November 14th, 2019

At a show, sitting front row. It’s Bon Jovi! acoustic. A big black spider is on the wall-he waves at t to shop. It crawls up a thread, and a small one crawls after it.

On a train through town, clear roof. Get to a square on the beach, there are tourists everywhere. Walk up the street, a guy at a cart with a kite thing is waving it around. I comment on how I haven’t flown in awhile. Guildworks has a big display, walk over to it, set my lines and walk out, a display goes up under my lines- I go back to pull them off. Display goes down and Marc yells about it. Walk into their office and ask Salem if I should work there. Walk back-a nice presentation room. Salem sees a ping pong table and plays.

At a show, it ends, go to sign the guest book, it’s full. A Bunch of receipts are lying around. Talk about how this should be managed better-I say I scanned mine. Ends up being someone else’s correspondence about some real estate thing.

November 13th, 2019

At work, Lisa asks me to help her outside. Go out to her car and get stuff out of it. Go back inside and go into the lunch room. The tables are covered with clothes and stuff and people are picking over them. Walk over and sit down-my laptop is unplugged so I plug it in.

November 9th, 2019

Drive down a hill, looking for the freeway entrance. Switch lanes, turn and again. See the freeway, and all the buildings are abandoned, and the freeway is being demolished. Walk through a building and back to the street.

November 6th, 2019

In a big bed, pushing the sheets around. A baby is there and rolling around. Mindy is freaking out because it might fall off. I say no and move the baby closer to the middle. Go walk around the bed to the other part of the room.

November 5th, 2019

In a small airport’s office, a machine that displays maps/manuals is behaving oddly-turning and shifting the display plate in and out. I freak out and turn it around to see what’s wrong. Nothing.

Sitting in a room with a bunch of people listening to a record and reviewing it. We go through the whole thing and it’s not good. The others like it-it’s all country.

In an office with a huge table in the middle. It’s painted blue and falling apart. We go over it and identify all the wood that needs to be replaced. Walk around the room and parts of the walls are rotting too.

November 4th, 2019

Flying a stealth fighter, have to land it. Put it down and roll around so I can take off again.

On the back of a ladder fire truck. Back it up to a building and push it underneath to support. Some guys are upset about it, but I say it’s the only way to support things. Put it in further and adjust the ladder.

No brighter side. Yuck.

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OK, here’s the ever fascinating blog entry summary, where I describe my mood and how much politics and the world sucks. Got nothing in the brighter side links, which sort of tells it all right there. It’s all just a huge mess, and I’m tired, so nothing here other than yuck.

Monday after lunch-I’m starting to drag-didn’t sleep well last night. Work stuff is getting done, though.

Tuesday afternoon. Getting through stuff. Slow going, though. One thing is done as far as I’m concerned. Starting blind on another. I think I have my mini task book figured out-mini book to license plate book. Transfer all my other books to that. Keep art and music separate, art in my small Coke Moleskine, music in the book on the Kronos.

Wednesday morning. Not much-cleaning up some stuff. Good w/o last night. Not much else-watched drone racing instead of practicing. Practice tonight? Hopefully-there are a few tasks that need to get done, but nothing huge. Again, no TV is the key.

Thursday afternoon-I have a new IOS WordPress editor-slick! Working through new code. Diwali lunch-yummy!

Saturday morning, in bed. This WP editor is so nice. Not much-should go to school and help, but…didn’t-just not up for it. Busy Friday, skipped lunch, good W/O, no M. S’s guest left early. Not a lot else.

Monday, noon. Pretty quiet weekend, tidy, vacuum, w/o, church-E gave a sermon. S has a fort-like thing in the living room-slept there-it fell in on her last night. Played my guitar yesterday when no one was home. I have an incredibly sweet sounding rig: ’72 SG + Pod XT + ’52 Deluxe Tweed = Buttah! The Pod is a little brittle sounding, but decent for my use-I’d rather have an HD500 or a Helix, but, no $$$…and I kinda wanna Gecho more. Dave Mustaine from Megadeth is selling a lot of his gear-subscribing to the “you can’t take it with you” approach-got me thinking about what gear I really need.

I think I have my organization plan set-making a coptic bound book for carrying, everything else gets transferred to the license plate journal. Have everything except covers for the book-not sure what to use for that-heavy cardboard? E got me a book at the binz…gonna pull the cover and go from there. I’m thinking zentangled front, black back, accordion pocket on the inside back cover.

So, Tuesday noonish. Getting stuff done at work. Very windy and cold this morning. A streetcar derailed at PSU.

Thursday morning, my changes are in and I have the dev/buld/deploy/test cycle down. I still don’t quite have the test data bits so I can call/verify. Anyways, good w/o Tues., but my shoulder still can’t take weight. Been cold and windy, but dry, so I can wear leather and stay warm.

Friday morning, I think I’ll call this. I have to rewrite all of one of the things I did this week-frustrating, that. Anyways-Halloween last night-M had a suit and put on the Barong mask when kids came to the door. S went with school friends, and I had to pick her up in posh town at 11. So, to bed late-I’ll probably be dragging this afternoon. Lucky only a few people are here.

Links/viddys-brighter side: . Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “He felt a great burden and responsibility as well.”, Blood of the Cosmos.

October 31st, 2019

In a train yard, trying to get across the trestle. A train passes, and we get to the bridge. Some guy tells us to be careful. We can’t get to the main track, so we have to step onto a lower girder that’s sort of sticking out and very unstable. Make it across, then come back and have to jump across the gap. Some other guys go on top and make it across easily.

October 28th, 2019

At 30700, in my room. Trying to get dressed/move. A helicopter is flying around outside. I run into the hallway towards the bathroom.

