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Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety
Midweek Roundup: yet again
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Showing posts with label resilience and Recovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resilience and Recovery. Show all posts
Monday, April 27, 2026
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Nope. Not COVID, but...
#pandemic #COVID19 #COVID
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| What's left of RantMom in her new home |
Possibly of interest:
RantWoman and the RSOF: Jessie Cornwell Memorial Invitation, updated
RantMom "departed for other realms exactly two months ago. Therefore, we interrupt the daily war coverage for...
--meditations on obituary writing process wrangling a whole life story into plausible obituary versions for different platforms
--effort both to collaborate with Little Sister and to tread among family religious and other emotional landmines.
--inchoate ranting about one popular obituary platform whose accessibility for RantWoman SUCKS.
Uhhh, how about just do the COVID piece?
Ding! Ding!
Adapted from the current draft of the obituary:
(RantMom) became good friends with the first Ida Culver Ravenna Resident to die of COVID. She tested positive herself cleared the virus and did not develop symptoms. The pandemic lockdown was very hard for everyone. The staff's meticulous observance of rules and safety practices as well as use of vaccines as soon as they became available ensured that COVID did not hit that community nearly as hard as other retirement facilities.
(RantMom) and several other residents of Ida culver Ravenna moved to The Lakeshore, along with numerous other residents of Ida Culver Ravenna. At the Lakeshore, residents enjoyed an expansive view of Lake Washington and resident bald eagles nesting in a tree near the dining room. Art shows, special speakers, music and dance performances and other activities kept life as lively as (RantMom) wanted.
The last year of RantMom's life at the Lakeshore was rough: Her younger brother died of prostate cancer. She had a lingering bout of actual COVID, not just testing positive and clearing the virus without symptoms as she had done previously.
Other chronic issues were becoming more and more draining. Even so, she continued to volunteer weekly at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. To RantMom, this was a means to pay forward the excellent medical care she had received during her multiple battles with cancer.
RantMom's last few weeks were a blur of hospital, skilled nursing, and ultimately placement at the Agape Senior Care at Montlake -- with its extremely loving directors and staff -- where she passed away peacefully thirty years and six months to the day after (RantDad).
Reprise on the topic of RantMom and #COVID
Adventures of RantWoman: Dinner and Plague
Adventures of RantWoman: Tested Negative!
(Part of RantWoman's own experience with "the 'rona."
There are probably other posts that reference both COVID and RantMom but this has to be enough for now
Adventures of RantWoman: Virus plus car ride plus pastor plus pandemic and worship plus pentecost
Adventures of RantWoman: Today in Corona Virus News
Adventures of RantWoman: Data Dump plus Neil Degrasse Tyson suggesting people listen to Science
precautions at a different retirement community
Adventures of RantWoman: Pollen or Plague? With a side of #DigitalInclusion
Monday, February 16, 2026
Saturday, January 31, 2026
AHEM. Blowing whistles is protected first amendment activity...and...
The whistle code:
three short blasts: ICE has been sighted.
(Oh, Good! Just what RantWoman wants in the pedestrian environment allegedly increasing public safety: violent, poorly trained, unidentified, unaccountable goons. SURE. Sure, as in MANY local police officers and reportedly, even some people within ICE will attest)
One long continuous blast: ABDUCTION
(phrasing on the instruction sheet)
Regardless of where one comes down on federal officials grabbing people off the street, pepper spraying citizens trying to record what they are doing, and spewing lies, Lies, LIES (Can anyone tell RantWoman is a little biased?) RantWoman needs to go off about one aspect of the literal whistleblowing campaign: a bunch of whistles going off all around one is likeluy to be DARNED confusing to blind pedestrians. RantWoman also notes that there may be other people with mobility issues or personal reasons to need to find paths to safety, paths AWAY from places crowds may be running toward.
RantWoman bases the observation about difficulty identifying the sources of whistles on what she has heard in a number of videos about ICE / Border Patrol actions in Minneapolis and other cities. RantWoman has NO desire to use her limited eyeball time on videos getting analyzed in minute detail. RantWoman does, though, want to encourage people responding to whistle alerts to look around and #ASKDontGrab if someone nearby might need help finding paths to safety.
One more comment for #PWD who DO want to go to protests: there are any number of options for training and opportunities to game out different issues. RantWoman highly recommend both finding a compatible training / collaboration opportunity and just planning to go with a buddy.
