We finally got the last of the building permits on Friday the 13th, which we thought was rather ironic. This project has had a lot of potholes along the way, but we're all very excited.

We don't think we are going to have any problems filling the rooms because there is such a demand for affordable assisted living facilities. Even our market-rate units will be below what Sunrise [Assisted Living] units are going for.

This was a contentious project. There was unfortunately a lot of citizen opposition, which we were really surprised about ? because you're talking very low use of a site.

It's been a good exercise in patience. But I kind of consider this like childbirth ? as soon as the baby is born you forget about all of the pain.

“We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didn’t know what to think. It’s hard to think without words ‘cause you haven’t got a clue as to what you’re thinking. So if you think we suffer from a lack of communication now, think what it must have been like then, when people lived in a ‘verbal void’ - made worse by the fact that there were no words such as ‘verbal void‘.”

I have always dreamed of being a Marine. I thought they were the elite, the ones who stepped in when everyone else failed.