"I Prayed with My Legs"

Okay. Been a pretty busy week. Let's see what I can catch up on. Monday night I finished reading In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje. It was some good stuff. Tuesday night it was the Memphis for Bernie panel discussion at the Central BBQ on Summer. Was supposed to get a projector so I borrowed one from Josh but there was this production where he had to go out of his way 'cuz we hadn't coordinated the time (oops) then get there to find the venue already has one and I didn't need to get it. On Wednesday Mary Beth and I went to see A Ballerina's Tale at the Brooks (I hadn't really known anything about Misty Copeland before, because I guess I live in a shell or something). My amp was also ready on Wednesday but I forgot to pick it up in time while getting home through traffic. I remembered Thursday and I picked it up. It took way longer than I thought it would take and it cost a bit more than I thought it would cost. I'll probably see about finding someone else in the future should I need amp repairs again. That night Mary Beth and I went downtown to see Dave Bazan (at some place that's like a hipster clothing store...kinda weird). It was a pretty good show. I'd never gotten into his stuff before, but not out of dislike or anything. I think I've liked stuff I've heard here and there throughout the years, but I never jumped into it. There was also some good banter. He did a lot of Q&A between songs. And one guy (who started by asking if he was "feeling the Bern") had a pretty entertaining exchange where he mentioned seeing him at the Hi-Tone when he was fourteen and requesting "Hallelujah" and Dave shutting him down and telling him to "sit down." Dave had a funny response being pretty embarrassed and apologetic and probably not having realized he was so young (the guy mentioned being in a crowd) but also saying how much he enjoys telling people "no" when he gets requests. The guy was sitting right behind me and after the show I asked if he was going to the Bands for Bernie show. He said he'd heard a little about it in a vague way but didn't know much. So I told him some stuff and Mary Beth told him I was organizing it and he seemed pretty interested. Ends up he works for the Flyer and took my contact info so he may be interviewing me about it. That would be kinda cool and unexpected. Last night we went to the National Civil Rights Museum to see this musical play thing about Frederick Douglass. It was pretty good. I mean, I don't tend to enjoy musical stuff. But the non musical script part was mostly taken verbatim from Douglass's writings (some speeches and a lot I recognized from Narrative of the Life...). So naturally that was good. And it was pretty nice to hear the words out loud. Being a famous orator whose words we can only read in print, they really jumped out in voice. Not too much other than that. Stuff coming together with the newly organized team at work. Wrote another groovy script and that was fun. But the tests I was writing it for, well, ended up moving to test against production. And in that environment you need a real credit card and so I had to use mine and ended up being incredibly fucking stupid. I was running what I thought was a zero dollar auth. Well, it turns out it was just an auth and you put in the value. I didn't notice there was a field for dollar amount as the json field doesn't take it with decimals. So I ran a load test with my credit card against the real production server and repeatedly ran an authorization for $101 on my card. I noticed when it started failing and had a "insufficient funds" response. Oh mother fucker. Thankfully it's just an authorization and not a charge. It's showing up on my account but it's just pending and shouldn't be processed. Definitely hasn't been yet. But it was such a fucking heart attack and I'm so fucking stupid. Really damn stupid. Anyway.