Walking around at work with the iPad. Some guy tries to take my phone and look at it. I tell him it’s not a work device. Go into the other room and start frantically erasing the browser history on the iPad.
December 27th, 2017
In an empty lot. Set down my portable tv to pick up a package of long tubes. I’m nervous because there are a bunch of people around. I try to set it elsewhere, but fail, and they start yelling at me. I pick it up and the tv is gone. I go across the street to go to storage, but my combination doesn’t work.
In a pool at CVRC? just at the middle section. Kids are coming up to the line and I tell them that it’s deep, then start swimming to the other side.
December 26th, 2017
Trying to get into a prison/fortress. We hide behind a car as it goes in, walk down a hall and into a room. A big guard comes in but doesn’t see us. They spot us and we leave and go through a large warehouse, and leave through a small door.
December 22nd, 2017
Back stage with Metallica, they leave and James forgets his backpack with the stash. I want to get it to him, but the crew says it’s ok to leave it. I go to find security, but he’s getting his head bashed in by someone in the crowd. I go onstage, and it’s almost cleared up-a kid is hitting the last drum. Mom comes up and asks me a question about who the band was.
“It’s the most horrible time of the year”
As my blog is more like a recitation of my life as it happens than it is a “blog”, it starts out as tbd. Then life happens, and the tbd gets filled in. I’m feeling very tbd right now. I always start with a comment, then the recap, then links, p23s5 and listening. It works, but kinda boring. I suppose I could comment at length, but that takes energy, and I’m feeling drained lately.
I guess the title says it all. I like to make up “alternate” lyrics to songs, and Christmas songs are ripe for it. There’s more to this one, and worse. I had a chat with M about this. He’s getting into cool stuff lately, and I’m teaching him t’ai chi too.
It’s cold but no snow. E, S, M and S’s class went to the zoo, which was empty except for them. E got me a new winter coat and ushanka hat that’s very warm. Home, w/o w/o M, dinner, shower, bed. I used to take showers rarely, but now that I’m working out, I need to take them post workout. Weds., gamelan-last one until mid-Jan., home, dinner, carry S to bed, bed. Blew off cleaning the kitchen. Was very windy overnight-woke up a few times hearing it. Work-starting on the new project. Net neutrality is gone, Roy Moore lost-win one, lose one.
And it’s Friday. I don’t think this will be an enjoyable weekend-I have to get out the Christmas boxes from the outside closet, and one of my molars lost a big chunk from its front. Sat, and no tree, though I did get the Christmas box out of the outside closet. W/o w/M last night, E was asleep early, S very late. Laundry, smoothies today, then shop, get C from friends’, look for a tree. Home, dinner, E in bed early, S a decent bedtime, laundry, play the Kronos a bit, bed. Sun., church, pick out tree, M to libe, back home, pick up M, deliver E & S to Nutcracker downtown, shop, home, w/o w/M, pick up E & S, dinner, shower, bed. Up, to dentist’s-need a crown. The filling is OK, so I can get by until, but still…
Weds., pretty quiet. 3 interviews for a new person, get to go home early today! W/o last night-M did negative arms. Up early, in early, home early…the tree is decorated, tidy, dinner, bed. The tax bill passed, but the U.N. rejected the Jerusalem thing-win one, lose one, again. OK, so, Friday, again. At least this is the start of a long weekend and wfh next week (for a few days, at least).
I had one of those dreams last night. No aliens, but right down into the underworld. It was black, and there were voices, and I was falling. I woke up once I reached some sort of “not feeling like I was falling but still falling” state. I laid there watching a movie coming out of a portal and a jagged hole inside it. Sort of like the TEX event, but not, as it was definitely cartoonish and cycled.
