I summon you, I overdid it, My buddy Tom

My weekend kept me moving. I played pickleball both Saturday and Sunday, to excess. On Saturday I played roughly two hours which wasn’t bad. On Sunday I almost doubled that, playing just under four hours. It was too much. It was hot and humid and I was running on water alone, not bringing anything to eat. To make matters worse my last two games were full court singles which spent every last bit of energy I had remaining. It was fun for sure but it took a lot out of me.

On Friday after work I went to Bruninas to have a few beers. During that visit I found out that I was sitting two chairs over from Tom Berenger, yes the actor from Platoon and a number of other films. Evidently he lives in the area now and is a regular. He has aged a lot and if Meaghan did not tell me who it was I would not have realized it but once I looked again I recognized him. I did not say anything to Tom while I was there but I did interact with his wife a bit. I will have to see if I can get Tom into a conversation at some point.

I did some more testing of Tesla full self driving over the weekend, specifically the auto park and summon features. Summon does what it sounds like. You can be up to 200 feet away from the car and have it drive itself to you. This feature when I first tested it years ago was unreliable and slow. I was happy to see that just like the rest of FSD, the summon feature has improved as well, to the point where it is borderline usable.

Sunday was Mother’s Day. It made me sad to think about my mom and her passing which will have happened 10 years ago this August, which on it’s own seems impossible to believe. The speed time passes at the point is insane.

I was feeling less than happy most of the day which is possibly why I felt motivated to just keep playing pickleball for hours. When I am playing there is no room or time for my mind to dwell on unhappy thoughts.

Sunday evening I met up with my buddy I play VB with and his wife. They also played pickleball with me last Wednesday. He was amazed that I saw Tom Berenger on Friday and was curious if he would be there again on Sunday. He was. I drank, talked and ate dinner with them for a couple hours. They are fun to hang with. Brian and I traded crazy ex stories. I keep trying to push that circle outward.

I did yet another wheel impulse buy this weekend, another way I try to distract myself.