Adult Diapers and a catering truck

#Ableism #DonSnoreleone #DiaperDon

If you have already heard as much as you care to of the President having to skulk out of the real #AirForceOne on a catering truck and fly to England in a different plane with no call sign and don't want the joy of a RantWoman rant about ableism, feel free to go chase other elements of the plane story somewhere else.

RantWoman's basic points:

--Impressive, respectful comments about both Pesidents Roosevelt and the Biden doing travel in spite of infirmities, challenges.

--Whatever the current President's medical issues with his digestive and excretory systems, he clearly has had the issues for a long time. RantWoman HOPES he is deeply embarrassed about them but also sincerely wishes that someone in his life would help him manage better than is currently occurring. The President would still be an odious individual but MAYBE he would stink less.

--Worst of all, on top of the ableist mockery, the US SUPPOSEDLY decimated Iran's military capacity. But President #Stablegenius STILL had to be moved to an incognito plane. Of COURSE. Of Course!

Excellent e bike irritation

#JournweyMap

E bike blocking sidewalk
at bus stop

Has RantWoman mentioned in, say, the last 10 minutes that she finds it really easy just indiscriminately to HATE all scooters, #BikeShare and EBike vehicles.

 The photo here is one reason why.

Will people want to walk along the sidewalk blocked by this #LimeBike? People getting off the back of the bus might.

RantWoman meant to post this a couple days ago in hopes that the sidewalk blocking bike renter would have opportunity to mend their ways.

Here, though, there is an aspect of celebration!

RantWoman came across this sidewalk impediment because, she had just left PT feeling great. Also the bus stop closest to her PT appointment was closed and RantWoman did not have the option of minimal walking with transfers from one route to another at the same bus stop. RantWoman was going to have to walk somewhere. She was actually THRILLED to be able to walk strongly all the way to the stop with the wayward EBike.

Two, count them two sets of compression bands

Very cool YouTube channel, and ...

 The First point: Check out the Living in Seattle with Sean McConnell YouTube channel. YouTube generously sent RantWoman this item about walkability. RantWoman is going to start here but YouTube promises other Seattle-themed videos that RantWoman will look at later.

A few fast points from RantWoman's entirely non-driver perspective:

Sean mentions WalkScore values for each neighborhood mentioned. RantWoman needs to check what exactly goes into WalkScore  because  in RantWoman's experience mileage will vary. 

Mileage will vary based on steepness of many walking routes, very uneven condition of sidewalks and level of traffic and road noise, as well as need for amenities like curb ramps and cycling infrastructure. 

RantWoman would find it interesting to think about these aspects of the built environment in relation to housing costs, but that analysis is not on the agenda tonight. 

Also, not on the agenda: the features of the exact routes a person will travel most often. This might be housing / work / school / shopping. Or, in the case of RantMom's last days, the RantSisters were glad to be able to place RantMom mid city at an Adult Family Home on Boyer Avenue in Montlake. The location was accessible both for RantWoman with white cane and Little Sister with her wheelchair. We also got intimately familiar with all sorts of sidewalk hiccups between the bus stop and the facility. At least RantMom was one bus away from the RantSisters instead of the much longer travel time to RantMom's previous retirement community almost to Renton.

RantWoman digresses but a big consideration in the RantFamily has been people who want to live close but not too close.

One interesting crowd source world for more information is a project through the UW Taskar center called AccessMap. More on AccessMap separately.

Last weekend RantWoman was invited to a potluck deep in residential Ballard, 10 blocks off 24th Ave NW. It was a bright sunny day. RantWoman figured in Ballard the odds of continuous if imperfect sidewalk routing to and from bus stops were decent. Google Maps was reasonably helpful. And that part of Ballard has glorious vegetation and magnificent views of Puget Sound.

RantWoman has a lot more to say about walkability for people of different abilities, but not tonight. 

One closing tip when making decisions about locations, go there on whatever mode(s) of transportation you are going to rely on. This may mean needing to tell a real estate agent "no thank you" about offers a ride, but it's going to be your housing.

And if transportation realities look less than optimal but you have energy for political engagement, a number of neighborhoods have very active community organizations working to upgrade problematic situations.

Another eldercare digression: the RantSisters rejected several adult family homes without even a visit because of travel time, iffy sidewalks, and steep grade between location and bus stop.