Links. brighter side:A High School Runner Helped A Struggling Marathoner, Iceland Asked Its Teens Why They Binge Drink, What We All Need To Remember About Teenagers. Not so bright: The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never Was, Millennials are Screwed (they’re not the only ones…I’m a job loss or disaster away from it too, plus no retirement savings at all), Fredo in the White House, Donald Trump’s Holiday Gift to America, The Counter-Revolution, Dear White Evangelicals: An Intervention Letter, Reflections on Trump and Corporate Totalitarianism
Page 23, Sentence 5: “I had to go to work the next day but I didn’t feel at all tired.”, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui
Listening to:
Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Tchaikovsky, Fiona Apple, Melvins, Sneaker Pimps, ZZ Top, Veruca Salt, Christophe Gluck, Brian Eno, Annansy Cisse, The Clash, Megadeth, Zakir Hussain, Fred Frith, Heart, Philip Glass, Brian Eno, Jeff Beck, Allan Holdsworth, John Zorn, Sigur Rós, Curved Air, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Eno-Byrne, The Future Sound of London, Robert Fripp, Peru , The Laziest Men on Mars, De Facto, Brian Eno (x3), Veruca Salt, The Beatles, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Philip Glass, Deftones, Todd Rundgren, K.M.Krebs, Sunn O))), Donnie Iris, Sigur Rós, Melvins, Todd Rundgren, Jimi Hendrix, The Allman Brothers Band, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Berbil, Peter Gabriel, Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir, Robert Rich, Rush, Australian Aborigines, Gamelan, Benedictines of Mary, Heart, Giacomo Puccini, Adam And The Ants, Nathan Youngblood (with Steve Roach), U2, Tom Waits, Beastie Boys, Philip Glass, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Eno – David Byrne, Loren Nerell, George Clinton, Skinny Puppy, Peter Gabriel, ZZ Top, The Clash, Afrika Bambaataa, Pink Floyd, Schumann, Primus, Thomas Dolby, Genesis, Larry Tyrrell, Yello, ZZ Top, Throbbing Gristle, Samuel Barber, Venerable Showers of Beauty, Camel, Laurie Anderson, Robert Rich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Constance Demby, avn
December 21st, 2017
At a party, hanging out. Kristen Wiig comes up and I’m smitten. We go to a table and she’s trying to un-smit me by standing on a chair/table and waving her hands up and down. Jon Frakes and Spiner are filming us, and she tells them to go away. We sit at the table and she starts a ritual with incense and chanting. I start chanting, then drop through the floor into the underworld. I hear evil laughing, and keep falling until I’m in equilibrium. (I woke up at this point, but could still see into the dream through a portal and an irregular hole. There was a magician in a hood in a living room in a chair, standing up then falling through the floor, over and over again.)
December 20th, 2017
In a bathroom, trying to pee, very aroused and huge, try to make it go down, succeed, try to pee into a small bowl, gets big again, the door is open, try to close it.
December 19th, 2017
At home, going through a bunch of compressed pot, go out-on Lander? Go back in and put some of it away.
December 15th, 2017
Trying to cross a bunch of train tracks. Look carefully, as a big train passes. Jump on one going left, ride, but two bulls come on and we have to fight them and jump We get to a hole in the fence, and go through a big factory, trying to look like we belong. Spot the street, and go down a hill. Wait to meet up.
At a drive-through, see members of Rush. Look for them or a car, some guy says they might be around the back. Go back there and there’s a room getting set up. We talk to them, and I start sweeping out a ledge.
December 11th, 2017
Walk out from my room onto the field. Get close to the dumpster, and a frisbee comes my way. It’s my friend-I try to catch it, but it’s heavy. We toss it a bit, I look through the dumpster. We walk back as a teacher comes with a class into the room next to the field. We get to the door and another teacher asks why we’re not in class. We stutter, then say we’re done. She asks about the project and I say I have my photos. We go towards my room, then turn back to the field.
Watching a car ad-a guy gets in a taxi, it lets him off at a cafe, the owner gets him something to drink, a terrorist is going to set off a bomb. The guy runs around the outside, hides, grabs a child as men with guns come looking for him.
The holiday season?
