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[Erik]

That gave me a flashback to last June on the beach in Jamaica. A middle aged bloke on his first day of holiday plops down on a chaise lounge not far from me and lathers up his whole body with SPF 1000 sunscreen to protect his very white english skin. Fortunately I left the next morning so I didn’t have to see if it worked.

[SA]

I had a good experience using Rain Tanning in Westwood Village in preparation for a vacation to California last Spring. More info on their website: http://www.raintanningsalonandspa.com

[TheVelvetBulldog]

Hi Anne: Don’t know offhand of a comprehensive list, but here are a number of WS groups I’ve either been personally involved with or know enough about to know that they’d be great to get involved with: West Seattle Food Bank; West Seattle Garden Tour; Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association; The Nature Conservancy; West Seattle Help Line; Schmitz Park Cleanup Committee; The Power of HOPE; Alki/Admiral/SW Neighborhood Associations. And that’s just off the top of my head, I know there are a lot more out there!

[AnneT]

Oh my…a place to finally vent on Fast Tans

I just moved here from the Eastside, and it it truely important to me to “BUY LOCAL”

I have switched my dentist, doctor, nails, etc..and my tanning to WSEA even though I work on the eastside and everything is close to my office, I am a big believer of local commerce.

This has to be the worst place to go to.

I bought a rather expensive package with add on’s for a whopping $325.

The staff seems too bothered to help you, the doors to the rooms have broken locks, two of the machines have broken fans set to the highest speed so your googles fly off in the wind tunnel.

I also have a spray on package, that I went to use the day before my wedding, made my appointment in advance planned my day around it and when I get there “oops we forgot to order the spray lotion…like were sorry…for sure”

I am counting the seesion until I am DONE, because it is too much $ to walk away from.

Ill be looking for a new place here in West Seattle if anyone has any recomondations:)

[Ken]

dollarwise in Delridge just north of White Center. Sign sez passport photos. I use them for the notary occasionally.

[bigmark]

Does anyone know of any place I could get some photos taken? These aren’t actually passport photos, they are photos for a Canadian citizenship certificate, so they have specific requirements about size, etc. I guess what I’m getting at is that this might be a little more complicated than something they could do at Bartell’s or Rite-Aid, so I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions. Thanks.

[scottso]

It’s election time: Let’s get ‘Crazy/Naked’

BURIEN – Politics! Power! Romance! Music (including one song you can actually dance to) — it’s all there in Breeders Theater’s new production, Crazy/Naked.

This will be BT’s 13th production at E.B. Foote Winery (127-B S.W. 153rd Street, Burien).

“Crazy/Naked is largely based on things I’ve seen people do and heard them say in more than 30 years of watching and writing about politics,” says playwright T.M. Sell.

“People don’t pay enough attention to politics, at all levels, and sometimes they make choices that at least invite questions,” says Sell, who teaches political science at Highline College.

Crazy/Naked follows BT’s successful summer 2007 show, Out of the Nest.

The cast includes Yana Kesala, Eric Hartley, Luke Amundson, Kelly Johnson, J Howard Boyd, Teresa Widner, and Martin J. Mackenzie. Doug Knoop directs, with music by Nancy Warren.

Show dates are Jan. 18, 19, 23, 25, 26, 30, 31, Feb. 1, 2 at 7 p.m.; Jan. 20 and 27 – 2 p.m., and Feb. 3 at 1 p.m. The Jan. 30 show is a benefit for the Highline College Foundation.

The show includes tasting of E.B. Foote’s award winning wines and hors d’oeurves, all for only $20.

Tickets are available at the winery, 206-242-3852 and at Corky Cellars, 22511 Marine View Drive, Des Moines 206-824-9462.

More info, along with a map, are at:

http://www.b-townblog.com/2008/01/14/get-crazynaked-in-burien-this-weekend/

[WSMom]

Hi there Lattemom: Since I’ve been pondering your predictament today, I thought I’d throw my last two cents worth in…

I have a child in 2nd grade at Hope Lutheran School and I couldn’t be happier with the school, the 2nd grade teacher and the really nice parents in this class. There are only 17 kids (mostly girls) and quite of few are “only’s” so I hear of lots of afterschool playdates. My other children have gone to a variety of other West Seattle schools over the years and I have to say this one has fit the best. Naturally, everyone has their own ideas about the “perfect” school (there is none!) so, again, good luck and just keep trying!

