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[Kayleigh]

And both appear very exciatable about other people’s malfeasance.

But to the topic: I recently gave a bridal shower where I had 18 invitees and NO RSVPs. I had to call people the week before, and everybody expressed shock–of *course* they planned to come. And they all came. They just didn’t RSVP.

[Anonymous]

No, I am new to the board. And thank you for saying you respond to an invitation you receive. I can’t understand what happened other than the parents just chose to not reply. We threw our son and daughter both parties the last 2 years and had a wonderful time as about 20 kids came. It is never about the gifts, but to have fun with the other kids. I feel bad because our son’s birthday is coming up too and I don’t want to have the same outcome.

[JimmyG]

I don’t think RSVP’s are out of style, any invite I get I respond to. Too bad the parents in your child’s class don’t seem to understand.

(So cinnamon you used to be lattemom, right? Why the name change?)

[Anonymous]

Please tell me what we did wrong: I went to our daughters school (Roxhill) and delivered cupcakes and invites for the entire class for ice skating. We did not receive not 1 call to RSVP for the party, only 1 girl and her Mom bothered to show up at the rink. What is with people! We wrote our phone number on each and every invitation. This is so rude! We will instead get to know the kids in her swim class and not bother to intite the kids from Roxhill since their parents can’t bother to call or show up at the party. Too bad because alot of the kids were excited to skate for the first time and our daughter was all excited about her upcoming party. I am fully aware there are more important things going on in the world now, but to not even call that is rude!! How darn hard is i to pick up the phone and call?

We tried the neighborhood school, it didn’t work out and we had no playdates, not 1! We left that school because of academics and now our daughter has moved up a grade since being at Roxhill, but now we find there most likely won’t be any parties or playdates.

Also, what is with the schools having all these diversification parties to celebrate other traditional celebrations but in an elementary school no holiday (we say Christmas in our house!), no observation to Thanksgivings Day, and most likely no Valentines Day party and so on?

Shame on you Roxhill parents!

Also, on your blog about the Seattle Freeze, I have had more of the freeze from other parents!

[CMP]

Before anyone bashes on me, I always wear my seatbelt, even if I’m only driving a few blocks. I remember when I was five years old, my parents would let us kids fight over who got to sit in the front of our VW van and I’m sure the two in the back were not strapped in. And we’re still alive, somehow. However, we lived in Mississippi at the time so we were “country”, just as Britney Spears justified her baby in her lap episode. Cars are much safer nowadays so I don’t see the need to keep a 12 year old in the backseat for those reasons. Unless there’s a DVD player and TV back there…another stupid invention. Any parent that has that in their car should be ashamed. Talk about boring road trips with no fights from the kids or having to find ways to pass the time by making up games.

[Ken]

I applaud those who will vote their conscience as well as this who are strategizing. It means your interested in the process and the results.

For too long fans of the constitution took it for granted. We sat back and thought our republic could not be taken away since broadcasters and newspaper reporters like Edward R Murrow and H.L Mencken and Joseph Pulitzer would sound the alarm and alert us to any threat to the republic.

But those days are gone. If we are the save the Republic and the Enlightenment ideals it was based on, we must get involved and actively seek out the information we should be getting instead of polls, pundits with consistent records of being wrong, fashion commentary and body language pop psychology.

We have to read boring policy and parse the meaning of various code phrases designed to reassure various demographics while remaining impenetrable to other. We have to do the work yet again that FDR did in repairing the damage done by the so called “free market”. Oddly enough the same deregulation of banking, securities oversight, and accounting standards have to be re applied for the same reasons as it did in the 30’s. Social security is only in danger if we roll it from an insurance system into a financial instrument.

Fixing the deficit is going to be painful no matter who is elected and the damage done to the economy may be no more avoidable than the mess Hoover left the country in.

But one thing is not in doubt. Fixing the situation will not be done by those with their head in the sand of those marching in lockstep with their chosen authority figure.

[JoB]

it’s hard, isn’t it.

