Wes Mills 🥌

This is cool but did you know that organizations in Seattle (or across the ORCA service region) can sign up for ORCA Business Passport for a fraction of the cost of buying a regular monthly pass? The *most expensive* zone is $2,167 PER YEAR for a biz with five employees. We should require this.

Yes, a company has to front up for enough cards to cover all of their full-time employees and yes there's a five-card minimum. But again, the most expensive zone is $430 PER YEAR. It drops off dramatically as you get outside the CBD with the lowest in Seattle (far north) at $140.

This is cool but did you know that organizations in Seattle (or across the ORCA service region) can sign up for ORCA Business Passport for a fraction of the cost of buying a regular monthly pass? The *most expensive* zone is $2,167 PER YEAR for a biz with five employees. We should require this.

Unless somebody kept the receipt and Kiewit has a really good return policy, imho the time for dunking on Pinehurst Station has passed. It's built, now we upzone the heck out of the area & take a bulldozer to the fence around the soon-to-be-former golf course so the rest of us get to use the spot.

Elections mean things, the Mayor of Seattle and King County Executive are at the Graham Street block party saying we want to keep building transit things. What a change from the first block party last year.

Because Sound Transit insists that the 545 is a mandatory urgent service which causes the 542 to suffer for it, I get to make this same choice: do I take the every-22ish-minute bus to work and save 18 minutes on the trip? Or the every-8-minute train that goes the looooong way around the barn?

I'm moving the email of an org I volunteer with over to a new hosted email system and looking through the myriad domains in here, I love all of my fellow nerds. There are a lot of Gmail dot com addresses, of course. But those of you with your own domains? Almost none are at Gmail! Endearing.

In "honor" of the Mariners being eliminated, like should happen with the AL West: There are eight 2nd-place-and-below teams in the rest of baseball who would be winning the AL West if they were in the ALW instead of their actual divisions.

Five KBO teams would be leading the AL West by win percentage, two of them would be leading on outright wins and losses alone even though they've played 18 fewer games.

In "honor" of the Mariners being eliminated, like should happen with the AL West: There are eight 2nd-place-and-below teams in the rest of baseball who would be winning the AL West if they were in the ALW instead of their actual divisions.

Three teams in the AAA Pacific Coast League and eight teams in the AAA International League would be leading the AL West if we had promotion and relegation like a proper sport.

In "honor" of the Mariners being eliminated, like should happen with the AL West: There are eight 2nd-place-and-below teams in the rest of baseball who would be winning the AL West if they were in the ALW instead of their actual divisions.

Only twice in their history (1969, 52-110 and 1976, 55-107) did the Montréal Expos end a full-length season with a worse record than the worst team in the 2026 AL West. For nineteen seasons, the Expos would have won the AL West if they were in the ALW instead of Bud Selig Hell.

In "honor" of the Mariners being eliminated, like should happen with the AL West: There are eight 2nd-place-and-below teams in the rest of baseball who would be winning the AL West if they were in the ALW instead of their actual divisions.

Ten teams would be if you give two teams a one-game "would have played each other and one has to win" bonus. Those two teams are the Baltimore Orioles and the Miami Marlins, ffs.