#JourneyMap

A story is real enough even if produced with AI

 #Deaf #ASL #Inclusion

definitely a feel-good story but not only.

August is National Make a Will Month and ACB has partnered with a site called Free Will to get started

#EstatePlanning

#Beneficiary 

Between RantMom's passing and a recent MAJOR birthday, the subject of a will was already on RantWoman's mind. And LOOK, info from the American Council of the Blind.

August is National Make-A-Will Month! Creating or updating your will is simple with our partner, FreeWill, and can be done online in as little as 20 minutes at no cost. Get started here: https://t.co/UDlb8CcZsD pic.twitter.com/WO1hWJyxNg

— American Council of the Blind (@acbnational) August 5, 2026

The Direct link to the Free will site

FreeWill

The site invites one to plunge in immediately. RantWoman considers the exercise important enough to tackle during daylight.

RantWoman is excited to hear about the partnerships involved.

One more piece of free advice: remembering the American Council of the Blind acb.org in one's will is a great idea, but ACB could also be mentioned as a beneficiary for various policies and trusts. RantWoman considers it a good problem to have encountered such topics. Thank you, NOT rantParents, RantWoman is also frank about, gee, good financial literacy is never a bad idea.

Spectator in Someone Else's Election: the SC GOP Senate primary

#SCpol

Early Voting August 5-7. Primary Vote August 11

Sen. Darline Graham "I'm not a millionaire."

RantWoman votes in WA not SC but does believe in understanding the various flavors of #GOP Kool-aid.

RantWoman is amused by a voice on Twitter / X complaining about everyone outside SC telling SC Voters how to vote. Noted. But we all live in the same country and have to figure out how to work together.

Once in a while a circumstance comes along that sparks RantWoman's curiosity about a political race far from RantWoman's home turf. This election cycle, RantWoman is going to look into the SC #GOP Senatorial primary.

Here to get things started, the SC #GOP Senatorial debate.

RantWoman notes with interest that neither of the Intro commentators have what RantWoman expects to be a southern accent.

Extremely interesting initial polling.

Also based on clips RantWoman saw elsewhere: pay attention to the positions about data centers; starting about minute 58.

Concerns about utility impact but "we have to compete with China."

One against FLOCK cameras, surveillance state

SAVE Act and filibuster about minute 1:02

"Make 'em talk all night"

Abolish filibuster because Dems are going to do it anyway.

Voter Id Voter ID

Immigrants: stealing jobs, sucking up health care capacity get rid of waste fraud abuse

National security threat of 8000 Afghan refugees (RantWoman goes off: theseare interpreters, translators, people who have risked their and their families' lives to assist the US)

Concern about interest on debt

Healthcare: let (make) people shop. Health savings accounts

Foreign policy Minute 1:16

Closing statement: about Medicaid expansion. 

Spin room about 1:30

PLANTERS! But can something REALLY prickly get planted to prevent inappropriate "deposits?"

New Planters on the North side
of South Walker St.

 RantWoman has this apparently quaint expectation that she should be able to walk unimpeded from the back door of her building to a bus stop a mere block away.

RantWoman calls this a quaint expectation because the sidewalk and the adjacent street seem to look VERY appealing to people who need to park random vehicles, do inexplicable bicycle repairs and generally strew the details and accoutrements of their daily lives all over the sidewalk. 

Actually, RantWoman is being diplomatic and is deliberately not attempting in-depth analysis of what else goes on.

This is a long and sordid story and sometimes RantWoman has to vary her route to the bus stop if she cannot clearly tell that the sidewalk is passable. Needing to vary an intended route is doubly irksome because RantWoman lately has suddenly over the last several months been dealing with ARTHRITIS.

Anyway, RantWoman is VERY excited today to see brand new planters installed.

RantWoman will ask around but hopes that tending the planters are someone's Adopt-a-Street project because they WILL need regular attention.

RantWoman will also be thrilled if the planters get filled with something extremely prickly, like rosemary or ...to reduce anyone's temptation to make the sort of disgusting deposits that turn up when people do not have proper bathroom facilities.

The Smell of Desperation: Democracy Docket in the thick of fights to ruin elections.

#ExecutiveOrder #MailInVoting #SCOTUS #ShadowDocket

Just FOLLOW MARC ELIAS!

https://demdock.com/4fBUQam

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The President endorses Lindsay Graham's sister in the SC GOP Primary.

