Hey, Metro transit Trip Planner, I need to get to Pier 52 early in the morning. What do you suggest?

Itinerary #1

Walk NE from EASTGATE P-R to

Depart Eastgate P&R AcRd & BAY 2 At 11:10 PM On Route MT 245 Kirkland
Arrive 156th Ave NE & NE 8th St At 11:19 PM

Transfer to

Depart NE 8th St & 156th Ave NE At 11:32 PM On Route MT 253 Bellevue Transit Center
Arrive Bellevue TC AcRd & 108 AV NE BTC 2 At 11:44 PM

Transfer to

Depart NE 6th St & 108 AV NE BTC 11 At 11:50 PM On Route ST 550 Seattle Express
Arrive I-90 Expr Ramp & Rainier Av Fwy Stati At 12:08 AM

Transfer to

Depart Rainier Ave S & I-90 At 12:47 AM On Route MT 7 Downtown Seattle
Continues as MT 49
Arrive NE 45th St & Brooklyn Ave NE At 01:30 AM

Walk 0.1 mile NE to

Depart University Way NE & NE 45th St At 02:33 AM On Route MT 83 Maple Leaf via University District
Continues as MT 7
Arrive 3rd Ave & Marion St At 03:32 AM

Walk 0.2 mile SW to PIER 52

So go Eastgate Park and Ride to the Bellevue Transit Center, BTC across I-90 to the I-90 & Rainier stop, wait 40m, then take a bus to the University District, then wait an hour and take a bus downtown. At which point, I guess I’m expected to wait at Pier 52 for three, four hours.

I understand the limitations of technology, obviously, but this reminds me of the time I was testing an air system at Expedia looking for Seattle-Vancouver BC routes and one of the results came back:
Fly from Seattle-Portland
Fly from Portland-Vancouver BC
(wait 2 hours)
Fly from Vancouver BC to Victoria (helicopter)
Fly from Victoria to Vancouver (helicopter)

Total travel time was ~11 hours, I think.

To get at a drain issue, I pulled the sink trap and found a nasty hair clog, which I pulled out. I then re-assembled the trap to find — joy of joys — that now, the trap-to-train connection dripped. Why would it leak now when it hadn’t leaked before? I have no clue. Probably the clog meant there was less water in the system, so there’s a pressure difference, or whatever. But this is why I hate plumbing work. I can patch a chunk of the cold water supply, and then tightening it perfectly so it doesn’t drip is an art I’ve never mastered, which means it’s actually a lot of experimentation, and then I can fix something else and now it drips again. Wheee!

So, ~70 comments went up on the K-Rod piece yesterday, including some of the swearing-free “you made it up/Photoshopped it” ones. Another hundred or so didn’t get up, and it was running about 1:2 signal:abuse total when I gave up, with new comments almost entirely abuse. By type, I’d classify them as

I color-coded them that way to match my new hot gay lifestyle. Who knew?

There were also a smattering of “You’re a Yankee fan,” “you’re a crybaby,” and all kinds of other random insults.

My wife was horrified. “Yankee fan?” she said. “That’s personal.”

I’m always a little shocked at the sheer level of bile that gets thrown around on the net (and then laugh because I think of “Green Blackboards (And Other Anomalies)“.

Good times.

To fix a drip at a valve connection under a sink today, I pulled the valve off and part of the long-corroding pipe came off with it, leaving not enough thread to put it back on. Had to pull apart and replace pipe. The good luck was I only had to go back one connection.

Going to a hike, my car hit a pot hole and punctured the oil pan, which is great fun, and had to be towed back to my mechanic, again, for the second time in four days, the second time it’s seen a tow truck after years of absurd reliability.

I’m probably going to be out $600 for this, bringing my week-long total to ~$1500, or about half the trade-in value of my car.

This is extra-good since I’m unemployed. I mean, uh, writing.