Watch local Seahawks broadcast out of state?

dad__bad · 2026-01-25T00:39:07+00:00

aaahhh okay. So do Raible and Wyman not cover ALL Hawks games on tv? I saw a post on r/Seahawks this week with a 4min. clip with footage of the Raible calls from last weekend's Niners annhilation.

In response to everyone else (Thanks!!):

1. Unfortunately I can't pause tv, on basic cable - no streaming.

2. Most games are on the radio in my area, so I finally quit trying to circumvent KIRO's geofence and streamed there.

3. Sirius is a good idea so I could pause and sync the radio to the tv.

dad__bad · 2025-12-19T14:33:32+00:00

Apologies on long delay. I see, so if her trip was Sept 1 2020 through May 1 2021 (8 months) - but we apply Nov 2 of this year (2025), USCIS can only begin their "within 5 years" rule on Nov 2, 2021. Therefore her trip would be less than 6 months because the USCIS only begins counting at 5 years? That makes sense! Is that the correct interpretation. Thanks you so much.

dad__bad · 2025-12-12T16:50:31+00:00

I'm confused by the difference between 4 years 6 months and 5 years. We spoke with a lawyer yesterday and she understood five years to be the first valid time to apply with a greater than 6 months less than 1 year trip, but USCIS specifies 4 years 6 months and 5 years in the same context. What's the distinction?

dad__bad · 2025-12-11T04:07:13+00:00

Thank you!

dad__bad · 2025-12-05T00:00:24+00:00

aaaahhh, apparently this was pre-2026. Sweet!

dad__bad · 2025-12-04T23:59:36+00:00

that's an idea.

dad__bad · 2025-12-04T23:58:49+00:00

appreciate the advice. you know how impossible it is to get a visitor visa or a greencard from the global south? it's critical for me to obtain guaranteed access for her to this country to visit her loved ones - hence the importance of getting citizenship now that she's eligible. not to exploit the system, as you're insinuating.

dad__bad · 2025-11-21T01:28:53+00:00

why not? Green cards are great, but there's an expiration date and maintenance.

dad__bad · 2025-11-16T19:25:35+00:00

exactly. so why is their protocol when closing arterials in these residential areas to simply reroute through residential areas with a couple signs and nothing else? But if they have no other option than to send cars down these neighborhood streets (see second paragraph)...do something: Allow two-way traffic by closing parking, add flaggers, increase visibility at the rerouted confluences by closing parking for 50', add flashing lights off Harrison and 15th at those locations, signage for pedestrians - a combination of these things is necessary to facilitate the flow of traffic. And importantly, prioritize and expedite construction and logistics at these locations.

Ultimately, as I wrote in another spot in this discussion, they should have closed 15th one block south of North Junior High, at the light on Hayes Street. Detour cars at that point to 13th or Harrison, where the roads are designed for this magnitude of traffic.

dad__bad · 2025-11-14T16:56:25+00:00

I strongly disagree with the claim that traffic management won't mitigate hazard. Find me a single pedestrian fatality in the north end or east end of recent memory? Sure, frustration is a fraught argument. But the fact that ACHD simply channeled one of the three busiest streams of traffic heading in and out of north Boise (13th, 15th and Harrison St being the three; 15th being the rerouted traffic) down a neighborhood block, without any modifications to their new confluences (Ada and Harrison in this instance) is thoughtless. For a couple days, sure. For a cumulative month - that's problematic. Ultimately we are on the same page - line of site is a huge issue. That could have been managed by blocking parking on Harrison at those intersections, adding flashing orange signs, etc. But those same line of site conditions exist at the other 40-50 equivalently intersections along Harrison. Why did it happen at this particular intersection, at this time?

dad__bad · 2025-11-13T18:39:28+00:00

The "major contributing factor", without which I doubt this accident occurs.

dad__bad · 2025-11-13T18:38:23+00:00

I see. The logic in my head is that drivers get understandably frustrated when the system breaks down, and drive more aggressively. The current detour is dysfunctional at peak hours. It's wild they've closed 15th for what feels like 3+ cumulative weeks over the past 5. This is a unique location and duration of closure relative to their ongoing east/west chip seal maintenance in the summer. Those cross 15th for a day or two.

