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| Dawn Seattle Jan 2 2018 |
Please do not argue with RantWoman about "money's worth." If you insist on arguing with RantWoman, RantWoman has several options for adding video. RantWoman does not recommend adding video, but could possibly consider adding electronic voice audio track for readers who like to listen rather than read. Caution: RantWoman reserves the right to be insufferable and record at the speed she listens at.
RantWoman has voices in her head.
RantWoman has voices in her head. This means:
--RantMom has done the aural implantation expected of every mother ?
--GOD is talking?
--RantWoman's brain is still trying to function at vision plus speed only with audio tracks and calamitously underpowered pattern sorting and lots of different audio streams clamoring for there nanoseconds of attention. (Earth to RantWoman, YOU may be feeling underpowered, but there is every indication that other people still feel overwhelmed even at this level., really. Okay sure. And not everyone can respond the same way but everyone can do three things and people can do enough different things, people can handle it...)
--RantWoman should hurry out for some psychotropic medication, something with a prescription, not the secondhand weed effusions endlessly clouding bus stops and doorways?
Uhhh, tonight it means both the headphones and the USB port are working on an office computer. Also, RantWoman has tuned the text-to-speech options on the devices she is using to scream along fast enough to keep RantWoman awake.
I didn't tell you about my day Digression: It was a harrowing day out in the world. RantWoman lost patience with scheduling and dispatch for the chariot service nominally available after an exciting fall of power to the people interactions with transit planning. RantWoman decided the book shelf delivery task she wanted to accomplish could be done by regular bus.
Apparently Ambassador Thwack the poorly comported white cane took offense at being asked just to lurk in one of RantWoman's bags and cope with the stresses of unaided travel with fog and blur; the white cane went AWOL on the first bus while the shelves were being transported. RantWoman called Customer Service. SOMETIMES Metro Customer Service can identify which coach a lost item is on and suggest ways to rendezvous and collect one's item.
Today RantWoman could not provide the charming customer service professional enough temporal coordinates to help him identify the coach and suggest meeting times for the stop nearest her abode. RantWoman opted NOT just to wait at the bus stop and ask every driver on the run. Sometimes the best option is just to go to Metro Lost and Found the next day. (RantWOMAN, that part about mentally referring to this professional as "MR. Potato head? REALLY???)
RantWoman has auxiliary backup canes at home but was not carrying an extra today. Mercifully, by the grace of God and other attentive travelers, RantWoman made it home without either plowing into anyone or getting run over. At home, RantWoman has discovered that one of her backup canes seems to need its inner bungee cord replaced. Usually there should be two strands findable at all the joints and it should snap into extended position easily. The cane most like Ambassador Thwack has at least one joint with only one strand of cord. When RantWoman tries to extend it to work, it's performance is lax and desultory at best. RantWoman WILL ask whether someone at the local blind store restrings canes. (Sigh. No.) Otherwise, as soon as Ambassador Thwack comes home, the backup goes into the Free Matter for the Blind box and off to MO for a new bungee cord.. But Onward. RantWoman has voices in her head and thought bubbles to spill out.
Remember a Meeting for Business awhile ago presenting information about new tenants? If not, it's okay. The itinerary includes the RantWoman Eye view anyway.
--Meeting for Business ended with people worshipfully standing in hopes that RantWoman who cannot necessarily tell whether people are standing would shut up. RantWoman also did not realize until later that the Clerk just left the room. RantWoman has been trying to explain an idiosyncratic point of view about respect for the clerk ever since. Sometimes one is just called to speak Truth and to trust that the Clerk can handle it.
RantWoman deeply respects the Clerk on MANY counts and understands that RantWoman being called to speak Truth may not LOOK like respect. RantWoman has faith that between the Clerk and others in the room there are paths, and paths, and paths... (Okay, there is that part about GOD Speaking in a room full of people some of whom are not even sure there is a God, a minor irregularity but definitely on the itinerary.)
--Minutes do not explicitly record, but RantWoman has a sense that she was supposed blindly to accept that impacts on staff would be minimal or were already well handled. RantWoman subsequently had a conversation with staff. The subject of large UPS deliveries came up, as did UPS delivery persons, and dollies full of boxes and stairs. But RantWoman is getting ahead of herself.
--RantWoman got an incomplete picture of some possible construction issues from what was presented out loud. RantWoman deeply laments that no one else seemed to be paying enough attention to ask some of the questions on RantWoman's mind, but a grocery story parking lot conversation and some email finally satisfied RantWoman that no one had gone out of their minds about the construction issues.
--Not so the wheelchair accessibility. RantWoman asked a question because she personally knows homeless people who use wheelchairs. RantWoman can tell Friends which bus routes to ride to meet different homeless wheelchair users almost every day. RantWoman has two family members, neither homeless, who use wheelchairs. Asterisk. The family members became wheelchair users partly because of poorly treated workplace injury, the kind that UPS delivery persons with insecure employment could also be vulnerable to. But again, RantWoman is running ahead of herself.
Initial reviews of RantWoman's question about wheelchair accessibility: oh, that's the tenant's problem. RantWOMAN WHY can you not just leave things up to our tenants?
Why indeed? Stairs? No wheelchair accessible entry. A not entirely comparable service delivery model for wheelchair users. No easy way to adjust wheelchair accessibility, despite a young Friend's enthusiasm for some guerilla ramp-construction. Oh, and some other bumps and glitches, site characteristics on the pedestrian route from the nearest bus stop. But other than all that everything sounds fine, just fine especially when accompanied by endless repetitions of RantWoman there is no problem. There is no problem. There is no problem.
To repeat RantWoman knows homeless wheelchair users. RantWoman can tell you how to find more homeless wheelchair users. RantWoman sometimes makes referrals to wheelchair users for services. RantWoman would like to be able to include new tenant. RantWoman further knows many wheelchair users who probably would be too happy to take up a project cataloging wheelchair accessibility issues....
RantWoman also takes note of legal language from WA state and federal statutes about public accommodation and non-discrimination. Legal language merits its own post. RantWoman's point, our new tenant COULD at some point ask us for help improving the physical accessibility of their service delivery approach. They could ASK and RantWoman thinks Meeting should cooperate.
But other than that, no problem. No problem. No problem.
Well, no problem except more don't send email and we cannot really listen in person and it's not even clear at least to RantWoman who is supposed to listen in person.in the first place. But emails do go around. RantWoman expresses vexation about UPS delivery persons and back issues moving big dollies full of packages up and down stairs. RantWoman learns that there are some big UPS deliveries as the new tenant's office gets set up but then the flow of shipments falls off.
Somewhere in the email going around, RantWoman received nice email from the people currently helping tend our grounds: one of the things they do is help keep the new curb ramp the city put in clear of debris and generally to keep entrances on the main floor clear. THANK YOU for the work and for the information.
RantWoman also has a conversation about guerilla ramp building and herself suggests attention to process. RantWoman walks around building and looks at some wheelchair accessibility / ease of freight delivery points: things are fine as far as RantWoman can tell for other tenant, but there are still Big Problems, fuiled for just nust as site characteristics that probably need to get addressed in the future.
There. Now RantWoman has filled the internet more or less with what is on her mind. It would be AWESOME to hold things in the Light especially things that cannot instantly or easily be fixed, improved. RantWoman is trying to decide whether repeatedly being told there is no problem is somehow evolution, improvement over a conversation some years ago where every time RantWoman brought up something to do with disability it was declared off -topic. Let's just say RantWoman is reserving judgment.
In Light and Faithfulness.
RantWoman
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