Yesterday (Saturday) Carrie & I got up same time as a usual week-day, because we were going up to the Lareau homestead to babysit those meddling kids and their dog. We were gonna be there for several hours, so we each packed up a lot of projects: Carrie with a huge box full of smaller boxes full of beads, and me with six pint glasses and the means with which to etch them.
We stopped off at the BF on the way up so that Carrie could get some supply or other that she needed, then continued on up. On the way there we got a call from Laura, who asked us if we were using our car, 'cause she needed to get home to Shelton.
So after I dropped Carrie off at the Lareau house shortly before 10:00, I turned right around and went and picked Laura up from her house and took her all the way down to her folks' house in Shelton. Then I turned around and headed back up north. I stopped in Olympia to get gas, and since I was only a couple of blocks away from Studio 321 I stopped in there as well to turn on the heaters and use the bathroom.
Then I continued on up north. This whole time it was raining, raining, raining. And raining. By the time I got back to the Lareaus' it was around 1:00. I'd been in the car basically straight since about 9:00 that morning. That's quite a long time! But I was glad to be able to help Laura when she needed it, so I'm totally not complaining.
I didn't, though, have time to etch any of my glasses, but I did a lot of prep-work on them, so it should go quickly today. We watched some Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire while we were there. Then we packed all the kids and the dog into the car and headed down to T-town so we could hand them off to Melissa and Travis.
That's when it started raining. Sure, it was raining when I was driving around before, but now it wasn't just raining; it was raining. At one point when we were driving down the freeway, Julian happened to look out the front window and asked, "Uh, how can you see where you're going?"
To which Carrie replied, "Not very easily!" It wasn't so much rain as it was a solid volume of water continually falling from the sky.
We got everyone safely down to the ballet school and handed off the Lareau clan to Melissa, then we went back to our own house. Some of the roads on the way were more river than road; it was raining so much in so little time that the storm drains couldn't handle the load and it was washing all over the street. It was nutz with a Z.
By the time we got home I was pretty exhausted from spending so much time in the car, so I just vegged out in front of the TV (Goldeneye was on) for about 45-60 minutes before I took a shower and got ready for Fools Play.
Carrie made me a delicious roast beef sammitch for din-dins, and then I was all packed up and ready to go by 5:15. It normally only takes me 30-35 minutes to get down there, but I'm glad I left when I did. It wasn't raining in Tacoma anymore by the time I left, but there are always a couple of patches between T-Town and Oly where, if it is going to rain at all, it will rain there. And it rained in those patches yesterday. So even though I left 15 minutes earlier than usual, I made it to Studio 321 right on time.
Having turned the heaters on earlier in the day had helped the building to warm up more quickly than usual. Mike added some space heaters to the mix when he got there, but we made the mistake of forgetting to turn off the space heaters when the show started, so by the end of the night it was roasting in there. We just can't win!
We did win with a very funny show, though. Some of the biggest laughs came from a scene where I played a bumbling scientist who was trying to remove some dino DNA from a piece of amber. Why so funny? Because one of our regular audience member friends happens to be named Amber. By never prefacing the word "amber" with an article, it made it seem like we were talking about reaching into Amber herself to extract the DNA. And also because I was fracking hilarious during the scene anyway.
It was a good night, and felt different than the other shows we've been doing recently. Afterwards we all went out to the Rib Eye as usual (although it took much, much longer for people to leave for the restaurant and usual; everybody was just standing around in the theater for a long time). The only thing of note was that at one point Amber and Tiare disappeared into the ladies' room with a digital camera and came back with some absolutely hilarious "sexy" photos that were not in the least bit sexy. Ask Sandy or Mathias if you want to see them.
Then I took a box of tots back to my wife. It didn't rain on the way back home... except for in those two patches where it always rains. But it only rained in those patches this time. It didn't rain.
In all total I spent five hours of the day driving around. Quite a lot! But, again, because it was to help a friend in need, I don't feel the least bit put-out by it. Glad to help.
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Sunday, November 05, 2006
Five-Hour Drive
posted by Christopher at 9:54 AM 
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