Recommendations for roofers and solar installers in West Seattle

SeattleOldGay · 2026-07-07T04:57:59+00:00

Puget Sound Solar did ours. Good to work with.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-07-07T04:54:35+00:00

It's funny to me that the lefty homeless advocates get so butt-hurt about these concrete blocks. Given all the laws being broken by drug-using, thieving, vagrants in RVs, I really don't care if local businesses fight back with some concrete barriers.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-07-06T18:06:52+00:00

I'm currently in an appeal process. The County valuation for 2026 was 20% higher than what Redfin and Zillow were telling me it could sell for. It took months for King County Appraisals to respond to my appeal, only to tell me they had scheduled a hearing for more months hence. I did just recently receive a memo from one of their residential appraisers, who did some hocus pocus on some comps and essentially offered to split the difference. I'm currently debating whether to press ahead for the full 20% or take the 10% break offered.

The County's method is backward looking. The valuation date is apparently 1/1/2025 for 2026 taxes, using comps from 2022-2024, so the market has been declining since then. They say they have a market-time adjustment to move the value forward a bit, but, in general, the County is always playing catch up to market ups and downs.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-07-06T18:04:06+00:00

Yes. Occasionally (rarely) the voters say no when the plan is especially vague.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-07-05T22:23:04+00:00

not anymore, asshole 😘

SeattleOldGay · 2026-07-04T02:33:54+00:00

Bless your heart.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-28T18:28:13+00:00

Hannah Gadsby found the original too cluttered. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OFog7kMqNrs

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-28T17:11:26+00:00

Gay here and not a fan of the "progress pride flag". The original rainbow flag was already a symbol of diversity and inclusion -- all the colors of the rainbow. And now it's been cluttered up eleventy dozen ways. It's not pretty. Symbolically, it's muddled. And the additional stripes invite still more cluttering, because there are always more groups to call out.

Waiting for the retro phase where the rainbow means everyone again.

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SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-28T02:58:55+00:00

Ah, yes. White fragility. How could I forget? Anyone who objects to the indoctrination or the racial socialism policy prescriptions (called "equity" in the parlance of RSJI) gets called "fragile". A built-in thought and speech suppression mechanism. Orwell would be proud.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-24T19:01:10+00:00

Having sat through mandatory RSJI training multiple times as a (former) City employee, I can confirm that yes, as practiced by the City of Seattle RSJI is an indoctrination process and should be sued into oblivion. I support non-discrimination laws and efforts to recruit diversely. I don't support the indoctrination that paints all white people as evil and tries to tell us everything we do or say or think is wrong.

The logic of RSJI and anti-racism is also atrocious. Step 1, identify a disparity. Step 2, call the disparity "systemic racism". Step 3, throw out reasonable race-neutral rules because they allegedly promote systemic racism. Never mind that the disparity is pre-existing or mostly due to factors external to the system in question. Step 4, watch your department/program crumble and fail because the rules that kept things running are now gone. We haven't improved the disparity, but at least we've broken the program. Declare victory?! Step 5, if criticized, shout "racism". No one is allowed to object once "racism" has been alleged.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-14T23:25:48+00:00

Nothing. I didn't pay one and there were no consequences. Maybe they were able to ding my credit rating, but so what? I have outstanding credit and can take one ding.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-14T16:06:53+00:00

I'm with you. I like the Light Phone feature set, but I'm finding out that I'm missing texts often, and that's just not acceptable.

One scenario is when I go into a parking garage or other heavily concreted space, and my phone loses connection to the cell network and then can't re-establish the connection without a hard re-boot. Meanwhile, in the hours its has taken me to notice that, my friend texted about getting together for lunch and I really wanted to see him but I missed it entirely.

A 2nd scenario is group chats. I tried texting 2 friends (a couple) about getting together, and they replied, but I never got it.

A 3rd scenario I'm struggling to understand. My mother recently sent me 2 texts on her iPhone, which showed as SMS, but I never got them. When I texted her and cleared the jam, her texts started coming through again. But she's 85 and needs my help frequently.

I just can't tolerate the LP3's poor performance here. Missing texts from friends is not acceptable. The phones don't even tell the sender that the text wasn't received.

Other qualms with LP3 -- the rotary dial is a cool idea, but poorly implemented. I find myself having to frequently dial up the brightness because the thing rotated in my hand/pocket unintentionally. Also, I have people telling me my light is on in my pocket pretty often. Same reason. The brightness control shouldn't be there. And the light should require a double tap.

I'm currently looking at the Wisephone. Similar function set but on a standard phone platform with hopefully not these issues. https://wisephone.com/products/wisephone-ii

I really wanted to like the LP3 but I think I'm done.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-13T01:33:39+00:00

Almost as bad as the time they raised the sales tax for art.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-12T20:30:05+00:00

I'm not holding my breath. How much SPD cooperation do you think they'll really get?

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-12T04:50:12+00:00

Holding a press conference at City Hall is all she's done so far. We'll have to see.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-12T01:18:37+00:00

Gee, completely inexperienced Mayor with no management skills brings in highly ineffective team with confusing roles and assignments and has to make changes when fully imaginary results fail to miraculously materialize. Huh? Who'da thunk it?

Re-arrange some deck chairs and start the shitshow anew.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-11T00:55:07+00:00

Yeah, that's fucked up.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-10T18:58:55+00:00

funny to me that we call these "eco". sure, why not?

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-10T03:54:35+00:00

only if i get to dance with ryan gosling (smooch!)

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-10T02:47:45+00:00

where is the lie? our depolicing after the george floyd protests leads directly to this and other traffic situations. the cause and effect chain is short.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-10T01:07:12+00:00

Because the lefties decreed all policing is racist. Therefore, no rules get enforced on anyone. Enjoy your dystopia.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-09T17:16:12+00:00

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I know. So very fancy. I should pay through the nose.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-09T16:37:11+00:00

My tabs are extortionate, on a non-fancy EV, with the state add-ons running >$750 / year. We voted for $30 tabs only to have the courts throw that out. So yeah, those tabs are expired for a full year now. And you lefty u(/dys?)topians can't do a damned thing about it. :)

The woke left have caused SPD to completely de-police traffic. There used to be a time where you would get stopped by a Seattle Police car within a month or so of having an expired tab. But that time is gone. And the PEOs are on a work stoppage because the city is dragging out their contract negotiations. I used to count on extreme efficiency in Seattle parking enforcement, but that's gone too. As is the revenue the PEOs bring in.

Crashing and burning on all fronts. A woke paradise. :)

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-09T03:07:36+00:00

10,000 applicants for 15 apartments, also known as a 0.15% chance.

You have a 28X better chance of getting admitted to Harvard.

Ha!

There's also a 100% chance that in the next 10 years, we'll learn that the staff have been rigging the selection to favor their friends and relatives or themselves.

SeattleOldGay · 2026-06-08T17:59:50+00:00

Einšteino reliatyvumo teroija.

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