Staying in touch: Your State and Federal Government.
If you want to express your opinion on legislative business, these sites will help you reach your state and federal representatives.

Washington State Senate: Members, Districts, and Counties

Washington State House of Representatives: Member Directory

Senator Patty Murray

Senator Maria Cantwell

U.S. House of Representatives
To find and contact your Congressional representative, select a state, enter a zip code, and you will be given the contact information for the representative to that district.

Other useful and fun places on the web

Emailabout.com
Do you want to get started with free, web-based e-mail? Are you interested in learning more about using electronic mail? About.com offers you the expertise of guide Heinz Tschabitscher to help you with the ins and outs of a great communication resource.

MESA, your Meta Email Search Agent
MESA searches international resources for email addresses. 
Warning: some of the information is out of date. Still, it is a good resource for finding friends on the Web.

Digital Librarian
Once a month, Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian from Cortland, New York, posts her choices of interesting websites. This is a good place to look for useful and fun websites that might otherwise not be found. Older website choices are archived at the site.

Matisse's Glossary of Internet terms
Wondering what exactly a "portal" could be, or a "flame", or a "UDP"? Matisse Enzer has been defining terms for the confused web user since 1994. He includes his email address, so if there is a term you do not find, you may tell him, and perhaps he will include it in a future update of the data.

Body mass index
If you are wondering if you are overweight or obese, this calculator can help. Type in your height and your weight, and it will do the rest.

Convert It!
For the numerically challenged, this website is a delight. It converts measurements of length, mass, fluid, energy/work, pressure, velocity, volume/capacity, and more. Math-Find maintains this helpful collection of conversion tables.

Convert me
Here is another conversion site, which uses friendly language. It includes some different measures, such as time, and circular, and computer storage. By the way, you can choose to read it in English or in Russian. The site links to several other unit conversion websites.

Zip+4 look up
The United States Postal Service makes it easy to check zip codes for accuracy, when you have an address to enter. You can also find out the number of the carrier route, if this information will be useful. It is possible to search by city, too, and find all the zip codes associated with any U.S. location.

ZipFind
This site calculates the distance between zip codes. Is it useful? Maybe. In any case, it provokes thought. Compare its distances to the mileage given door-to- door in Mapquest.

Mapquest
This is a very useful site for the traveler. Mapquest will provide detailed driving directions that will get you from your garage to anywhere in North America. Caution: it doesn't always take the shortest route available, and the maps are not always accurately drawn, but the directions will get you to your destination.

FedForms
Check out this handy resource for popular Federal government forms, searchable by agency or keyword. The site includes the top 500 Government services used by the public, including the IRS, Social Security, and forms for passports and visas, immigration & naturalization, forms from the Small Business Administration and lots more.

IRS Forms and publications
No more scrambling around the post office and the public libraries looking for odd but necessary IRS forms. Find and print any form or information publication from the friendly IRS website.

Salary.com
Would you like to know what your chosen profession is worth in various parts of the country? Fill in the form at Salary.com, and you can get a range of pay to use as a reference point. On the portion of the page entitled The Lighter Side you can check out such dream jobs as rock star or pyrotechnician. Ask Annette will provide answers to crucial questions about office etiquette.

Office Etiquette
Marjorie Brody, a communications consultant, has developed seven simple rules of etiquette which concentrate on the use of office equipment. If everyone observed them, offices would be pleasanter for everyone.