I finally got to visit some campus housing in the Cascadian region that I'd never seen.
Those visiting faculty from July, 2020, during tumultuous political theater, the downtown Joker Riots, gave me the tour.
As mentioned then, these are hardy types, used to off-grid living and installers of their own solar panels, battery packs, and water cistern to serve their shared faculty lounge unit.
The back road is unmarked so you kind of have to know where you're going ahead of time.
My excuse for getting to this neck of the woods, taking a car ferry, was Uncle Bill's 100th birthday celebration in West Seattle. His kids, fully grown adults with kids and in some cases grandkids, had organized it well, including by inviting some sea shanty singers to lead us through some verses, while encouraging our joining-in. Bill seemed to know quite a few.
The card I gave Bill, with the partial family tree diagrammed inside, was decorated with CogSec decals, originally sent from the UC Davis area near Sacramento. CogSec = Cognitive Security. We think of it as part of the USA OS infrastructure.
Speaking of Cascadia and campus facilities, I was back at MHCC last Friday for another Dead Mathematician Society meetup. We played some fun games this time. Then we retreated to a Wanderers haunt, the site of gatherings, a farm in Boring.
My Oregon Curriculum Network stuff is presumably queued for review, at both MHCC and OES. At the latter because I heeded a heads up from Alison, exGoogle, and part of my LinkedIn network.