I remember Kennedy’s campaign and in spite of his charisma, how difficult that first hurdle of catholicism was to jump… and the difference between the campaign promises and the reality of his presidency. That’s the process, isn’t it.

And now we have two candidates who would each topple further barriers… Obama and Clinton. Obama is charismatic… we want to like like him, We want him to succeed.

I just keep remembering that is why we had 4 more years of Bush, not because America liked what he had done, but because at least half of America liked what he told us he wanted to do. They wanted him to succeed.

Hilary isn’t so charismatic… no matter how much her policy wonks tweak her image. She is centrist, but unlike her husband, she presumably will have a congress that will back her instead of fighting every step of the way. And i think she is pragmatic which helps. She will have to fight to succeed and that can’t be a bad thing.

On the other side, we know that incredible amounts of money and political pressure will be brought to defeat her. And we know she is far more militant than most democrats are comfortable with. she is too militant for me.

Edwards has a great message, but he also has a wife battling breast cancer and a family to raise. Even if they are able to work around those issues, it will create a ton of stress and distraction that will make the job of president more difficult.

Kucinich is every idealistic thinking democrat’s dream… but like most intellectual presidential hopefuls, not likely to get elected in today’s media market.

So what’s an idealist to do?

I can’t forget the women’s movement. Especially these days, my hormones won’t let me. Hilary is one of us.

So, I will vote for her because she is a woman. Now, isnt’ that lame.

But, as a woman, she will have to work harder to succeed. i want my president working very hard for me.

She will have more scrutiny than any other president in our history and i think it is time to restore some accountability to our White House. It’s unlikely that much will slip past that kind of scrutiny.

She understands housekeeping and it is time we had a president who was interested in the details of managing our nation. Someone who knows what it is like to juggle diverse needs and schedules every day… someone who understands that health care and health are essential to productivity… who understands that good nutrition isn’t just a goal but an investment in the future… who knows what it is like to balance egos and outcomes.

ok, so those are campaign promises like everyone else’s.

It’s just that i think we have a better chance of having those promises fulfilled by a woman who grew up having to battle her way to success… and i will bet my vote on it.

[JoB]

Ok, i admit i have lived here 3 months now and have yet to make a friend… but i have to be honest, i am generally behind two very active and noisy dogs and have yet to follow up on the couple of overtures that were made before Christmas. Beyond that, i have yet to join anything except a book club… and that with my hubby… i am not making much of an effort yet.

Having just spent the last 4 years in the twin cities, i am tickled to be back in the land of people who will actually talk with me if i initiate conversation and who aren’t too polite to answer a direct question. Freeze ? I haven’t noticed it!

[Wes]

Interesting discussions. I know that from what I observe, most people seem to be waiting for someone to talk to them. I sometimes hand out gospel tracts around west seattle/white center area, and most people are not offended that I have given them one and ask them to read the back. I usually get into conversations with them that always end on a good note. These are complete strangers and yet I love them enough to share with them something I think is eternally important. I don’t follow them or harass them, I just try to be polite and loving.

On the other hand it’s odd that if I am not doing this I am extremely shy and get nervous meeting new people. So I guess I have no problem talking about Jesus but I do when it comes to talking about myself. I think I just did some self therapy here…..thanks for listening all!

[Ken]

Well regardless of the marketing crudeness, it is still the place to go for predatory refund anticipation loans… and high fees for simple tax filings.

You can never go wrong underestimating the scary math skills of the average american.

This will no doubt be a banner year for the franchise.

If WSB is planning to sell them an ad for the coming tax season, feel free to “edit” this comment. H&R Block seems to be investigated in most of the same states that investigate Liberty.

[hopey]

Okay, so I’ve got two WSB-ers ready to invite me over for dinner, then? Or at least out for coffee? ;)

Kayleigh, the “liberalism and compassion” is oddly enough part of what causes the freeze in the first place. People are so sensitive to what might “offend” others, that they err on the side of saying nothing, which results in a very shallow version of friendliness.

