Monday Monday 11.10.2008

Monday Monday,

For reasons that I will explain later, Maggie and I took another trip north to the land of snow and ice that is Potsdam, NY.

Travel Story
After meeting Chris Spurchise in Syracuse for some Tully Tenders, I picked up Maggie at the airport and continued our journey north. Somewhere between Syracuse and Exit 48, I saw in the distance that a cop had someone pulled over on the left hand side of the highway. Doing the courteous thing, I switched to the right lane where I could see up ahead that a tractor trailer had pulled off on the right side of the highway. Just as my headlights hit the pavement ahead in the right hand lane, I saw a deer. In true Ralph Cramden fashion, “BAM ZOOM – Straight to the Moon.” So I managed to hit my first deer – luckily it was already lying dead in the middle of the road, so I didn’t mess up the ol’ Monte Carlo. I didn’t have time to swerve the car out of the way without putting myself in danger of:

A) Flipping the car.
B) Hitting the cop car on the left.
C) Hitting the big rig on the right.

So naturally I did the only safe thing. I hit the gas and ran that son of a bitch further into the pavement. Actually, I just maneuvered the car so I could straddle the deer between the tires and simply hoped to come out of the situation with my exhaust system still attached to the bottom of my car. I was thoroughly prepared to pull off the side of the road and dial my boys at AAA to tow me the rest of the way to Pdam, but by the grace of God – we escaped with my car, the exhaust system, and a little extra fur coating to keep the exhaust system warm for the upcoming winter.

Clarkson
As promised in my opening sentence, I’ll go into more detail about why Maggie and I made the trip back to Clarkson for the second weekend in three weeks. My Fraternity, Sigma Chi, celebrated 20 years at Clarkson this past weekend by having a weekend long reunion. Although I’m not sure what the total number of returning members were, I know it hovered somewhere above 100, which is a pretty decent amount considering the membership only includes 382 people.

Wedding plans also advanced a little further. Soon we’ll have a really good idea about all the details.

We’re going home this weekend. It will be the first time in several weeks, so I can’t wait to see how much mail I have!