A Very Wet Day

Sold something on eBay last week, payment received today, early enough to make the PO my first stop. Thought I had lost the original box for the item, but found it in a different part of the closet in which I usually store those things.

( much confusion... )

Made a double batch of Tom Ka Gai, Thai coconut milk chicken soup, serves 12. That's how many people were signed up for the potluck.  It fit neatly into two snap-and-seal containers, which fit neatly into my cloth shopping bag.

Drove to the potluck, in San Jose. No parking anywhere. I ended up 4 blocks away. It was raining HARD. The wind was blowing something fierce. Got to the rec room of the apartment complex where the potluck was, wishing I'd worn a wetsuit, and only the hostess was there. Only 6 people showed up, but there was a lot of food, all of it very good. We watched a movie, Beautiful Boxer, which was a borderline Bad Movie™ about a sissy boy who becomes a transvestite Muay Thai fighter. There is very little acting in this movie, but one surprise is the kid's best friend in boxing camp is played by a young man who looks very white but speaks Thai like a native and is billed as Sitiporn Niyom. I can't find anything online about his background. Anyhow, it was entertaining enough, had a happy ending, and some touching moments here and there. The Muay Thai scenes are particularly violent, one of the Thai women in the audience looked away during most of them.

Home through torrential rains, 280 was a mess - lots of standing water, lots of wind making it hard in the SUVs, too many drivers changing lanes at stupid times. 85 was worse, I got off three exits early and took surface roads the rest of the way.

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Gave the cats their treats, watched Netanyahu being interviewed attacked by Piers on CNN. What is with CNN these days, pushing their agenda on everyone? I blame them for the NATO war on Libya. I hope Congress gets back in session and slaps Obama upside the head for making war without authorization. I don't car that there was a UN resolution, attacking a sovereign nation which has not attacked us or our allies is an act of war. This is not the change I voted for. Where are the Egyptians and the Saudis? What makes Libya's citizens more valuable than Yemen's or Bahrain's? THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. WE SHOULD NOT BE THERE. Our resources need to be spent on helping Japan, Haiti, Chile and those places which are suffering through no fault of their own.

Just as a reality check for those people who  are upset that Ghadaffi is killing his own people:

More Wetness

Rained a lot today, but the sun came out as well. I was indoors most of the time, anyway. Got to the theater at 10:30 and was an effective Warm Body™ till about 3:00, when things bogged down due to a lack of planning by the set designer on how to attach a few very delicate pieces to the flys. Flys being pipes which are hauled up and down so the set piece can "fly" in and out of the scene. Long story short, nothing could be done by us non-skilled labor until all those pieces were on their flys, off of the stage floor. I bailed at 4, when we were told there was nothing to do for the next hour, since I'd planned on only being there till 5 and had a coffee date...

Coffee date was my usual weekly chat at *bux.

Several old theater friends came by who are not in the crew or cast. The ASM showed us her brand new blue sapphire + diamond chips engagement ring. She was in full squee mode. Good for her! Some of the kids in the cast showed up in the afternoon, a couple of them took postcard-flyers outside and put them on the parked cars, and tried to hand them to passerby, but did not have much luck since most of the passers-by were in a Run/Walk For The Cure thing. It is a Good Thing when the cast likes the show enough to take that kind of initiative. 

Home now, will heat up some duck & Dom Ka Gai for dinner. Mango banana smoothie for dessert.

Found a local CPA firm which looks promising - sent a message asking if they are the right place to help me with the trust's taxes.

Plans for tomorrow:

Peruse the usual sparse Monday morning  job listings
Return some audio books to the library
Hang out at the library
Theater by 6:30 for cue-to-cue (tech) rehearsal
(we'll be rehearsing all week)