Drowned rat.

[lance_sibley]

I had some Gaylaxicon mail that came in this week, so I arranged to meet Lloyd where he was working so that he could give it to Yvonne. Unfortunately, I misremembered where he worked. I remembered taking the King streetcar last time, and thought the address was 444 King St. West. So I rode the subway down to King and got on the streetcar. I went past 444 (I hate that not every building puts its address somewhere prominent), so I got off and walked back - but there was no 444 King St. West. The place where I think it should have been was a construction site.

So, I thought, I must have misremembered, and it must have been 444 King St East. So I crossed the street and got on the streetcar going the other way, and rode it to where 444 King St. East should have been. Again, I went past it and had to walk back, but that wasn't it either. Argh. So I rode back to Yonge Street.

By this time it was 8:24, and I was supposed to be there between 8 and 8:30. So I got off at Yonge and called Lloyd on his cell - it turned out that I had been sort of right the first time, but was wrong about the street address - it was 720 King West, not 444. The Globe's headquarters are at 444 Front Street. *headdesk*

As it turned out, Lloyd was on his way to the recording studio where he's been working on some audio plays, and they needed him tonight. So I got back on the westbound streetcar and met up with him at King and Bathurst.

Apart from the fact that I was late (and he'd actually left work early because they'd wanted him to come earlier than planned to the studio), what made it even worse is that despite CP24 saying that it was going to be raining later tonight, it was a veritable downpour by the time I got to King and Yonge the first time, and I hadn't bothered to bring my umbrella with me. I should know better by now than to believe CP24's weather forecasts.

(And what's with all the rain this week, anyway? Are you folks in Boston sending it our way? I know you got more than enough by a few orders of magnitude, but you should have sent it out over the ocean.)

It seems to have stopped raining now, though. Not that it matters, because for some reason I'm feeling like going to bed. And it's not even 1:30 yet.

Had it stopped earlier, though, I might have called up a friend to see if he wanted to get a drink. You see, he emailed me yesterday to tell me that he came out to his parents this week, and they took it well. (I'm not naming names, because I don't know how out he is to his friends. I know that several of you know him, but I'll let him determine how he comes out to you.) That seemed to me to be a good reason to go out. Unfortunately, I hate going out in bad weather. Perhaps, since this is a long weekend, he'll be up for going out Sunday night. I can take him to Woody's for the Best Legs contest or something.

Comments

[vanessalp.livejournal.com]

We're getting rained on again here in "sunny" California, too. I can't remember the last time I saw rain here in May.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

But you're in the northern part of the state, aren't you? (I seem to recall that you live in San Jose.) I thought the north got a fair bit of inclement weather. Fog in San Francisco, and all that. I guess that's at a different time of year?

Now, rain in L.A., that would be even stranger. (Though it poured one night when I was there in February - the night minotaurs and I went for dinner, actually.)

[vanessalp.livejournal.com]

Nor Cal does get more rain than So Cal, but rain anywhere but the immediate coast in May is highly unusual. San Jose is near the bay, but we have mountains between us and the Pacific.

[randomyst.livejournal.com]

he emailed me yesterday to tell me that he came out to his parents this week, and they took it well

I don't know whom this is but I'm glad that things went well with his coming out. Makes me feel better. Especially after watching Shalom in the Home about the lesbian couple and how emotionally wounded the one woman was due to her parents not accepting her, her partner or their children. Your news made me feel better.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to have been the bearer of happy news. :)

And you probably don't know him, though you might have seen him at local cons without knowing who he was. I can't think of a reason why the two of you would ever have interacted as your interests don't intersect at all so far as I know. (That's a lot of "inters" for one sentence. :) )

I see from IMDb that "Shalom In The Home" is a TV series, but I've never heard of it? When and where is it on?

[randomyst.livejournal.com]

It's on TLC and I watched it last night - 10ish?

Um, it could have been a rerun of a previous day's airing though. TLC does that.