 #SCpol #VocationalRehabilitation

RantWoman is not sure the opinion of a legally blind person from the other Washington is going to carry much weight in South Carolina but here goes: Darline Graham has been the head of the state agency for the blind for a long time. She probably knows her way around SC politics really well and MAYBE around some dimensions of national policy better than people expect just from the fact of her being Lindsay's sister. Can she work across the aisle? We wouldn't know just from the SC = red state logic, but blindness is a non-partisan challenge. Progress comes from people who can work together and draw out the best in each other. (Don't tell the President in case any of this sounds too "woke.") People who don't talk about Darline's professional life are being both sexist and disrespectful of the people her agency serves. But maybe talking too much about this will just make the President sour on her. As someone whose first reflex is always to want more women in the Senate, Darline also comes across as a lot less crazy than Nancy Mace. RantWoman doesn't vote in SC but would still also want to see a good Democrat make a run for it too.

Previously on this topic

Adventures of RantWoman: Contacts Matter. So does competence

Contacts Matter. So does competence

 #DarlineGraham #DisabilityPrideMonth #VocationalRehabilitation

RantWoman does not usually cite talking AI-generated cats when looking for news stories. Here, though, "we will watch this evolving story" is a blessedly neutral contrast to all the different howling voices of the internet commentariat!  Treat the other stories here with caution. Still, RantWoman is inspired to try to plow through the online howling, to congratulate the newly appointed Senator Graham or Senator Graham Nordone, RantWoman is unsure of the preferred usage, and to see what can happen when people actually try to work across the aisle. 

Darlene Graham Nordone has been the Commissioner of the SC Commission of the Blind. She has a master's degree in vocational rehabilitation services and has a long career working with the blind in SC. The commissioner of a state agency almost certainly works closely with the governor. This should reasonably give her a leg up, even compared to other female political figures in SC.

Darline Graham is not a professional politician but she clearly has a long career working in political environments.

Now here come the tangled internet commentaries.

Some voices claim that Darline Graham was appointed to the Senate just because she is the late Sen. Graham's sister,. RantWoman has definitely heard that line from the left-leaning YouTube voices that come RantWoman's way. Not doing homework to find out actual qualifications is one thing. 

Even worse is a gratuitous diss that  "she does fine as an optician but that does not make her qualified to serve in the Senate." 

Come again? RantWoman has not seen any recognition of a optician certification. RantWoman has seen documentation about a Master's Degree in Vocational Rehabilitation. RantWoman would hope that a Commissioner of the State Commission of the Blind would not have to be making eyeglasses for the people she serves. RantWoman has also heard enough glasses nightmare stories that it might be really convenient to have someone who understands eyeglasses when it comes to matching blind and visually impaired people with the tools that will help them thrive, gain employment, function in modern society.

More importantly, having a brother in the Senate who respects one's work could be really, really helpful when advocating about need for resources and it would be a genuine mark of respect for the late Senator to want to support the asks she brings. RantWoman would like to find more media info about this, but that is not happening tonight.

"A woman would never be elected in her own right in SC."

Uhhh, thank you Nikki Haley for speaking up. Enough said? 

Nikki Haley's Got Something to Say to the 'Ladies' at 'The View' – PJ Media

RantWoman thinks it is about darn time that there was a woman Senator from SC, but RantWoman thinks that about a lot of states.

It would be safe to imagine that RantWoman disagrees strongly with the late Senator Graham about A LOT of things; RantWoman definitely would not mind if the newly appointed Senator Graham deviates from some of her brother's views.

The main point: blindness is not a partisan issue! Getting things done in the nation's capital is hard work and a lot of erstwhile journalists need to do their homework a lot better. Can everyone also try to think about ways people can work TOGETHER. RantWoman realizes it's not fashionable. Do it anyway.

Announcing...a major age threshold

 

Look,

It's a MAJOR birthday for RantWoman. RantWoman will be celebrating by inviting herself to dine with a number of different friends because why stop at one celebration.

RantWoman has had a very celebratory day. Scratch that. RantWoman made a delicious omelet to use up things in her refrigerator before an out-of-town trip.

RantWoman received a birthday email and offer of celebratory cupcake flages (cupcake flags?)  from her graduate alma mater. The offer makes RantWoman smile at least.