Monday of a very cash-poor week. I just used up all my savings to pay rent. bleh. Quiet weekend-w/o, quiet Sat., Snowpiercer (E had seen it already, M liked it a lot), church-filming Xmas thing, tired, shop with S, w/o, dinner late. S had trouble sleeping (Mon. too-she slept on the chair in our room). Work, home, laundry, dinner, bed-watched skiing, rinse, repeat.
I don’t know how I feel right now-we’re in such desperate money straits, and politics, but everything else isn’t bad-I’m pretty healthy, I have a well-paying job, the kids are fine, E is better than she was, we have a place to live and food and all the rest, which is a lot better than an awful lot of people can say…I still wish I had a cushion, and retirement money, and a great big pile of money would be nice. One can dream-I just have to keep moving forward until.
Gamelan Weds., up late eating, cleaning the kitchen, finding S’s stuffed bunny when she came back to our room to sleep. Up, tired, actually napped a bit on the bus in. Hassle getting home, dinner, S to bed, watch curling, fold some laundry, kitchen, bed, up, got early bus, but didn’t make the connection…E coming to pick me up. And…Monday. Pretty slow weekend-drove home, w/o Fri., clean Sat., S to overnight, watched Martian with E, watch skiing, church Sun., dropped E off at Sat. Market, got S, libe, home, shop, get M, shop, home, dinner, w/o, eat, shower, bed. Hard to stay asleep-napped a little on the way in today. And on the way home.
Links: back to political-I hope I find some “on the brighter side” links… Before Our Very Eyes, Trump Is Undoing the Work of Our Country’s Founders,
Page 23, Sentence 5: “The lightning sought our Ur-humans, Seranis put in.”, Beyond the Fall of Night
Listening to:
Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, Tchaikovsky, Tibetan Monks, Tom Tom Club, Deben Bhattacharya, Aphex Rock, Slayer, Brian Eno, peru, Golden Earring, The Blasters, vanity 6, Brian Eno, Sonic Youth, Kraton Yogyakarta, Vidna Obmana, STSI Denpasar, Oregon, Throbbing Gristle, Brian Eno, Dissidenten, Gaden Shartse Monastery, Tchaikovsky, Veruca Salt, Robert Rental, Utopia, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Deben Bhattacharya, alastair galbraith, Dead Can Dance, bartok, Venerable Showers of Beauty, The Polyphonic Spree, gamelan, Brian Eno, Kaminari Synthesis, david byrne, Deftones, Claypool Lennon Delirium, North Indian, Tom Tom Club, Public Image Ltd, Vangelis, Collection, Brian Eno – David Byrne, Poe, Oingo Boingo, Brand X, John Coltrane, Faure, gamelan, Brian Eno, Jethro Tull, mayfairgrin, throbbing gristle, Philip Glass, Suicidal Tendencies, Rage Against The Machine, Built to Spill, Fripp and Eno, Todd Rundgren, Robert Fripp, Deuter, Rush, Material, William Edge, King Crimson, Anugama, Mystified, Brian Eno, New Order, Lou Harrison, art of noise, Jefferson Starship, Harold Budd, Anne Clark, Brian Eno, J. S. Bach, Brahms, Eno-Byrne, Pere Ubu, Throbbing Gristle, Philip Glass, Anugama, Genesis, Teges Kanyinan, u2, Joseph Kingma, Cream, fIREHOSE, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oregon, Peter Gabriel, Mickey Hart, Roger Eno, Todd Rundgren, Jakszyk & Fripp and Collins, Akashic Crow’s Nest, Earth, A Beautiful Machine, Steve Winwood, Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings, Zen Savauge, Primus, Thomas Dolby, Genesis, Larry Tyrrell, Yello, ZZ Top, Throbbing Gristle, Samuel Barber, Venerable Showers of Beauty, Camel, Laurie Anderson, Robert Rich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, avn
December 7th, 2017
On a plane, some guy sneaks off before getting caught.
