Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Argh. Okay, first the good: after a frustrating no-sleep night due to leg cramps,I finally did manage to fall asleep late in the afternoon. But the bad: I slept through my alarm and didn't wake up until fidhle phoned halfway through rehearsal to ask whether I was coming.     :-(     Last rehearsal before a gig, too. (This after such careful planning to ensure that I would have a ride to rehearsal. I say again: argh.)

Trial tomorrow, of the guy who wrecked my car. I'm not sure how (or whether) I'm getting there. I'm an "on call" witness; if they call all of us in at the same time, I'll try to catch a ride with one of my neighbours. I don't know whether any of my neighbours are going if not called. (We have to be near a phone and not more than an hour travel from the courthouse.) I guess worst case, I'll take a cab. I wonder whether I'd get reimbursed for that, since the trial is about the reason I don't have my own car to drive there.

Crowded weekend coming up, about which I'll post more when I'm just a tad more alert. I will have to miss at least two different things I wanted to go to on Saturday because three events happen at the same (well, overlapping) time in three different cities; I'm probably going to choose between those three based on which will put me in a better position to catch a ride to the fourth ... and then I need to sort out Sunday.

I'm so tempted to just take the first car I test-drove and gamble on the cost of getting it through inspection, just to get the hated car-shopping process over with, and to make transportation decisions relatively straightforward again. Not smart perhaps, but tempting.

At least the weekend should be fun (if awfully tiring) once I do sort out the transportation details. I think. I'm not certain yet whether I'll have a way to get the double bass to the places where I'd said I would play it. And at least I learned a few basic ImageMagick tricks this morning while not-sleeping (though I couldn't figure out how to get the animated GIF that I wanted to use as an LJ icon down to an allowable size without losing a lot of what made me want to use it in the first place ... maybe there's a way I haven't figured out yet.)