Three Beautiful Things 06/11/08: Dan Retires, Laughing with Alice, Northwest Eugene

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1. Dan is in the last week of teaching at Lane Community College. He's retiring. Margaret, Jeff, Dan, and I have offices in a corner near each other and we got together for some Thai food this evening and laughed and told stories and continued, even as Dan is leaving LCC, to get to know each other better.

2. Alice came by to talk about her research paper and Margaret joined in and we had a string of long laughs and more or less solved many of the world's problems.

3. Snug and I took a drive today into northwest Eugene. When visitors and travel writers and many residents of Eugene rhapsodize about our fair city, they are never referring to the machine shops, lumber mills, modest houses, taverns, second hand stores, industrial parks, small farms, and body shops of northwest Eugene. I enjoy it more than the hip and upscale areas of Eugene.