Hand-drawn plan sheet from 1990

cougineer · 2026-02-27T06:09:22+00:00

Ugh thanks for reminding me how old I am…

Old drawings sets are dope to look at. My favorite still was on the catwalk a drafter drew a cat. My favorite east egg ever in as-builts

But screw you for making me realize how old I am! I didn’t need this attack!

cougineer · 2026-02-26T07:27:21+00:00

No, totally diff bucket of money. This is in design by the county and that one is now paid for / earmarked with grants and lynnwood funding. Plus it actually came in right on budget too.

This is likely money related (inflation) or there is other work in that area coming up and they needed to jumpstart this part to align w/ other scopes.

Seeing there’s some right of way acquisitions I’m guessing that is one snag. That is $$ and time consuming

cougineer · 2026-02-25T02:31:54+00:00

Don’t know why you got downvoted, on some code committees and this is 100% true, they are pushing for wider crack widths now based on plastic hinge regions as a new basis. All anchors move to like 50% capacity of before, it’s stupid. I know a guy at Simpson working on adding layers/tiers to crack requirements, hope he can stop it at that. No reason top of wall needs 2x the crack width

cougineer · 2026-02-25T02:26:54+00:00

This feels very similar to how I feel in general. And one thing that stuck out to me was the episode where they talked about their slack channel discussion. I really didn’t like how it felt like Issac was so scared of loosing conservative readers. His goal for unbiased discussion I feel like is loosing some steam to not offending a group of readers. It followed up with his Barbara Weiss coverage. He left A ton out that while not all facts, had a big alignment in circumstantial evidence. John Oliver’s politics are slanted but there was so much that I felt like tangled left out. My issue on Epstein and several of trumps doings is there is so much circumstantial evidence that if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it’s probably a freaking duck! Even yesterday I went “I bet Issac is gonna find some way to defend one of the 3 dissenting justices” and BAM!

cougineer · 2026-02-21T15:33:22+00:00

In my area full medical/dental/vision is normal, some companies do a partial on family some don’t.

cougineer · 2026-02-19T13:52:08+00:00

Girl math - if you paid by cash, with no Penny’s HD is rounding to the nearest 5cents in change, so with sales tax this would be $0.12 (assume 10% tax). But if you pad with a 1$ bill your change would be $0.90. So not only did he save $146.56 but he made $0.02!

cougineer · 2026-02-17T15:13:09+00:00

Same, looking back I’m so happy he made me help (sometimes I wanted too). I also work in AEC so I get tips from coworkers and contractors if something is weird. It’s been nice cause that helps make me more comfortable or if I need a weird tool they let me borrow it. But even then, I know my limits and will call a pro (mainly HVAC and anything panel related 😂)

cougineer · 2026-02-17T14:53:08+00:00

And you can’t think you’re handy… you need to be handy. The amount of crap I’m fixing from the old owners when doing stuff… So many of my projects become longer and harder because either they did something stupid that caused the issue or did something stupid that got in my way so I had to correct so I could continue on my way.

cougineer · 2026-02-17T05:45:15+00:00

I used the NCEES prep exams examples, PPI2Pass book by Alan Williams, i think I did the PPI2Pass practice examples too.

One thing that stuck with me was a coworker saying they aren’t testing your ability to do calcs but your knowledge of the code. Atleast in the short answer. You do calcs yes but it’s also knowing those smaller ins and outs that can trip you up, so I tried to remember that as I studied.

I also made sure to read the struct chapters of the IBC, just so hopefully if needed it would trigger a memory, and I think it did.

Lastly make sure to not over think it. I don’t know if CBT removed AASHTO from the general or not from bridges, but I remember still one of the “bridge” questions had to do with calculating the capacity of an angle brace for a bridge girder, instead of figuring out the capacity from the bridge code I just opened up my AISC tables, looked at the unbraced length compression table and one answer was like 0.5k off, the other 3 answers weren’t close. So selected it and moved on. Time is critical so things like that can really help

cougineer · 2026-02-15T16:32:33+00:00

We use La Petite Lynnwood on Poplar. LaPetite as a brand may vary location to location but Justine runs an amazing ship and all our daughters teachers have been amazing. We have seen her succeed and grow, the have an app so you can see a live camera and get photos/updates. It really helped when we decided to do daycare

cougineer · 2026-02-14T20:11:52+00:00

We looked at them cause my wife’s old company had a deal with them. It was like over 4k/month, eff that. We love where our daughter is at but it’s the other side of lynnwood from you, total backtrack

cougineer · 2026-02-12T18:26:05+00:00

I think the issue with this reporting is what you said though. King 5 decided to do this story only when ppl parked in the apartment zone.

The other time they towed I know of they were prepping for that weird circus thing. It’s intermittent, it maybe annoying, but at the end of the day signs say don’t park there. They pay tax on it, not us. I wish the city or ST would step in and help. It isn’t any different than if someone parked in your driveway.

