At a kite thing, someone wants to give me a new Rev, but I have to win it, so they rig the thing. Putting it together-it’s complicated. Rods have to snap together and there are tensioners. The instructions blow down the field, and I see someone pick them up. Go walk over and get them. The guy starts bitching, but I say I didn’t notice, and you had them already.
At a radio thing, someone is going over why they’re in radio. Pete W (from Hollywood) talks about how he started in. Go stand around the basketball court and throw the ball in.
Out in a clearing, someone is hunting, then Ted Nugent comes up and we all talk about how he’s a fake hunter. Some lady comes up with a deer for Ted to shoot and lets it go. He lines up his shot.
Walk over to some elevator-it takes you to a ceremony. I balk and don’t go, but my companion does, and they vanish. I walk back, then get into elevator. It goes, then I see all sorts of symbols flying around.
Go into someone’s apartment and start scraping his head. Leave to another place, and they tell me I need to do it again, and ask him for something. I refuse. We walk outside and there’s a bunch of families getting ready to leave.
Walking along a rocky shoreline. Look across the bay and see the buildings for Disneyland. Walk some more and come to the back entrance. Grab a cabinet and walk up to the guard and say I’m delivering this. He asks for my work order and I say I’ll have to check with my boss and walk away. Put the cabinet down and go into the building. Walk through the lobby and there’s a buffet in a room past the elevators. Walk through.
At a place-not sure where. Lift up and start off-planet. Faster than light-everything lenses except the destination. Arrive and it’s a mirror Earth. Land and talk with them about Orange County. Draw a rough map, with a few others helping. Walk around a little, waiting for some girl.
Walking into a restaurant in Denmark? Stand by the bar, say I recognize the doorman. Talk about getting there. Leave.
In an office/mall. Walk over to the courtyard as a small tram arrives. Walk back to the office. Sit and I’m big and hard. Stroke it, cover up as a girl comes over. More, then finish with a lot.
In a supermarket. Looking a produce, the man lets me have a very long celery that was for someone else for 10 cents. I go to the checkout and get in line. E is just checking out, I see her and go up and ring it up. Walk out and go to a restaurant across the way. It’s an “Elon Musk” place. We go in and I put the shopping bag up on a ledge. The ledge is actually a vertical door, and swings up when you go up the lift, trapping the bag. I climb up to get it, or pull the door down. It finally swings back down, and I catch the bag before it falls.
Walking to school up a creek. Cross over and through the stream. Get there, I have on a t-shirt on. Get to my locker, put on a tie and a vest to hide the fact that I’m in a t-shirt.
At church, sit down and get ready. Have to move over-lots of people here. Walk over and through the crowd standing. Hear loud rock from the stage, and go back to see what’s up just as they end.
Sitting in a classroom, the prof is giving out the final assignment as a contest. Give a proposal to make a piece of music. Prof chooses a few to use some special gear. He unveils the gear-2 large racks, a few smaller ones. One is a software one, the other is a hardware one. I start working one on recreating “Echoes”. Rerecord vocals in a big bathroom. I talk to someone about it. We go into another room to hear the results. Several people are going to play, I pull out my shakuhachi and ask to play. All the singers stand up and sing. I get up, then sit down, then everyone gets up and leaves, then files back in.
Sitting at a table with Keanu Reeves. He wants to have a staring contest. I close my eyes to get ready. I tell him that’s how I get ready. We start, and I can’t focus, so I cross my eyes. He notices and says it’s easier that way. I say no, as a 3rd eye forms. They get close, then form a triangle. Everything disappears, and tons of eyes and symbols start swirling around. I wake up, and the symbols continue to swirl around.
Walking by the complex, get to the corner and turn up and into a building. Go through a walkway, and my old cat comes and attaches itself to my leg. I pet her and sit for a while.
Out at the circle, throwing a tp roll around and it swings in a circle. I go back and get everyone to show them. I throw the roll and it doesn’t go in a circle. I try again and it goes into the street. We walk back to the house.
In a used bookstore, looking through a few boxes of school books. They have a bunch of rare occult stuff plus a bunch of UI design things. I go through the lot and walk around. M’s ghost appears and I hug him, then ask if he’s learned his lesson about the way he treated J. says yes. Walk around to the display and see a few more occult things.
In an office, sitting at my cube. My neighbor is going over some papers and I look over at them.
Help someone to print some stuff. One of the docs is damaged-something about backups. I say I have an app for reading damaged docs and it took me 5 minutes to write.
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I’ve been thinking about higher order stuff this blog interval. Not sure if anything will come of it. Had one of those “alien visitation” dreams too. Just wondering which paradigm is the right one (Steiner vs Bardo), and how we just can’t know for sure. Plus also “what’s the point” sort of thoughts. Think it’s part of the whole current shitshow we’re in. It’s hard to keep that sunny disposition when everything is dissolving. No worries-just gotta keep hanging on and saving money. Hopefully I can continue my contract or quickly find another one. Working remotely might be a plus…gotta get up to speed on React.
Does it matter how far you are, or where you have to go? No. You take this place as it is, and work your work the way you work it. As long as your awareness is clear, and you’re working on making progress, what happens is and is what happens. The Goal is the goal, and the Work is the work. Every pinnacle is the beginning of the next pinnacle. Seven inside one inside seven, forever. It’s school and not school, you learn and you bliss.
Okaaaay, that’s enough depth. Time to make music. While I’m still here. Recap: ran, worked out. M did t’ai chi. Slept OK, up 9ish. Morning, tidied, vacuumed. E & S & E-S to rally. E downtown. M and I drank, plus. Up and up and up, forever.
Monday morning, start of sprint. Recorded a bunch of music Saturday night. M had a bit too much to drink, but did the proper prep to not get hungover-his meds magnified things a bit. Ran early yesterday, shopping in the afternoon. Pretty mellow otherwise.
