very knowledgeable and actually train many of the mid-wives in the region. And we discovered, after our baby was born, that Heather had delivered three other babies just on our block!!! They know what they are doing!!!

[lilith]

Once again, I think the signs on school grounds apply to school hours / after school activities. I can put up a “No Parking” sign next to my house, but that doesn’t mean it’s against the law to park there. Also, the Genesee Hill school is no longer used, so I’m not sure exactly when that law would apply. Signs or no signs, the law is the same, and it’s NOT clearly stated on the signs.

I’m not advocating for illegal off-leash usage, or people allowing their dog to poop in the wood chips around a play ground, but just want people to understand that if I want to take my leashed dog up to the old school grounds while my kids play, it’s not against the law. (And no, I don’t let him in the play area, because that is disgusting, but there is a large amount of space at the old Genesee Hill school that is not play area or sports field.)

[dhg]

Duckitude: I don’t have any data, no stats. But when you park your car on the left side of the road and there’s a car in front of you (esp. for instance, a ford f250), you absolutely cannot see what car is travelling straight towards you. If you park on the right you can (if you must) stick your head out the window to see oncoming traffic.

[Briana]

I absolutely hate when people park extremely close! Recently a car parked in front of my fiance’s truck leaving about and inch of room and the person who parked behind him actually ran into his tow hitch, denting their license place and remained pushed into it, didn’t even back up. And there was a driveway behind them, which they were too close to as well.

I agree that there should be a minimum distance, possibly not a random ticketing offense, but one that can be ticketed when reported. So a traffic cop can’t just drive down the street and hit all cars, but if it is called in than a ticket can be given.

Overall, leaving another car enough distance to get out should just be common sense… unfortunately, many people lack that…

[DP]

Needless to say, the commercial signs (College Pro Painters, 1-800-GOT-JUNK, etc.) are nearly ALWAYS above the 7-foot line and they are NEVER dated. I suppose you could ask the city to remove them, but I think you’d be wasting your time, because city staff have better things to do. In this case, I don’t feel bad about “taking the law into my own hands” and removing illegal signage myself.

Frankly, I don’t even like the NON-commercial signs, because people can be very sloppy with them. It makes the neighborhood look trashy when people put up lost pet, tent revivial, or hip-hop concert signs on utility poles with gobs of tape and never bother to remove them. After a couple of weeks the signs start peeling off and local punks start throwing trash around. Urban blight sets in . . .

Maybe this kind of behavior is acceptable on Capitol Hill, where it’s part of the grungy charm. But here in West Seattle? I don’t think so . . .