Adventures in commute delays

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

I'm tellin' ya, Evil never looked so good

Checking in up on the From the Road page up on greatbigsea.com, I see that the B'ys have reached D.C. And in his usual inimitable fashion, The Doyle has remarks to make about this:

"We blew a tire this morning which caused a two hour delay and a trip to a repair yard. No chance for a stroll around the Whitehouse today. Bush will have to come to me I suppose."

And, further down:

"Just got stopped by the cops. In the new security addicted world, it appears you are not allowed to tow a trailer in front of the Whitehouse. I hope we are not about to be searched in a most personal way. Our big blue and green bus, decorated with Newfoundland Tourism pictures of whales and icebergs is apparently a potential threat to National safety. I am the face of evil."

Who knew Evil was a bouzouki player from Newfoundland?

Speaking of which province, special notice to the GBS fans on my Friends list: if you haven't registered for the Great Big Vacation drawing yet, better get on the stick, 'cause the contest closes on the 15th!

Quoted from status.livejournal.org

In case you haven't heard yet, this is why LJ has been acting up tonight:

"Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Six Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of service attack. This has affected all of Six Apart's sites, causing intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal, sixapart.com, movabletype.org and movabletype.com. Our network operations staff is working around the clock with our Internet access providers to resolve the issue. We appreciate your patience and support, and will provide updates as we have them."

Guh. I was wondering if something like this was going on.