December 20th, 2020

At a party, walk out to the back yard. People are hanging out in the porch and in the yard. I look at the neighbors’ and realize that I’m at a house 2 doors down from the Harrell’s! Wave at them. Walk back inside, talk to the host, and clean up some. I need to get a ride back to the city but no one is going. I ask for a ride to the train. No one-start walking.

December 19th, 2020

In Long Beach? Walk up to the market with M to get almond croissants. It’s afternoon, so we don’t find any and they’ve left. Go up further-no joy. M goes back and I walk around to the cafe. Delynda calls to me from the 2nd floor and tells me to tell mom to wait a day. I see Uncle Ivor sitting there. Walk down the street and run into Mike K-say hi and continue. Climb up a wall to a parking lot as a shortcut home. Some girl in a car calls to me. The car is filled with marinade I kiss her-very salty and lick her nipples. She says to go up to her place. I go into the lobby and look at the notices and people on the wall. Go up and we want to get started, but people come in A witch gives her a drink and says she may look different. I go to leave and she tells some guy to try to hit me. He tosses something at me and evade it. He does it again and take it and put it in a library table’s drawer. It breaks and I go underneath and fix it. Smell smoke and pull up the carpet, look through the floorboards and see a furnace and smoke.

December 17th, 2020

In an arcade. Playing a game where you push on levers and stuff as balls roll towards you on a ramp. Play a bit, then start just pushing the balls back up the ramp. They don’t like it, and I stop. Some boss guy comes over and tells me to leave. I ignore him, do the last balls and leave. Some worker follows me and tells me that boss is a dick. I say yeah and leave.

December 14th, 2020

In my bedroom, moving things around. Push the tv and stereo back close to the wall. I hear a jet outside and a bird flies in. I know this is the sign for a visitation. I grab the bird and it dissolves into feathers. I turn to go to bed and someone picks me up and carries me. I say I love you and they take me up. (see animation of the chakras)

In a shop, talking with friends about why I decided not to take initiation. Look into the initiates’ room-can’t go in. Look at some books and think about my experiences.

At a friends’ house, writing a note about some girl they’re interested in. Look through a big magazine of stuff. Accidentally call a girl I want to see and she says they’re going to a club-=it’s 1 AM. I write it down and call my friend, but they’re asleep.

At school, walk through the campus and into a dorm. Go downstairs.

December 10th, 2020

Looking at a small house, drive up, some car is chasing us. Pull over and follow it. Go on the street and look at the house-it’s nice. Walk around, someone says there’s a pig waste processing place close by. Look and see it down the hill.

December 9th, 2020

Hanging out at home with Jerry J?, going to do some acid. We take it, and walk around waiting.

At a church with Earl T. We’re setting up something, and I go to get the guitar stringed. I get the first string on-it has odd circle hooks to hold it in place. I try to find the guitar case to get more strings, but it’s attached to a huge string of stuff. Earl says he does everything for the church, and that’s how he keep his stuff. Walk over to the entrance, and ask the pastor if he knows how many POC and LGBTQ folks are in the organization. He doesn’t I tell him that’s something he needs to know.

December 7th, 2020

In Long Beach, walking from the 405 to downtown. Try to find a hummus place that’s on the way. Go into one place, but the man misunderstands me so I leave. Get hung up walking on a overpass that dead ends and need to cross with lots of cars moving fast. Backtrack, and some punk kids ask me if I need help. I’m typing the name of the place into my phone so I say no, but they’re persistent. I take off my shirt and walk away. Walk back to the place, but have to go down off another overpass. Hang down, then drop to the first level, then to the ground. Keep walking.

December 6th, 2020

Getting ready to leave school-pack up my area. Go look for Peter V, who’s driving home. I look back and see that I forgot to disassemble the walls. I suggest we take a shortcut, but the ropes gut wants a cert. I drop down and walk up the hill. Go into the room and Pete isn’t there-I finally see him and we get into his car-put my stuff in the back seat. We leave and I realize my iPod is back in my room.

December 4th, 2020

At school after break, arranging my room. Marybelle comes by and we hug and kiss. Go back to her room to arrange. I want her real bad. She says no, says I smoke too much pot. I lease as her friend arrives. Go to the cafeteria, lots of people there. Get food, go back to my room.