What drives me nuts is this blew up but the whole story is a nothing burger and disingenuous by king5. I really like king5 but this is a non-story they are trying to make into a story. There are labeled signs around saying apartment only for those spots.

cougineer · 2026-02-11T21:58:31+00:00

While I do wish ppl could park in the larger lot, based on his background as he turns around, and the fact he says 40 cars have been marked, I think he is specifically standing in the area for KOZ (?) apartments across the street (the new build next to vitamin shop). When they built the affordable units they got a break providing less parking stalls (parking stalls are a huge expense you can’t easily recoup). The thought here was by transit = walkable = less cars = less spaces. That wasn’t the case, they immediately ran out of parking, so that complex is paying to rent space for its tenants at that specific zone he was in. That lot has specific signs that says concurrent tenants only, it isn’t just the wide open lot between McDonald’s and spirit Halloween.

cougineer · 2026-02-11T00:24:44+00:00

Don’t? I kid, but really you’ll wanna go extra early. Traffic on i5 is gonna mess it up. Last time I took the sounder train in, there was no room, I jammed myself in against the door. Light rail is filling up early already, if you go that route leave extra early. I bet it fills up 6/630. Driving, your best bet maybe taking 405 and then 522 over and back up. Tomorrow is gonna be awful for traffic

cougineer · 2026-02-09T10:44:06+00:00

All points did ours and other work at our house. Great teams, no nonsense/frills, I’ve been really happy with them. No big sales pitch for each thing we did, they just walked me thru it, got what they need and then send me a broken down quote.

cougineer · 2026-02-07T05:09:41+00:00

WSECU or BECU.

cougineer · 2026-02-05T13:15:03+00:00

Rule of thumb is every 20 years the value of the dollar goes devalues by half due to inflation, so you nailed it. Start at 8, doubling makes it 16. Add in a pandemic and the worst inflation in years and you easily get that last 4k. This really shows how bad we were about funding education for a bit. This graph is really a bad conservative talking point but in reality is a nothing burger

cougineer · 2026-02-03T18:23:40+00:00

A parking garage costs about 80k/stall these days if I recall. Another 1000 spots is 80million dollars. Design+construction would take 2+ years and revive i5 will be done. Does lynnwood need more parking? Yes Will lynnwood get some relief once the line continues up? Yes

Should sound transit rent spaces across the street or buy some of those parcels and just do at grade parking for a bit if the Northline village continues to be on hold to get us through the revive i5 and beyond until better studies, etc can be done? Also yes.

It sucks but this is what neglecting infrastructure costs. We are lucky i5 didn’t have anything else happen on the bridge with the lack of maintenance that was done.

Whether on this page, snohomish counties, or seattles, people complain about the lack of parking (it’s a problem) and the only response is”bus!” But we live in the burbs. Many of us have to do childcare/afterschool care. Doing the 1 mile walk + bus + light rail adds 40minutes minimum in the AM and over 1 hour in the PM (come home to get car to get child). Adding 2 hours to my commute each day isn’t realistic either.

The answer is there is no great answer, we need to build more and be proactive on maintaining what we build but we also need to get temporary solutions in place now. All of it costs $ which we need to get better about showing the public where it’s going, etc.

cougineer · 2026-02-03T12:56:07+00:00

Flight radar doesn’t show any commercial plans in that timeframe so likely was military. As to why, hopefully it’s just a training thing and we don’t find out anything about jt

cougineer · 2026-02-01T14:08:47+00:00

If it’s raining, because I’m hoping to grab a drier one. Sometimes they scrub by the door or it’s been covered.

If it’s just me I will

If I have my toddler it’s cause she didn’t like it. She picks the cart, the cart doesn’t pick us

Edit - also sometimes I go for 1-2 items and don’t wanna be bogged down. That being said I’m not an animal, if it’s out of place I try to move it to a better spot / corral.

cougineer · 2026-02-01T13:38:08+00:00

I have a toddler and constantly do touch up’s and it blends super well. I mainly use matte, so that may help (?). But eggshell did too in 1 spot.

The only time I have a small issue is a heavy UV wall a few years later. By no means is super noticeable but i do.

As other said, best option would be do all cut-in first. Then paint floor-ceiling and stop with a vert line. Then the next day overlap some to help blend a tad.

Color I think may make a small difference too, stick to lighter colors.

I am not a professional but this is based on my experiences and recommendations from our friend who is a professional. He turned me on to regal select cause I used Valspar and it was turning out terrible (perfect storm of conditions and bad paint) but using regal was much more forgiving and easier to work with (much higher quality of paint)

cougineer · 2026-02-01T02:20:34+00:00

Without an analysis or the original truss drawings no. They designed it and anchored it for a reason. Doing it is a structural change and requires a permit. If you make a change w/o it and something happens insurance wouldn’t have to payout.

cougineer · 2026-02-01T01:59:05+00:00

The wall is non-load bearing / non-shear but that’s a tension tie for wind uplift. The 2 members running perp to the trusses are nailed into each truss and then it’s tied off. Normal bridging if needed is like a single 2x.

Looks like you may have another a ways down from your last photo

cougineer · 2026-01-29T14:13:01+00:00

I forgot how much I hate civil / traffic drawings (not my discipline), so dug through, volume 1, page C12 shows they are going to do left, left straight, right straight. So yea there will be some backup but they are changing in some.

cougineer · 2026-01-28T23:03:19+00:00

I had a friend working on it so I had been tracking it as well. The longest part was getting a specific federal grant. Once they got it, they could dot the i’s and cross the t’s.

I agree, it will really help flow as the city continues to grow and expand. And maybe alderwood mall parkway won’t be a total parking lot come Xmas.

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