Adventures in commute delays

[annathepiper]

So yesterday evening, spazzkat and I did have our commute disrupted a bit by the ganormous march and rally held downtown. But it was all good. I swung into Barnes and Noble to see if they had Kit's book as well as Dresden Files #7, Dead Beat, which is supposed to be out in paperback any time now, but alas--neither was on the shelves there. Which didn't surprise me since neither one is technically due out until today, but hey, it was worth a look! I almost bought Charlaine Harris' Dead as a Doornail, but decided to hold off on that a bit longer until I get a few more books knocked off the To Read shelves.

Then I met up with Paul at our usual bus stop, and we wandered around a bit waffling about whether to try to get some actual dinner or what. We got cash. We looked at the march going down 4th, listened to folks chanting in Spanish (Paul, who knows more Spanish than I do, caught that they were saying "Bush! Listen!" but no more than that) and remarked to one another that yep, that was a lot of people. And then we went to GameWorks, which is right next to our usual bus stop, and hung out in there eating wings and having drinks until 7 or so. (Paul was particularly delighted to discover that they were having happy hour at the time, so the food and the drinks both were half price. Which didn't suck.) And then we hopped on the next 522 that rolled by and got to Kenmore in 20 minutes flat. Fastest commute back to Kenmore ever.

And then we giggled at the Daily Show as well as the Colbert Report, and particularly at Jon Stewart's remarks about the exciting weekend Mr. Colbert had. And Dara and I giggled at the mounting pile of comments on thankyoustephencolbert.org (as of the last check, 23,000 and climbing!).

And I wrote, and it was good.

Monday evening miles: 2.3
Tuesday morning miles: 2.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 936.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 478.3
Miles out of Lothlórien: 16.3
Miles to Rauros Falls: 372.7

Comments

[tvaddictgurl.livejournal.com]

Borders must put out their books early. I saw Dead Beat at the Borders in Federal Way on Sunday.

[annathepiper]

Borders must, yeah. There's a Borders I walk by on a daily basis on my way to the bus stop, but I actually have a discount card at B&N, so I wanted to check there first.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Odd. My experience has largely been that Borders never puts anything out early and B&N often does. Nag them when you stop by! Ask where the books are! Bookstores notice that kind of thing. :)

[tvaddictgurl.livejournal.com]

The couple of Borders that I shop at regularly seem to put stuff out early. I found Thunderbird Falls on April 22nd there.

[annathepiper]

I guess this sort of thing varies even among chain stores, or perhaps it's a regional thing. But rest assured that if I do not find Thunderbird Falls and Dead Beat where I want them over the next week or so, I will nag! :)

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

I told rime1994 you were reading the Dresden Files. Her response was:

Reading, schmeading. She's gotta LISTEN.

[annathepiper]

I TRIED! I have James Marsters' reading of Storm Front on CD, sure.

But here's the problem with that--when I tried to listen to the discs I've got, it sounded like bits of it were missing every time I changed tracks. :( I only tried to make one pass through it and didn't do a really close comparison with the actual text, but I noticed it in multiple places.