December 3rd, 2020

In the bedroom, watching a zoom meeting. One of the guys sits up and starts playing with himself, but blurred out. A bunch of frames of people having sex show up too. I’m like, “no way.”

In a store, Ian is behind the counter. I walk past, and suddenly I’m on the ground by the wall and naked. Someone says Ian took my clothes. I get up and go over there, glaring, and he runs out.

December 2nd, 2020

At the fancy house with gardens, walk up and into the main house. The man is leaving. Put back a pile of jeans that’s falling over. Go back to garden, many shovels lying around. Lady comes and says we have them all and she needs some. I offer to take some back, walk up and gather them. Walk with her to the main house, in the kitchen, an odd insect flies around, then another. I go back to the garden.

With some guy, we’re walking through a parking lot. He wants to kiss me and I realize he thinks I’m gay because I went out with him. I tell him and he’s disappointed.

Waiting in downtown Milwaukie/OHS for the bus. It comes but turns towards towards SOM Center. It’s not going to get Colin, and Mom and Matt and I talk about how to get Colin. We talk about whether Dad or I should get him. The roads are quite snowy.

Not quite time to exhale.

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Well, it’s the start of December, and the shouting about the election isn’t over. Trump et alia is still whining, and failing at making a dent, other than riling up the base. Read an article about how Trump is peak camp, I don’t disagree, but he’s still damaging. Okay-trying to stay out of it until Jan 20th… Not much else-CV-19 is ongoing, everything is basically on pause until the vaccines are in distribution. Have my contract until April, so I can hang on, unlike a lot of people.

Election Day. Don’t really want to work. Cold, tired, it’s wet outside, and dark early, so I don’t really want to run either. E found a fitbit at the binz…pretty cool-we’ll see if it helps. Doesn’t do heart rate, which is what I really want.

Thursday afternoon. Just finished lunch, guys came to fix the bathroom shower pipes-meh job. Got my cpap-we’ll see how that goes. Don’t want to think about the elections.

Friday afternoon, trying to make progress. Now evening-need to run. It’s cold and wet and dark-never a good combination. Maybe I’ll jump rope instead. Got stuff done, though. One refactor to do. Not tonight. Wore the cpap last night-really not fun-panicked for a few minutes-it feels like you can’t breathe out. Got an hour in-just couldn’t get to sleep with it on-needed to get up this morning. Try again tonight-we’ll see.

Monday noon, so, so tired. I tried to get to sleep for 4 hours last night. Failed-dozed maybe once or twice. Just laid there thinking and listening to my breathing, adjusting the mask, turning over. Bagged running last night. Not much over the weekend-tidy Sat., switched bookshelves Sun.-got a few more books jammed in there. Most of Saturday was spent watching BBC News-they called Pennsylvania, and celebrations erupted worldwide-looks like the markets like it too-plus the speeches, and the whole Four Seasons thing.

Wednesday morning. Thursday afternoon. Later Thursday afternoon. Thursday evening. Friday morning. Friday afternoon. (Am I going to write anything today???) Nope. Monday morning. Start of sprint. Busy Friday, Quiet-ish weekend. Shop yesterday, laundry & tidy Sat. Mellow week too-mostly struggling to sleep with the cpap-just massive loss of sleep. I gave up after 2 hours last night. Changed to the bigger mask and that was better, shaved close, but it’s just so loud. I think I’ll try earplugs again. So, so hard. Got my contract renewed, though. Noon. I’m still not feeling well-M isn’t either.

Tuesday, end of work. E got a new keyboard for me-you can run it under a faucet. Rough, rough night last night. Decided to get to sleep, then put on the mask-instead didn’t get to sleep until 2, and woke up every time I dreamed. So 5 dreams listed. Blech. Going to reset my sleep schedule before trying the mask again.

Friday, in the scrum. Pretty quiet week. Finally slept OK last night-melatonin and valerian-woke up at 2 then right back to sleep until 7-dozed until 9-I’ll try the mask tonight. Neighbors across the way are moving out after 3-4 months-usually means the house purchase finally closed. The guys moved an upright piano. Got it down, but def. not a professional job-glad all I have is a synth and guitar stuff…and no stairs. Buy a case, roll it around-no problemo. Need to work on some projects-min list for a hasty departure, full personal and house inventories. Plus also bill pays, and maybe senior page and bio edits.