Reference about the first amendment issue.
Blowing whistles is protected first amendment activity
Minneapolis Star Tribune cited here:
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Flood waters. Flood waters. And magnificent Snoqualmie falls
#wawx #AtmosphericRivers
Snoqualmie Falls, WA flood stage 12/10/2025
RantWoman has the luxury of being warm and dry and in a comfortable position to watch water gush across Snoqualmie Falls.
Below RantWoman is offering a TINY fraction of the YouTube links available along with some pointed commentary.
Flooding in MT and ID too.
For more options, check out kiro7.com/flooding
CNN reporter unfamiliar with local pronunciations
Someone needs to say this and RantWoman ardently hopes other people also say it:
EVERYONE who needs or offers help deserves respect REGARDLESS of nationality OR immigration status.
EVERYONE also needs to know "You drive a car, not a boat," though judging by some videos RantWoman has seen, the message is not necessarily sinking in.
Federal assistance matters and use of military resources in disaster relief is the ONLY appropriate use of the military within the US.
PS ICE, keep your clueless undertrained thugs THE HELL OUT of everything to do with this disaster. For one thing, there are so many dangers that RantWoman is speaking bluntly out of safety concerns. Swiftwater rescue is NOT a time to be checking people's documents and if people need to evacuate, they need to evacuate.
For another thing, RantWoman remembers all the accounts of essential but undocumented crews working very hard during recovery from Hurricane katrina. The same is likely to be true in Western WA.
Monday, December 8, 2025
Make America Great Again--FOR GERMS!
Trump SCREWS UP BAD as DISEASE SPREADS
The short version: FIGHT AUTHORITARIANISM get your babies vaccinated. Get advice from reliable sources. Reliable sources do NOT include either President #StableGenius or #BrainWormBob, the ghoul currently atop the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Via multiple posters on X, the WA state and West Coast Health Alliance about the Hepatitis B immunization for infants.
The West Coast Health Alliance (WCHA) strongly supports that hepatitis B vaccination continue to be routinely offered to all newborns, with the first dose of the vaccine given within 24 hours of birth for newborns weighing at least 2,000 grams (4 pounds, 7 ounces), followed by… pic.twitter.com/Re9qhqlmjP
— Washington State Department of Health (@WADeptHealth) December 6, 2025
And more on HepB AND Measles
And SPEAKING OF the land of X / Twitter / Elon's sandbox: inexplicable reasons to carp about this strong recommendations:
A certain newspaper columnist from Spokane who takes offense at the phrase "Pregnant PEOPLE."
What? Aren't women people??? RantWoman assumes in the case of this complainer that the issue is transgender people having babies. NOTHING about whether or not the person giving birth is transgender changes ANYTHING about the epidemiology or the dangers of Hepatitis B. NOTHING.
Then there are the voices who say that universal vaccination is a sop to the pharmaceutical industry because only people who test positive at the time of a baby's birth need to get their newborns vaccinated.
1. If a baby is being breastfed, the person doing the breastfeeding can acquire HepB while the baby is being breast fed.
2. RantWoman should go look for some numbers but RantWoman would expect to see that the money saved from cases of HepB that don't occur more than justifies the cost of universal vaccination.
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Rebellion: refuse to hate the person next to you.
An initial compilation of YOuTube items about the shooting of the National Guardswoman in Washingto DC the day before Thanksgiving. Enough said.
A word from Belle of the ranch
Pete Hegseth Requests ONLY CHRISTIAN PRAYERS for Victims in National Gua...
Senior Military commanders WARNED #CadetBoneSpurs that deployment of the national guard in Washington DC had high risk of making guard members targets of grievance based violence.
CBS News
Early CNN report
description of problems with the vetting process
How to fracture a nation without declaring war
specimen of bizarro and uninformed take
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Spidey on Erika Kirk
This YouTube channel fascinates RantWoman.
RantWoman definitely does not look at entire videos in full detail. RantWoman tends to listen and only occasionally invest enough eye focus to see detail.
So the channel is fascinating because it spells out a LOT of things that are happening visually. Sometimes it feels like reason 320 zillion why blind people and sighted people miscommunicate, although RantWoman could be vaguely interested in seeing how much of the same info could be picked up by voice.
First, this video points out lots of visual specifics in Erika's speech at Charlie Kirk's funeral.
