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Apparently in the US I’m a klutz with drinks.
Yesterday at lunch with Nathan and Casey in Olympia, a glass of ice water slipped out of my hand, tipped over, and poured itself across the restaurant table and onto my lap. I had to hang up my jeans in the sun all afternoon to dry the front.
Then, that same night at dinner (again, with Nathan and Casey), I did the exact same thing with a large glass of root beer. Nathan’s stepdaughter Hayden laughed giddily at my sticky predicament. Jess was suitably mortified.
Then today, on my way to the evening sessions at OSCON in Portland, I stepped off a curb and into a sewer grating, and in regaining my balance dumped half of the Dr. Pepper I had just bought from Subway down my arm.
For those keeping score at home, that’s three self-drenchings in 24 hours. Is there a name for this syndrome?
Spending the night in Olympia at Sausage Software survivor Nathan Allan’s B&B, The Swantown Inn. It’s good to finally decompress after what would probably be my worst trip across the Pacific in terms of things going wrong along the way. Since this was Jess’s first introduction to international air travel (New Zealand doesn’t count), there have been some trying times over the past 48 hours. A play-by-play of the trip follows.
Jess and I are away for four weeks starting today, with stops planned in Portland (Oregon), Ottawa, Montreal and Tahoe. Watch my Flickr stream for snaps from the road, and this blog for updates.
Though Tangents continues for at least two more weeks, Jess and I are off on a trip overseas in just a few days, which means my final show for the run was last Sunday.
And what a final show it was! It’s not especially useful to dwell on your successes in improvisation, because the very next week could very easily see you crash and burn, but hey—we freakin’ rocked.
Although the show started last weekend, the first one I’m in is tonight, so I have selfishly waited until now to announce it.
Tangents is a show I helped develop over the past few months at Impro Melbourne, and it’s very exciting to finally get to show it to the masses.
Two strangers meet at a party and strike up a conversation. The show follows the swirling, weaving, and intersecting paths of that conversation, conjuring scenes out of the subtext to reveal what these strangers might really be thinking.
Come one, come all! I’m playing tonight and next Sunday.
Tangents
Sunday, July 2-30 at 6PM
Don’t Tell Tom bar & café
420 Sydney Rd. Brunswick
$5 at the door
Sunny and Toffee will be homeless for four weeks in July and August, while Jess and I are away on holiday. Would you like to have them stay with you for some or all of that time? We will check them into a guinea pig hotel if necessary, but we’d much rather them stay with someone who could show them some love and affection, not just feed them.
My interview about SitePoint and our new AJAX book is available for the next four weeks in MP3 format on the Byte Into It web site.
More permanently, you can also grab it here: RRR AJAX Interview (MP3, 10MB).
I’ll be appearing on RRR‘s Byte Into It tonight (102.7FM in Melbourne) between 7PM and 8PM to talk about AJAX and plug SitePoint’s latest book, Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications. There is a podcast feed for the show, or you can just download the episode from the archive if you prefer. I’ll mirror it here once it goes live.
I have received an alarming number of instant messages from bumpy, tanned men interested in “cam fun” over the past few days. What at first seemed like an increasingly improbable coincidence has at last been explained: someone has posted my AOL Instant Messenger screen name on a gay chat web site, iChatGay.com (NSFW).