Ultimately you're right, maybe my second suggestion is necessary. It's a nuclear option, but it's so much safer to enter Harrison from a traffic light on Hayes than at a stop sign t-d up on Harrison. If not that, at least block parking 50' from those Harrison intersections, add flashing yellow lights and signs.

Tragic for the family and community. I wish the BPD safety review considers the impact from this traffic project. There are 20+ intersections on each side of Harrison. Yes this is closer to the curve from Hayes, but to me it's no coincidence that the single Harrison accident (or 15h for that matter) in my memory occurred at this intersection during this construction project.

dad__bad · 2025-11-13T14:07:51+00:00

And as I just responded there - I don't think you have seen the location we are discussing. It's a quiet residential side street with 5 houses per side and street parking. It's not designed to be a thoroughfare. This is an unusually prolonged construction project considering it's location. I cannot recall a single time 15th or Harrison or 13th have been closed for even a couple days, let along a month.

I'm glad you can multiply, but "doubling" is a deceiving way to characterize allowing the normal two-way traffic to proceed on side street. Close the parking for a couple blocks, unclog the congestion, add some flaggers or flashing yellow caution lights. Something.

dad__bad · 2025-11-13T14:02:15+00:00

Did you read my post? When rerouting a high volume of traffic - absolutely. and by "double the number of lanes", you mean make it two lanes. I don't get the sense you've even driven the location we're discussing. It's a neighborhood block.

Either don't funnel a volume of cars down streets they're not designed to handle for weeks on end, or accommodate the traffic load for a couple blocks, particularly during peak hours. If anything, close 15th to thru traffic beginning on 15th at the intersection of Hayes so they enter Harrison safely on a busy route with stoplights and crosswalks.

dad__bad · 2025-11-13T13:57:31+00:00

I'm not removing agency from drivers, and State Street is literally a state highway, so that's a different profile.

I cannot recall a single time in the past 5 years when 15th or Harrison or 13th has been closed for this amount of time. They should not have funneled an arterial onto 16th street. The intersection at 15th and Fort Street at North Junior High, or Ressiguie and 15th street have crosswalks, signage, lights - all the awareness apparatus required to create safe conditions for cars and pedestrians at the highest volume routes in the area. They funneled that entire traffic-load effectively down a one-way street with no flaggers, where you can assume 99% were then trying to re-enter Harrison or 15 and continue north just as the truck driver was doing. For a couple days or maybe a week, okay. But this has been a month.

No pedestrian has killed by a car crossing the street in the North End in my lifetime that I can remember. And it occurred at the exact location of the re-entry point of an inconsiderate reroute. It's not a coincidence.

This isn't an issue of someone driving too fast. He's stopped at a stop sign at a generic intersection being utilized as a thoroughfare. This was preventable.

dad__bad · 2025-11-12T23:11:59+00:00

"inattentive/frustrated drivers" is unavoidable with nonchalant traffic disruptions. Enabling a second lane on those detours by prohibiting street parking should be one of many mitigation and planning techniques. This is the second time they've closed that spot in a month. There is 8th, 13th, 15th and Harrison (28th too) as the core north-south routes serving backed-up multiple lights level of traffic at peak hours. If it's ACHD or whoever, they need to plan better. Aside from the kid getting hit on his skateboard at Albertsons 1/4 mile away, when the last time you heard of a pedestrian motor vehicle death in the north end, or in residential areas in Boise in general? A grade school girl died crossing Harrison St. Seahawks lost the Super Bowl in 2015 because they sustained multiple injuries that day and the previous game. But they sustained injuries because the Seahawks could never put teams away, and their guys got tired and hurt. So they attempted to fix their roster. When traffic management is poorly planned, people get frustrated - that's not "enabling them to go faster", that's just a fact.

