January 16th, 2024
On a bus, trying for get to New York. Driver takes us some weird way, wants to go to Florida first, then goes another way. We go up some tiny roads.
My exciting life, this place
My dreams. I’ve been writing them down since 1991 or so, and they range from mundane to bizarre, as most people’s do.
In an arena, climbing up a wall with cardboard on it. Have a box of cereal. Trying to find a place to eat it. get to the top and scoot over. I’ve forgotten the milk-climb down, get it, climb back up-it’s harder. Left the cereal down-it’s full of milk-nudge someone but it’s the wrong cereal. Find mine, walk over to get a spoon and there’s a tv showing me and the kids meeting some author.
Walk out of my room, wait for some lady to go back in before going into the bathroom.
Herd some animals into their pen. Walk around to get them all in. The other dangerous one is out-go around to open the pen-talk to it and get it change to it’s alternate form, which is safe. She does, and it’s a beautiful girl in a tiny one piece. I go up and hug her and she starts kissing me. I go to open the pen and a bunch of women come out and are shocked by the barely dressed woman. I tell them to go get a towel and get back to opening the pen. She wanders away, I get the pen open.
In a suite, the girl is there and she tangles with Jim K who is sleepwalking. I get her untangled and away. A painting has a bunch of holes in it. I get the artist to come and repair it.
Walk through a garden, go to let a deliveryman with a water bottle in, but it’s a water heater, so he goes to a bigger gate and someone else lets him in. I walk to the main gate, but there’s something going on with filming and celebrities, and I walk through the ropes and along the mall corridor. There are a ton of fans behind the rope. Get to the end and go back to the garden, overhear someone on the phone saying that he noticed that no one was helping me.
Take Diane back to her place to help her with a Java class. Go past some homeless pods, then turn into where the wrecked houses are. Go upstairs and her place is nice, but still needs work. We sit down and start going over what she needs help with. Get the code working and I’m working hard to try to get her to snuggle with me. She finally sits in my lap. Go home and panic because I can’t find my phone. Erika said you probably left it at Diane’s.
In some store, pooping. Wipe and realize I left my pants on. Cover it up and go down to a better bathroom. It’s a cage and guys have just left. I arrange the potty and scrape the poop off. Wash the pants as best I can.
In some big class, the teacher mentions some concept in passing and I look it up and ask her some questions about it. I put it in my notes.
Extract a bunch of liquid sugar-squeeze it out into a container. Start looking for a place to refine and package it. Easy to do a little, a big hassle for the full load. Try a bunch of different places, they’re all hard to get to.
In the garage at 30700, walk outside, look up, see a plane high above. Hear another one, comes past low, very fast, like a shadow.
In a room off a garage, two ladies come to the door, asks if I’ve had breakfast yet. I say no, tell them I’ll meet them at the dining hall. Think about how they should stay and play around. Go to get dressed, a couple of guys barge in, playing some game. They play around a bit, thinking I’m with them, then I yell that I’m 62, they quiet down then leave. I try to tidy up a bit, the area next is messy. Leave it. Go into the dining hall, look for the ladies.
Walking down a street in Long Beach, come to Alamitos? A big plane crashes right in front of us, almost vertical. A big plume of smoke, but no debris. I say, it’s fake and watch as the fuselage starts coming towards us with the pilot on top. I cross and go towards downtown. I balance on a barrier and dogs follow me and try to bite me. I shake them off. A girl pushing a cart goes right in front of me and I jump off and yell at her. Note the barrier is up and down and tall and tough to get up on. Get to a circle with a park in the middle. Skaters are rolling up and jumping to the fence. Go through, see it’s blocked and go around as the park closes. I’m at seventh and cross and head towards home.
Sitting at a park with a pool. Kids and parents are going to do some race with sitting and paddling to the other side. I go back to my chair and look at old books and stuff. Open them up and they’re moldy. Panic because they’re not done yet and go back to the pool. It’s fine, they’re almost finished.
In a big room, they’re going to run some race between a swimmer and a runner. Go up some stairs and sit to watch the race. Go back down and start to tidy up and area because they’re going to toss things. Claire comes and takes over because it’s her stuff. I go and sit by the started and ask how they’re doing. Go back up the stairs and the race is over-see a replay and the swimmer won.
Going to go on a small plane, but the pilot veers off, goes up a hill, then down past houses.
Investigating some person, there are a bunch of odd clues left in random places in the room. Look at them, then go into the kitchen. Some lady comes in and we think she wants play. We grab drinks from the cabinet.
At a train station, watch as the train crashes into a truck, sending it into a house which collapses, and a bunch of houses collapse in turn.
Ozzy is freaking out in a band meeting. He’s fed up with drugs and wants to quit. He’s tossing around bags of cocaine and dope. I corner him and talk to him some.
Trying to leave, but it’s super snowy and slippery, and no one wants to take me. Walk back and look for my car.
Meeting with some recruiter and she says that the client is super interested in me and wants to look at my resume. Gives me an email address. I walk back and out.
Skating quad in a small room. Doing all sorts of fancy stuff, but there’s a ton of stuff on the floor, kicking it out of the way. Get tired and go.
We’re trying to catch some waves, but they’re breaking fast and on top of us. Go under, and try to hold on as they pass. A couple of smaller ones come and we make our way behind them. One guy gets too close to a big one and gets sucked in. We go after him, but can’t find him. Leave out the side and gather up our stuff.
Walking through a supermarket, they have a lot of old stuff like laudanum. Not sure if we’re supposed to get them. Pick up stuff as we wait in line. Go around the other way.
Driving to a store with dad. We go around the side and past the front-looks like it’s closed. Go park and try to figure out where to go next.
At 30700. Trying to hide, go into the back yard in some bushes and look out. Back into the garage and the kitchen. Get caught and swing a sticky rope and escape through the family room. Man gives me a book on surviving in the wild.
Waiting to go to a thing. I have some work to do with virtual servers, but haven’t started yet. Ask the boss which one to use to demo, figure it out. We get ready to go, end up in a room with a woman. There’s a bunch of money in a box, give it to her, ask if she was thinking it was for sex. I want to, she says maybe.
Trying to put together a table of contents for some report. The report is on the second floor, and I put up a ladder to get to it. Get the first page, go back to the ground, copy it. Go up for the next, but someone is having issues because of some school stock trade that made a huge pile of money. They decide to put it into warrants. A bunch of people come and I reset the ladder, but the ladder says it’s unstable. I go look and come back and Bill E and I pull up the end and move it forward. It’s OK now.
Walk into to auditorium, it’s a fancy thing and the Trumps are there. I ignore them and go sit at the top, then move down so I can see.