Sandino at the Mercado is a no frills shop with stools in the shop, plus lots of indoor seats in the central arcade, plus access to outdoor picnic tables and benches.   Usually the interior arcade on Sunday mornings is pretty slow, but we wanted to catch the flavor of the community coming out to watch Mexico play in the World cup, so there was a healthy crowd this morning.

Compared to watching the World Cup, our outside discussion at the picnic table was academic and dry: A comparison of Oregon’s property taxes with California’s and Colorado’s; A’s ability to teach on-line classes for Oregon State from Viet Nam for the next two years via skyping and video streaming; and H’s comparison of his nephew’s graduation ceremony for 500 from Camas HS, with his niece’s  ceremony for 70 HS graduates from a small PCC program: each Camas graduate received 4 seconds of acknowledgment before the next name was called, while each PCC grad had 10 seconds.

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