it's getting close to 1 o'clock in the morning. i jump on the cable car to take me home. i'm the only passenger on the cable car at this late at night/early in the morning. it's a beautiful night and i've just been at an after-party for an ice-skating show. there's an ice skating rink in downtown san francisco and they had a special showing as a benefit with figure skating champions like rudy galindo and others. and they had placed our seating tables on the ice. so it was freezing but we were right next to the ice skaters. i could feel the whoosh as they skated by. oh, and ellen greene from 'little shop of horror's was there singing for the ice skaters. she was amazing. i'd never really heard her sing before, but, wow, what a voice. i'm now a fan. she's way more than just the audrey character.

so i left the after-party, which was awful fun and i met a few of the skaters and others involved in the production. getting close to 1am i decided to go ahead and head home. i walked all the way through downtown and was going to walk home, but then i decided maybe i'd see if the cable car was running this late. and i thought a nice cable car ride in the nighttime would be beautiful. amazingly, it was coming up the hill as i walked up. perfect. i jumped on the cable, as i said. everybody jumps. and i'm the only one there. and i'm sitting on the outside bench looking out. i look at the operator of the cable car and pull out my bus pass.

the bus pass flies out of my hand and down the street! oh lord! um, uh oh. i see it land on the street, but with the major wind of the evening there's no telling where it could go. and i couldn't get off the cable car until the next stop. so i'm thinking in my head whether i still need the pass. it is almost the end of the month and i could probably make do without it for a few days. but then, i decide that i'd really be much happier with it and i did see where it landed so maybe i'd have a chance to find it. of course, i'd have to get off the cable car that runs so rarely this late at night. but i get off. i walk down the hill to where it landed. it's not there. of course. luckily though, since it's so late there's not much traffic so i'm looking around in the street, carefully making sure no cars are coming, but looking around for my lost ticket. i look for about 10 minutes all over. i figure it's over and there's no hope. i decide to start walking away. and then i spot it in the middle of the street, down further from where it landed, right next to the cable car line.

i scoop it up. i'm thrilled that i have my bus pass again. my monthly bus pass. i need that. thank you lord. thank you. but of course, now i'm in downtown and i have no buses to take me home because it's extra late. i could cab it. i could walk it, but i'm on the hilly area and that would be a trek. and i have on my good shoes which means i'm tired of walking in them. been in there for 5 hours or so. my feet are tired. but i have my bus pass. so i decide to walk up one block to catch another bus which hopefully will come along soon. i wait. but it's not too bad of a wait because it's a gorgeous night out. and i have my bus pass.

eventually the bus comes along and i take a seat and it takes me home. eventually.