Closing the day
It turns out the Cubs lost, which I found out the next day, which means it was a great game and -- all things considered -- a beautiful day.
For my female readers who have never been to Wrigley Park, take heart, the restroom completely reverses itself from a bar or club.
It almost physically hurts to walk past uncontested women's restrooms towards the one with the gawd-awful lines and the nice pissing trough. I mention this because I forget about the situation every time and need to remind myself to get moving at the slightest inkling I may have to go.
I also mention this because of the women we sidled up with there, all seemed ignorant of our plight and were shocked that there are no urinals and that we're all looping around these centered troughs which -- if you were drinking soda -- would probably put one off of eating for the day. I'm always more in touch with my feminine side after these types of experiences.
I did run into two readers for a few minutes outside The Cubby Bear -- Martin and Gary -- which was very cool. One of them was brave enough to offer to buy me a drink, even though I was obviously having problems walking a straight line. One of them apparently had no fear and tried to ask me something involving Funneled Performance and dual cores... I can't imagine what he was thinking.
I really don't remember much, just that they were cool and nice but didn't ask for an autograph (even though I offered several times) which meant I was spared with having to actually write the name 'drunkenbatman' which probably would have made me feel silly even with liquid courage in my veins.
I've also decided that at some point I'm going take all the email offers for buying a drink, get their exact location plotted on a map, then road-trip for a month and take every single one up on them while blogging all the way. One day, anyways.
On a short note -- way more people have clicked and pre-ordered Mac OS 10.4 than have pinged my email to the left. If you did, please do, so that at the very least I can give you my personal thanks.
Posted by drunkenbatmanApril 10, 2005, at 11:10 AM
Comments (4)
Posted by: G Milton at April 10, 2005 05:57 PM
Wrigley Park is another name for the Cubs stadium, it is Wrigley Field. A baseball stadium is often called a park.
Hey D.B., this is Greg who was with Martin. Not Gary. :-) Martin is who asked about processors, we both attend U of C and both love Macs.
He only asked because he was nervous and did not know what else to say. We had joked that we might see you and if we would approach you asking drunkenbatman? or drunkenblog? but did not expect to really run into you.
The picture is from inside Cubby Bear, the column with the pictures gives it away. He must have gone inside after meeting us. Can't fault his memory he HAD obviously already had a lot.
What you don't see in the picture is Drunken Batman is a BIG guy! He's taller and broader than I expected from the blog picture. Not someone you want to stumble into you. Even with the ThunderCats! T-shirt.
We only chatted for 10 until our friends got out of the stadium but he was fun to meet. Very funny and personable. We will have to do it again. You have my card!
Posted by: phamil at April 11, 2005 07:58 AM
Hey DB, it would be cool to meet you some day. Do you go to any of the conferences? MacWorld, WWDC, ADHOC?
Posted by: Linden at April 14, 2005 06:51 PM
mmm.. Thundercats. :)
ive never heard of this wrigley park you speak of... any relation to Wrigley Field?