I started feeling run down around two and by four, I was at home, stretched out on the upstairs couch in front of Arrested Development season three, wondering what it was I had done to deserve this tsunami of tired and yuckness.

Adam decided, as Adam often does, that what I needed to feel better was a big ol' dose of Mythbusters. The new one! On the Tivo! Concrete gliders!

So I watched Mythbusters and I was making the happy murmuring noises one makes when one is under a mountain of tired and trying to get the immune system to reboot before the weekend. "Mm. Mythbusters. Yay."

And then the program got to the build team's large scale test.

Listen, my dearest minions, you have let me down. Nobody told me that the build team would be running their large scale test of "Sucked by a Train" at the friggin' Journal Center Station. Nobody gave me the heads up that maybe, just maybe, that -- sometime this past June or July (judging from the sun and the explosion of green) -- I might want to scoot from the actual Journal Center down to the then-still-under-construction JCS and watch as infotainment was filmed using the still rather spiffy Rail Runner.

Or in layman's terms, Grant Imahara was less than two miles from my desk and I wasn't aware. ("Kari Byron! Kari Byron!" -- a.)

I am so bummed to have missed out.

Still, it was fun to flip back a few times, first for the inital excitement of "DUDE! THAT'S PASEO!" and then for the experiment itself and then for another round of "DUDE! I'M PROBABLY DRIVING OVER THEM AT THAT EXACT MINUTE!"

For the rest of the evening, Adam teased me about missing out on the Mythbusters. "Oh," he would say in that chiding tone. "They were probably at Starbucks and you just missed them."

"Shut it."

"Or they were there and you totally didn't recognize them."

"Shut it!"

" ' Oh,' " he would mimick in the Sarah fallsetto. " ' Ohmigod, you totally wouldn't believe it, but there were these three really rude people at Starbucks, this kind of hot chick, this Asian guy and this tall skater dude and they were totally rude, and then like, Dan hit on the girl and then I was like, forced to play wingman with the dudes and they were like, "whatever, you're not a supermodel," except only the tall one was like that, but the short one was all "do you like rc robots that can destroy other robots?" and I was like "no, I am not a nerd." and then we left and Dan was like "that guy was totally into you" and I was all like, "Maaaaaaaaaried." and it just sucked. Anyway, how are you?' "*

[Adam doesn't just get my goat, he goes flouncing up to it in the pasture where it's grazing peacefully, and smacks it right on its bottom. Goat smacker.]

Now comes the plea to the local minions (yeah, I'm trying it out). If you happen to hear of more Mythbusting in the area, would you please, please, please let me know? Please? I don't know how I'd repay you -- kisses, shout outs, first born? -- but I would. Somehow.

And if the rest of you are curious about the area nearish where I work, or at least want to oggle the new Rail Runner, just catch a repeat of Concrete Glider this weekend.

And now the planet of tired is back and I'm going to bed. G'dnight.


*I do not sound like this.**




**Yes, she does. -- a***





***Goat smacker.