Site of the former Westgate Fire Station
I felt a certain degree of safety when the old Westgate Fire Station operated out of the building at 1550 Rocky Point Road. The photo shows the cinder-block structure as it looked before the new tenant, Olympic Mountain Rescue, painted and reroofed it last summer. Although I have never made a 9-1-1 call in my life, living a mile from a fire station was reassuring, even one staffed by volunteers.
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Posted in Government, Mud Bay & Rocky Point
DIY task: Please supply your own color photo of President Trump.
This morning, while watching his Rose Garden speech about the “deal” to end the government shutdown, I wondered, again, if it would be appropriate to recycle former Major League Baseball player Rusty Staub’s nickname when referring to President Trump. With his carrot-top hairdo and tanning-salon-hued skin, the president clearly fits the bill for the third word of the wondrous French phrase Le Grand Orange. He falls short, though, when you consider the true meaning of the second word.
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Return to sender.
Last week, in a senior moment, I mailed in my final 2018 quarterly tax payment with one big omission. Yep, I forgot to stick on a Forever stamp (currently $.50 in postage), thus denying the letter a smooth flight to the IRS office in San Francisco. And now forever is due (see photo).
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Read and heed
Posted in Government, Mud Bay & Rocky Point
For some reason when I woke up this morning a reminder popped into my head that a quarterly tax payment to the United States Treasury is due on Tuesday. Normally my income tax preparer sends me a reminder by email well ahead of time. I didn’t hear from her last week. Perhaps she thinks I’m trained and no longer need one.
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A story in yesterday’s Seattle Times detailed how the Port of Seattle missed out on collecting almost $400,000 in revenue from the SeaTac Airport parking garage because of credit-card charges that were never processed. So far some 10,500 people have parked there for free. Buried in the article’s online comments was a nugget about how to continue to get free parking.
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My friend R. B. and I rarely make a bet that isn’t full of loopholes. Even so, the bets always get paid off. This time the bet seems solid. I think I have a winner although I’m depending on the State of Washington to make it so.
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Enforcement depends on the direction you are driving.
Looking south toward the 11th and Warren intersection
A five-vehicle, seven-person process
Posted in Government, Mud Bay & Rocky Point
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