Rob Relyea

i gave a talk at AIA seattle's transformative housing symposium on what social housing in seattle could look like...

it was an opp to talk about how bad TOD in the US is, and how seattle's building and zoning codes - while better than most of the US - are pretty bad for producing high quality homes

Another ~9,000 Microsoft layoffs today. My sympathies to those whose careers are taking an undeserved detour! And to those remaining, whose day to day at Microsoft now involves looking over their shoulders too much

No King signs ready to be made everywhere in US

Building a garden shed (only 3’ x 10’) and it has me pretty drained after working a few hours during the day. I’m learning a bunch as I do this. First time framing a wall, etc…
My respect goes to people who do construction for a living.

Doing some coding this morning…working on export to spreadsheet from multifol.io site.

The site lets you slice and dice your portfolio in different views (by tax type, by account, etc)

Trying to see how much of that I can do in a data driven spreadsheet.

“We cannot build bananas in America.” Video clip worth watching.

“The reason I thought of retiring”:
- death of a friend, CFO of my best client, at 57, heart-attack in office parking lot.
- executive who offered me a promotion died of a heart-attack in shower, at 62.
- my former mentor, who retired early, was diagnosed with a terminal disease 5 years later.

Interesting bogleheads forum post:

- What is your best nugget of advice for someone’s first year of retirement?

“Never schedule more than one chore a day.”

www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewto...

Sorry to see more Microsoft layoffs happening today. Microsoft filed a new announcement of 305 layoffs with the state of Washington…with a seperation date of 8/1/2025.

(A couple years ago I subscribed to Washington state WARN announcement emails. Email came at just before 1pm PT today.)

“Bedlam DL3” was an earlier instance of this at Microsoft.

But it seems like there is a long list of other instances of “email storms”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_s...

Such mixed feelings when the kids grow up and leave home 🥹 #TACO
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

Like that.

Or even:
F86king L47er

Just tested. HideMyEmail now fixed (24 hours later).

Apple’s icloud com based HideMyEmail appears to be broken now? Emails are not being forwarded right now. Come on!

Good thread from author about the book:

bsky.app/profile/ziba...

The Notebook A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • A Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks....

Just finished a really enjoyable read: “the notebook: history of thinking on paper” by Roland Allen

share.libbyapp.com/title/10749281

844 people signed in — almost all PRO — for @staterepjuliareed.bsky.social's bill 1837 directing WSDOT to speed up development of passenger rail service on Amtrak Cascades corridor. If you are in WA and have not signed in PRO, sure would be cool to get that to 1,000
app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House?se...

Was traveling two weeks ago, and the weather interfered with early morning pickleball all of last week. Today, played three hours, great competition,…felt great.

I’m afraid that we’ll have a bird flu epidemic and moron47 will mishandle even worse than last time.

Would be great to see YTD stats (emissions) as part of these tweets.

Had first heard a great interview on npr about it:

bsky.app/profile/npr....

Love this. “Proud Boys” trademark no longer owned by the racist organization. Won by a church that the group had vandalized.

Cancelled Amazon prime account earlier this month. More thought/care put into purchases should be interesting.

Was absolute joy to cheer for Ichiro playing for Mariners. First class act!

Have been using Lyft instead of Uber for quite a while…

Just received:
“Your account and data will be deleted in 30 days
It’s been a long time since you’ve taken a ride with Uber.”

Unfortunately, Seattle Y is closed on sundays, which I didn’t notice until I arrived.

So did a bunch more reading as I bus/train/walk to bellevue Y.

Happy I could have a lazy Sunday afternoon…eventually getting a good workout.

Sunday afternoon decided to go lift at Y. Walked to nearby B line transit stop. Decided to go to downtown Seattle Y b/c the train/bus was a bit faster at that moment than train/walk to bellevue Y.

Anyway, enjoy the slow travel to the Y, catching up on reading and listening to interesting things.

Kraken (my current team) down 6-1 to Red Wings (my team during my youth) after two periods. Ouch.

The idea of a shadow cabinet called a “people’s cabinet” resonates with me.