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Lynnwood 44th Fair had free haircut coupons, free carwash, free credit union merch, etc.

So there's a bit of backstory here so bear with me... So i was homeless in Seattle off and on, staying at the Orion Center in downtown Seattle, which is a young adult shelter, until mid 2020, when I moved to Valley Cities Phoenix Rising in Auburn, a transitional income based housing complex for young adults with mental health issues. My case manager there, Ms Jessicka Orange, and i became close friends and have kept in contact regularly since I moved from there in mid 2021. Well I am very worried about her because i haven't been able to get ahold of her for over a month, and she missed my birthday earlier this week and she always calls me or texts me on my birthday and so I have no idea what i can do to try to find out what's going on. I think she lives in the Renton/Black Diamond area and i don't know anyone who knows her and every time I try to call her it'll ring, no answer, her name and then that the mailbox is full. Every time I called her work number, when she would normally be at work, it goes straight to voicemail. She's not on the national missing people website and I live in Olympia and would really rather not bus 3+ hours each way to Auburn to not find out anything and I don't know anyone who knows her, I don't know if she's in the hospital or dead or what's going on but it's driving me crazy because she's like a 2nd mother to me and I just am so worried so can someone please help? I mean I just have no idea what to do...thanks everyone.

Seems pretty boxy to live in one. What are the pros and cons

I'm so sick of this shit. Recently there was an armed tweaker outside of my place brandishing a weapon. He was practically chewing the fingers off of his own hand. He walked up to windows and went through yards with weapon drawn. Later he came back, had stashed his bag in someones yard nearby. The cops? Don't know. They never came by. They called, took a report and there was no follow up. We had stuff stolen from the property this year by someone else. Off the top of my head in the last 1.5 years we've had at LEAST 30 trespassers. They troll around looking for quick shit to steal. We had a group try to break in and one of them called me a "white bitch" when I tried to film them entering my neighbors yard, he charged and threatened to assault. I ran away from him indoors. Cop showed up 40+ minutes later, told me the guy is an arson suspect. Known for burglary and crime in the area. That the people he was with were known for more of the same. They continued to come by for months after the event. As far as I know, no arrests made. Saw him geeked and fent bent in front of a grocery store not long ago. They also used drugs here, needles. I've seen junkies walking around with bags of stuff that they obviously stole from someones house or yard. Some of the stolen items belonged to children. I've seen burned down RVs and cars just left to rot. Piles of stolen bikes (to include children's bikes). That only scratches the surface. I am so tired of people calling them "unhoused and vulnerable". I don't fucking care if they have trauma, MANY OF US DO! What about all the money they are costing the city! What about the people who have had their shit robbed, been assaulted, made to feel fear...those people aren't vulnerable too? Spoiler alert! Unhoused is the same thing as HOME LESS. Don't sugar coat it. I was homeless once, I didn't do this shit to people. I never bothered the public or robbed anyone. I understand addiction as a former alcoholic. Guess what I still didn't rob anyone then either. Some of these people are actual monsters. Seattle seeing crime I didn't grow up around. I used to feel safer here then other cities. I don't. I hate this place now because of meth, fentanyl and junkies trashing everything. STOP supporting the madness.

In between jobs at the moment How can I go about getting some needed medication? (At a somewhat affordable cost)?

My wife just got rear-ended at a stop light by a driver that doesn't have insurance. I'm not sure there's enough damage to go through my insurance and have them try and extract money from the uninsured driver. She called 911 to file a police report, and the officer just said it was pretty normal these days to see one of the drivers not have insurance. I don't understand how you can have valid tabs without showing proof that you can drive the car responsibly? The only thing that happened to this guy was that he got a traffic citation. If you're going to let people drive without insurance, shouldn't the penalties at least be a little more severe? EDIT: Yes, I do have uninsured motorist coverage. I would rather not file a claim with that unless the damage was significant (it's not).

In between jobs at the moment How can I go about getting some needed medication? (At a somewhat affordable cost)? Edit : I am employed , just with an agency at the moment who wants to charge $500 a month for healthcare. I don't have a prescription either What's best cost effective route to medication ?

Disclaimer: I was not able to record most of this altercation as I don't have a dash cam and was busy trying not to die. At about 4:30 this afternoon this guy swerved out from behind the guy behind me as I was changing lanes, swerved around me, and proceeded to brake check me multiple times, coming to a near complete stop. He then swerved back in front of me as I tried to go around and CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW to turn around and flip me off. All I was able to capture was the last time he swerved in front of me before driving off to presumably ruin someone else's day. I cannot realistically imagine anything I would have done to piss this idiot off. I was driving a more than reasonable speed and was trying to get back over after passing another car. I spend a lot of time on the roads around here and have seen my fair share of bad driving, but this has convinced me to buy a dash cam. I will post a license plate in the comments. If you know this person, shame them. If you are this person, I wish you the most liquid of shits for the rest of your life.

Perhaps those of you less familiar with the libraries, they tend to promote books and programming that reflect past and present issues involving US History. I was at the Capitol Hill branch yesterday where they usually have issues pertaining to current events in the front displays. The front display was a signing stating it was Latin American Heritage month with a small selection of books. When I had this epiphany that this was kind of weird I look around more and there was nothing. I was at the downtown library last week and I don't remember seeing anything either. Maybe it won't strike some of you as weird. But 9/11 changed the world. It was a catalyst for endless wars. Even this region was changed by it due to a pretty sizable amount of immigrants from the regions we were waging wars moving here. The Twin Towers were designed and engineered in Seattle by Minoru Yamasaki, the same architect behind this city's landmarks like Rainier Tower and the Pacific Science Center. Brown University estimated between 4.5 million and 4.7 million people (including both direct combat deaths and indirect deaths from disease, displacement, and damaged infrastructure) have died across Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, and other areas in the war on terror which cost the US about 8 trillion dollars. I grew up with Pat Tillman who was a player in the NFL who gave up his career in the wake of 9/11 to join the military. His family was notified he was killed by enemy fire only to be told a month later it was actually "friendly fire". The family thought this lapse was to avoid the bad PR and wait until after the memorial service (which got heavy media attention) to state the truth. Anyway, it was disappointing that there were no educational displays or programing. It's not a partisan issue. There are few events in US history that had the reverberation felt so much, and so far, as that did.

Moving for work without a car. I need a 1-2 month sublease to scout the area before signing a long-term lease. How doable is commuting from Bellevue or Kirkland via public transit, or should I stick to Redmond?