On Sunday I had a chance to talk with the Transition trainers, and it was a really interesting chat. The most interesting bit of it was that, as I suspected, we are already thinking along the same tracks, and I did well in not bothering to go to the training, because chances are I wouldn't have learned anything new. Maybe the key moment when this was proved without a doubt was when one of them said, about the credit crunch: "What will the unemployed do?" And then started saying exactly the same as I do, that there is a unique chance now to get in touch with a lot of professional, really smart unemployed people, and convince them to work into building a sustainable society. "What will the unemployed do?" was literally one of the questions that were put forward in the "Future of our city" event, that kept me so busy recently.
On Tuesday I went to the Energy Group meeting, and the main thing we talked about was organizing a big Energy Fair this autumn, where local people can see the offer from companies that provide renewable energy, energy-saving devices, insulation, etc. The idea came from the recent meeting with Transition Lewes, where they had done exactly that some time ago. I can see another huge load of work coming my way!
On Thursday I had called a meeting to discuss the aftermath of the "Future of our city" event, but the only person who came was the Mad Scientist, and that only because I had just met him at the bookshop/cafe where he normally hangs out. Once an event is over, people just don't look back.
There are a couple of other things that happened to me recently that need mentioning, and have little to do with event organizing:
On a personal note, the end of the trial of my ex on Monday went well and he was immediately released. We argued immediately afterwards and we're again in a state of cold war, but that's an entirely different matter.
And to add to the annals of the weird and wonderful, Hyperlogical Man (yes, the coordinator of the Energy Group) has been working on a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by elementary means, and now he says he's done it, and wants me to look at it. On one hand, chances are very low that he got it, or somebody else would have discovered it first. On the other hand, he's just the kind of guy that might just discover it, by grinding through pages and pages of stuff that nobody else would even want to bother with. But then, there's always been people like that in the world, so I'd say chances are still very low. But, in the odd chance that he might be right, I have the moral duty to go through it. It looks like a small hill of boiled spinach that I must digest. Aaaaargh!
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