RantWoman has also made herself ANOTHER spinoff blog.

RantWoman of Age

RantWoman will be easing slowly into what she wants to do so please bear with the bare bones presentation.

Ah Expectations and more of an adventure than one hopes.

Yesterday RantWoman set out on one of her occasional "OK, let's just try it" transit expeditions. Delivering something time-sensitive to Lynnwood in person sounded like, oddly, more fun than just using overnight mail. RantWoman also wanted to get back to Seattle for a late afternoon medical appointment. RantWoman was optimistic based on a late morning start. 

RantWoman is a grown-up. MAYBE RantWoman could have planned better. Maybe.

RantWoman first used Google Maps to her destination or basically how to get from the Lynnwood City Center station to a street address in Lynnwood. Google suggested several bus routings, all of which involved some walking from the last bus stop. 

The Lynnwood City Center station does not have great signage about how to find buses. Even worse, there is no sign at all marking a RideShare pickup area. More on that in a moment.

RantWoman does not have a great mental map yet of the Lynnwood transit center or of a path to the buses. There is wordy signage at the Light Rail station but RantWoman yearns for a more graphical presentation, with large enough letters that someone like her could read it, of course. 

RantWoman does not know Lynnwood very well but has an overwhelming impression of many cars, wide streets, probably sidewalks and MAYBE accessible pedestrian signals. So RantWoman was NOT excited about any bus routing that did not say something like "Walk 50 feet to your destination" from the last bus stop.

At some point RantWoman realized that her destination was near enough to Alderwood Mall that it probably is in the service area for the Community Transit Zip service.

Clap clap clap. RantWoman has previously, a long time ago, had good experience with Zip and a friend also uses Zip. RantWoman knows how to find the Zip / paratransit pickup area. There are nice benches.

RantWoman also checked FindARide. Destination definitely in the service for Zip. RantWoman has not set up a full profile on Find a Ride, but RantWoman checked several categories that apply to her including age, disability, use of a white cane. Find a ride definitely suggested the Zip service.

None of those options appear to be available on the Zip app. File that.

RantWoman has previously, quite a while ago had quite easy positive experience with Zip except for that version of the app being useless in accessibility terms. The App is better now. RantWoman learned this after ring, ring, I would like to book a ride. The first call: we have no record of you and there is not a ride available. Try the app. Call back in 20 minutes.

The app is better behaved than long ago. The app also gave RantWoman the same set of routes that Google gave her. It took two more calls at 20-minute intervals to actually book a ride.  RantWoman had to persuade the call taker that she is blind / low vision and intended to pay with her ORCA card disabled pass. Then a Zip vehicle showed up. The driver did not have the name identified. He waited but a rider never showed up. RantWoman also got a message that a driver had appeared but not found RantWoman and had gone away. So SOMETHING is confused and confusing.

By this time, RantWoman was climbing the walls. Summoning an Uber was feasible financially, if only RantWoman could find the RideShare pickup area. If only.

RantWoman and the Uber driver did manage to connect because RantWoman was able to tell him where she was. Yay Uber driver. Good tip.

Based on the length of the ride, RantWoman realized the distance might be walkable, if RantWoman were not feeling pressed for time and willing just to set out and trust Google walking directions. RantWoman has uneven experience with Google walking directions and did not feel like experimenting. If RantWoman makes the trip again, she will also try to summon more enthusiasm for one of the bus options.

The destination also turned out to be a quite non-descript office park with decent sidewalk but pretty subtle signage. 

But Voila! RantWoman arrived, made one wrong guess about how to find the office she needed and at last connected with a very nice human she has been emailing with for a while.

RantWoman summoned an Uber for the return trip to Lynnwood City Center. Bravo. RantWoman now understands how to find the Ride Share pickup area. File that.

RantWoman also realized that she just needed to reschedule a medical appointment she had hoped to get back to Seattle in time for. Sigh.

And a closing note: the Zip phone line kept offering RantWoman a satisfaction survey at the end of the call. At the end of the third call, RantWoman asked the woman not to route her to the survey. RantWoman just figured the survey would not capture everything RantWoman was cross about. Word!

