davidschroth | Why I still Haven't Made It To A MnStf Meeting at Dean and Laura's House.

The July 20 MnStf meeting was going to be at Dean and Laura's house, and would mark the combined celebration of the Apollo Moon Landing and Dean and Laura's wedding anniversary. I've never made it to a MnStf meeting at Dean and Laura's house, but I had every intention of making it to this one. I even knew where their house was (having visited it to have Dean turn reams of cover stock into lots of postcards), and had a reasonable expectation of being able to find it again without too much difficulty.

I had an appointment scheduled for 8:00 am on Friday. I'd risen earlier than I normally do, and at 7:00 am I was eating a bowl of cereal, almost ready to go. That was when Polonia and I engaged in a heated "discussion". I left, with matters unresolved, at 7:30. And was back in the house inside of ten minutes, as the Toyota refused to start. What's more, it was pretty clear it wasn't going to start. I tried to call and cancel my appointment - no luck, there was nobody in the office at that hour. Polonia insisted that I take her car. So I did. When I arrived home after the appointment, we agreed that we'd take some time during the weekend to finish the discussion. She then went to work, and I set about getting the Toyota towed to the shop and getting it repaired.

I got up at a decent hour Saturday morning, noticed that it was dark outside (due to the thunderstorm squatting over the area) and that I was still tired. So I went back to bed. I finally got up around 10:00am. After some discussion, it was agreed that after I paid for the Toyota repairs and Polonia finished taking care of the horse we would go to the Mall of America for lunch. And in due course, we did. We had a very pleasant lunch at the California Cafe. Polonia left me in the Apple Store while she did some shopping. After I almost succumbed to the temptation of buying an E-Mac (I removed myself from temptation by removing myself from the store), Polonia returned with her acquisitions, and we returned home. This was around 3:00 pm, and it seemed likely that the agreed upon discussion would not be happening on Saturday. So I started to pull myself together to leave for the MnStf meeting around 4:00 pm. And on my way to the kitchen, I started talking with Polonia about some innocuous matter.

The talking ceased around 10:00pm. The discussion had slowly moved from the innocuous to the very serious, and it stayed there for about four hours.

At that point, there didn't seem to be much sense in going to the MnStf meeting. Maybe next time.