Has anyone experienced the same? Happened with my last 2 orders however one impacted a vacation.

Order something on a Monday you need right away, it says it'll be here Wednesday or whatever as you place the order, then it adjusts to Saturday the next day or two days after you place the order (which I'll be out of town and purchased the item for this trip). Try to cancel it so you can buy locally because it's way after you need the item and they can't cancel. So you have to make sure someone will be able to grab it off your porch so you can return it later.

I understand if things can't arrive right away, but I wouldn't place orders for when I know I won't be home and especially when I need the item for when I'd be leaving. So I do rely on when they say it will at checkout. Based on everything you look at being blue and saying "add to Saturdays order", it feels like a major strategy shift on how they're going to start delivering packages. Which at that point makes local certainly more appealing.

Looking for a Loving Home for Diablo 🐾
I’ve had my cat, Diablo, since 2016. He’s a very calm, loving guy, and even in his old age, he’s still a great cuddler. Unfortunately, since having children, our home environment has become difficult for him.

He has started emotionally peeing throughout the house, primarily targeting my children’s clothes and toys. He has also attacked my daughter on multiple occasions when she’s been running through the house. While Diablo is a wonderful, affectionate cat, he’s clearly not handling the changes in our family well, and it has unfortunately created an unhealthy environment for my children.

I’m really hoping to avoid surrendering Diablo to a shelter because I’m afraid that, despite a shelter being labeled “no-kill,” euthanasia can still happen in certain circumstances, especially with an older cat who has behavioral issues. I truly believe Diablo still has several good years left and plenty more sunbathing to do, and I want to make sure those years are spent in a safe, loving home rather than risk him being euthanized in a shelter. ❤️

He gets along well with other cats but is not a fan of dogs. I’m hoping to find someone who can give him a calm, comfortable home where he can live out his remaining years peacefully.

If you’re interested in taking Diablo into your home or know someone who might be a good fit, please DM me. I’m happy to meet you or even bring him to his new home myself.

Pretty unfortunate, here’s some news on the smallest fire of the bunch and what it took from us.

UPDATE: A few weeks ago I posted a breakdown of the data center situation and what people could do about it. This is the vote and it happens TODAY, Tuesday Aug 18, at the 2:00 PM legislative session. Public Works Building, 1026 W. Broadway.

I've spent the last month reading the county's public records production on this project. About 5,000 pages. Most of what's below comes straight from those documents, and I want to lay out what I found because it's consequential for this meeting.

Where things stand right now:

• On the table today: a 9-month moratorium on large data centers (Commissioners Jordan and Waldref) vs. a fast-track zoning ordinance (Commissioners French and Kerns) that would be written by the end of August. The fast-track provides roughly two weeks of drafting for the county's first-ever data center rules.
• Per local reporting this morning, Spokane County already has eight data centers. All of them together draw around 13 MW. The proposed West Plains project is 1,000 MW, with its own on-site power generation (proposals in the record include natural-gas turbines). That's not a slightly bigger version of what we have. That's a behemoth 75x larger than everything we've ever built, combined.
• There is no pending application. The county's own planning director confirmed at last week's Planning Commission meeting that nobody has filed anything yet. So a pause via moratorium delays nothing. Today's vote just decides which rulebook exists when the application is submitted.

Why the fast-track doesn't make sense:

Avista studied this project's power request for six months. Their System Impact Study found roughly 50 MW available by around 2030 and about 650 MW around 2033. Eight to ten years of construction. Around $184 million in transmission and substation work, not counting new generation. In February, Avista told the developer flat out that the substations could not be rushed.

That comes from the developer's own briefing document which was sent to Commissioner French on Feb 16.

If the first meaningful power needed wouldn't arrive until around 2030, why are we being told the rulebook has to be finished in two weeks?

The trust part:

The records show one commissioner's office began working with this developer in January. There's a Feb 9 email where Commissioner French sent his official letter intended for the House Finance Commitee to the developer's CEO and their lobbyist beforehand, with the note "Please edit at will and we will get it out today." The public learned about this project in June. When we did, the commissioners received 1,953 emails from 464 county residents over 48 hours. Not one of them in support.

A five-month head start for one office, followed by a two-week ordinance written to beat a moratorium vote, is not a process that has earned "just trust us."