Tuesday midday. Was up late last night, so I bagged getting up early to run. It’s going to be 80° after work, so I’m debating whether to run after work or tomorrow morning.
A look out the back door through the sheer curtain.
Thursday morning. Listening to a Nat Geo thing on the ‘Rona. Ran after work on Tues. Not much else-Kamala Harris is the veep choice. Work, tidy, dishes and laundry, cooking, food shop Sat or Sun, workouts on the days-that’s really it. E goes out and shops, everyone else sits and plays on their devices. M works twice a week. I want to make more music, but… E put up a sheer curtain on the back porch-now it looks like fog or smoke.
Friday morning, in the stand-up. Glad it’s Friday-didn’t sleep well last night. I don’t think E did either. Got up early to run-going to be warm today. It was almost cold, but sunny and nice. Almost ran into 2 girls running on Fuller. Don’t feel great-maybe breakfast will help. We’ll see. Going to be super hot this weekend. Def. running early Sunday. Here’s a chart of my speed progression. Nice to have it upwards through almost 3 months.
A week, Sunday, late afternoon. On the bed, computing. Been playing a golf game on my phone a lot. chill Friday, finished some UI design stuff, one other issue is a conundrum. Mellow Sat., E went to protests, I picked up S, not much else. Forgot t’ai chi. Church, shopping, got a pull up bar and a cheap brew keg-want to make ginger beer-need yeast. Maybe I’ll get a concentrate and make regular beer too. Had lunch at a dim sum place by Wal-mart. Need to run when it gets cooler.
Monday, sprint planning day. Bailed on the run last night-dinner instead. E came to bed late-riots in Wisconsin-one guess why… Need to go over the budget and pay bills-slacked all last week.
Now Friday afternoon. E is at the freedom march. Pretty quiet week-not working out because of the heat-don’t want to get up early. Went to the ER on Tues. because of E’s kidney pain-the issue from last week disappeared and they don’t know what’s up with her pain. Paid bills, finished up my paper cranes, played my shakuhachi a little.
Monday afternoon. Busy getting stuff done. No shopping yesterday, no workouts either. It’s getting cooler, we switched to the heavier comforter. E went downtown for the fun Saturday, got a tattoo yesterday. I cleaned. S’s 13th birthday today, she’s getting a nose piercing. Mess with the right-wingers visiting our town. They caused a bunch of trouble, and no one is saying anything about it.
Wednesday, lunchtime. Trying to get stuff done before the end of sprint. Not much else-going to be hot, didn’t plan meals this week. Time to call this entry.
Links/viddys-brighter side:
Not so bright: don’t even want to go there (especially now).
Page 23, sentence 5: “The difference was one of perspective-the view from different frames of reference.” Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps.
At some show, lots of people on the floor. I’m in a shipping container, we go up a hill and look out over the crowd. I have to give something back, and we go back down the hill, but in a different place.
Sitting in front of the stereo. Want to play something from Todd. Look through my cassette case-it’s empty. Find some coins, look for more. They’re shoved in the side, so I start taking it apart. Go over to a closet to find the other tape case, lots of coins in the sides. The closet has lots too, start gathering coins. There are spiders all around, try to avoid them. Go around the back and pull down the wall. More coins, more spiders. Go back to the side, one of the big spiders jumps out and grabs a millipede. Some friends come over, tell them I’m looking for coins, they go in and brush against some of the webs, then leave.
Riding with a group, I get through the light before it changes, look back and they’re stuck. Get to my room at the hotel, go to take a shower, start pulling the curtains around, and they’re at the door. Go to open the door, then back in and close the curtains to the shower.
At home, super high ceilings, lots of dust. Get the long duster and start dusting. It’s making lots of dust fall, then I dust close to someone sitting on the couch. Go to the door and shake out the duster.
Watching a cricket match, walk by the scoreboard and misread it. Walk along a street and my friend says that’s where the scene of a famous Indian movie was made.
In the kitchen with dad. He’s dropping things and falling over. I pick up the stuff and help him up. He goes to carry a bunch of stuff from the table and I take a lot of it instead.
Watching a movie, we can go into the scene. I realize we’re going to trapped if we do so I back off as the screen shuts it. Suddenly we’re in the scene and I’m trying to help the guy secure the room. We put a camera so whoever comes in the highlighted. A bunch of people come in and I’m fighting them-cutting them and trying to keep the weapons away.
At a conference. Walk around, there’s a long line to get a special tattoo. Walk though, see a girl I know doing them. Chat for a minute about how they’re doing. Go downstairs, a section is blocked off, walk back to look and only a few people are there. Go back and some rooms also have stuff going on. The cafe has a security guy there and someone on the ground.
Walk into the middle of an art class. The teacher is giving out assignments-I look at the work and she gives me a long sheet of paper and says, “do a panorama of a beach scene.” I start putting down background colors.
At work, working on a program for a client. Finish my part up. Have a meeting about delivering it, and have to redeploy my changes.Something about a report too.I’m reluctant to say that my stuff still needs to be delivered.
In my bedroom at 30700, look out the side window. There’s a big plane going past, very low. It vanishes, and a smaller pointy one goes from left to right, turns and comes towards me. I know it’s the aliens, and as it passes I grab it. It’s like a pole with sharp protrusions. It hurts, then pulls me into another place. I cover my eyes and start seeing cartoons of pink aliens and other stuff, moving past very quickly.
At a kite fest, set up to fly. Have to move, and take the kite to a staging area for tomorrow. Get nervous about it and take it with me.
At a store, Trump comes in. I start harassing about how he got his degree at a mail-order school and he admits it. Also that it was pass/fail and he passed. Walk away.