I am now remembering a friend in Chicago who had recently moved from Seattle. She was your typical Capitol Hill goth, if you know what I mean. Tall and thin and goth with long bright-red dreadlocks. Beautiful gal, very striking. She would often complain about how much people on the street in Chicago remarked upon her appearance. She HATED it. She would tell me that in Seattle, she could walk down the street and no one would “bother” her. But by a Chicago native, that type of positive comment — as long as it was not something everyone here would agree is harassment — is considered normal and even friendly. And my friend was right, it doesn’t happen hardly at all here. (My friend has since found her happy medium in New York City.)

I’m not sure it’s boundaries per se, but rather how willing people are to make a kind remark and risk having it taken the wrong way. Does that make sense?

[WSMom]

Have you experienced this: I make a good friend that likes to get together and do some of the same things I like to do, and she changes jobs and moves to another city. The last three years I’ve had 3 friends move away, and now I feel like I’m starting over.

And what Kayleigh said: “I’m always happy to make new friends but sometimes feel I don’t have the energy or time to keep up with the ones I have”. What is up with this? What are we so busy doing that we don’t invite folks over for a meal or a cup of coffee. I’m talking to myself here, not you Kayleigh. My resolution for 2008 is to invite someone new over for dinner at least once a month, even if it means I’ll have to clean my house.

[hopey]

Here’s my experience as a transplanted Chicagoan…

The Seattle Freeze is real. After some discussion with a friend who relocated here from Iowa, we have decided that a lot of it actually results from an overwhelming fear of offending *somebody* by saying *something* wrong. Let me give you a really specific example.

I am nearly 40 years old and recently had braces put on my teeth. Not a single coworker in my office said ONE WORD when I walked into work the first day I wore braces. No one acknowledged there was *anything* different about me that day, outside of the surreptitious looks and a bit of a startle response the first time I opened my mouth to speak. It was my boss’s boss (who is from the Midwest) who casually remarked, “Oh hey! You got braces! How long will you have them on?” and chatted with me in a friendly way about it. I think the rest of my coworkers were worried that if they acknowledged I had changed anything, I would somehow be offended. Better to not say anything at all.

This is very different from the Midwest idea, which is that by commenting on changes in appearance, you are showing that you notice — and therefore, you *care*. It is an expression of interest and caring, not an insult or intrusion into an intensely private matter.

Extrapolate this into the way neighbors and people on the street interact, and you get a “friendliness” which exists on the surface but never delves any deeper. I know it’s not just me, because when I discuss this theory with other transplanted Midwesterners, they agree that I am spot-on. If it were not for my fiance and his circle of friends, I’m convinced I wouldn’t have made a single friend here in Seattle.

[credmond]

I’m usually the “sucker” who looks the Tourette Syndrome person right in the eye and therefore the one who’s caught in a conversation with said person for the 20 or 40 minutes I’m on that bus (obviously, depending on where I’m going). However, by looking folks right in the eye, I’ve had some amazingly enlightening and fascinating conversations with complete parents-born-in-Swedish-Hospital 2nd or 3rd gen Seattleites. I think a lot of folks from here are genuinely shy and not unlike Nova Scotia or New England in that regard. That may have something to do with the lack of winter light, but – wait a minute. I spent about 5 months in Stavanger a while back, during winter, and did not experience that same level of shyness. Maybe it’s just a North American Northern Lattitudes thing.

[Franci]

Lattemom – I’ve been following this conversation since yesterday. I’ve waited to see how things played out before posting, but I have to say that reading your posts yesterday afternoon, I felt a lot of angry energy coming from you in those posts, simply because people were expressing their own opinions, which don’t happen to be in agreement with yours.

It sounds like this guy was having a really bad day, made some unfortunate choices, maybe he did or did not deserve what he got, I don’t feel like I’m in a position to make that judgement.

I do believe that in any given moment people are doing the best they can, and if that was the best he could do in that moment then he was obviously hurting in some way and was in need of compassion from those around him. I completely agree with JT that expressing concern for someone instead of judging them could have brought a completely different outcome.