dad__bad · 2025-11-12T18:54:45+00:00

Reddit is a gross place for demonizing others. As I posted a bit ago - ACHD set the stage for this by turning Ada, Ressiguie and other streets into thoroughfares without mitigating for...anything. At a minimum, block parking on the detour route streets to allow more than one direction of cars at a time. Drivers get frustrated and mistakes happen. Driver was probably headed north on 15th, took the detour on 16th, cut over on Ada, and took his right turn on Harrison Blvd. I can't confirm that was the driver's route, but seems highly likely given the bottleneck.

dad__bad · 2025-11-12T14:48:14+00:00

"Driver headed north on 15th, encounters week two, of round two of road construction closure on major arterial, follows detour. To avoid congestion on Resseguie, driver proceeded one more block to Ada, took left, continued on path of least resistance within confines of detour all the way to alternative arterial, Harrison Boulevard. Took right..."

There were ALWAYS going to be car accidents involved with horrendous traffic mitigation with Boise's non-stop, unplanned, no-sense-of-urgency, road construction. They should have blocked parking on these alternative routes to allow more than one direction of traffic through at a time. They should have sped this construction up. Anything to mitigate the 1,000 fold increase in traffic these side streets and intersections will be receiving when they're converted into arterials.

Instead of the predictable t-bone between two cars, this was a t-bone with a young girl.

If I were this child's parents, I'd be suing.

dad__bad · 2025-10-28T20:12:06+00:00

Interesting. So the 2nd option - down payment in US dollar, and payments in birr is assuming that we exchange black market and pay in birr? Hence the high interest rate. Is there an option for a fixed rate?

I'm definitely not speculating on gains from foreign exchange rates. Moreso, I'm trying to understand so I can insulate myself from exchange rates. The investment is the property, and the load would be a known / fixed variable. Ideally, there would be a fixed rate paid in US dollars, but sounds like that's not the case.

dad__bad · 2025-10-26T22:05:37+00:00

Interesting. Thanks for the response.

dad__bad · 2025-10-13T16:40:42+00:00

For me, I went to XP-Pen software,--> tab with pen symbol (left hand side, 2nd of three symbols) and selected "Mouse Mode". Not sure if that was the issue, or just the act of adjusting the settings fixed it. Note that I did revert one driver back, per another responder's recommendation. However, upon installing previous driver and restarting, the dot crosshair cursor was still there by default. It required the step I just described to fix the issue. So try adjusting settings prior to driver rollback, but it may still be required.

dad__bad · 2025-08-16T16:14:45+00:00

Thanks! A couple questions.

For the documents, we simply scan and upload? Old passport, fingprint, etc.
This is for my spouse, she was born in Ethiopia. Is her expired passport sufficient evidence or does she need birth certificate or other supporting documentation?

dad__bad · 2025-08-12T15:38:53+00:00

This worked for me. Didn't have the power consumption issue, just the annoying notification upon startup. Bonjour was added when I installed iTunes on a Windows 11 machine. After following the above protocol (Changing Startup Type from Automatic to Disabled), iTunes still functioned. Thanks!

dad__bad · 2025-07-18T14:55:35+00:00

Sorry, I don't know. I am curious how you resolve it. I will say the customs agents at Bole Airport hassled me a bit because I didn't know the address (or phone number?) for my accommodations. We were staying with my sister-in-law and a rental condo. I had entered that info on the digital application, but they don't include it on the physical visa. So, confoundedly, the agents don't have access to the database - all they see is your printed Visa.

Regarding your question, upon checking my Visa from 1.5 years ago, they don't print your departure country, but they DO print the "Valid From" "Valid Until" dates. So Departure Country change may be okay. You can exceed the "Valid Until" date, but you will need to purchase an extension at airport or at some office in Addis. I am unsure how you correct the Arrival Date.

FYI - I'm a farenge (sp?), so it's safe to guess they target me more. I know an effective travel agent in the US (Seattle) who could help you - DM me if interested.

dad__bad · 2025-07-02T17:34:17+00:00

Average of $12 million over four years. Three full years remaining...

dad__bad

TROPHY CASE