Running up King towards home. I’m racing, and pass someone. I get to the top of the hill, and onto a bus. They want to to say something, but I need to poop really bad. It starts running down my leg, and I get off the bus and hurry home. Get into the bathroom, clean up, and come out. Go outside and there are people looking around trying to find us. I go around the other way.

October 25th, 2019

In a classroom, a boy comes in with a ball and chain in his hands. He starts bashing it into the people sitting. He grabs one and starts cutting little cuts all over. I run to get away through a hall and stairs. Ms. Drake sees us and tells us to get into a room and tell the kids what happened. I go and start ranting about how people got hurt and you need to treat people nicely because you don’t know who will snap after getting bullied. S has an attitude and I get on her about it.

Driving down Emery in a huge car to pick up kids for school. Turn onto Sterncrest and we slide around in the back seat. Some kid hops in and I move to the middle. S starts asking C about where the poop bottle is and I hold it up, grossed out. We’re at Old Farm and I wonder who else will get in.

October 23rd, 2019

Sink down, can’t go all the way. Turn over to try again, can’t. Hear voices talking about me? I’m awake, and unusual that I can sink while awake.

In a game, trying to run away from an energy being that drains your energy. It’s like an assemblage of shifting planes. Escape to another level through a doorway, zoom out to see the whole playing field. Others are trying to escape the being. Walk to the other side, see a gnome/elvish person, talk about the energy being. It might be the energy being escaped.

In an office, we’re tossing coins at each other’s faces. Pick up a few, go over to the vending machine, look for healthy drinks. Odd color choices, pick one, get the drink and a bunch of cookies come out too.

Playing guitar, talk about long sustains and feedback. I get out my E-Bow. It’s not turning on, check the battery, dunk it in water to clean the contacts. Dry it off, it’s still not full power-replace the battery. Still not enough. Looks it compared to a newer one..

October 22nd, 2019

In an office, look down to the buildings below. Tom Cruise throws a fit about flooding in his room. Walk down there, start mopping the water up. Look over, and it’s flooding from beyond the walls. Walk outside, see a huge wave coming, run up the hill.

In a big truck, a cop behind me, drive on tracks then through a park. Stop in a lot, the tires are destroyed. Look over them, try to figure out what to do.

October 21st, 2019

On a plane, it’s going to crash, and we go to the back to try to help stop it. Move some things around, try to switch some of the wiring. Look out the window and we’re coming in for a landing. Land across the middle of a freeway. Get out and the cars are stopped and everyone is getting out.

The inevitable end of???our little local life?

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Mid-October, not much going on-S is excited for Halloween, and politics rolls on. Is there the inevitable end? I have no idea. Our little local life is largely unchanged. Not much to say other than that-the usual recounting of an exciting life, I guess. This will be fun to re-read when I’m old.

Friday afternoon, a few more things to do, and that’s it. Fridays are nice, wearing a floral shirt, sneakers, jeans, not a lot of people here. Got my task list for the weekend done as well-I like this process. Not getting a ton done, but at least I’m noting stuff.

Monday morning, on a call, but not involved. Pretty mellow weekend-cleaned, but not a lot else. Good workouts, but still laying off arms. E went to Ikea, C drove. He also drove Sunday to a show in North-Kenton, right next to the Masonic hall we played a gig at 2 years ago. Waited around, thought about a thing, didn’t, he got a ride home. Church Sun., that’s about it. Had a nice lunch today at the Bistro Petit Oiseau with my recruiter (and it’s closing!).

Tuesday, almost time to go home.Another busy day-got a thing untangled. Get this all checked in and tested in dev. Not much else-quiet last night, w/o tonight.

Weds, forgot my lunch, so Whole Bowl. Gonna meet M somewhere. Good w/o-ran, and I don’t feel creaky today! Good balance on t’ai chi too, but still lifting on legs only.

Thursday afternoon, watching a guy set up my stuff. We swamped the email server with a production run that generated an email for each row insert failure, and there were 30,000…ack. At least it was just our team.

Friday, after lunch. Looks like my entry got vanished. Got a thing figured out, finishing up stuff. Wrote down the plan page. I think I’ll snag a comp book for artist’s way stuff-we’ll see if I can do it.

Monday afternoon, almost time to go. I’m tired-got to bed at 12:30. E is sick. Other than that, pretty quiet weekend-w/o both Fri. and Sun., M didn’t on Fri.-gaming club. Tidied Sat., no church, C sold his amp & we drove there-he’s a pretty decent driver now. Shopping-made Chinese last night from frozen. Loaded up my phone with music-just pulled all the familiar stuff-no “one tune from each album”-takes up a quarter the size. Need to do stuff this week, rather than jelly. We’ll see-I have laundry to do tonight, if I don’t turn on the TV I might be able to get in some time. I think that’s the key…no TV.

Monday morning, not as tired as I was earlier-thanks, caffeine! It’s been a week since I wrote this. Much the same, C has his license and we have to pay $189 more for insurance, AND his gf’s car has a check engine light… This weekend, I practiced a bit, got E’s laundry done and tidied up her stuff on my side of the room, then covered it with a sheet. Also did some laptop setup for WordPress, node and Che-I think I overloaded it. Good w/o’s. House is clean. I think I’ll call this.

Links/viddys-brighter side:

https://twitter.com/ANDREW1ALBERTT/status/1182424380753756160?s=20
New doggie friends.
https://twitter.com/zonephysics/status/1182665101419126787?s=21

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there.

Page 23, sentence 5: “Images fill the well.”, The Artist’s Way.

October 18th, 2019

Climb up a steep cliff, look over and drop a pencil. Start to climb down the big blocks, change my mind.

In a big room, sitting at tables, Wanda Sykes is bitching at basketball players.

At PWS, walking through a park.