Whoa, what a weekend. I consider San Jose a far distance to travel since I don’t travel all that well. But a I have a lot of friends in the South Bay and sometimes a lot of things are going on down there that I want to be a part of. I had a wedding to attend on Saturday so I started packing things around it to take advantage of being in the area.

Saturday morning, I headed to San Jose for Mark and Laura’s wedding. I was having “One Of Those Days”(TM) and am behind schedule. I snuck into the back about half way through and stood between Suzanne and Kenneth. Other people we know were scattered all over the sanctuary. After the ceremony, it seemed like everyone came our way and hung out until Jennifer informed us that it would be great if we headed to the reception but no matter what we did we couldn’t remain any longer. I though I had been so smart and knew what I was doing and headed out for the Decathlon Club. At the beginning, I found I started going down a different street than I thought I was on so just plotted a different path and hit traffic. At the other end, I couldn’t find the Club because I had the wrong address. I ended up driving around in circles pretty much before realizing what was wrong and corrected it. I took about an hour and a half for a half hour trip. (note the “One Of Those Days” from above?) At the reception, I sat with delightful people I know and other tables had more friends. After the food, there was dancing (of course). When things wrapped up, I was off to emberleo’s for a ritual thing we are working with. Gotta love the emotional rollercoaster things like that take you on. After that ended and we got some food into us, I headed onto Ken’s to crash. I got to talk to him a little bit and then headed to bed because I was dead tired.

In the morning he told me that I must induce a restful ambiance because it has been a long time since he has slept 8.5 hours. That was his way of telling me it wasn’t 8:30am like we planned but 9:30 when he woke me up. Having not eaten yet, it didn’t register with me. When I was done eating, I asked what time it was and was surprised it was already 10. Eep, I am suppose to be meeting people at 10. There was a quick rush to the phone and it rang as I was looking up phone numbers, Rick was calling to say they were just getting out of bed. This was a delight to hear because I could then afford the time for a shower. We moved our meeting time to 11am. Ken and I joined Rick, Ammy and Eric at the Original Pancake House where we swapped stories and Rick and I went over the next steps on my car mod. After second breakfast, Ken and I hit a dollar store and I dropped him off at home. The next stop was Chris’ house to pick him up so he can help me shop for mattresses. We hit a wrong address (“One Of Those Days” Take 2), a waterbed store and a Mattress discounters. I am still undecided and unpleased with my choices but not nearly as frustrated as I have been on other shopping trips. After I drop Chris off at home, I call sandpanther to see if she would like a drive by hugging and end up going out to dinner and talking through some things with her. It was time well spent and I think I left her in better spirits than when I arrived. It was a good way to end my trip to San Jose. On the drive home I get a brief chance to talk to Bert on the phone before he has to go. After that, I talk to Eric the rest of the way home.

I am finding it rather hard to be at home right now. I am looking for distractions and I don’t want to deal with my normal home stuff. But I am home and slowly I am growing accustom to it again. Usually if something is going on in the South Bay, I will drive down and back in a day. But this time, I managed to turn a trip to San Jose into an entire weekend of activities and seeing many many people that I haven’t seen a quite awhile. It is more social than I have been in a long time and in some ways, very much like a con in how saturated it was with people and stuff. I don’t think this makes up for the weekends of not talking to anyone or leaving the apartment. It appears that I am doing a pendulum swing with this element of my life.