Sunday, April 18, 2021

Walk in the Really Bright and Joyous sunlight

 Little Bunny Foo-foo went hopping through the U-District?

Hopefully a wild bunny not a feral housepet released to the wilds when cute bunnyness wore off.
Brown bunny
green grass


Actually this here bunny Foo-foo turned up on some Friends' lawn nowhere near the U district on Easter Sunday. It's just that RantWoman needs a visual meme and this is available.


Little Bunny Foo foo previously sent Friends hopping through the world of software accessibility, as relates to registration and list-keeping software needed during COVID for public health record-keeping purposes. 


FINALLY, RantWoman clings to reason to hope, praise God for continuing revelation, and with special prayers for Friends who previously blessed efforts to talk about software accessibility with the verbal equivalent of blank stares. Finally relevant Friends, RantWoman SINCERELY HOPES have been able to put their brains around the point that RantWoman, as an average screen reader using blind person gets to grapple with software accessibility questions every time she touches a new piece of software.


Children Go where I send Thee

Cue one of the recordings of "Children Go Where I Send Thee "on this blog.

And the Lord spake unto RantWoman and the Lord said "get yourself out of bed and put on some clothes. Never mind for now about organizational "sftware." You know where I am going to send you to pray. And don't argue about too many words needing to be typed or furniture needing to be moved. Exercise is magnificent. You will still have too many words tomorrow and Mondays are fabulous days to move furniture.


And lo it was a bright and sunny day and RantWoman's thoughts turned to recovery and rejuvenation and as always for decades already transportation and in particular upcoming transportation transformation in the U District.

(RANTWOMAN! Must you mix stylistic centuries like this? Whatever realism is mixed up in this verbal salad just is NOT magical.)


The route and conveyance

--The Metro Rt. 48 to its last stop, the N side of NE 42nd street to Roosevelt and then around to the right to another street called NE 42nd st and then down 9th Ave. NE to a favorite prayer site.

--RantWoman's feet with RantWoman mumbling mantras about safe continuous travel networks for all modes.


Highlights of the journey

--Magus used book store is open! RantWoman is extremely glad to see this sign of life even though she personally is not much for PRINT and Ambassador Thwack grumbles about having to work to go around their usual sidewalk displays.

--Seriously crumbling sidewalk and the excavation of a new construction site between 12th and 11th. Yes, RantWoman, those graffitti-encrusted Notice of Proposed Land Use Actions signs meant it. New Housing? Tax credity units? RantWoman couldn't tell you. Right now it's just a construction site.

--42nd and Roosevelt, approaching from the east.
Accessibility? What Accessibility?
A homeless encampment
on the sidewalk
and in the curb ramp.

Look, Thwack the cane has been known to deal badly wit obstacles.  RantWoman has NO desire to call the cops. Still Could people maybe, maybe, maybe try to camp without completely incommoding the sidewalk?

--At last, RantWoman plopped on a favorite wall. And what did she see?

Locked gates are very welcoming. And God is bigger than that.
Meetinghouse
built in the style of
a Japanese temple


   --A need to elder the webkeeper about perhaps putting some of the building design history on the website.
    --A closed gate. RantWoman supposes this is one way both to avoid having to deal with unregistered walkins and to avoid making badly-needed restroom facilities available to the peeing public.

 RantWoman mentions the peeing public because today, as on past missions of prayer and observations, RantWoman observed one individual come, try the gate, walk around to look for another entrance and then leave.

What else did RantWoman see? 

Can readers find the "Retail Parking" sign? Business parking as in ground floor retail on the Roosevelt side of a building and a parking garage with entry facing the UFM campus. 

Traffic Patterns?
Retail Parking sign

RantWoman, chill, chill. You can ramble in more detail about safe continuous travel networks for all modes SOME OTHER DAY. Just put in the picture.

Further observations
Crumbly sidewalk in the public right of way below / south of the stairs.

The chuckhole is in the shadows
How to photograph
a chuckhole

a fabulous chuckhole previously reported to #FindIt Fixit in what would be crosswalk if there were a painted crosswalk.

Who needs wind protection?
Bus benches
enhance 
accessibility

A bus bench stripped of both bench and glass walls

See sign
Please don't stress out
untrained pets by bringing
themto the grocery store

and finally a grocery store's stern service animal admonishment of no concern to the service python who remains invisible.

This data report brought to you dear readers by the "It's never a good time to deal with midlife vision loss department of vocational  rehabilitation  and vocabulary obliteration.

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