The Road Not Taken

It’s odd how most week­ends, I have absolutely noth­ing to do, and then comes along a per­fect storm of invitations.

Besides being Easter week­end — which doesn’t directly impact me, but I thought it would reduce the num­ber of things going on, since other peo­ple have fam­ily events — there was pledge retreat, Clint S vis­it­ing Cal­i­for­nia, Genie L’s/​Cathy K’s/​Stevie D’s “Appre­ci­a­tion Din­ner,” gam­ing with Isaac L’s Berke­ley crew, and snow­board­ing with my sister.

The orig­i­nal plan was to head down to Santa Cruz, hang out with some old peo­ple and hit up pledge retreat, wan­der up to Berke­ley to hang with Clint S and maybe say hi to Isaac L’s crew. (Sorry, Genie L, but I thought your din­ner was another week­end under I saw the event on Face­book while I was at Aaron L’s place.)

I had some car trou­ble a cou­ple of weeks ago and took it in to a mechanic in Davis. They fixed my coolant leak by replac­ing the water pump. How­ever, my car started slightly over­heat­ing as I went over the hill into Santa Cruz. Things were OK while at retreat, and I topped off my coolant before head­ing back over the hill on Sat­ur­day. How­ever, the tem­per­a­ture nee­dle was hov­er­ing a lit­tle above the halfway point of the gauge, def­i­nitely higher than nor­mal, and as I got into San Jose, the Check Engine Light turned on.

As I came up to the free­way inter­changes, I was faced with the choice of fun or safety. I really wish I could have made the other choices, but I headed to Davis, where my mechanic is. And I just found out this morn­ing that he’s not open on week­ends. (Of course, it’s Easter Sun­day, so it would have been a long shot anyway.)

So any­way, sorry to every­one I couldn’t meet up with this weekend!

Tags: Aaron L, Cathy K, Clint S, Facebook, Family, Genie L, Isaac L, Ron L