What Changed With Erika Kirk? Body Language Analyst Reacts to funeral
YouTube is full of opinions about whether Erika Kirk is grieving appropriately. RantWoman would just leave the poor woman alone. RantWoman's experience with grief is that it comes and goes unpredictably for a long time.
As far as the state of national dialog about Charlie's death:
--RantWoman was part of a conversation where one participant made the fascinating point that it doesn't matter that lots of Charlie's detractors are disgusted by #MAGA comparisons between Charlie Kirk and MLK. What matters is that is how Kirk's followers see him.
--In that conversation, RantWoman pointed out that MLK never helped raise millions of dollars to help elect a corrupt pedophile as President. It will take some maneuvering to keep the gravy train running but the other question is what messaging will remind people that their presence in the national conversation is valuable as they HOPEFULLY come to grips with some disagreeable realities.
--Apparently #SecDef Pete Hegseth is terribly shaken by Kirk's assassination.
Somewhere in this line of thinking MIGHT be some threads Erika Kirk is thinking about.
RantWoman does not share Erika's theological certainty about what happens after death. RantWoman has enough faith not to worry about that until she gets there. RantWoman remembers one family hiccup after RantDad passed away about cremation. RantDad's younger sister was worried that if RantDad were cremated, he would somehow miss out on the Rapture. RantWoman's view: any deity that can pull off the Rapture can give people whatever corporeal presence they need for the situation.
RantWoman is interested in one moment in particular, the clip in the post here right at the beginning of her speech when the President summons her to the stage.
The way the President summoned Erika creeped RantWoman out a little bit because of something about the President's voice. Erika strode out like someone used to the kind of summons that bothered RantWoman Erika won Miss Arizona in a beauty pageant run by the not-yet-President and perhaps is used to the kind of kiss on two cheeks that Spidey called out.
Something in the second video, from a different angle made RantWoman wonder about a really gross possibility. RantWoman just naturally assumes the President is a pervy lech who will grab every chance he gets to paw at beautiful women. Watching the President Embrace, RantWoman wondered whether there was some over-the-line pawing going on. Even worse, RantWoman found herself wondering whether the President tried to kiss Erika on the lips rather than on the cheeks. RantWoman can't really tell, but the question adds a possible interpretation. Did Erika pull away a little and bury her face in the President's shoulder far away from his lips.
All of this gets RantWoman to another #TPUSA irony: TPUSA preaches "tradwife" values about women's relationships with their husbands. But Erika has now become the head of the entire #TPUSA empire.
This also harkens back to CO Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's appearances at TPUSA events. Lauren in her spiky heels and scary red lipstick pranced around talking about Biblical values in marriage while she was busy divorcing her husband. So THANGS are not always what they seem, and there is probably room for LOTS of people to think carefully about what matters to Gen Z.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
What of the Ali family now???
What We Didn’t Know About the Ali Family — Attorney Speaks Out
I did not watch the whole trial, but did Fatima try to talk to her parents about bad things from her previous trip to Iraq. I have the sense from school officials' testimony that maybe her family did not believe her about any creepy things from the previous trip. Or maybe Fatima talked to the school counselor because she did not feel safe or like she would be believed by her mother.
Did anyone ask questions about abusive behaviors in the home? Sometimes people can be REALLY reluctant to name the problem, but that issue definitely came to mind.
I also think the school did Zahraa a disservice by banning her from all North Thurston schools. Where do the younger kids go to school? How is Mom supposed to be a parent for them?
Finally, there can be A LOT to be said for a neutral non-family interpreter but Zahraa declined the services of Language Line. I assume everyone has uneven experiences with language line but in the best case consistent interpreter practices can provide more consistency and opportunity for people to ask questions directly. Also Zahraa probably needs more in-depth cultural support than one conversation.
Anyway, all of this probably requires a different approach from a criminal lawyer, but I think the judge could consider some of this in preparing for sentencing.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
ANYONE can and MUST immediately denounce the total humanitarian blockade in Gaza.
RantWoman is by turns deeply saddened, horrified and furious on multiple grounds about renewed college campus protests. The most immediate message RantWoman would like to hear, from as many directions as possible, even before lots of pieces play out further:
Call for Immediate Aid Access to Gaza
The world is at an all-hands-on-deck moment, because of the total blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza. For more than two months, now, there has been no food, water, fuel, or medicine allowed to reach over 2 million Palestinians and the remaining Israeli hostages. Massive starvation is imminent. The problem is not a lack of food. Aid agencies are poised with 3,000 truckloads of humanitarian aid waiting at the border but barred from entry.