President Combover's Name sign

 #ASL 

RantWoman's posted comments

I will not make fun of senile elderly people. I will not make fun of senile elderly people. I will not... OH HELL. President #StableGenius, #GrandpaSleepyhead #DonSnoreleone Grandpa #CombOver HATES everything to do with accessibility and #PWD and besides, the #ADA is optional, don't you know? At age 80, it's time for him to GROW UP and COPE. Much to be hoped for anyway.

Thank you for explaining the visuals. I am low vision and miss a lot of that.

(Visual description: signer runs right hand past top of head and wiggles fingers like the President's combover.)

Waymo anecdotally, and in the news

 First a Waymo news item, posted without further comment.

Next, one of RantWoman's best friends from high school visited Seattle over the weekend. This friend is now a doctor based in LA. She and another best friend recently had a somewhat harrowing experience involving hills in San Francisco. RantWoman does not recall all the details. Sigh.

Doctor friend noted a frequent problem reported to her: the Waymo just arrives and announces that it is around a corner, down a block, too far away for someone with a walker to reach at all or within the time Waymo allows. Let us not forget need to cross a busy street. There is also the same issue blind people report with Uber: how to find the Uber or Waymo

RantWoman knows there is software in the world that helps a driver get near someone with a cellphone. RantWoman has NO idea why implementing that should not be automatic. RantWoman also has no opinion about how blind people can identify a place it is safe to wait.

Doctor friend noted that there are many reasons that people might need extra time to get into or out of the vehicle. RantWoman wonders whether there could be some options either to configure a setting or to adjust for each different passenger.

RantWoman did learn that there are now Waymo vans. This sounds promising for people who use wheelchairs, but RantWoman has yet to see any information about securing one's mobility device once one gets inside.

But Onward!

Way to go algae? Is it time yet for President #StableGenius finally JUST TO RETIRE???

 #USA250 #America250 #Semiquincentennial #Iran

Like most of the US keyboard wranglers on the internet, RantWoman HAS THINGS TO SAY about the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the state of the US and the world as of today.

Today's eruptions: 

1. is it ever unpatriotic to root for the algae?

2. The RantWoman Department of First World Problems refuses to opine about world news until the NY Times GIVES HER THE DANG CROSSWORD PUZZLE. The opportunity to complain choked about some aspect of Android accessibility but yielded a boilerplate spam about a whole bunch of things that might be wrong due to them making articles about the Middle East Peace deal gift links for literally everyone. And RantWoman STILL does not have today's crossword puzzle.

3. RantWoman does NOT share the outrage erupting about the #DonSnoreleone memorandum of understanding about the Iran War. Before we get to the substance of RantWoman's perspective though, let us also take note of the flood of videos about how badly President #StableGenius is performing at the #G7 summit. The most charitable way to start would just be to note that at age 80, no one should be expected to party the evening away for their birthday and hop on a plane to look all perky for an international summit while dragging jet lag and no sleep. 

Please. though, dear readers indulge RantWoman: between international embarrassment at the #G7 summit and outrage from so many quarters about the #MemorandumOfUnderstanding, has the US FINALLY hit the kind of tipping point that can find #GrandpaSleepyhead a smooth glide toward genteel retirement with as many naps as he needs and as much golf as he can do? Hear that Mr. #DonOld?

4. Only some of the REALLY cringy clips of #DonSnoreleone does the summit.

VIRAL MOMENT: Donald Trump's Interaction With Brigitte Sparks Buzz As Macron Steps In | World News

9 minutes of French presidential couple photo op and cars driving around Versaille before #DiaperDon tries TWICE to grab kisses from Brigitte Macron.

Trump Gets EVEN MORE UNHINGED During G7 Meeting

'When you are that rich…': From Trump’s wisecracks to Meloni’s priceless face, cracky G7 moments

FULL HOT MIC: G7 Leaders CAUGHT ON TAPE Joking About Trump, Cigarettes and Documents! [SUBTITLED]

Trump’s Childish Behavior with World Leaders, Republicans Bash His Iran Deal & Guillermo’s Huge News

Trump STROKES OUT, STUNS room of diplomats

"Letting #GrandpaSleepyhead out in public should be considered elder abuse."

Trump Stomach DISASTER Shocks Entire Room

WATCH: World Leaders VISIBLY WINCE as Trump Suffers SUDDEN STRUGGLES! - YouTube

Trump's Health IMPLODES In Front of World At G-7 Summit

There. Now RantWoman will resume her planned rant threads about #UX in a certain PT app, information overload served up by Yelp, and a quest for moderate price range dining with outdoor seating and good parking for a friend coming to visit who WILL rent a car no matter what RantWoman says about the silliness of doing so.

