Dinhternet

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!

Hey, look! I’m basi­cally caught up after this post. Well, tech­ni­cally, I guess I should do two more and cover today, too. But I’m not gonna.

Fri­day! Woke up nice and early and put the fin­ish­ing touches on Sophia C’s project. Drove home home to print it out and frame it and stuff. The process takes a while, so in the mean­time, I watched Robots and Princess Diaries 2 with Dong Ha. (I picked the first, and she picked the sec­ond. I don’t know why, because even she doesn’t like Princess Diaries 2.)

Oh, and I chat­ted online at the same time. Mostly with Alice C, who I don’t talk that often with, but she was goof­ing off in KHOP and wanted to dis­cuss Harry Pot­ter. And that’s where quote comes from.

If you haven’t read it yet and didn’t know a major char­ac­ter dies, sorry for spoil­ing it for you, but it’s been in every news medium known to man, so deal with it. And I’m still intrigued by the pos­si­bil­ity, though I think it’s a lit­tle too dark for Rowl­ing to use. (It reminds me a lot of how Storm of Swords ends, though.) Although… after the gob­let scene, I wouldn’t put much past her. That was some shit.

Thought I was miss­ing some­thing impor­tant, so I ran to Home Depot (which is thank­fully lit­er­ally just around the cor­ner from my house) and got it, but came back to find that it was there the whole time, I just hadn’t looked hard enough. Fin­ished up fram­ing Sophia C’s pic­ture and headed back to Davis.

As I was leav­ing the house, started hav­ing another hive attack, but I took a Benedryl tab imme­di­ately, and it died back down before it got too bad.

But first, a stop down­town to do that favor Chi Hai had asked of me. She’s a para­le­gal for a law firm, and they needed copies of some records of two Cal­i­for­nia busi­nesses. Nor­mally, they could pay a ser­vice to go get those copies for them, but sup­pos­edly lately the Cal­i­for­nia Sec­re­tary of State’s office has been giv­ing such ser­vices the run-around, and delay­ing for a cou­ple of weeks. Well, she needed them right away, so she asked me to go as my com­pletely non-legal self and request the copies, which sup­pos­edly would be faster. Turns out, those records were sup­pos­edly removed from the build­ing to be scanned into a huge online records data­base, so I couldn’t get them, either.

So yeah, after that, back to Davis. Stopped at Sophia C’s to drop off the project, and she fed me as well as pay­ing me. Sweet! Called up Phim­phao C, because she had wanted to do a sim­i­lar project, but she didn’t pick up.

Went home and bummed online for a while. James S called me up and told me he was going to watch some movies at Genie L’s place, so I wan­dered over there. We watched Meet the Fock­ers, which I actu­ally hadn’t seen before. It was very enter­tain­ing. Then Genie L went to sleep, so back to my place.

We watched Hostage, which wasn’t as crappy as I was led to believe by RottenTomatoes.com. Went online and talked to Peggy S for a while, but then I had to go to sleep, since I have to be a good exam­ple and be well-rested and stuff for the ser­vice project today.

So true to my word, here’s a real update. In a timely “day or two.”

Let’s see… I should start at Wednes­day… wait, I thought I cov­ered Tues­day, but looks like the last thing I did was Mon­day. Why did I write that on Wednes­day? Odd, but eh…

So Tues­day… woke up and went online, of course. Kitty K was run­ning a lit­tle late, so she asked me to drive her car to cam­pus, drop her off at class, and then park for her. I wasn’t plan­ning on going to CoHo, but what I was work­ing on wasn’t too press­ing. Did as she asked, and chilled in CoHo for a while, in the off chance that some pledge needed me for some­thing before require­ments were due. In the mean­time, played more BS Poker.

Turns out, Eddie L did need help, but not with reqs. He was mak­ing Genie L a fancy “din­ner at CoHo” and needed some man­power bring­ing stuff in from the car. I dropped the salad on the way in, but it wasn’t too bad. I think Eddie L still got the effect he wanted. That being embar­rass­ing Genie L to tears. Espe­cially when all of CoHo went over to their table in the cor­ner and ser­e­naded her. There’s noth­ing quite like a group of twenty-something peo­ple singing “I’ll Make Love To You” hor­ri­bly off-key in a very pub­lic place. Oh, and did I men­tion Clay­ton L was their waiter and had a giantic blue sequined bow tie? If you missed it, Michelle J got it all on video.

A lit­tle after that, Kitty K took Drew M and me home. Well, she was sup­posed to take Drew M home first, so he could go gro­cery shop­ping with his room­mate, but she was so hun­gry she ended up kid­nap­ping him and took the two of us back to her place. How hun­gry, you ask?

She made noo­dles with won tons and we watched Spang­lish. It was good. (The food and the movie.) Adam San­dler deserves more respect than he gets. Good thing his next big movie is The Longest Yard.

After that, time for Last Sup­per, so we headed over to Avalon Lounge. It was weird to have it not at a restau­rant. It didn’t seem as “together” as in the past. But we did get that cool Mus­ic­Comm pre­sen­ta­tion. Good song, and good par­ody.

Tommy L turned in his reqs around 10:30, and I was still cough­ing up a storm, so I left Last Sup­per early for the first time, and went home and slept.