Please donate today to any of these organizations who are advocating for better transportation options. Make a difference in 2026! https://allaboardnw.org/ran/rccn-organization-invitees/

Thank you to all my friends and family for working together towards a positive future. Happy holidays and safe travels!

J. R. R Tolkien, "enemy of the motor vehicle" https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/isengard-in-oxford/

Happy Thanksgiving to y'all!

"Nov. 25 (UPI) -- On this date in history:
In 1990, the original floating Lacey V. Murrow Bridge sank during a Thanksgiving storm in Washington state. The bridge was under reconstruction at the time so there were no injuries or deaths." I discovered this news the next day while moving to Seattle.

I joined some friends on September 5, 1977 to see the launch of Voyager 1 in person -- a tremendous experience! On November 13, 2026, Voyager will be a light-day away. https://www.iflscience.com/on-november-13-2026-voyager-will-reach-one-full-light-day-away-from-earth-81432 How time flies!

I’m happy to know some interesting people! https://www.westsiderag.com/2025/09/19/upper-west-sider-wins-emmy-for-sound-mixing-on-saturday-night-live

"For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest."
https://chas.us/blog/still-dark-still-stormy/

"The Earth is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space. We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it. Earth is a spaceship. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination."
Jim Lovell, 1929-2025
We've lost another of the few people with that perspective.

"But as Europe embraces the night train, the United States seems to be sleepwalking into a transport dead end, slashing funding for public infrastructure and firing transit workers. Long-distance public transport in America may be heading inexorably toward a binary choice: fast, exclusive and environmentally ruinous or slow, tortuous and run-down." https://arr.as/stuck

Recognize that yellow label? Sometime during the Carter administration, I did the paperwork for creating those when I worked for US DOE. https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/trump-admin-plans-to-shutter-money-saving-energy-star-program/

Whee! Redmond is getting a Barnes dance! https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/05/ahead-of-2-lines-arrival-redmond-debuts-its-first-ever-pedestrian-scramble-at-166th-avenue-ne-and-cleveland-way.html A what? https://ssti.us/2017/06/05/return-of-the-barnes-dance/

Thank you, cousin Cheryl! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ICCqB-mtN0