[Anonymous]

Hi Bonnie,

Thanks for your input! It is ironic as our daughter was in kindergarten at Arbor Heights and we moved her to Roxhill. You are right about seeing the parents more at Arbor Heights, more parent involvement at that school that is for sure! But moving to Roxhill aside from this problem has been very positive for our daughter and family. I was told by the office staff at Roxhill that more of the parents work during the day than at Arbor Heights, I do remember a high number of stay-at-home-Moms at Arbor Heights.

I am hopeful that my suggest to the principal at Roxhill will not go unanswered, as she has so far been a very good listener.

When our daughter was in 1st grade earlier this year I talked with the only one other parent on a daily basis and most of those kids took the school bus. Now our daughter is in 2nd grade and the situation of the kids being on the bus is the same.

Girl Scouts here we come!!! :)

[CMP]

SA, a typical pool will put the faster swimmers in the middle lanes (i.e. 3 & 4), medium lanes in 2 & 5, and the easy lanes along the wall (1 &6). However, WS All Star doesn’t organize their lanes by speed making it a free-for-all. If a lane (or lanes) became available I would move over to it so I wouldn’t have to share anymore. I quit swimming there b/c the slower swimmers just loved sharing a lane with me since they knew I wouldn’t cross over onto their side of the lane. Well, I shouldn’t say slower since that’s insulting. They had poor technique and were all over the place. Anyway, it sounds like Mercer Island doesn’t organize their lanes either, which is unfortunate (Seattle city pools do…yea!).

I recommend swimming with people you feel are your own speed. That way if the pool gets crowded, at least you’ll be in a lane with someone you won’t be passing often, or who won’t be passing you. Here’s a link to the US Masters Swimming website about more pool etiquette: http://www.usms.org/fitness/content/pooletiquette

[Franci]

Do you have or know of a good Naturopath in either West Seattle or near downtown Seattle / South Lake Union area?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all your suggestions!! We would love for any of her classmates to come over to play, but we can’t because they need parental permission and without a way to contact the parent it can’t happen! Again, most of the parents of children at Roxhill work and whenever I drop off or pick up our daughter I make a point of going in the school and on the playground and still I don’t see 1 parent, all the kids must take the school bus home.

When I asked the front desk for a class list all I got were the first and last names of the kids, no email or phone number as they don’t give out that information.

From what our daughter is telling me is that most of the kids take the school bus to and from school and there are alot of latch-key kids with no adult supervision at home when they get home.

Our daughter takes swimming and has taken karate and dance in the past.

As for field trips, per the teacher most parents are at work and I have already been with the kids on 2 field trips and there was only one other parent and she didn’t speak English well.

We aren’t sure if the kids in her class have transporation to events and might be embarassed to tell us they don’t have a car.

[Ken]

I cut my own mostly. You can buy at Cash and Carry,(now owned by smart and final) entire loins and other cuts. A ribeye is easy to carve and a whole sirloin is not. They sell angus and regular beef.

A really sharp knife and a freezer are all that is required to take advantage of the low per pound price.

Find one close to you here

[Ken]

Note Bev Harris and Jim March of http://www.blackboxvoting.org are sometimes citizen observers of the King county system.

They are more critical of the vote by mail system than I am if I remember correctly.

[fiocamp]

Just moved to the Junction and am looking for a reliable and affordable gardener for a low-maintenance yard.

[flipjack]

Jan, yeah, I agree, that’s why I vote..haha.

KEN, thanks for the clarification, and the informed information..the observer program is at least a step in the right direction.

[Anonymous]

If you have any of these items or know of a business that could donate these items to our shool please contact Roxhill at 252-9570, we desperately need these donations as well as a sound system such as speakers.

We thank you for your donation! Remember it is tax deductiable!

[Anonymous]

No, unfortunately there is no class directory at Roxhill Elementary. It is heartbreaking that our daughter had to forgo a birthday party just because no one even bothered to RSVP. What more could I have done, I went to the school and handed out in person the invites, I went again to deliver cupcakes and both times I told the kids that if they wanted to come to the party we need to receive a call from an adult so we know how much food, etc… to bring.

