At a Rush concert with a grandma type. We’re on the floor and floating around. We end up stage right and close. Some guy comes and says we have to move.
Erika is going to have a baby and it comes right away. I deliver it and hold it on my shoulder.
Walking around and a helicopter is shining a light down. We move away and it starts to follow us.
2013/6/10
At gamelan in UCLA. Getting ready to play. I don’t know the piece and am trying to find a place to sit.
2013/6/5
At the top of a bump run, look down the hill and tell M that this makes me smile. Start off and someone is in front of me and going slow-I have to traverse and get stuck in a rut. Cut across the other way and around some odd teeth looking bumps.
2013/6/4
Running through school. I’m all graceful and stuff. Some teacher comments on it as I pass. Go to the locker room-it’s crowded and I try to make my way through-shoulder past Vito G.
2013/6/2
Skating on an obstacle course. Fall off once, then go through the course OK.
2013/5/31
Waiting to get picked up to go to the thrift store. The guy comes, I get in, we talk about stuff. He drops me off and I get in line. Some Brent-like guy collars me and starts babbling about the girl with the huge tits. I twist his arm to let go and walk away. The store opens and I walk in.
2013/5/28
Trying to disinfect Lili DlM’s sandals. They’re wide and I spray in the wrong place. Try again, then glue together Fabi’s sandals.
2013/5/25
Waiting by a river to go downstream. Someone drops a nuke. We start to run and then hide. The nuke goes off and we start downstream. There are zombies chasing us.
2013/5/24
Trying to work with a beehive with the Mythbusters. Unwrap suit & try to put it on. Go up the ladder and look at the hive. Walk back and adjust my suit. Go back and they’re done.
Trying to pick up leaves and stuff form the yard. They ball up and we toss them in the air. One hits the neighbors’ car and dents it. I try to push out the dent and the neighbor helps. We get it out and I finish it up. I chat with the wife and she speaks French. We talk a little bit and I leave.
Trying to go to the next stop on the tube. Get on the train, get off and walk up to the entrance. Walk back down.
2013/5/23
Getting ready to attack, waiting for air support. A helicopter flies by, then a ton of bouncing bombs bounce-they’re right on us, so we run and duck by a fence. They go past, then blow up. We make our way to a building, and a few guys are there already. We go in and climb up, look through a window and it’s a huge atrium.
Some guy is trying to put a control module on the president. We get the controller away from him and I run around with it. Climb up a ladder and try to open a window with one hand. The guy is climbing after me.
At my house, trying to hide the pipes and stuff in a drawer as mom comes in.
Time, moving forward.
I guess it’s time to post again. Not much out of the ordinary happening-work, home, gamelan, church. It’s very springlike here. I’m reading karmic Steiner. Finished up the manga. I really can’t think of much more-I’m going to put up my essays and dream journal on blogger, but the import format has to be perfect. Busy working on parts of my own stuff-lots to do-I’m learning stuff from the latest Steiner. 7th grade work party on Sat-M doesn’t want to do it. I need to do the spring cleaning with my own stuff too…
Here’s the recap: gamelan, Spring Concerts for M & C, froyo afterwards, tennis with fellow gamelan player, library, May Faire, church-usher, volunteer stuff, public transit hell, C’s Olympiad, church, wife spring cleaning, work volunteer stuff, gamelan-gig on June 2nd, switch to cable modem, work lunch.
Links: We Are in the Middle of a Global Civil War, The High Cost of Government Secrecy, Slaves to Our Stuff, The Conservative Assault On American Workers, The American Dream Is Dead; Long Live the New Dream
On the brighter side…I guess there’s no brighter side.
Page 23, Sentence 5: “More-equal societies have Gini coefficients of .3 or below.” The Price of Inequality
2013/5/7
Playing pinball on a nice table. It’s a computer on a big display, and the power goes out. I fiddle around with it and it starts up again.
At some big house. I walk around to the driveway and get in a car to go out. The girl I’m with leaves and I climb up on some tall stilts. Walk over to a corner of the house and start trying to collapse the stilts. Go down to the ground.
At the airport, meet Brian H in a suit. I’m surprised. I then see Al B and some one else. We follow him in and it’s a supermarket instead. He disappears and I use my phone to track him.
2013/4/31
At a US thing in a big ballroom. I’m underdressed, so I go in back and start to change. Steve L comes in as I’m walking out the back way.
2013/4/28
Watching a marathon. Walk along the last part of the course, waiting for the women to come past. They do, but no one notices so they have to do it again. I walk over and the security guy shows me the invite list and I’m on it. Go over to the building to get changed. Talk to the First Lady-they’re clearing out for the event. We talk about vacuuming and having races. I go outside to find my clothes.
2013/4/27
On a bus, going to the City. I’m not sure it’s the right bus, but I check the map and it’s OK. We go through the countryside, and two guys start arguing. One moves and sits in front of me, the other stands above him and they start to fight. The bus stops and they get out, right in front of two police, who start beating them. Other people join in, and the bus tries to turn around, then just drives on. I see other people start to riot and loot. I think that it’s going to be fun getting home after work.
Skiing, trying to find my way back to the lift. Think about Al and how well he skis.
The spring mood
As time passes, I think more about the seasons-I walk to and from work most days, and I notice the seasons more than when you’re sitting in a car. It also has to do with having kids in Waldorf, and reading lots of Steiner. The spring mood is: growth becoming unity. This is related to Easter. The idea is of growth and rising. I’m also reading through Steiner’s esoteric lessons, and there are some good exercises there.
Here’s the recap: church, Gamelan show, M has Epstein-Barr, library, t’ait chi for kids at church, daffodils on the way to work, picked and by my monitor, arising continues, but slowly, Erika away with friends, church, cleaning, a thing, windy, but no kiteflying, aborted plan for tennis, library-making our way through Fullmetal Alchemist, short gamelan show, 5th grade meeting, Boston bombing, help friend move.
Links: One of the Most Powerful Portrayals of What has Happened to America That You Will Ever See, Income Growth For Bottom 90 Percent Of Americans Averaged Just $59 Over 4 Decades, That Giant Sucking Sound…it’s the Oligarchs, The Violent Disorder of Our Public Mind, Five Ugly Extremes of Inequality in America, Noam Chomsky: ‘No individual changes anything alone’, Why Americans Are So Ignorant, How America Breeds Mental Illness from Birth Until Death, The Propaganda System That Has Helped Create a Permanent Overclass Is Over a Century in the Making, The Dis-Uniting of America, How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion
On the brighter side…Doomsday vs. Resurrection, The King Philosophy
Page 23, Sentence 5: “Displays of great wealth are like loud music, spicy food and swearing: a little can be potent, but too much dulls the senses.” The International Bank of Bob
2013/4/18
Look up at a bright light, changes into a starship and shines a blue light on me.
2013/4/14
Leaving a mall, E is driving. She takes a shortcut, blasting through stores and jumping over a parking lane.
At home, trying to fix the garden.
2013/4/5
Trying to get Diane G into bed. Nibble on her lip. Get up.
2013/4/3
In a hospital, watching a group exercise for something-addiction? They’re doing an encounter group. There’s a big shake, I look out the window and we’re on the back of a train. I yell and go out to try to get off. I jump into a gravel pit and climb up, across the tracks and start walking back on a path.