Watch someone flying a dual kite dogstaked. Go into a Home Depot to get one – only single line. Go out, fly it, talk to the pilots.
Going with Bill H to a thing. Get off and walk around
December 5th, 2017
Hanging out at a kite fest, sitting on a swinging couch with some girl. I quite attracted to her. We get up and go watch a show on a small TV, then go down an escalator with former bandmates who are surprising. Get to the bottom.
December 4th, 2017
Driving around L.A., Go from one freeway to another. Finally get to Anthony A.’s place, back the truck right up next to the fence perfectly. Get out and admire it.
Broke, please tip the writer!!!
Please tip the writer.
Yet another blog post. They’ll just keep coming, until, I have no idea until. Until I die, I guess. I was one of the first, and after almost 22 years, it’s just a part of my life. WordPress certainly makes it easier…until 2016, it was all by hand-edit file, change link info on month and year boundaries, upload. Now it’s edit via web anywhere. Need to take regular backups, though.
Gamelan tonight, worked out with M last night, late to bed. Watched slalom and cycling while cleaning the kitchen. Gamelan was fine-there’s a mouse in the room. Health insurance is insanely costly. Looks like I’m working over the Christmas break on a new project… Rainy, home, yummy Waffle House hash brown bowl dinner, but I prefer loose hash browns rather than patties. S to bed, watched cycling and short track while cleaning the kitchen. South Park with M too.
It’s Friday! I’m looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow-this week has been late nights busy cleaning up after dinner. Here it is Monday-not a bad weekend, but too short. Long one coming… OK. So, workout with M Friday night-negative legs. Sleep in, clean, practice keyboard until a flooded bathroom had to be dealt with. Clogged toilet plus sticky valve equals many wet towels. Cleaned it up, unclog, done, except for the washing of towels.
Church Sun., with S to market & libe, wash towels, M to libe, pick up E, pick up M & shop, workout, dinner, bed. Hard to sleep-rain is very loud outside our wall. S left a plate out and has tons of bugs in her room-it freaked her out-she ended up in our room. Up, to work, forgot my laptop, back home, an hour late in. It’s Wednesday, 2 extra days off-that means 2 days less money-no bueno. Workout last night, making progress, but I dislike the stationary bike-maybe I need to change it up… And I did-treadmill now-I was doing that in the long ago, so it’s OK-I’m actually moving up weights as well.
And now another week-it’s Thursday-busy at work with problems. Gamelan last night. Thanksgiving was OK-sleeping in, ham, tried to keep things clean, not much other than the usual. We’re out of ca$h for the next week. All the bills are or will be paid, we just have nothing left after doing that. Please tip the writer. Thanks!
I think the work problem is solved. Friday night-worked out-teaching M t’ai chi, dinner, laundry. Ripping-need to watch Snowpiercer.
Links: none to be had-it’s just too depressing. I need to reinstate the “on a positive note” links…I suppose I could post kitten or puppy videos… Here’s one! The Boston Declaration, Doing good may not always feel great…and that’s okay (my HS classmate Bob).
