1. Through the spring of 2014, the Deke used taught at Charlemagne Elementary, the Eugene, OR school district's French immersion school. When we were in Eugene back in June, the Deke attended the school's end of the year party and teachers she used to work with informed her that a maternity leave position would be opening up in November and they strongly encouraged her to apply.
After much deliberation, the Deke decided to apply and, on Wednesday, she will interview for the position.
So, we drove from Kellogg to Eugene today. We stopped in CdA for fuel and coffee, made rest stop near Sprague, had a sandwich and fueled up again in The Dalles, had a fairly easy time getting through the Portland metro area -- the traffic was a little syrupy, but moved steadily about 90% of the time -- and arrived in Eugene at 6:00.
2. We drove straight to 16 Tons where we'd made plans to meet Jay and Sherri. We greeted our friends, plopped down, studied the tap list, and made quick friends with a couple of very friendly and informative millennial-aged beer lovers at the counter and kept checking in with them all evening about what they were drinking and what beers they were taking home. The tap list featured several beers from Pipeworks Brewing in Chicago which we sampled and I had another beer from Sunriver and ended the night with Russian River's Consecration. We had a superb time yakkin' with Jay and Sherri, talking about our kids, about baseball in Chicago, and all sorts of other things. It was a stellar way to start our brief stay in Eugene.
3. We rented an Airbnb cottage from longtime friend Ritta Dreier, located right across the street from where the Deke lived when we started messing around together twenty-one years ago. We lugged our stuff in from the Sube and I immediately bolted out the door and wandered a few blocks to the Falling Rain Pour House to meet up with the Troxstar. I ordered a short pour of Juniper Rye ale and when the Troxstar arrived we got right into some excellent yakkin' about family, painting his house, home ownership, baseball, and his upcoming trip with Marla to Scotland, among other things. Troxstar also floated the idea of us traveling to England in 2019. It was a warm and comfortable evening on the back deck of the Pour House and I enjoyed seeing the Troxstar again and having some solid feelings of nostalgia for the good times I had in the Pour House back in the old days when the Deke and I lived in Eugene.
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