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Argh!!

Thanks to skreidle for the tip about getting directions from Google SMS (I already use that for addresses but hadn't known how to get it to give directions until this afternoon), but in the end the three or so hours in a hot car wearing a coat and tie (getting massive sweat stains on my tie) with my wrist throbbing worse and worse, turned out to be for naught. By the time I found the funeral home, the service was over and everyone on their way to the cemetery; by the time I figured out where the cemetery was (a couple miles beyond the south edge of the map book in the car) everything was long over. Goodbye, Uncle Ray. I tried to get there. I even got as far as finding wheels for the afternoon and getting dressed up in boyclothes (pants yet!), but MapQuest left out one rather important step: turn right from South Glebe onto WestFuckingGlebe instead of continuing on South Glebe. I reread the directions when I got back to anniemal's house and compared them to the map.

One of those Glebe, Glebe, and Glebe intersections. Gah. Bane of my attempts to navigate NoVa.

So I'm frustrated and exhausted and dripping, and wonder whether I'm going to get tsk'd at some day in the future for "not bothering" to show up after my little multi-hour frustration today. (I don't have the address folks were going to gather at afterward, and couldn't have stayed for that anyhow because I have to get set for tonight's gig.) I even heard that a cousin I haven't seen in years and years was going to be there today.

Frustrated, I am. Frustrated and tired and achy and very, very cranky.

Got a cold pack on my wrist. Sitting in anniemal's air conditioning. Will try for a short nap before getting back in the car to go to Greenbelt.