Notice that stressed tone in my typing? I’m on the way to the airport headed back to my NorCal homeland for a few days in Baghdad by the Bay. I’ll be three-dotting it around the city — and trying to run a neighborhood blog remotely. Wish me luck. Don’t tag my fence or smash my car window to steal my scratched up CDs.

• Reportedly, you can see Rainier from Cal Anderson park on these cool, crisp February days. Or, at least, Yancy can.
• Anybody a Broadstripe internet access customer? They went bankrupt, turns out. Still operating. We only had about 200 visits from Broadstripe customers in January. About 0.625% of our userbase.
• We got Slogged. Voting got all wacky in the Who should be on the Capitol Hil $1? vote but can’t complain that many are celebrating Boe Oddisey. The whole thing is, um, advisory so hopefully the council will consider some fo the, um, feedback if the project goes forward. Probably not going to do a runoff (unless I need an easy item. Item, item, who’s got an item?)
• We’d be happy for this Hillku-spotted trend to catch on — high-chairs everywhere!
• Possible to scale Soup Swap to Capitol Hill proportions? We already have CD Swap planned.
• That election wasn’t very special. Sherril Huff wins.
• Seattle Courant listens to city council talk about light rail fares.
• MyNorthwest.com runs out the once-a-century cobbling: business is hot! story complete with Cap Hill angle
• Meanwhile Northwestsource calls Atlas Clothing spunky. Icky.
• Speaking of spunky, check out mostly NSFW capitolhillbillies.net. They’ve been around for a bit, they say, and would like to be in the CHS sidebar. Seems like a good way to spice things up around here.
• Since when can college kids afford pizza that doesn’t come from a Hut?
• I’ve heard this is a good time for remodels, etc. with the economy hurting and prices down. Here’s a peek inside a Hill 1914 Dutch Colonial’s overhaul.
• This site appears to be ‘covering’ people who buy homes. Here’s a story on an E. Crescent Drive home purchased by an architect. Cost just under $1 million. But what’s this Blockshopper site up to? New to me.
• Seattle Times visits Ruby Bishop at Martins off Madison.