Make a public statement immediately calling for unfettered humanitarian access into Gaza in compliance with international law.
Take action now to save lives.
Just DO IT. Don't get stuck about what Boeing will or won't do or about divestment. Start from the immediate humanitarian crisis.
On religious notes:
RantWoman once attended an event where it took facilitators an hour and a half of back-and-forth discussion to get to enough agreement to have opening prayers. Praying together is not everyone's go-to but prayer seems highly on point for anyone who prays.
RantWoman considers it antisemitic to give anyone a pass about genocide because of their religion. RantWoman does not know of a single religious tradition that does not in some way or another call people to find their better selves and to get along with others.
Also, IT'S NOT COLLEGE if one does not encounter ideas and circumstances that challenge at least one core part of one's identity. Hopefully this results in stronger, wiser, more aware and flexible contributors to the fabric of society!
Enough said, or RantWoman's Dial-a-Tirade will erupt!
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Muckleshoot Artist John Halliday at MOHAI History cafe APRIL 16, 6:30 pm
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| John Halliday holding a drum with native symbols |
History Café: How Native Values Can Teach Resilience – Museum of History & Industry
John Halliday
John Halliday (he/him) is a legally blind Native American artist of Muckleshoot, “Duwamish,” Yakama, and Warm Springs Indian descent. Halliday recently retired from the Bureau of Indian Affairs as Deputy Regional Director for the Navajo Region after serving as CEO for both the Muckleshoot and Snoqualmie tribes. Halliday has shown his art at Lakewold Gardens, ANT Gallery, and the Sacred Circle Galleries of American Indian Art under the artist name “Coyote”. Halliday lives in Steilacoom.
Event will be Livestreamed for people who cannot attend in person
Link for the Livestream
From John: I have attached a live stream link for those people who can't make it. They're welcome to come in person, because it's a big venue, but if they can't make it, the live stream link is below. I talk on the history of the Puget Sound Indian wars and my personal story as a blind person finding a new career in art."
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Dinner and Plague
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| RantMom at Christmastime proudly in a new chair |
Yesterday the RantSisters received a normal conscientious email from RantWoman's new abode: a small number of residents and one staffperson had tested positive for #COVID.
RantWoman did not immediately pick up the phone and demand "Mom, are YOU all right?" Instead RantWoman decided that either RantMom would share news herself or it could wait until the RantWomen's nightly phone chat. On the call, RantMom definitely sounded drippy and congested. She also mentioned knowing of the cases among her neighbors. AND she mentioned another common COVID onset symptom, as well as plans to stay home from a Tuesday volunteer gig. At this point, RantWoman had to say "MOM, GET TESTED."
Tonight, when the RantWomen chatted, RantMom sounded a little worse than yesterday. RantWoman's experience from her own long-avoided encounter with "the 'rona" is that the cough and effect on a person's voice are different than a regular cold. That was definitely true for RantMom who ruefully acknowledged what RantWoman suspected. RantMom tested positive and this time has symptoms!. RantMom also said she had eaten dinner with one of the other cases that tested positive a few days ago.
Bah! It's not like RantMom would ever let anyone tell her not to eat dinner with her neighbors. RantWoman also considers it a blessing that the dining companion this time is alive and recovering, not falling over dead.
So now RantMom is isolating. Meals come to her. She puts on a mask to run out and get mail or toss out trash. RantWoman would SO like to run over and give RantMom a hug. RantWoman is scratching her head about whether she can and should deliver something supportive. The RantWomen also talked about masks. Neither of us is crazy about paper masks. Cloth masks are imperfect but some mask is always better than no mask.
Maybe another day RantWoman will go on some about:
--the assortment of different masks still lurking in coat pockets and bags
--how good it felt to move along some mail order shoes that never fit right to their destiny in the rest of the universe.
--assorted meditations about cooking and technology
--the colorful but not always perfectly fitting blouses RantWoman spent some of her #Pandemic stimulus payments on.
--the new bed from Amazon and why RantWoman is definitely peeved with Jeff Bezos on Constitutional and political grounds.
Tonight, though, it's all about RantMom. If you pray, prayers would be appreciated.
RIP Carl Jarvis
Sometimes when a person of tremendous influence and admiration in RantWoman's life passes away, RantWoman tries to herd words together herself.
