I'm exhausted from a day-long meeting about river restoration. It was time well-spent, and I learned a lot. Things are really starting to accelerate, and every day except this coming Sunday I've either got something to go to, or a webinar to tune in to. Hour-long webinars are great because I can stay home, and the time goes quickly. Some all-day meetings are broadcast as webinars. I've never tuned in to one of those, but I've been to some where they say: 'there's a problem with the audio for the webinar' and I'd be glad I was there in person. Also, there are people to meet at live meetings.

I talked to some valuable people today, and there was one guy who I didn't think I'd get a chance to talk to before it ended, so I went over to him and said: "I'm going to email you in the next couple of days, and just pretend we are talking face-to-face. If you were to get an email from me out of the blue, you'd wonder why you should tell me what you really think about the questions I'll ask you, but now that we've met, you'll know you can trust me."

He belongs to a non-profit organization that is running a river coalition like ours is being run by another non-profit; most of the river coalitions are run by government entities. And both of our rivers run along state highways, so the highway department did a lot of their river work already, just like we've experienced here. We've been having problems with our non-profit, and I want to ask him what motivated him to take on running his coalition, and what is in it for him - in hopes of better understanding our situation over here.

Tomorrow morning we are going to a breakfast presentation about river coalitions. Go, go, go.