Page 23, Sentence 5: “Just keep collecting your random scribbles on anything you can write on.”, Your Idea Starts Here
Listening to:
The B-52’s, Guy Reibel, Adrian Belew, Tuu, Philip Glass, Veruca Salt, Venerable Showers of Beauty, bill bruford, Brian Eno and Jah Wobble, Afrika Bambaataa feat.John Lydon, Teges Kanyinan, Todd Rundgren, Schoenberg, Robert Rich, Genesis, Earth, Bob Marley, Philip Glass, Anoushka Shankar & Karsh kale, Peter Tosh, Gong, China, Emergency Broadcast Network, Throbbing Gristle, Dead Can Dance, The Crystal Method, Lynyrd Skynyrd, u2, Black Sabbath, c.krumov, Schumann, Roger Eno, Philip Glass, Hawkwind, Robert Rich, Rush, Oingo Boingo, Roger Powell, Primus, Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, Rage Against The Machine, Skinny Puppy, Tchaikovsky, Veruca Salt, Todd Rundgren, Filter, Veruca Salt, Robert Johnson, William Orbit, Amadou Diagne, Ali Farke Touré, Brian Eno – David Byrne, Hooverphonic, Philip Glass, The Orb, Helmet, The Black Iris Militia, Vangelis, The Chemical Brothers, Philip Glass, Grateful Dead, Material, Veruca Salt, David Sylvian, Fred Frith, Kansas, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Michael Stearns, Anthrax, Henry Cow, Constance Demby, Veruca Salt, Steve Roach, Harold Budd & Brian Eno, Ray, Cream, Tchaikovsky, Veruca Salt, Henry Cow, Greg Baumont, Buddy Guy, Psychic TV, Yo La Tengo, Brian Eno – David Byrne, Brand X, The Band, Angus Carlyle, David Rhodes, Mark Hamn, The Human League, Adam Trainer, art of noise, Melvins, Gentle Giant, Mevlevi Sufi, Venerable Showers of Beauty, Harold Budd, Diamanda Galas, Beastie Boys, Bill Bruford, James Gang, Gamelan, Byron Metcalf, The Waitresses, Shubert, Djinnestan, Brainscapes, The Art of Noise, Steve Roach & David Hudson & Sarah Hopkins, Martha Goldstein, Curved Air, Deftones, Philip Glass, Oingo Boingo, Brand X, John Coltrane, Faure, Robert Rental, Gamelan, Brian Eno, Jethro Tull, mayfairgrin, throbbing gristle, Suicidal Tendencies, Built to Spill, Fripp and Eno, Todd Rundgren, Robert Fripp, Deuter, Stereolab, Rush, Material, William Edge, King Crimson, Aphex Rock, Anugama, Mystified, Brian Eno, New Order, Lou Harrison, Jefferson Starship, Harold Budd, Anne Clark, Brian Eno, J. S. Bach, Eno-Byrne, Pere Ubu, Throbbing Gristle, Anugama, Genesis, Brian Eno, Teges Kanyinan, u2, Joseph Kingma, Cream, fIREHOSE, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oregon, Peter Gabriel, Mickey Hart, Roger Eno, Todd Rundgren, Jakszyk & Fripp and Collins, Akashic Crow’s Nest, Earth, A Beautiful Machine, Steve Winwood, Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings, Public Image Ltd, Zen Savauge, Primus, Thomas Dolby, Genesis, Larry Tyrrell, Yello, ZZ Top, Throbbing Gristle, Samuel Barber, Venerable Showers of Beauty, Camel, Laurie Anderson, Robert Rich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Constance Demby, avn
November 29th, 2017
Looking out the living room window @30700, there’s a squirrel right up there wanting food. He’s on one side by E, then comes over to my side. I mess with it, it makes some evil faces then bangs his head against the glass and knocks himself out.
At some thing, Dara M? Judy? goes up to sing, comes off stage very sad. I go to comfort her. We walk out and I tell her she did great, especially since she’s out of practice. We go into an alcove and she starts kissing me, then puts my hand on her boobs.
November 28th, 2017
@1023, some guy comes in and needs to hide. We put him in the back bedroom. A group of guys comes looking for him and I won’t let them in-they ask for him, I turn away, some girl unlocks the door, I stop her and relock it.
Talking with fellow passengers about spiritual things-tell some girl she needs to focus more on her own work.
November 27th, 2017
Dad has invented a really strong magnet using shaped magnets. It’s popular-I’m demonstrating it and it only works one way. I get into a shower to use it against the sides. Get out and talk to people-dad’s travelling and giving talks.
November 26th, 2017
Playing bass with Sabbath
@1023, changes since I moved out, glasses with dishwasher soap
Talking about tv bill, start to leave
November 24th, 2017
Jenni is driving us home with a bunch of stuff. Get in the front and tell her to be careful. She gets upset, but we get home. Open up the back and start getting stuff out.