Today, on the date of Carl Jarvis' passing RantWoman is going to recycle a bit of email and provide links to past commentary
From RantWoman's email:
A, thank you for bring the news, sad and probably expected as it is.
Deep condolences to Carl's wife who I never knew well except for a sense of her faithfully standing alongside Carl
..Carl's example continues to be an inspiration and definitely let's do an angel wall.
Carl Jarvis, The Legacy Lives On
A free flowing interview with the creator of the Washington Council of the Blind Newsline Magazine, on his journey through life.
Show Notes
From Reginald George: Carl has played a pivotal role in the blindness movement of Washington state over his long life. We feel it is important to bring you this conversation from November 2019, hosted by Heather, while Carl is among us to enjoy it. The following excerpt is from an article published in the Winter 2020 issue of the Washington Council of the Blind Newsline:
From Heather Meares: As I thought about the concept of navigating uncharted territory and what that really means, I asked myself, who’s life represents an example of this? Who would I want to use as a model, mentor and guide? My first answers were Yoda from Star Wars, Dumbledore from the Harry Potter book series, and Gandalf the Great from J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings. Since these are all fictional characters, I kept coming back to Carl Jarvis, who in many ways is like all of these iconic magical entities. He is one of our original Washington Council of the Blind members and has led quite a life. They all exhibit a lifetime of wisdom and knowledge beyond measure, the ability to show others the path without traveling it for them, and an intriguing aura of mystery that leaves you wondering about their own journey. On rare occasions, we are allowed a glimpse into their past, which made them who they became. One thing is clear. None of it was easy. In fact, many treacherous roads were traveled, sorrows and difficulties experienced, and much was sacrificed. One thing I know is when you are given the gift of time with someone like this, you don’t talk – you listen and absorb everything they have to say. I am pleased to give you all a little peek into the window of Carl Jarvis.
You may access the following link to read Heather's original column, "Cheshire Cat Interviews #7: Walls, Windows, and Doors"
Previously on this blog
Adventures of RantWoman: Sue Ammeter 1948 - 2018
Friday, March 7, 2025
Bird Flu. Cats. Other species. Beware. Be reasonable
RantWoman recommends that people, especially cat people take a break from multiple strands of human insanity and focus on care of cats and other animals.
Uh, actually we are not necessarily taking a complete break from human insanity so a few tips before the video.
--RantWoman has a friend from high school who is now an infectious disease doctor. So far she is pretty blase about bird flu in humans. Her advice: stay up to date on flu and COVID shots. A tiny number of people have gotten bird flu due to work exposure for example to raw milk. There is still no evidence, though, of human to human transmission.
--Digressing to the price of eggs, NPR reported recently that there is a vaccine against bird flu for chickens. So far it is not widely used because external buyers are resistant to buying products affected by the vaccines. On the other hand, if the President is going to go bananas about a trade war and tariffs, vaccinating chicken flocks could end the need to cull flocks and get the level of egg production up to a point that MAYBE the price of domestically produced eggs would come down.
But now cat tips, with an inventory of all the other species that have gotten bird flu.
And, at the end, STRONG note for the interviewer who is into raw food that maybe he will need to rethink that.
Also, look in the notes for more resources.
PS. This is RantWoman's "light reading" for the night.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Jamelle Bodie: a historian looks at Transition
RantWoman will post this on #GroundhogDay as in after the inauguration. The public will still need reflection
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart on the Los Angeles Wildfires
Another evening of blog as electronic scrapbook.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Dear #GOP, if you are not going to help please SHUT UP and get out of the way of people working very hard to cope
#LAWildfires
"This is not a time to make political points. It's time for people to come together and help.
RantWoman knows almost nothing about LA geography. RantWoman is listening to the numbers of people being evacuated and has realized that, overwhelming and horrifying as the fires and smoke are, on some level the news is only a notch or two above the image the world gets fed when a few blocks of Seattle are taken over by an extended protest.
LA is going to have a tough road to recovery. President Elect Gropesaurus can be expected to be at best worse than useless. So far, he has not shown up to toss paper towels at the problem, but he is trying to promise retribution: refusing to send federal disaster aid, endless chatter in Elon's sandbox about how CA officials should all resign.
#FelonDon will be taking office having scored a whisker less than 50% of the popular vote. Never mind the electoral college: more people want someone else than want him. He probably cannot find an ounce of humility anywhere. It would not distress RantWoman if the barrage of #GOP and #MAGA lies wound up washing the new administration of any shred of legitimacy or popularity. But enough. Find ways to contribute. This really is a disaster and NO ONE should be making things worse.