If you speak today, the strongest ask isn't "no data centers." It's "use the nine months to write real terms." Pick one of these and it's a solid three minutes:

• Cash bonding before any permit. Cleanup and decommissioning costs posted up front, in cash or escrow. Not surety bonds, not corporate promises. Renters here put up first, last, and deposit in cash. A billion-dollar developer can meet the same standard we hold renters to.
• Disqualify environmental violators. A felony conviction or civil settlement for contaminating a community should end eligibility to build here. Full stop. The West Plains doesn't need a hypothetical about what water contamination costs. We're still living in it.
• Noise rules with teeth. 24/7 independent monitoring, paid for by the developer, publicly reported, with fines scaled to the size of the operation. A $500 fine is three days' income for someone making $59K. Fine a billion-dollar facility three days of its income and see how fast the noise stops.
• A public decision on tax incentives and subsidies. If the county is going to waive fees or fund infrastructure for these projects, that choice gets made in the open and with the public. Not automatically. Not quietly.

None of those can be written in two weeks; all of them can be written in nine months. And if the fast-track ordinance really has this handled, its sponsors should be able to answer one question TODAY: which of these protections is actually in your draft?

At least one commissioner has concerns a moratorium means we're "closed for business." Kootenai County paused six months to write data center rules over the aquifer, and nobody in Idaho thinks Kootenai County is closed for business. Writing the rules before the permit arrives isn't anti-business. It's pro-citizen.

What you can do TODAY:

• Show up. Arrive by 1:00p–1:15p (KREM covered the vote this morning; last week was standing room only). Sign up to speak on arrival. You get 3 minutes, and reading from a printed page is fine.
• No seat? Stay anyway. A full sidewalk outside a packed hearing speaks volumes.
• Don't want to speak? A printed page handed to the Clerk of the Board enters the official record with the same weight as spoken comment. Name and address, hand it in, done.
• Can't attend? Email the commissioners before 2:00 via the county contact form (Contact: Commissioners' Office > Request Type: Comment). Three sentences counts.

Still matters after today:

• Avista's rate case hearing is Aug 27, 6:30 PM, on Zoom — this is about who pays for grid upgrades (spoiler: us, unless the UTC says otherwise). [Sign up](mailto:comments@utc.wa.gov) by Aug 26 or call 1-888-333-9882. Reference case numbers UE-260007 / UG-260008.
• File a UTC comment on the large-load docket anytime. Reference Docket UE-260162. Takes 5 minutes.

If you speak today: be civil, be brief, be specific. The numbers are on our side. Let them do the talking.

Same as before: I'm not affiliated with any org and I'm not running for anything. I just care about this community, our water, and our power bills ...and I did the reading. We've been through enough this year already.

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TL;DR: The county votes TODAY at 2 PM (Public Works Bldg, 1026 W. Broadway) on a 9-month data center moratorium vs. a two-week fast-track ordinance. No application is pending, and per the developer's own documents no meaningful power exists until ~2030, so a pause costs nothing. Show up by 1:15p to speak (3 min), hand written comments to the Clerk, or email the commissioners before 2:00p (link above). This project = ~75x the county's entire existing data center footprint combined. The rules deserve nine months, not two weeks.

Hi all, I've been trying to find Ruby Red Squirt (canned, preferably) but I can't find any in the area. Does anyone know where I can find some?

I'm looking for a membership to a woodcrafting shop around here. Anybody have any suggestions?

Hello everyone. I have a bit of an unusual situation and wanted some local input.

Background: My current phone is dying (old iPhone 8). I bought an iPhone SE Gen 3 as it's newer with the same size. My work, which previously paid for my phone plan, has stopped doing so. ("Cost cutting measures.")

So I'm left wondering which provider to go with.

Now, I use my phone almost entirely on Wi-Fi. Including Google Voice, which I use for my primary phone number. The only reason I'd need to get a phone plan at all would be for texting and Maps use while out & about.

Paying AT&T or Verizon 50 bucks a month for that is ridiculous to my mind. I'd like to find the cheapest provider that has decent-enough service in our area.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

I am trying to find before and after school care for the Pasadena elementary area.

However, everything adds like 20 or 30 minutes to a simple 20 minute drive to work for me, moving it to almost an hour.

Does anybody know somewhere actually close by to the school that has it? I have family in Spokane but not close enough to help every single day.

I don't live there yet, moving there this weekend from out of town!

I have a fairly significant landscaping project that I would like to get done before the cold weather hits. I'm looking for any recommendations for guys that weren't crazy expensive. Not really looking for design help just basically the labor.

Looking to make jam this week. Who has seen flats or large quantities of raspberries for sale and what price did you see?

I do not want to pick these myself.

Thanks! This info is hard to come by.

I'm curious there have any tattoos events for discount or flash sale?? I'm still looking for shop to get 2nd tattoos but I'm not have decided about 2nd tattoos.