[Anonymous]

Lattemom- you keep explaining that you yelled back “nice language” as if that was asking him to stop when in fact you were contributing to his rage. If you felt so strongly about reporting him, just do that instead of inciting him further. Or if you really wished for him to just stop, how about a sincere “are you OK?” That usually jars people out of there trance and maybe you would of genuinely made him reflect on what he was doing. By the title and contents of your first post, what I’m hearing is the hall monitor tattling and hoping we’ll all somehow be proud. Now we’ve got one pissed off dude out there somewhere. I’m worried about who he’s going to take it out on now. Protecting invisible children might be making one at home less safe. That doesn’t mean we should tolerate a free for all in society, but you seem to be more concerned about being right than actually making a difference.

[credmond]

I’m in awe of lattemom’s ability to command authority and act. Irrespective of one’s opinion of the merit of the phone call, lattemom showed that active, involved, citizens can and do get the attention of the city. That’s a really good thing and a really good thing to know. Take heed, call in if something seems not right. I do. I’m also of the “heard more bad stuff than that before” so usually that kind of foul language goes in and out the same ear. Agree that the guy in question seemed to be having some severe electrical storms inside his head. That’s both sad and worrisome on so many levels. And, I’m a real fan of Ken’s standard of ethics. Reminds me of that French standard – Liberté, Fraternité, Egality. Anyway, a really rousing discourse. Also, in lattemom’s defense, the south end of West Seattle can be and is somewhat of a freezone. This was a bit too “wild west” for a family neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Cruiser: I have a wonderful and fun life, thank you very much! I am a Stay At Home Mom, volunteer at an area hospital, run a business here at home that is very success, enjoy watching our kids grow up. I am very lucky to be able to stay at home with our children, my husband has a geat job and is gerat at what he does. I get on this board in between errands and shopping for groceries and the such. I am also very involved at our school. I also involve our children working at area food banks. I have a very full life. I have already worked for over 25 years in a very corporate office. We also travel when ever we can and make a point at visiting areas that we can assist Habitat for Humanity projects, so we do give back to the community.

[Erik]

Wes –

In short, swearing or any other anti-social behaviour that children witness from adults (other than their parents or those they reside with) don’t necessarily have a detrimental affect on them. It all falls back on the limbic relationships the child forms while in their first 5 years of growth. The most important teachers of course are their parents. If the parents do a good job of providing a safe place for the child to explore and nurture their organic learning then they’ll have a strong basis to deal with the outside world. Usually better than the adults they are with, because they’re still in a learning mode. Children are quite adaptable to their environments, just ask all the kids from war-torn areas of the world. As long as they have strong family relationships they’ll learn how to deal with the world as a whole. Adults on the other hand for the most part stopped learning a long time ago and base most of their actions/reactions on the child they once were.

Listening to types of music or reading certain books aren’t going to turn a person into a decadent, killing, swearing machine unless they were already headed that way…again this falls back on the lack of a solid limbic relationship while growing up.

As for the guy learning something, he may have, but I doubt it’s what you wish him to learn. He most likely reverted back to a childhood memory of when he was first chastised for doing wrong and became attuned to his feeling of not being accepted.

As far as changing habits goes, the most efficient means is through observation of one’s movement when you are doing the behaviour (not by thinking). I know this is contrary to what most people think and spout. The reason trying to change one’s thinking is so hard is that you can’t easily measure change in it.

Before you feel compelled to respond I ask that you notice what happens to your breathing or where you feel the tension building. As humans we have the ability to act, to observe the act, and to refine the action. This is also called maturity.

