My college roommate Sharon and her husband recently moved from the Detroit area to Eugene. Their daughter Samantha and her family live there and they wanted to be closer to their granddaughters. So, off I went yesterday morning, driving 2 hours south to Eugene, to visit them in their new home. It was so great spending the day with Sharon. Their new home is beautiful and they both seem really happy there.
Sharon gave me a driving tour of Eugene and The University of Oregon campus. Somehow, we ended up at the architect’s office for the new cohousing community they will be building in Eugene soon. Of course I got all the details about the new site, and shared a lot of info about Touchstone. Architect Will said he’ll be at the cohousing conference in Portland on May 30 also. It feels nice to know that if I do go, I will know quite a number of folks there that I’ve connected with on this trip.
After a delicious Thai dinner at Sabai, Alan, Sharon and I ended up watching Rachel Maddow on tv. I may have converted another viewer for my favorite news broadcaster.
What I learned today. 1. Outlet malls can be a dangerous place to stop. Even though there was no Bass shoe store I still managed to buy 2 new sweaters and a dress. And 2. Bitcoin technology is extremely complex and the machines used for transactions create intense heat and use a lot of electricity. Sharon’s son-in-law Alex (a anethesiologist) is a Bitcoin trader/seller and has the machines in their house that does the trades following some algorithm automatically.
