September 25th, 2018

Talking with a woman about the fact that the commandment to love one another means everyone, even the most despicable. And that it’s like you love yourself.

September 17th, 2018

Walking along a road, then onto a narrow path to cross earlier. It gets tricky, and we cut ahead of a group. They’re going to another group. We get there, and the guy is taking credit cards and verifying them. I’m nervous, and walk past him. It looks like he’s planning to build a new wall. I ask him about it.

September 14th, 2018

Walking along the waterfront, lots of trees. A loud plane comes by fast, then back the other way. Another, then a helicopter. We go closer, and 2 missiles get fired off. We watch them go, and I hope they’re not live.

In the backyard, look over and there’s an odd craft coming towards us-like a black M. It passes and lands on a hill. There are lights in the sky.

The calm before the storm? I had another term for it.

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Chilling in bed on Saturday. A week of no $$$ upcoming, and Monday is a holiday. No plans. Prolly clean and laze. Got Panda Express for S’s dinner, watched GotG, she opened presents, M and I worked out. Someone turned off the a/c, so it was an oven. I propped the doors open for a little bit. I’m liking the variety-even better than what I was doing many years ago. If I had a Nordic Track it would be perfect.

Now Labor Day-rather be working because we need the money. Pretty quiet weekend, C’s gf is staying with us for a few days-problems at home. Sat., binz, clean, tv. Sun., church, market, binz, w/o-hot again, made them turn on the a/c-didn’t help. Grill, Harry Potter. Restless sleep, up, laze. At work-we’re short for rent. Labor Day-lazy, keep things clean, grill, bed, again, hard to sleep, but not horrendous.

Weds-same ‘ol, no gamelan yet. W/o last night, late. Keeping the variety going-no M, so skipped some negs-on a few of the others I was still sore from Sunday. Aging rears it’s head again-also got an achy adductor tendon. Plus the knee one. And the shoulder one(s).

Thurs., payday tomorrow, and a ton of bills to catch up on. Stuck at work, as 2 things I need to get my work done are down/non-functional-I did the changes I need to make, but can’t deploy. And now Friday, one of the things is working, the other isn’t. Got up at the same time S did last night, and she got up this morning too. Blew off church choir thing-too far away. Trying to cut down on visual stimuli-I think visual overload is contributing to my fatigue. I noticed it a few months ago while grocery shopping. I’m extending it to my commute. We’ll see. It’s hard, because I spend my work days in front of a computer screen.

Sunday, sitting in church. W/o Friday, shop and clean Sat. Not much else. Busy Sun., market, S is sore from games, binz, shop, school party, river, w/o, late. I’m sore and achy today. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow.

And it’s tomorrow-walked into a huge kerfuffle. At least it’s fixed now. More failing things, but everything seems ok now (it wasn’t, but close). W/o-change of pace-always weird. Watching stuff about Florence. Big storm. Been there, done that. E would rather be in a hurricane than an earthquake, I don’t know.

And now Friday. Have to sit in an interview-I hate interviews, but I don’t mind being on the other side. So, choir practice last night-I’m getting a little better at sight reading, but not much. The other song was charted, so I could follow along better. No gamelan yet. Everything else is pretty mellow-no $$$, but E got a job, so that may change a bit. She started today. C gets his braces off.

Links. brighter side: nothing, but I’m not looking either. Not so bright: everything else.

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I listen to music all the time back and forth on the Max/bus, and in the car, but iPhone and iTunes don’t let me track it. That was one of my favorite things to show.

September 13th, 2018

Walking through school to class. Thinking about what classes I’m taking. I go pee, then gather up my stuff. A teacher comes up to me and gives me an assignment I missed. It’s English, so I read the story and start writing. It’s about a girl who has some magic things happen. I write, but run out of room on the page. Try to find paper to attach and write more.

September 12th, 2018

On a big kite field, John B flying an indoor. He’s doing all sorts of tricks. We walk over to the other side of the field and watch. I think about flying.

I’m going to check on a server deployment. Go down an alley to the backyard of a house, look over the fence at the yard. Get in, the server is in a grill, but the top is locked. I try it, look inside, feel around the ground for the key. Can’t find it.

Going to someone’s office. Drive up a hill to the building, park, walk up the steps. Go into the office, leave, drive away.

September 11th, 2018

On a carrier, 2 guys are arguing about which service branch is better. The Army guy says anyone can run a boat. The Navy guys blows up, grabs a plane and takes off, saying “OK, you run it”. He flies to DC and lands in front of a church on a hill. A Park Service ranger comes up and tells him he has to move, so he rolls the plane down the hill.

In a office with Pres. T and a woman. Watching a show about history. We miss something, I try to scribble the info on a post-it. We rewind and its about a pack of papers found in a house. They were supposed to be delivered to the founders when they were drafting the Declaration of Independence. We look around and find a replica. Go through the papers and the authentication stuff.

September 9th, 2018

At someone’s house, listening to an NPR broadcast over an odd animal sculpture. I go back and forth looking for info. Someone there asks me what I’m doing. I finish, and go into the bathroom to pee. It’s also a bed, and I get pee all over her laptop. I cover it up, continue, then someone comes in. I roll over and cover up, and yell at them, they smile and someone else comes in.

