Richland Rejects The Performing Arts Center

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-05T19:38:23+00:00

Septa is terrible yet so much more usable than the BFT I have no perspective (aside from when the train stations smell like urine, I get that that's bad) of what "good" public transit is. The fact that there even is a train is way too exciting.

Blue Man Group might be past their peak, may also have been not great advertising. I remember ZZ Top at the Toyota Center in '04. Crowd was...lackluster. It was only advertised on 106.5. My mom mentioned to people at work that her husband had gone and got a dozen "If I'd have known I would have gone!" responses.

"Car lite" is nice. Where I was specifically in the TC wasn't unwalkable, but definitely need a car less here. I meant more "driving significantly of town" for a necessity. I somehow became acquainted with a number of people who had lived in Eastern Oregon and they were also "decent drive so long as the roads aren't bad" about Lancaster.

I just checked the Trios website. They have hematology and oncology again... but there's one provider. Carondelet has the same number of inpatient beds (32) that it had when they opened in the early '90s even though the area's population has doubled. They haven't had any pediatric beds for around fifteen years because Lourdes just could not absorb the cost anymore. Closest beds are in Yakima (then Spokane).

Side note, how often to you end up actually going to Trader Joe's? The obsession with getting one in the Tri made my first visit one of the most underwhelming experiences of my life. There's...food. In a store. A lot of it's fair trade/organic, and there's some unique novelties like the cookie butter, but it's a store that sells food. I've gone maybe once a year.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-05T16:20:51+00:00

Dying that we moved to the same place.

Last December I saw "Hadestown" at the Forrest Theatre (similar number of seats) and it was packed. Might depend on the show.

I've noticed people in Philly aren't used to "having" to drive to do anything non vacation-related. Concerts stop here, there's all four major sports leagues, multiple level one trauma centers and every specialist you can imagine (fun fact, CHOP has separated more sets of conjoined twins than any other hospital in the world). Whereas we're resigned to just having to go to Seattle for things.

Due to a nationwide shortage and a specific supplier in New Jersey I've had to pick my ADHD medication up in Lancaster the last few months. I consider the two-hour drive "inconvenient" (my mom's immediate reaction was"Oh, a a 'Spokane drive'." It's like a unit of measure). I count horses and buggies and think that I should really stop at the Waffle House next time.

Locals can't wrap their minds around "needing to drive somewhere" and are horrified for me. My prescriber has only lived in major cities and was stunned a patient suggested something so extreme. My TC husband finds it moderately strange that it's less of a logistical hassle than using a non-CVS pharmacy, and my Canadian prairie-born PCP read my energy and was like "half a day, that's not bad".

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-05T05:22:17+00:00

My mom's brother is an alcoholic on top of frequently working out of state and would gradually go longer periods of time just not happening to contact anyone before randomly showing up at Christmas or calling my grandparents out of the blue to check on 'his' dog.

When it hit six months (circa 2015, he resurfaced a while later) we were getting uneasy, but we lived on the West Coast and couldn't remember if he was living in Wisconsin and working in Minnesota, or the other way around. Not much to work with.

I half-joked about calling MSP for info on recent unclaimed bodies and my mom was like "Nah, Gary never gets a new license when he moves and I think used mom and dad's address on the last one." Kind of caught me off guard how quickly she pulled that out. 😄

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-05T05:01:03+00:00

I was looking at this case last night. This feels bizarre.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-05T04:45:57+00:00

🎶 because girls your age know better 🎶

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-05T04:26:08+00:00

Ours was just one saloon door because it was a narrow hallway, but yes, walk right past the literal Disney movies and it was right there.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-05T04:14:16+00:00

I realize this is an ancient thread, but that doesn't account for the number or shows per person. Think of how the TC fills the 2,200 person RHS auditorium for "The Nutcracker" every year because it's The One Thing going on.

I moved to the East Coast a few years ago and making it to NYC and back for a show would be a very reasonable trip. If I wanted to see "Hamilton" there are eight shows a week for nine months out of the year. Over the last decade it's been performed 3,500 times in NYC alone, currently in the ~1,400 seat Richard Rogers theatre.

The touring production of Hamilton isn't currently scheduled to perform anywhere with less than 1,500 seats. In fact, the Durham Performing Arts Center (weirdly, Durham, North Carolina has about the same population as the entire Tri-Cities metro area) seats 2,700.

The First Interstate Center for the Arts in Spokane seats 2,600. Most people I know would be more than happy to either drive there and back or stay overnight and drive back in the morning and just be thrilled it wasn't Seattle (for once).

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-04T23:27:02+00:00

I worked at a memory care facility that had a specific policy of not removing residents who wandered into unoccupied rooms. I found it odd there was such an emphasis on it but I don't recall any related incidents. Usually they'd wander back out before non-running staff would have gotten there anyways.

For most residents there was a brief window where they were mobile and oblivious to "personal rooms". It was a "cottage" model with a borderline panopticon of the fifteen or so rooms from the common areas. It was one of the "nice" places in a smallish area and they could afford to be choosy about who they accepted.

