If you send me a document with two spaces after every period, the first thing I’m doing is find/replace all.

VIKTOR ORBÀN CAN STILL WIN IF MIKE PENCE HAS THE COURAGE.

Uhh buh bye, Orbán. Hopefully the rest of us can get our shit together and send our own authoritarians to join you in disgrace.

Meeting Jim Whittaker ten years ago at the MRA conference in Port Angeles was cool...but better was a room of SAR volunteers hearing his stories of early Rainier climbing and rescues, speaking off script for probably twice as long as he was scheduled.

I am deeply saddened by the passing of Jim Whittaker. Jim was one of the great Washingtonians. He inspired many generations of mountaineers to explore the outdoors, including me. I'm grateful for the time I spent with him over the years. My thoughts are with his family in this difficult time.

Stepped away from the unyieldingly terrible news for a few days, which I then condensed only slightly into this video.

Artemis II Astronauts Say Teams Not Working Either: tinyurl.com/mr2c73dp

US to Only Allow Iran at World Cup Games If No Dangerous School Children on Team: tinyurl.com/yeyy8u2x

I swear our fearless leaders learned all that they know about foreign relations watching movies based on Tom Clancy novels.

I watched yesterday as the president of my alma mater, taking questions from alumni, gave Christian Nationalism the "fine people on both sides" treatment in claiming Wheaton College had no place to take a stand on political issues.

I'm all for an engaged crowd telling the officiating crew when they are wrong, but (1) I don't like boos when they take the ice and (2) PWHL should include them in the Olympics welcome-back video. Professional officials will help make women's hockey successful. scoutingtherefs.com/2026/02/5107...

Seattle you have literally outdone yourselves 👏 Tonight's final attendance sets a new record for the largest attendance for a women's hockey game in a U.S. arena AND the highest attended home venue game in PWHL history (a record previously set at our home opener!)

I heard someone took our attendance record after the Seattle Torrent inaugural home game. Whatever. We got it back tonight.

It's a great day. Transit fare readers in Seattle finally accept tapped credit cards!

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...

The Head and the Heart (at intermission) with the Seattle Symphony.

Is two years enough time to add the SS guardposts and the stone tunnel?

We're more than a little short on snow, but still got a three-day workout at Crystal Mountain

ICE Agents Still in Hospital After Being Shot Repeatedly by iPhones: tinyurl.com/36ud2nxf

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Constitutional amendment establishing gray duck as the correct version of the game.

Zambonis are acts of violence.

one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Chris Murphy: "The amount of training that's given to an ICE officer has been cut in half by this administration. The number of days of training they get are 47. You know why they get 47 days? As an homage to the vanity of POTUS. No wonder the number of violent incidents are going through the roof."

"How much do I know To talk out of turn You might say that I’m young You might say I’m unlearned But there’s one thing I know Though I’m younger than you Even Jesus would never Forgive what you do"

Well, this actually happened. So fuckng disgusting and antithetical to everything America and our public lands used to represent. Glad I ordered early and got a December 2025 pass.

NEWS | Paul Rothrock has signed a new contract, keeping him with the club through 2029. LET'S GOOOOOOOO, PAULIE 🤩 READ ➡️ sndrs.com/c1r1gx3a

Well, there goes my desire to visit the "forbidden kingdom" of Lo someday. Should have snuck in there back in 1999 instead of hanging a right at Kagbeni.

The issue extends far beyond fire/EMS reporting. Similar consolidation and buyouts have hit the simplest systems for scheduling, alerting and training and the most complex for dispatching. And the impacts aren't limited to the cost issues discussed here: Innovation and customer service also suffer.

This is what happens when I return after a weekend away.

Ran a thing. 26.2 things, actually.

“I think we want to win every single night,” Nicole Hensley said. “We know it’s a long season and we try to stack points on top of each other.”

There will only be one inaugural home opener for women's hockey in Seattle

Ordering a new 2025 pass (with a beautiful bird on it) now, good through most of 2026, to avoid this fascist garbage.

Gavin Weisenburg, 21, and Tanner Thomas, 20, planned to take over Gonave Island and murder all men on the island, prosecutors alleged. n.pr/4puzyhb

Group of Mountain Climbers Dies on Mountain Everyone Dies On: tinyurl.com/emzu2z7v

Zella trying to lick her nose clean of the ice cream splattered everywhere by her impolite eating habits

🚢 It's been 50 years since the #EdmundFitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. The tragedy has fascinated Minnesotans for decades.

Sounders playoff match

Zelenska says black cats deserve a spoonful of ice cream today.

National holiday in my honor, you say? Sorry, I can't even.

Among the most mundane news items of the era, I managed to put a pair of new bearings in each of a pair of these mini splits. Blissful silence again.

here, damn

I think this cat is half prairie dog. Also, the blanket was nicely folded over the back of the couch until she pulled it down to make her burrow.