Destination Wedding (Patreon)

Hello faithful patrons! Pat here, filling in for Ian this week, and wanting to tell you all about my wonderful time at my pal Alex's wedding last Sunday.

ALL ABOARD AMTRAK! I decided to book a train and hotel to go up to LA for the event. This would have been my first wedding attendance in nearly a decade, since Ian's wedding here in San Diego. After dealing with hotel issues and booking an appropriate spot, my next quest was to find a nice, light linen suit. All three of my suits are wool, which while nice, would result in me cooking in the August LA sun. I shopped at a few different places but finally settled upon the fallback of Uncle Jeff's Amazon to find a couple of snazzy linen suits. Why two? One extra for safety!

The train trip up the SoCal coast was very pleasant (although long). The entire time, I wondered why we do not have high-speed rail systems across the country like almost every other civilized nation. I spent the time looking out the window and playing Star Trek: Fleet Command on my tablet.

After arriving in LA and checking in to my hotel, my next Wedding Duty was to use my brand-new clothes steamer (also from Amazon) to get the wrinkles out of my new suit and dress shirt. I had moderate success at this. Obviously, an iron would have been best, but I'm not great at that, and I prefer the safety of a steamer over an iron. This could be residual PTSD from an iron splitting my head open when I was an infant.

Finally, I made it over to Alex's wedding around 3 PM. It was a lovely setting, a lovely ceremony, and a pretty good time! I ran into someone I had not seen in several years and made a new friend or three.

If you want to learn more about what happened at the wedding and the existential dread I faced in preparing for it, you can check out the latest Not So Common Podcast with Alex and me (now releasing every other week!). I also reviewed Alex's wedding during the podcast because I am a maniac, amongst other fun discussions like how we would save GameStop.

You can listen to the podcast here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/notsocommon

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

-Pat