Message 716

Yesterday morning Julian came down and traded cars with me so Vanessa could drive the Sienna to the mountains with a bunch of her friends from the mothers group. One of the members has to move with her family to Texas because her husband was transferred to Dallas. After that I met Helen and Jim and Joan at Starbucks. Dave is still too sick to get out of bed, but Joan says he is somewhat better now that he is on a new medication. During the day I read some of The Economist and in the evening I watched a DVD called Alone in the Wilderness. It is a documentary about a guy who builds a cabin by a lake in Alaska and filmed himself doing the work with a camera on a tripod. He lived there by himself for thirty years until he was eighty years old and moved back to the lower forty-eight. This documentary was recommended by Joshua's friend Jim at Genencor when he heard I had built my house in Alaska. My house was much bigger than the one in the documentary, but I had a lot of help and used more store-bought materials. If it was a movie I would give it three stars.