/r/wa_guns/ would be another place to network. There's a handful of clubs operating ranges that might be a potential source of mentors too.

If you're in the Seattle metro area start looking for a WDFW approved hunter safety course now and not in the late summer. Without a certificate from the hunter safety course you're not going to be able to get a hunting license. Treat the course as a networking opportunity.

KBCS 91.3 at Bellevue College is commercial free and has a variety of programming by volunteer DJ's. Listen and you might find a fondness for Brazilian music or rediscover the Grateful Dead. It's definitely worth programming into your radio presets and checking out.

They're also pretty chill about holding subscriptions for customers near their roasting facility in Summer and have a small retail store.

Agree, looks like Skunk Cabbage to me.

I suspect that you aren't getting very good advice.

People rarely steal cars by judging the interior. They steal cars that they already know how to steal or smash every window of every car on the block hoping to find something left inside worth stealing.

Buy a club to put on your steering wheel and stop leaving stuff in your car if you're really that worried.

Make sure you understand what kind of insurance you have and get renter's insurance for your residence to cover theft of things other than your car.

> Im really doing this to make me less likely to be a victim of car theft.

I've never heard of this being a common strategy for avoiding car theft and can't really imagine it helping. Perhaps make sure you have comprehensive auto insurance coverage and buy a club or get an ignition disabling switch installed.

Go watch old episodes of Almost Live! on YouTube, the satire is actually representative of Seattle and surrounding Suburbs.

Source: mid nineties Seattle high school graduate.

A Seattle Tuxedo is your nice jeans and a goretex jacket.

The people describing the informality of dress here are totally correct. Don't treat this like some opening night gala or you're going to stand out.

So you broke the law and got caught...

If you're not a habitual traffic offender (be honest with yourself) and you're not going to be caught doing something worse in the foreseeable future Washington State allows you to pay a fee to defer a citation once every seven years.

The town is super proud of it's suspension bridges for squirrels but doesn't have much else going on.

Looks like a major textbook publisher has never managed to connect with my long dead grandfather's estate about royalties for the textbook he co-authored. He's only been dead for thirty years, tens of dollars could be at stake.

It's something you would only want to explore approaching the slack before low water to get free diving depths. Plankton blooms, heavy rains, or days ending with "y" may spoil visibility which can range from 2ft to 25ft with 10-ish being pretty typical.

Lots of Portland based folks five Hood Canal and there's some rocky headlands you can explore. There's a few waterfront rentals around Hoodsport plus Mike's Beach Resort that cater to divers.

I really like cold water diving in the PNW but it's definitely an acquired taste that requires a really good understanding of local conditions to mitigate risk. The really cool stuff is in British Columbia.

There's a decent artificial reef there if you're scuba diving but the near shore tide pools are unremarkable.

Setting up to be robot friendly can help them be more effective. Think about where they get lost/stuck and make sure you don't have carpets with tasseled edging. Consider upgrading to the ones that can dump their dust collector at a docking station and go back to work.

Ignorance is pretty dangerous and humans are generally pretty poor assessors of risk. I'd be most concerned about darkness, hypothermia, cliffs, and feral humans. Perhaps mitigate risk with education by joining the Mountaineers or taking classes elsewhere. Definitely start carrying the ten essentials and understanding the terrain by studying topographic maps of the areas you want to explore.

I like that our cultural norm isn't faux positivity and formality. I grew up in a very cohesive urban neighborhood in Seattle where I knew nearly all the neighbors on the block. There was plenty of social interaction without what I consider to be odd cultural baggage.

I was allowed to roam the block freely as an elementary school aged child (it wasn't that much of a simpler time there were weirdos around and we knew to leave the needles alone). As I grew older I watched their kids, mowed their lawns, and took care of their pets. The spirit of mutual assistance was pretty real, we kept a few neighbors in their homes well past the time they were capable of fully independent living. If something was ever amiss my parents either had house keys or could figure out who did.

I see this as being a functional society. Greet your neighbors, pet their dogs, be obvious about participating in trick or treating, etc.

If the date is correct that's a couple of years before the men in my immediate family started schlepping Ira"s camera gear around the mountains and occasionally posing in his photos (one of which was a billboard advertising Kodak in NY Grand Central Station).. He was shooting lots of large format (film obviously) back then with huge cameras that were heavy and fragile..

> Just a guess but Washington makes reveue off sales tax,

Washington State doesn't tax most groceries/food.

Transparency and political parties really like a good database dump too. Unfortunately it's pretty tough for people from dysfunctional families who aren't terrible enough to qualify them for Washington's address conveniently program. I didn't register to vote for years until I moved out of state because I didn't want shitty family on my doorstep.

You used to be able to guess Wa. driver's license numbers with key information and there was even an embedded check sum.

Kitsap Transit to a ferry, walk a few blocks in downtown Seattle, and Link light rail to the airport. Use the transit option on Google Maps and consider getting/hiring a ride to a bus stop with better service in Silverdale.

Depending on carrier and phone settings you may even experience roaming to a Canadian carrier along the straights and San Juan islands.

Job Corps?

A skilled trades apprenticeship will require funding your own move, a certain amount of physical ability, and being present during the application process.

It might be possible to bootstrap yourself with a terrible, no interview required, Amazon warehouse job if you think you can hack it for a few months and can find a lower cost of living area.

Military with a contract guaranteeding a region is probably your only option. Totally possible in the Coast Guard but they're pretty particular about who they let enlist.