eclipse
Yesterday was spent sleeping off Saturday night. Rachel and I didn't really venture out of the house until late afternoon. For our one and only excursion, I had this idea that it would be really pleasant to get some drinks and some lunch at the Moon Underwater, where we could sit on their sunny patio and watch the progress of that new condo that's going up. (I'm not sure why, but I'm really excited and enthused about this one particular condo).
Unfortunately, all the sunny patio tables were taken when we arrived. The hostess girl told us it would be about 20 minutes for an outside table, or we could have a dark and gloomy inside table right away. We said we'd wait for nice sunny table, and we'd have some drinks at the bar in the meantime.
I had some dark draft beer called John Courage, and Rachel had a vodka tonic. Like always, Rachel's vodka tonic wasn't strong enough for her. It was kind of akward at the bar because everyone else was sitting, and there was only one stool left, so we had to stand. But since we were standing, that one barstool was kind of in the way. This old man sitting next to us kept looking up at us like we were bothering him somehow.
Finally, we just took a table in the corner and sat down. This seemed to work out fine for while until a waitress came up and asked us if we wanted menus.
"No, we're just waiting here and having drinks until a table opens up on the patio. Is that alright?" I said, sensing that something wasn't alright.
"No," is all the waitress said.
"Be we've got nowhere else to go," I said, honestly stating our dilemma.
"We'll if I need this table, you're gonna have to go," the waitress said before huffing off.
We sat there and drank our drinks for a while, but I wasn't very comfortable. I felt like a squatter who might get hustled off at any moment.
Finally, a table opened up on the patio, and it was time at last to realize my plan of having a drink in the sunshine and watching the progress on the burgeoning condo tower.
Unforunately, the entire patio was now covered in shade. In the time we had waited to get our table, all of the sunshine had completely vanished--and with the wind starting to pick-up, it was uncomfortably chilly. I took a seat and looked up into the sky to see what had happened to the sun.
As it turns out, it had been prematurely eclisped by my high-rise condo. In fact, if they keep adding floors to that thing there won't be anymore afternoon sunshine at the Moon Underwater for the rest of my life.
(p.s: the fish n' chips I ordered was bland and untasty).
12:44:23 PM 
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