Didn't see Ricca

Leina came really close to flying down to L.A. last weekend to surprise Ricca on her birthday. Ricca had done the same for her, right?

Leina was initially going to drive, but she had a problem--she had promised Mr. Turner she would work for him on Saturday, so didn't feel right leaving town before 3:00 or so in the afternoon. Which meant that she would have to go in the late afternoon and not have a lot of time down there.

But Charles really didn't want her to drive down and back alone. He figured he could come along. But he had to work until 5:00. Which meant they wouldn't arrive in L.A. until after 10:00 on Saturday, have just a few hours of partying, and then a short day in L.A. before having to drive back north so they could get back to work on Monday.

She was hemming and hawing about whether to go so she decided to check plane ticket prices. She found tickets for less than $130 round trip, which plus a car made it only around $150 each. Though she is infamous for being cheap, this seemed reasonable. Until Charles pointed out that, if Leina wasn't driving, she didn't really need him to go down with her. Which brought the price of the car up, with a total price of something like $175. Which she still didn't mind paying, except for the fact that she was doing her research late on Friday night and realizing that if she bought this ticket then she would have to pack immediately and got to bed and then wake up and go to work and then leave straight from work and stay over Saturday and Sunday and then get up at 4:00 on Monday and return her rental car and then fly back to San Francisco and go straight to work, and it so exhausted her just thinking of it that she bagged the idea.