September 8th, 2018

At work, trying to finish a project. Walk over to another office and talk about stuff. Things are collapsing. Go back down and across to the other office.

September 6th, 2018

At a meeting, everyone is in a big circle and singing-we hold our hands out and wave them. All different colors, and the Dalai Lama is there.

Talk with E about going skiing and how this would’ve been the last time this year.

I don’t need a “Labor Day”, I need the labor.

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So, so smoky-many fires, funneled up and down the valley. It’s into the red for particulates-my throat is scratchy. It’s OK inside, but I had to wait, wait, wait for a bus, so I got to breathe the bad air.

Not much else, dinner, bed, slept meh. S was up early. I’m thinking of going to the Nautilus workout order, where I alternate a bunch of workouts. We’ll see-same thing with cardio-intervals, long continuous, and elliptical/stair climber. I did, and it was hard-elliptical and negative routine 1. I’m feeling it today, but I’m probably in as good shape as I’ve ever been. And cutting out dessert and a lot of sugar from my coffee should translate into weight loss. Maybe. Only time will tell that particular tale.

I’m feeling like I need a nap now, though-rice cakes didn’t do the trick-need sugarrrrr…

And here we are at Friday. Rushing in changes to production over the weekend. One was a lack of regression testing. We need automation-that was one of the nice things about ECRT-I had a really good QA guy who automated everything. Then they got rid of all of us. Second time that has happened to me-it’s still upsetting. I can understand Leon firing me way back with PIC because I was damaging business relationships and fucking things up, but at Quest and Huron, no. I was doing quality work. Whatever-money talks, I guess.

Now Monday. I’ve been sleeping badly-I have a compressed nerve in my shoulder and I think it’s affecting my sleep-I wake up a bunch. The weekend: w/o Friday-first full week of Nautilus routines, doing HIIT, continuous run, elliptical for cardio. Makes for variety. The compressed nerve affects w/o some. Tidy Sat., school picnic later. Church, Sat. market, w/o-getting that 2.5 miles in a half-hour…decent. Production deployment went easy. Hard to get up today. Prod looks good-1 small change and an unreproducible issue-I checked the monitor and it’s monitoring fine. Getting jumped into another support thing.

Tuesday-yet another month of not enough $$$, and short on bills. Not good. I so want the big score, whatever it is, but it usually means more work than I’m willing to do right now, so I guess I have to suck it up. Weds., went to bad late-watched part of John Wick. W/o-elliptical and negatives. M was sore, but I wasn’t. S’s birthday today-she was up, so I hugged her. They decorated the classroom at math camp for her. She slept on our floor the past 2 nights. She got up when I did last night and I told her she could sleep on the mattress, but she didn’t, and she scared the crap out of me when I was in the kitchen.

Links. brighter side: rabbits. Not so bright: everything else.

August 30th, 2018

At a bar/theater, walk back to get my trumpet, it’s only one part. I walk around, looking for the parts. I think Marybelle took it apart and lost the pieces. I find one under a theater seat, then the mouthpiece. It’s really small. I put them on and try to blow, but not much sound. I look for M’s trumpet and find it in a locker-it has a small mouthpiece too.

August 28th, 2018

Walking in a park, suddenly we’re falling. There’s stuff falling with us, and no indication of walls or a bottom. Slowly we’re all falling at the same rate with blocks of stuff, and it organizes into a circular wall, which slowly gets narrower and closes to a point. We start climbing out.

August 27th, 2018

Throwing mini grenades around. Catching and tossing as fast as we can. Roll around to avoid them. Go and start working on welding a helmet together.

August 21st, 2018

Flying a helicopter through a battle in New York. Trump comes next in a jet, does circles around us and says to get out. Suddenly the chopper starts off and we can’t control it. We’re coming real close to power lines but miss them. We going way out of town, and land on a small island. The chopper shuts down, and we try to start it. A woman comes up in a junk truck and asks us what we’re doing there. We say Trump asked us to take a picture of his world. She says yeah, she’s part of Trumps world and picks up stuff and puts it here. Suddenly there’s a flash over New York and we duck. We’re all like-he actually did it! It’s a big one, and we get prepared for the shockwave. It passes, and we try to start the chopper. Someone else says it’s not going to but I try anyways. It starts, but not easily, and I start getting it ready to take off.

August 20th, 2018

Walking around in a park. There’s a building up the hill, and a plane crashes into it and starts a fire. We to to help and the fire is out. I walk around the building, then out and into the woods.

August 18th, 2018

At home, on the couch. Look outside and there’s a helicopter and a plane circling. They come in close, then go transparent, as do the walls of the house. They circle a few times.

August 16th, 2018

Fighting with a giant, fly up to get away from him. Hard to gain altitude, but get away. Go and hide in bushes watching the giant. We set up for a seminar on acting and the giant and a companion are among the attendees. We keep it together, and pretend to be the coaches. We take different names and start the seminar. They don’t know who we are. Suddenly mom comes in looking for us and calling out our names. I try to get her to leave without blowing our cover, and finally someone talks to her and she leaves. The giant didn’t notice.

August 15th, 2018

In the living room, S is getting ready to go somewhere and she has on 2 suit jackets-one red and the other gray. We ask her if she’s sure about the color combination and she says it’s great.