Tuesday morning. No bill pays, but bought a car on Saturday. S emptied out their room. Tried the nose thing-didn’t work. Still having trouble sleeping.

Wednesday afternoon-got the OK to quit early. Finishing up deployment and unit test coding. Got a Gecho yesterday…

Friday afternoon. Lazy day. Up super late last night, got up super late. M made beignets. Nice Thanksgiving-M and I cooked-everything came out well. Tidied, vacuumed, put stuff in the closet, S’s stuff in the hallway, watched crap movies. C and gf came over, both have to work today. Contemplating getting iPads for E and me.

And #diaperdon is trending on Twitter. No one is walking on eggshells any more.

Monday, start of sprint. No really motivated. Haven’t been exercising-contemplating going to Planet Fitness when it opens. Lack of sleep isn’t helping. A typical weekend-shop-Fubonn, Cost Plus, made chinese dinner Sat., watched Dune, more shop Sun. (E got a waffle iron, getting xmas presents) and struggle to get to sleep with the mask on-not easy…I think I’ll call this-been long enough.

Links/viddys-brighter side:

Otter snuggies
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1326963387163676674

Not so bright: don’t even want to go there (especially now).

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November 29th, 2020

Talking to the office designer about AIM’s offices. They show me the layout. It’s different, and I ask about it. They say it’s because the office has moved-over to Liverpool St. We walk over there-through a park-busy, knock over a sleeping guy’s bong. Dingy street, smallish standalone building. Go up and look around the offices-I’m in the utility room. Walk downstairs, walk back to the utility room and it’s big and off the lounge. Talk to Lesley, and walk back upstairs.

November 24th, 2020

Breaking into a school, go around and start messing around. We see cops coming and start to leave. Get scared my wallet and keys are left behind. Climb up and they’re there. Leave and walk around to another entrance. Try to blend in with the people coming out of the elevator.

In a auditorium, walk through the rows. Someone gives me a fighter kite. Walk up to the balcony and start thinking about the song and how to play it. Walk over to someone talking to Eno about their work. He gets mad because I’m looking at the list of stuff this person did. Walk back over and start playing.

November 23rd, 2020

In the office, walk over to the printer, there’s dried up spillage everywhere. Several groups of people are going around play-acting some work-related thing. I ignore them and begin to sweep-move farther and farther away sweeping. Start back and gather used paper too. One group comes close and starts their show. I move back to where I started.

Take a few people to a field that the company owns. We walk towards the garden as I talk about it. There’s a tiger lurking and I tell people to be careful. We look over to another field as a good place to play, but a further one is better.

November 19th, 2020

Going around trying to find a lost girl. Visit some homeless camps, see some women. Get on horses and go into the woods. There are trees with pythons in the branches waiting to drop down. Turn around to avoid them. Discover that if you stand in the stirrups you’re tall enough that they won’t drop. Struggle to get my stirrups on, the horse helps me get the reins back-I pat him. Continue on, drop off some supplies and return.

November 16th, 2020

In my room, hanging out. There’s lots of people outside and I look out the window and up at the sky. It looks like there’s meteors, but they’re going in circles. They’re also colored.

In a stairwell, these girls are coming up the stairs and I have to stop them. They come up a little bit and I’m able to hold them back. More come and it’s harder. Finally a bunch come and they get behind me. I black out. (I see all sorts of faces and things)

At a reunion thing, I get me food and go sit. Steve P comes up and we chat. There’s lots of people.

In bed at 30700, back to the window. There’s lots of energy, and it finally makes it up to my neck in a big ball. I rise up and go higher until I break through to the other side. There are tons of symbols everywhere. I look at all of them. I settle back down. (The symbols continue, a bunch coming towards me-this means I’m thinking them.)

On Jackson, walking towards Lander. A car goes by me really fast, them another. I get to Lander and turn towards home. more cars speed down Jackson, and one crashes into a tree. I start towards home, and a car tries to pass another, and goes head on. Some old guy yells at the driver, and I start to jog towards Emery. Pass Emery, and cross the road.