It’s been a couple of years since we’ve last visited the Schoolhouse Electric Building’s alcove, which serves as home for this unorthodox Ristretto outpost.  There’s nothing fancy here other the quirky unlikeliness of this setting in the NW Industrial Area: the counter is nestled in nicely into the curve of the building, and even with minimal hard furniture, there is enough visual variety in this once industrial building and through the locked gates of Schoolhouse Electric’s products, to keep one entertained and us coming back for more stimulating conversations.

Discussion amongst today’s fivesome on this brisk dry morning included: E recounting frustrations with the City’s backlog with inspectors so that he needs to schedule a week in advance; he says he’d gladly pay for a private inspecting company to subcontract with the City in order to receive more timely assistance; M explaining that Havurah has outgrown its site; the pros/cons of using tiny homes or big metal containers for housing the homeless during the current housing emergency; kudos for the animated film Coco; and D’s enthusiasm for the book Behave– the Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, which explains how we can sometimes make decisions that seem totally inexplicable.  

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