and, just to clarify - is there any way i can get back to the tunnel for 1:10? 

no. i've been through this.

there's no use in trying.

i could catch the 6:00 am bus home, but i think i can push it for a few hours for the concerto.

i got set times and they're on early.

i also found an early show at the tv lounge.

so, it's a totally different night than i initially typed out. i'm not skipping talking ear out of spite; i wish i could make this work, but there's just a conflict in scheduling. they're local. next time.

15:00-15:15 - talk to staff at villain's, maybe

15:30 - bus out

15:45-16:30 - walk to dso, buy ticket

17:00-pushing 20:00, if it's good - tv lounge experimental set. if it sucks, leave early to catch the bus. this show is free.

20:22 - 20:53 - if the bus runs perfectly on time, this is the length of the ride up woodward. it's about a 10 minute walk from the tv lounge, so that should be fine.

21:00-22:00 - sunsquabi 

22:00-00:00 - floozies.

00:00-2:00 - i'm going to try what looks like an awful dive bar called "craft". if that doesn't work, for whatever reason, there's a piano bar down the street. but, i'm going to try and draw this out in royal oak and see what happens.

if the night dies early, i can eject by taking the 2:24 bus right out of royal oak. i won't get another chance until 5:19, although it's not that bad of a walk to the state fair transit grounds, where there are options at 3:12, 4:02, 4:32....

then, i'm at the diner for a while, before i go to the symphony around 10:00-ish.

i'd have rather this night shaped up a little differently, but it looks pretty fun, nonetheless. so that's final, and i need to get ready.

it's a good thing i asked, though. right?

so, this is my "party in royal oak" night, i guess. maybe i'll stumble into something, somewhere. who knows.

let's try to make the most of it.

also, my detour out to inkster was premised on flawed data.

i'm glad i called.

but, there is still nowhere within a reasonable distance from downtown detroit that you can actually buy legal pot, something i kind of wish i could do tonight.

i still need to get to the dso box office before it closes, so i guess i'm stopping somewhere in midtown for a few drinks.

i kind of assumed royal oak was too bourgeois to have anything open.

i went there once to pick up tickets for some shows at the loving touch. it's really the only time i've ever been there, and i was just in and out.

but, going from the concert to ferndale means wasting almost an hour of drinking time. i'd rather just stay in royal oak.

so, i think i'm planning on taking a chance on a dive bar there instead that will prevent the travelling at peak drinking hours and might potentially let me drag the night out a bit...

i need to make sure i know where to catch the bus after, but i think i've got this worked out.

i didn't even know that was there, even if it wasn't technically 24 hours. i'm in that neighbourhood early in the morning all of the time.

it will be immensely helpful to me to have a second all night option up that strip. even the mcdonalds is closed. and, this is right in the core of downtown detroit.

the 24 hour restaurants seem to mostly be right beside the freeways, and they're generally pretty far out of the way...

https://detroit.eater.com/2020/3/4/21164567/joe-louis-southern-kitchen-new-center-eatery-restaurant-opening-april-detroit

like, there's not even a restaurant, apparently.

there's that fucking baskin robbins.

so, i'm told that the funk show will probably be done by 12:30ish or so. that means that i should expect sunsquabi to be on fairly early - maybe even a little after 9:00. unfortunately, that's too early...

there is at least an express bus from right outside the jazz bar to the suburbs, but it's still a 30 minute bus ride out to woodward & 4th. yeah. well, it's $2. google suggests it would be 35 minutes up woodward if i ubered, and cost more than $2, and even still 30 minutes if you detour around and take the freeway. so, it's a good ways out of town, no matter how you understand it. i'll have to walk from there, so i should get there between 21:30-22:00.

if i'm lucky, i'll catch most of the sunsquabi set. if i'm not, i guess i won't. why do they schedule shows so fucking early nowadays?

so, i'm going to want to get to the venue for 19:30, and hope i'm out by around 20:45. this is the plan:

11:00-14:00 - clean myself up, get ready to go
14:00 - 15:00 - leave. walk downtown.
15:00-15:15 - try to catch somebody at villain's
catch 15:30 bus. $10 cdn for tickets.
15:45-16:30 - walk from downtown to dso. $10 @ 7/11. buy tickets for $15.
16:30-17:04 - walk to rosa parks from dso
17:04-18:02 - bus out from rosa parks (261). $2.25.
18:33-19:17 - bus back to rosa parks (261).

19:17-19:30 - walk to cliff's bells
19:30-20:45 - cliff's bells. $10 + beer. $15.

21:01-21:33 - 461 up woodward. $2.00?
21:33-21:40 - walk to the venue.
21:40-1:00? - royal oak music theatre. $25?
1:30?-2:00? - grasshopper underground? $10?
2:30-3:30 - walk to state fair

4:00 - 5:00 - bus back downtown $2.00

5:00 - 10:00 - diner. $10

10:00-13:00 - orchestra hall $6? 

then home...

or something like that.

so, i need to get ready soon. quick nap.

this is a jam band, and i know they'll want to play all night, because they're like that. but, it doesn't look like the venue will allow for that. they didn't exactly pick the best venue; it's maybe the only mid-size venue in the entire detroit metro area that i've never been to. the magic stick would let them play late and be so much easier to get to, too...

so, i'm going to have a bit of a down period that i was hoping would get eaten up by transit time. as it is, i'm hoping there's a spot in ferndale that's open right until 2:00, and lets me kind of drag it out a little. i don't think there's any after hours anywhere tonight, unless i'm lucky enough to bump into a speakeasy type affair. i know of a few downtownish, but nothing in ferndale...yet....

ok, so i decided we're doing a crazy day tomorrow.

and, i may actually start a little early.

let me plan this out as best i can....