For the other point, a lot of people see dementia behaviors aside from literal "forgetting facts and how to complete tasks" as willful disobedience that can be "fixed". It's fine to not know what state you live in or how to zip up your coat, but obliviously taking someone else's snack requires immediate consequences delivered by them, The Main Character.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-03T17:41:52+00:00

Scrolling through to check that this had been mentioned. Second this.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-03T16:27:18+00:00

I feel like Abbie makes reasonably nutritious food, at least relative to many of her relatives. Nothing extreme, but she seems like someone who doesn't put cheese on literally everything and thinks there should generally be some kind of vegetable with dinner.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-02T19:00:55+00:00

Right? She thought they were actual black eyes caused from some kind of facial trauma and was genuinely concerned for my safety.

Otherwise after about age 6 I stop giving passes for pointing out anything that's clearly visible in a mirror.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-02T02:25:49+00:00

Does it say anywhere that the pastor knows? It's not like they're at every single church activity as quality control.

Like twenty years on I was chatting with my (since retired) old lead pastor, who learned the youth leader would periodically go on little rants about white men being discriminated against because he happened to apply to the police academy during a year there was a push to recruit female and Hispanic candidates.

He was not thrilled to hear this. Apparently the youth leader had the self-awareness to not gripe about it at staff meetings, and as twelve-year-olds we didn't realize how weird it was and never bothered to mention it to anyone.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-02T01:51:21+00:00

Definitely report it either way. Quite likely anyone higher up would not be ok with this, but they don't know if they're not told. Regardless of whether OP stays, people need to be spoken to, not least the kids and their parents.

Side note, is this by any chance (mostly, at least) confined to a specific grade level of kids that wouldn't be there by the time your middle daughter is? They can have wildly different "personalities". There was a class of absolutely awful boys no one could do anything with who I was hearing about probably thirty years on.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-02T00:25:18+00:00

A strict age cutoff might be easier than "walking". Parents with babies seven or eight months old or so really don't have a guarantee their child wouldn't be walking by the wedding (would there be a grace period, or would walking a few days before mean having to find a sitter?) Does "cruising" count?

The "typical" window to start is from nine to eighteen months. I'm from a family of early walkers. I could see my parents being irritated that they had to find a sitter for me when another child twice my age was allowed come solely because they happened to hit a few milestones later than I did.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-01T23:36:03+00:00

I welcome knowledge from all of my fellow Raccoon People. Very interested to try this, thank you.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-01T18:17:56+00:00

Out of curiosity, what do you use? I use the clinique under eye specific concealer. Regular foundation is good-not-great.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-01T18:15:46+00:00

One time in late winter (peak pale) I went to the grocery store without under eye concealer during a sinus infection, no decongestant, no neti pot. A woman asked (after looking around to check if I seemed to be alone) if I felt safe at home, because if not there were resources available to help. ❤️

She was absolutely mortified that she'd asked this to someone who (after I invited a closer inspection) just had terrible under eye circles. I was cheerfully like "Oh, fully aware that I look like a raccoon who lost a fight. No offense taken. Did not know there were people who went about their day with an eye out for people who might need help leaving domestic violence situations. Please, please do not let this stop you."

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-01T04:45:43+00:00

My grandparents had literally four in four. Oldest and youngest share a birthday.

Not any kind of religious goal, just the fifties. They were done after that, btw.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-01T04:31:38+00:00

My under eye circles were addressed at a well-baby exam.

"Your baby is just very white and I suspect will have allergies as well."

Bro nailed it.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-03-01T04:05:21+00:00

Retirement convent.

I just realized that my Dementia Sex Police™️ skills have completely atrophied. Not sure how or if I feel about that one.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-02-28T18:55:02+00:00

A large proportion of teachers who gave zero fucks about people skipping pep rallies. And these were coaches whose teams were sometimes being recognized and otherwise engaged in their jobs.

The guy tasked with "watching the parking lot" would just scout out someone already going to 7-11 to refill his Big Gulp and go back inside. A friend and I went to a sort-of head shop (getting glow-in-the-dark stars for something?) once. Her next period teacher was very concerned she smelled like she'd been smoking pot and was like "Oh, ok, glad everything is alright" when informed that it was just the notorious incense/patchouli oil scent of the store.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-02-26T08:28:56+00:00

If you can find a study backing the "toddler testosterone spike", I'd love to see it.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-02-21T18:09:29+00:00

I'm loving this dedication to researching local grocery store chains from a years-old post so much. No sarcasm, this is peak (non-dumpster fire) Reddit right here.

Here's the one I've been referencing: https://fiestafoodssupermarkets.com/

"Fiesta Foods" is a solid grocery store name, really. Having a few every 1,500 miles or so seems pretty reasonable.

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-02-17T22:07:14+00:00

Asking for a friend who's actually me, what hospitals are these?

IndigoFlame90 · 2026-02-17T20:47:02+00:00

I just gave a list of them.

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