My City Adventure, In Brief

• On Wednesday night, PBS will be showing Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart, on Great Performances.
  
• Last night, a screening of the film -- its premiere -- was held at a theater in New York City, with both the director and the star in attendance.
• My firstborn was given two tickets to attend said premiere and knew better than to take anyone with her but her mother.
• It rained all day.
• I drove down to Woodbridge -- 50 minutes -- to take the train from there so that the two of us could take the train home to there (near where she lives). I would take the train and meet her in the city, where she was already because she works there.
• Got lost on my way there but made it in time, parked, got on the train, Facebooked it, and got into the city.
• Met up with the kid, took a cab to the Paris Theater (adjacent to the Plaza Hotel.) I saw Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet in this theater when I was 16.
• We were early, so we killed time at the Great Apple Mothership, the Cube Apple Store.
  
  
  
• This picture was taken from inside, looking up through the cube. Here's what it really looks like.
  
• Went back to the theater, and downstairs to the ladies room before taking our seats. Older style plumbing, pipes exposed behind the toilet. When I pressed the handle to flush, the top cap of the upright pipe exploded off, drenching everything in sight and flooding the bathroom floor immediately. Once I figured out how to escape the stall, I dried myself off with copious amounts of napkins -- the refreshment stand was right there -- and we found seats.
• R's boss dropped by to say hello and asked if we had heard about the water explosion in the ladies room. "Oh, really?" we answered. "It was fine when we were down there earlier." Ahem.
• Patrick Stewart spoke before the screening, but alas, I had no opportunity to see him up close or get an autograph or run away with him.
• Macbeth was very good. Watch.
• Took a cab, took the train, drove home. Did not get lost, even though it was dark and raining.
• Slept late this morning.
• The End.