I guess I an old fashion but I was always brought up to call or tell someone in person if I planned or not to go to a party.

As my husband told me it was not my place to contact people even if we had an email address or phone number, that would be tacky. If for some reason not everyone had transporation we would have helped them out.

We still would like to throw a party for our daughter but how do we when people don’t RSVP????

[JanS]

flipjack…I wasn’t saying that you didn’t vote…I read what you said, and I concur. It’s the voting that allows us to bitch. :) If I didn’t take the time to go out and vote and at least have my say, then I should keep my mouth shut if I don’t like the results…that’s what I was saying.So…as cynical as we may be, we vote, and that allows us to grouse as much as we want :)

[Ken]

To paraphrase my mom:

Nothing wrong with a bit of skepticism until someone loses an eye.

Election fraud is the correct term rather than voter fraud. Voter fraud is mostly a myth of the republicans who are intent on reducing turnout and disenfranchising voters of historically Democratic voting blocks. Note in this state the only recent cases of voter fraud uncovered in 2004 were all Republicans voting for Rossi.

Election fraud is much more difficult to detect and the safeguards run counter to the business model currently in use. The more speedy and efficient the process, the more vulnerable it is to single point failures and manipulation.

However you are in luck in King county. You can monitor the thing yourself. If you are a party member, you can even get paid to do so. Contact your district chair and tell them you wish to be an official observer for the next election. There are several people who are regulars in this function but often several slots open up.

Also any citizen with a pulse and a drivers license can sign in as an observer at most if not all of the venues where the ballots are received, stored, counted and tabulated.

I have done such duty myself. I also happen to know that while they probably will not comment on this thread, about 2/3rds of those who are long term employees of the King County elections offices, seem to live in West Seattle…. and are hardworking, honest people who would blow the whistle if anything obvious or underhanded was done within their sight or hearing.

The nature of the combination of Windows, Access database, and secrecy by the vendor Diebold of the underlying code and scripts, continue to fuel the suspicions of anyone who understands the nature of computers and the proven vulnerabilities of the various components used in the “black box” part of the tabulating software.

Open source code and transparency is the only viable fix as I see it but that is probably a long ways off here in the heart of Microsoft and the place where millions of people use computers without understanding either how they work or how they can be compromised without any indication to the user.

The shift to vote by mail will actually remove one of the potential failure points in the chain of custody of pre tabulated votes. The memory cards. The majority of the vulnerabilities discovered by computer scientist given access to various voting machines, could most easily be compromised via code introduced into memory cards.

That’s enough for tonight. If anyone wants a long rundown of the king county elections processes circa 2004-2006, let me know and I will pull out my notes and the boxes of records and reports I had to sign off on.

[flipjack]

JAN, That’s right I DO vote. And yes as acemotel says, it should be in the forefront. OK, I tend to be cynical but what’s wrong with that. A little cynicism is good as long as it’s not just a bunch of negativity.

If we had more critical thinkers in this country, we might not be in the mess we’re in now. But who knows maybe we’re not in a mess and the whole thing will work out fine and Kucinich will end up winning the the presidency.

[JimmyG]

Sorry Bonnie our experience with A Better Roofing was awful. Poor service, terrible crew (fell through our ceiling for one, used our backyard to pee) and the nails in one section came through the drywall. The supervisor on the job couldn’t have cared less when we mentioned the above.

Never again with A Better Roofing for us.

[CMP]

I think that’s the West Seattle Helpline slogan. I once received a pin at one of their functions but was unaware of stickers.

[acemotel]

he said: “I always vote anyway…”, and the point is that the possibility of vote fraud should always be in the forefront. The great thing about this country is that <i>everyone</i> has the right – and freedom – to criticize, voter or not. :-)

[Anonymous]

I remember that when our daughter was in preschool both at West Seattle Preschool at the YMCA and than at Little Pilgrims she had several playdates with many of her classmates but since she is in elementary school and most of the parents work and the school has a policy of not giving out personal information such as addresses or phone number how is it playdates are handled nowadays???

We were going to throw our daughter a birthday party, I handed out the invites and brought in some cupcakes and I explained to the kids they needed to let their parents or an adult at their house know and call us one way or the other if they were coming tot he party. Not one person called and so we had to cancel the party. Why is it that people don’t RSVP nowadays? Is this another rule I have missed?