“Life is like 
the weather… 
unpredictable.”  
Joe Garcia

Having watched The Princess Bride with my boys, more times than I’d like to admit, when they were little kids, I’m quite familiar with the word inconceivable. Rarely, however, do I have reason to use the word in conversation. This week, it’s the first word that comes to mind as I ponder the weather differences between the San Francisco Bay Area and Nassau, in The Bahamas.

At this time of year, a good number of visitors to Nassau are here to escape the bitter cold of their hometowns. What a tremendous opportunity to trade the cold and snow for the warm Caribbean sunshine and beautiful white sand beaches here in Nassau. How ironic that such is not the case for me this year.

The San Francisco Bay Area has been experiencing a heat wave for the past several days. With temperatures in the upper 80s to mid-90s in San José, it seems odd that I am here in The Bahamas where the high temperature today will be 73º again today. The thought that one would travel to Nassau to escape the heat in San Francisco is, well,… inconceivable.

I’m not complaining. It’s actually quite comfortable here. The sun is hot, but wind in excess of 20 miles per hour has been preventing the temperature from climbing into a more seasonable range. It’s been ideal conditions for walking.

As Joe Garcia points out in the quote above, life can be like this, too. Just when we think we’ve got it all figured out, just when we believe that everything is under control, we are reminded that life is unpredictable. We can make all the plans we want, but life will always play out as it will.