On the New Guys Enterprise. Working on drawing with kids. Teacher tries to replicate more crayons and they’re all damaged. Again, same thing. Flip to holodeck, Data is testing the replicator with gold bars. The ship goes out of control through an asteroid field-it’s falling. Some small ship comes and harasses us. Shhip falls onto a soft bed and is small. Some kid looks in and Troi is outside trying to get his attention. She’s too small, so she starts making letters in the dust. The kid picks up the ship and tosses it up.
At a studio with Beyond Veronica. They’re going to start recording, so I help move drums into the other room. I play around with getting a recording going.
2013/3/29
In a meeting room, some guy is scratching records to get sound out of them. I get a stylus and run it along the grooves. It’s working well, and I move to another room, but it doesn’t work so well.
2013/3/28
A bright light zooms past, then back. I know it’s the aliens, so I ask them to take me. I float up a bit, then sink. I have to jump up higher and higher. I make it up and through clouds. There’s a machine in the ship that’s tring to find the master. We zoom into a place.
2013/3/26
Out in the country, at a nice house. Go outside and they’re hang gliding. I go, but don’t put my legs in the sack. Go up and down and land in a field. Carry the glider up steps through a town. People look at me. Want to go again, but have to be somewhere. Try to go, but there’s traffic so I have to wait, then run to get going. Try to put my legs in the bag.
2013/3/25
At a big party at Roger C’s house-a bunch of bands. Wade my way through the bands, look downstairs. Go to the kitchen and dining room, sis is there. I ignore her, but she circles around and stops me. I walk past and go back to see how the bands are. They’ve left and I go downstairs.
Look over a building and there’s a broken window in the next one. Go over there and crawl by the window. Outside, and I’m trying to pick up music stuff that someone left. Hide the floppy disk in my pocket and drop it in the pocket of my tent. The girl OK’s all the stuff I want.
2013/3/24
In a big warehouse, touring the food processing bits. There are piles of grain and pasta getting moved from in to out. Walk around. There’s a little store selling some of the stuff.
In another warehouse. They’re building a studio for some show. Putting in the duct works. One part doesn’t fit and they have to take it out. Play with some kid-fail at little dribbles,
2013/3/22
Watch a huge plane try to turn around and crash into a bunch of buildings.
See a triangle of lights in the sky. Call to it, it starts to bend my brain, make it stop.
2013/3/21
Go out to a loading dock. Watch a truck get pushed around by a crane, turned over and it starts breaking the building. We leave and go back into the hotel to warn people.
Unpacking from a camping trip. It’s raining and I’m trying to get my stuff put away before it gets wet.
2013/3/20
Looking in a mirror with Erika-I’m huge & really buff, comment on it.
Setting up my rig-I have a bunch of pedals & stuff. No plugs, though-search out which ones need a plug and try to get one going.
Watching TV-Kris L is a newscaster.
2013/3/18
Playing basketball with kids-we’re using a tennis ball. We pass it around and shoot.
2013/3/15
Walking along the street with a group of kids and parents. I want to go on a certain path, but another father has another way. I get mad but say OK. We go down the street, past a huge field full of pumpkins. We stop at a tiny Mexican restaurant and get some food. I leave with something and go next door and upstairs. There’s a video game and it’s at the last level. I try to finish it and go to another TV in the other room. I get a new heart toy light for winning. Play with it and the old one.
2013/3/13
Trying to get into someone’s house. We get in and there’s some loud noise from the roof. We go out and it’s the chimney. The neighbor is there and I pull off some flashing that’s causing the noise. I decide it needs to go back on in case it rains, and I get a ladder from the garage. I try climbing up a few places, but it’s all unstable. I finally get up.
2013/3/11
Out getting ready to kiteboard. There’s a group of us and the leader is talking about safety. We carry our kites and I pull mine with the lines. We go back in and put things away. One of my pieces is damaged.
2013/3/8
Driving to meet some guy. We drive around looking for the place. We find it and it’s a warehouse. He comes out of a cage and is homeless. He talks about it and how he doesn’t know how it happened. I tell him that if he works hard he can make it.
The 800th Post. Wow.
I guess I should say something profound about the 800th post, but I won’t. It’s more a measure of time and habit rather than some deep accomplishment. No matter. In any case, the more relevant question is this: how many bloggers who started when I did (March ’96) are still blogging?
No worries. Here’s the recap: gamelan, Erika hen party, church party, church, gamelan gig in Corvallis, church, M is back at school, Erika cut her hair-v. itchy, waiting, finished all of Akira-way beyond intense, C is working through manga of his own. Yet again out of ca$h. I’m hoping this changes, and soon. We’ll see. Waiting is fullness.
Honestly, I don’t really have much else to say. I mean, yeah, I have a lot to say, but what’s the point? Anyways, I’m listening to Black Sabbath from ’70 & ’75 instead. In ’70 they were tigers-’75, not so much. I saw ’em in ’78 in Cleveland. Last tour with Ozzy. Van Halen opened. Lotsa flannel and jeans jackets, plus the long hair and all the dope.
Links: After Ruining America, the Era of Giant Chain Stores Is Over, 4 Bogus Right-Wing Theories About Poverty, and the Real Reason Americans Can’t Make Ends Meet, Can Civilization Survive Capitalism?
On the brighter side…Global Coherence Initiative, the Next American Revolution
2013/3/5
Trying to get all the lint out of my belly button. Some guy is trying to fix his brakes before a race. He has to DNF. Mrs. Pierce walks by.
Talking with Rev. Sinkford about the service.
Flying a single line kite in a field.
2013/2/27
Sitting in a gov’t office. I won the lottery for 185k. The clerk makes me practice writing out a check-like thing. I get it done and they try to set up my account, but there’s a problem. Another clerk comes and figures out it’s because I have back taxes. I offer to pay them off from the winnings.
2013/2/20
Earl is helping me get gas. Flash to a classroom where he’s running an acting seminar. I’m late.
More time passed.
Not much has happened-home and work, essentially. M has chronic fatigue after getting the flu. The rest for the last month is: more arising, M has the flu, serious no cash, church-usher, C concert, M hospital, church, library, gamelan, library, cleaning, gamelan gig.
I’ve been working on spiritual development on and off since I was a teen. Check out my essays if you’re interested. The work continues. Am I ready yet? Still working on it.
Links: Has America Become an Authoritarian State?, The Non Zero-Sum Society, The GOP Solution To Unemployment–Slavery, The Paranoia of the Superrich and Superpowerful, Hard Times, USA-Part 1, Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math, Corpocrisy: The Systematic Betrayal of American Workers, Ever-Growing Income Inequality Is Bad For Economic Recovery, Old, Female and Homeless, How Our Machine-Based Way of Life is Not Only Destroying Nature, It Is Also Destroying Us, Lifting the Veil of Mirage, Profiting From Human Misery
On the brighter side: The International Bank of Bob, We are so very, very, very small
Page 23, Sentence 5: “And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood, and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular…and each body a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth.” After the Ecstasy, the Laundry]]>
2013/2/19
Look out the window and there’s a very bright pinpoint of light flying around. I tell them to stop dallying and take me. They do, but I don’t remember anything.