[JanS]

I am not going to take sides here…but…maybe there’s something going on in this guy’s personal life that was affecting him? In his marriage? In his kid’s lives? If he has kids, imagine not being able to support them now? Swear words happen…if you don’t like them, then you complain. That’s your choice and your right.Whoever his boss was on this job should have been contacted first(actually, he should have been on top of it before you were ever involved)…did you think about that? There must have been a supervisor there. They could have nipped it in the bud right then, and not sent this man into the unemployment world. This is not a perfect world, and some of the people that your children run into will undoubtably do things that affect them one way or another. How you raise them in your home makes the difference.

Denigrating another person on here because they disagree with you isn’t exactly good form. We all have our opinions…that’s what makes this forum so great. I saw no anger in JimmyG’s disagreement with what you did….just another way of looking at things….no need to call him a jerk…

[Sue]

When a friend of mine came last year, she stayed downtown at The Moore Hotel – http://www.moorehotel.com/ – and really liked it. The rooms were under $100 and it was really convenient to get around from there. The rooms are very basic and functional – nothing fancy, but it was clean and the staff was very nice. It has generally good reviews on Trip Advisor as well: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g60878-d100544-Reviews-Moore_Hotel-Seattle_Washington.html

[Ken]

http://www.northwestradio.net/interceptnw/

Seattle uses trunked. digital and in many cases switches to cell for supervisor calls and “sensitive” traffic.

I don’t have a scanner at the moment but trunked scanners can get pretty expensive last time I checked. Some interface with a pc to match up both sides of a conversation.

http://www.usascan.com/files/scancat2.html

Info specific to King county is localized here:

http://www.northwestradio.net/interceptnw/king.htm

These are trunkgroups rather than specific frequencies.

Seattle (Seattle simulcast)

3216 SPD Citywide ATG (patch ID?)

3248 SPD West

3280 SPD North

3312 SPD South

3344 SPD East

3408 SPD Data

3440 SPD Tac 1

3472 SPD Tac 2

3504 SPD Tac 3

3536 SPD Tac 4

3568 SPD Event 1

3600 SPD Emergency

3632 SPD East Tac

3664 SPD South Tac

3696 SPD North Tac

3728 SPD West Tac

3760 SPD Inv Tac 1

3792 SPD Inv Tac 2

3824 SPD Ctr 1

3856 SPD Ctr 2

3888 SPD Cmd 1

3920 SPD Cmd 2

3952 SPD Cmd 3

3984 SPD Cmd 4

4016 SPD Cmd 5

4048 SPD Cmd 6 Harbor Ptrl

4080 SPD Narc 1

4112 SPD Narc 2

4144 SPD Narc 3

4176 SPD NTF

4208 SPD Vice 1

4240 SPD Vice 2

4336 SPD Emer Rsp Team 1

4368 SPD Emer Rsp Team 2

4400 SPD Hostage Neg 1

4432 SPD Hostage Neg 2

4464 SPD Internal Invest

Details on just what a trunked system is and is not can be found here.

http://strongsignals.net/access/content/new_user.html#SEC12

[steve]

Thanks for your comments. We have visited Sanislo and Gatewood and liked what we saw at both of those schools and we will definitely check out a few others too. Fortunately, we aren’t in a huge rush to make this decision.

Karen, our current school encourages the children to attend the conferences and I like that too. The teacher had each student do a presentation for their parents and it was so cool!

We are interested in smaller classes, although our child is doing great in a large class right now and we would like to go to a school where parental involvement is highly encouraged.

[karen]

My son is at Gatewood and I am VERY happy there. We have some a little bouncing around because there are some special needs that need to be met. I feel very welcome there, parents are welcome to come in and work in the class. The staff respects my child as a person and works with him to help him achieve his potential. One of the best things is that there is a respect for the child. Children are invited to attend the conferences (if the parent wishes) to talk about their strengths and goals. There is no feeling of negativity, only a willingness to help the child succeed.

Good Luck.

[Sue]

If you go to the Mosaic website – http://www.mosaichomes.com/seattle – you’ll see that they now have a “Now Leasing” tab with 2 properties, and the “Coming Soon” tab is empty. They don’t even list the West Ridge Park (Gables) property anymore because that conversion did not finish – only part of the complex was updated.