MInimal walking plus bananas.

 RantWoman's consumption of bananas has everything to do with how she COPES with everything there is to cope with. Details matter, both the product and how the product gets stowed in shopping bags to come home.

RantWoman's banana preferences: on the small side, slightly green so that a bunch will last several days without heading toward banana bread. These details are not to be found when ordering online.

Banana happiness

A couple weeks ago, RantWoman had an opportunity to bananas across the street from an event she participated in. Buying bananas there would have made bus travel home a breeze via one easy transfer. The bananas were perfect size. The transportation realities were perfect. The bananas were already way to yellow AND the price, even considering the time savings from not having to travel, was through the roof. So no bananas that time.

Things went much better Friday, but first the other point of the journey.

Friday, RantWoman had a long-awaited physical therapy appointment in theU district. RantWoman, thankfully, was able to walk from the bus stop to the clinic without massive pain. Thank you, YouTube coaching; at the time of the referral RantWoman had been in too much pain even to think about an outside referral. The therapist observed that RantWoman "walk(s) like someone with arthritis. Right. So glad you noticed.

RantWoman's experience is that physical therapists are VERY good at analyzing what might need stretching and what might need strengthening. In a couple cases RantWoman came home with suggested exercises that amounted to "Do what you are already doing but add resistance." RantWoman can do that! RantWoman is going to have to schedule in a little more time daily to add new exercises. 

A really cool angle about the exercises. First step: demonstrate and practice at the clinic. Second step an email exercise routine from a resource called Medbridge. RantWoman happily gave permission to send email. The link arrived. Heaven. Each exercise labelled with the recommended frequency and number of reps. The images were presented in clear simple graphics, with both audio and text. There is a browser version and an app version. The app even appears to hound the user and RantWoman is dutifully going to figure out the data recording as well as which exercises to rotate on which days. RantWoman is SO excited to try things.

RantWoman is getting ahead of herself though. Physical therapy takes a lot of energy. RantWoman clearly needs to do her exercises because even before the PT session, RantWoman has trouble standing too long. RantWoman left PT a little sore but energized. RantWoman thought of tackling a couple errands but did not argue when her body thought that was not necessary. Instead, RantWoman walked out of the clinic, found the bus stop, hopped one bus that took her to a bus with a perfect connection to a favorite banana buying option.

Here we come to...RantWoman's recommendations about packing bananas.

1. Bananas NEVER belong on the bottom of the shopping bag.

2. Never make a bunch of bananas rest only on the back of one banana.

3. Excellent banana packing is a little bit of an architectural exercise. Pack the bananas on top of other grocery items so that both the stem end and the other end bear the weight of the whole bunch. Pack the bananas over something sturdy enough to support the banana bunch.

RantWoman also has been encouraged to look for a water exercise class. Figuring this out and scheduling will take more time. With banana needs well metand well packed for the trip home, RantWoman is on it.

Will World Cup games be available through OneCourt?

#WorldCup2026 #CopaMundial

RantWoman's personal experience with team sports: in public school, RantWoman REALLY liked volleyball, as long as all she had to do was serve. Quaintly, teams rotate positions and RantWoman's visual experience--double-vision, lousy depth perception, general lack of coordination got in the way of fielding. This personal ineptitude has also mostly translated to general lack of interest in team sports.

In particular RantWoman is NOT a giant fan of stadium sports. For one thing, a lot of the time RantWoman can neither visually track what is on the field nor follow narration provided by announcers. 

(yes, yes. Some games have audio description or really good broadcast narration. RantWoman still is not charmed enough about the social aspects of team sports to manage to follow very much.

RantWoman may have to reconsider this conceptual allergy, thanks to OneCourt

 What is OneCourt you ask?

OneCourt is the world's first tactile way to experience sports events. RantWoman first encountered OneCourt at a demo a local blindness group chapter meeting. That day, RantWoman decided her hands were too full of pizza sauce and the line of people wanting to try it was too long. RantWoman just listened.

