{"id":8163,"date":"2015-10-16T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T15:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8163"},"modified":"2016-03-31T14:07:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T21:07:42","slug":"what-exactly-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/16\/what-exactly-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"now what exactly happened yesterday?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had two very interesting meetings yesterday. One is about a new fan-run event; I’m providing advice and information and possibly some other involvement. They’re very ambitions, and I worry that they’re overreaching, but their numbers are sane. It looks promising.<\/p>\n

They’re also looking for some people for various positions – webmaster, music track lead, publications lead (they have multiple<\/em> promotions people), programming co-ordinator (they have most track leads already), stuff like that. Their web presence at the moment is just Facebook, but give it a look.<\/p>\n

The other one… the other one… yeah. The other one is more in I-would-be-setting-fires territory. But it’s early days, and I provided a lot of data, and a lot of advice, and I’m throwing some people who need to be together at each other, and hopefully that’ll work. Because I do not want to start that particular riot.<\/p>\n

On the way back from that second meeting, this happened<\/a>. I was not involved with the accident, but nonetheless ended up directing traffic for three hours on a side street after an articulated Sound Transit bus got directed by police down a lane-and-a-half road with oncoming traffic, inadequate guard rails, and hairpin curves. That was… a bad decision. And my reaction was… weird. I guess superhero instincts still kick in sometimes. Ah, well, I guess I’ll get over it.<\/p>\n

(Spoiler: I will never get over it.)<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n

Anyway, eventually police came by and I thought they were going to take over – I had asked a previous traffic cop a couple of hours before for somebody to do this because goddamn – but they said “yes, helping, but stop it, liability.” And I was all “really? good samaritan law?” and they were all “NOT FOR YOU” and I went “oh.” So I quit.<\/p>\n

I guess the best part of that was the road traffic worker who I helped get through the traffic and offered me his reflective safety vest. He<\/em> thought I was doing it just fine. But I guess that wasn’t the point, anyway.<\/p>\n

Yeah! Weird day. Very weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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