The past few days have been a stretch of time spent focused on a couple of "big tasks". I was predominantly traveling to Sacramento to drop Lauren at Sac State. We all four went up Thursday to move her into her dorm room. That went relatively well, all things considered, including the chaos that is a few hundred people an hour trying to do the same thing with little or no idea exactly what to do and where to go. After getting her set up we had a wonderful meal at Zocalo, and Jen/Tommy returned to Los Gatos. I stayed in Sat through Saturday AM, crashing at my friend Matt's apartment while he was out of two at his girlfriend Laura's place in Natomas. It was a great move and allowed her and I to drive about, explore, get supplies, walk about and explore more, and partake in the "Hornet-fest" kickoff event outside of her doom. Friday was their birthday – Jen and I took Tommy to "Namaste" Indian food in LG last night, and I took Lauren to both Rick's Dessert Diner and to Gunthers in Sac for back-t0-back desserts. I found a cruiser bike for her Friday on Craigslist that was about 20m away from Sac State, so we went up early Sat am, bought it and returned it to campus for her use. Score! I returned Saturday on the 12:55 train to Santa Clara and went to a friend's dinner/wine event. Needless to say, the past week's eating has been off my routine path, so this week I'm 100% focused on getting back "into my lane," so to speak. Today she starts her classes, Tommy starts his and is already insisting he can do classes over Zoom with as much success as in person. I want only the best for him, but if this is the path he's choosing, the easy road, it'll not get him anywhere. Shortcuts don't work when the journey is how you learn. It's times like this I am filled with regret for ever capitulating to the parenting path his mom insisted on taking. It backfired massively.
