"A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing." - Joey Adams

Last night we watched the last ever episode of Wallander, one of the Masterpiece Mystery series (we record it). It wasn't our favorite series but it was still good, and knowing there won't be any more has us thinking we'll miss it.
He was a police detective in Sweden.

I've used Dictionary.com for definitions but didn't realize they had games, too. I typically did the Yahoo crossword puzzle and their word search each day but they dropped those a week ago, so I went looking for an alternative. The interface for these games is different, but I like them, and they say word games are good for your brain.
Dictionary.com games

On our drive today (see below) we heard a story on NPR about homelessness in San Fransisco. It focused on the coordinated saturation coverage all the local media outlets plan to give to the problem the last week of June. The city spends $241 million each year on the problem and is still overwhelmed with homeless people on the streets, with all the associated problems.
A lot of those people are mentally ill, and they certainly need help. Decades ago they decided that institutionalizing the mentally ill was inhumane so they shut down all those facilities. And turned them out onto the street. Yeah, that worked.

But I wonder how many homeless people are working the system instead of just working. It sure seems like Eugene has a much bigger homeless population that Phoenix. Is that because the city enables them with shelters, allowing them to camp in parks, providing meals....
Closer to the case in point, why don't they have a similar problem in other area cities? San Fransisco has between 7,000 and 10,000 homeless, while Phoenix, a much bigger city, has about half that number. Yeah, Phoenix is stupid hot during the summer, but Mark Twain said the coldest winter he ever experienced was one summer in San Fransisco.
Enablers??

We left home a little after 8 a.m. and drove 90 minutes north to the little town of Aurora, OR. It's about 4 miles west of I-5 and is famous for its historic homes and antique shops. It's also the location of Aurora Mills, an architectural salvage business.

The inside is huge and full of really cool stuff, all of it too pricey for our budget. That's good, because if it had been reasonable (by our standards) we would have come home with way too many things for people committed to tiny living. You can go here and see pictures of the inside.

We went there for lumber. They sell wood of all sizes they've reclaimed from barns and other old structures. I wanted 1x12 boards for the bookshelves in Fred and 2x4's to use as the border for that glue-lam that will be my desk.
SCORE!

I bought 32' of 1x12 and 16' of 2x4 for $104. I would have paid nearly that much (maybe more) if I'd gone to Lowe's, but this is really cool wood, all of it showing decades of age and some of it with old & faded paint. (There are green boards underneath what you can see here.) From there to Lowe's to get the shelf rails and brackets. We were both really happy with the results of our outing, and by tomorrow evening it should all be installed and the books in place.
Will I have pics??