Friday, January 10, 2025
Memorial for murdered Metro Driver January 10 2025 PLAN AHEAD about travel needs.
Dear transit riding public
If you need to travel on the morning of Friday January 10, please plan either to get where you are going before the beginning of the memorial or to arrange schedule for after the funeral.
RantWoman has a Zoom call or she would probably go to the memorial.
Here are more articles.
Metro Plans Reduced Service as Staff Hold Shawn Yim Memorial Friday
Author: Doug Trumm
Date: Jan 09, 2025 02:21 pm
To allow staff to participate in a memorial for slain bus driver Shawn Yim, King County Metro has announced plans for reduced service Friday. Amalgamated Transit Union 587 is honoring Yim with a 10am funeral procession through Downtown Seattle and a memorial service at Lumen Field Event Center.
The post Metro Plans Reduced Service as Staff Hold Shawn Yim Memorial Friday first appeared on
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
A 911 call and then....
The following compilation of videos and commentary is dedicated to:
--Everyone who knew Shawn Kim, everyone who helped nab his killer, and everyone remembering what a great guy he must have been.
--All the transit drivers who will be working through the holiday season, especially the ones who deliberately choose routes that come with different difficulties
--Everyone whose holidays include transit and especially when holiday dramas spill over on the ride to or from festivities (count a couple mildly memorable moments from the RantFamily.)
--Everyone who, like RantWoman, thanks our drivers when we get off the bus. This social point is one reason RantWoman is not necessarily eager to consign bus driving to some kind of robot overlords.
Happy Holidays!
Drivers who choose to drive the night runs.
Like everyone else whose lives are entwined with transit, RantWoman was outraged to wake up last week to news of the stabbing of Shawn Kim.
RantWoman has seen plenty of times when drivers were able to deescalate all kinds of extremely stressful situations. People sleeping on buses also often do not react well when drivers waken them at the ends of routes. Murder is horrifying.
The stream of details becomes more heartbreaking with every new media account.
Rant: the murder occurred in the U district. Were there no University police anywhere in the area? Transit police are from the King County Sheriff Office, but do local police routinely respond if a 911 call comes from a specific jurisdiction?
RantWoman is really grateful for comments from people who knew Mr. Kim. RantWoman totally sympathizes with grieving relatives who really might have no mental space for media figures sticking microphones in their faces. At the same time, at this point, enough images of the suspect. How about more images of the murdered public servant?
Bananas did not go to the vigil
RantWoman apologizes if the heading above sounds flip.
RantWoman is very glad there was a vigil. RantWoman expressed interest in finishing off her day of errands with a stop at the vigil, more or less on RantWoman's way home anyway.
But RantWoman scored bananas at a very cool new supermarket she will celebrate separately.
And, completely unsurprisingly, there was a Metro alert advising riders to expect delays on every bus route that travels through the crime scene. So, RantWoman picked a different route home; the video will have to be enough for now, and not enough of course for all the events every day on Metro.
Description!
RantWoman, like a lot of armchair experts on social media would not have minded more of a description of the suspect sooner. Too much of the social media RantWoman saw was certain the killer must be Black. Like every transit driver in the area, RantWoman was glad to have enough of a description to rule out a lot of the riding public. 6'5" and white comes with a pretty definite body characteristic more useful to RantWoman than brown hair and brown eyes as well as some expectations about voice.
RantWoman is very thankful not to have encountered the killer.
RantWoman is very glad drivers had the description!
Arrest: a secure place to sleep.
RantWoman comment: this is pretty much a picture-perfect arrest from the police perspective. Completely cooperative suspect. No altercation of any kind. RantWoman also only sees white faces.
We are all grateful that this guy will have a secure place to sleep for a long time, without even any bus drivers to wake him up at the end of every run he lands on.
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Tested Negative!
Nose is still a little irritated but OUT on an errand.
Note to self: flu shot. Ask how long before I should get #COVID booster. Party!
Hold off for a week visiting RantMom. They sent emails about people testing positive but everyone is cleared and the few staff affected are clear to return to work.
Need to keep up the hydration and sleep. Fortunately past the couple days when I could sleep a REALLY long time for me.
Ordered my new free tests. Not charmed by prices on Amazon but I will cope
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