MemeMachineGo!

So on Monday nights in August, BATS is doing TheatreSports Raw: anyone can show up and try out to make teams that compete on stage. Performing is free; watching costs you (yes, even if tried out and didn't make it.)

So tonight I was hurriedly testing and committing my latest code (heh — I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've made a concrete reference here to what I do for a living), eating dinner quickly, biking the mile and a half or so to the Ashby BART station in 11 minutes (sure, that'd be trivial on a track, but keep in mind Ashby is one of Berkeley's three freeway connections and this was early rush hour), dealing with one ticket machine going out of order, and a line at the other one, catching my train, dealing with the thrice-damned slow elevators at Embarcadero, biking through the City during rush hour proper, and finally arriving at Fort Mason with time to spare.

There was a long line. They only let in the first 50 people to try out. I was the 51st. Damn it!

Had fun watching the show, but that ain't why I skipped Funk Aerobics and busted my butt to get there.