Yesterday with Eleri (and a cast of thousands)

[gridlore]

Yesterday, kshandra, clairaide, dafydd and I went out with the lovely eleri.



We almost didn't make it out. A combination of low blood sugar, exhaustion, tension and unexpected financial news led to a classic Doug and Kirsten meltdown. We managed to cool down, and crowded into the car and headed out. Once I had changed. Rose and Kiri were in all black, so I just had to match. I also wanted to start seriously breaking in my jungle boots.

Comfortably snuggled between Rose and Eleri in the back seat, we headed up to Mel's Drive In on Geary. I had never eaten there, and wasn't disappointed. Good burgers, so-so fries, great conversation. On to the Cliff House!

Kirsten wanted to see the Musee' Mechanique, and I haven't been since I was a kid. Rose decided to wait in the car and do art stuff, the rest of us headed into the arctic wind of a San Francisco evening The place is too much fun. I played the mechanical baseball game, and scored to runs before grounding out to end my inning.

In the back, they had a collection of older video games, including Robotron 2084! Kirsten and I played a game, but it took us a life or so each before we remembered that you need both joysticks, one for moving, one for shooting. After that, I contented myself with NFL Blitz. San Francisco beat Indianapolis 35 - 24 on the strength of two rushing touchdowns by Steve Young and a drive-killing interception in the 4th quarter that allowed me to get the final TD. Yea team!

We rounded up everyone, and headed over in pairs to the Camera Obscura. It was already to foggy to get a good image, but after a few minutes we could clearly see the waves hitting the beach. Very cool, I want one in my mansion.

I finally decided to kill David by throwing him to his doom, but the silly bugger wouldn't cooperate by climbing up on the wall. Curses, foiled again. Thwarted, we sailed uphill to the car propelled by what is laughing referred to as "evening breezes."

From there, the majority were going to Good Vibrations, wasn't where my head was at, so I got dropped off in the Haight-Ashbury at GameScape. Come out with GURPS Swashbucklers 3rd Edition. Just miss the closing of the comic store by a few minutes. Jump on the 71, and then wait for the 28.

and wait. for 25 freaking minutes! I see a cab rolling up, and he pulls over. He's going off duty, and needs to know where I'm going. It works for him, so I make it home. A good day, all around.

But my usual complaint applies... I spent all day with a very attractive woman, in close physical contact, and I have not one fucking clue what happened!! I need cards that say:

Hello, my name is Doug. I am clueless about social situations. Especially those regard women and sex. Please state your intentions slowly and clearly into my face. Thank you.

(Geez - random MP3 player just hit Metallica's The Thing That Should Not Be... is this a sign?)

Comments

[lysana.livejournal.com]

As a woman, I'd like to be able to figure out the signals from those of my own gender better myself. I'm on the verge of throwing up my hands in surrender over one I'm dealing with because for all her talk about wanting to hook up, she won't follow through on the contact and doesn't return my emails, either. Of course, I also have her phone number and don't bother to call, so it's kind of a mutual problem. Sigh. Grr.