RantWoman still has not quite tracked the technology that allows the product to track players and render their moves in a way that blind or low vision people can enjoy.  OneCourt exists at some sport venues. OneCourt devices are or soon will be availabe for individual purchase. RantWoman is probably not interested for herself either in attending World Cup games or in buying a device. But RantWoman is definitely intrigued enough to tell other people about it and to ask whether any World Cup games will have a OneCourt stream?

Friday Night Fare Media?

#FareEnforcement

So there RantWoman was, on her way home from an afternoon of errands. The sky is clear blue. There is full sunshine with a pleasant breeze when what to RantWoman's febrile mind should wander: FARE MEDIA?

Puget Sound transit agencies love it when people pay fares with ORCA Cards, passes, or now amazingly credit cards.

Digression: RantWoman was asked recently how to find RFID blocking wallet or other way to keep one's bus pass separate enough from one's credit cards to avoid accidentally paying bus fare with a credit card. This is especially important since RantWoman has not looked up how the pay by credit card process works if one has a "regional reduced fare permit" (RRFP), colloquially a disabled pass. 

RantWoman's answer: go to your favorite store and #AskAHuman . RantWoman's first thought was "look on Amazon." Based on what RantWoman knows about this beloved senior's digital prowess, "look on Amazon" is a silly answer.

RantWoman knows a lot of people who just don't do technology and / or don't have bank accounts. Here RantWoman's free range policy analysis instincts wandered back to Metro's recent fare enforcement report. RantWoman has been doing civic participation in a lot of meetings talking about transit fares and fare enforcement. One key moment the report does not address at all: people who don't have bank accounts, like to pay for things in cash and need to pay fares to go anywhere need places near them where they can pay for passes or put money on their ORCA cards. 

So if RantWoman were evaluating the effectiveness of fare enforcement officers, RantWoman would want to know something about agreements with businesses throughout the area to sell ORCA cards. RantWoman would want to know something about how many such locations there are and whether fare enforcement efforts have resulted in more people using places near where they live to get ORCA cards. This question is not in the ordinance the report responds to so RantWoman is just going to toss the topic into the conversation and let public servants take it from there.

FIFA travel advisory

 #FIFA  #FAFO

Probably if RantWoman posts vids like this, YouTube will send RantWoman more FIFA content.

Readers can search on #FIFA or #FIFAWorldCup for other previous posts cataloguing previous videos

RantWoman would SO like to have a president who does not generate the kinds of warnings and boycott threats that President #StableGenius is ginning up.

RantWoman is firing up her transit knowledge bank preparing to have as normal a life as possible. RantWoman is glad to know some other conversations are taking place and is has full confidence in very articulate voices involved. Stay tuned.

The World Cup Ban ⚽🔥 They Tried to Stop Iran - YouTube

If we are VERY lucky RantWoman will also manage enough soccer literacy to at least hold her own for conversations with far more rabid fans. Maybe

Trump FREAKS OUT as MAJOR EVENT COLLAPSES

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Icelandair bad Photographer Contest

One of RantWoman's
daily tree(s) photos

There are only a few days left to enter the IcelandAir "Really bad photographer" contest.

RantWoman encourages everyone who might be intrigued or even just slightly interested to read the contest guidelines.

Really bad photographer | Icelandair US

The only small accessibility blip: Must be able to interact and choose one of 5 emojis to respond to one of the questions.

Need some tips?

• Just be yourself, no script needed.

• Share any other skills you have other than being bad at photography.

• What excites you most about this opportunity?

• Got a memorable photography fail? Tell us about it!

   

So there RantWoman was one night watching volcanic eruption videos, one of RantWoman's fave diversions from other horrors of the current timeline. There was a volcano erupting in Grundjavik for several days. The eruption was the kind of slow meltdown that opened wide features and crept closer and closer to a village until part of the village had to be evacuated. 

That eruption has faded from RantWoman's media streams, but along with the eruption videos YouTube sent RantWoman several videos of things one might do while visiting Iceland. The videos featured a certain amount of rugged hiking, sometimes in rainstorms, as well as ordinary daylife activities such as going to the grocery store or swimming in a completely non-chlorinated geothermally heated pool. 

The rugged hiking sometimes in pouring rain sounds like maybe not the biggest sell, but a possible trip to Iceland in June when days are longest still intrigues RantWoman enough to do a couple posts turning over the idea of entering the contest.

And why the tree motif? STAY TUNED.