Year: 2022

In a building, there’s water coming out of the walls. Walk around to see if we can find the leak, no joy. Call a plumber to look at it. Walk back through again. Go upstairs to. Come back, and the plumber has holes in the wall and no solution. It’s Bugs Bunny! and he says it’ll cost 700 carrots. Someone mentions that there’s a drain on the roof that’s plugged that would do this if not plugged. And they’re right-plugging it solved the problem.

In an airplane, sitting in the front, right next to the pilot. We land and start taxiing. I get up and walk around the huge floor. It’s hard because the plane is changing directions.

Skiing down a pretty steep slope, several narrow slots. Take one, slip down the ridge a bit, then turns over the bumps to the bottom. Climb back up the side, take another route where it’s less narrow.

Getting ready to open a play, walk through backstage and get ready for the curtain to open. Talking to Earl about the last, suddenly forget my lines. Frantically search through the script for my parts.

Walking around campus, climb up stairs and watch some people go off towards the pool-the girls are topless. Go in to a building, looking for a display, turns out it’s a person. Walk away and downstairs. Hang out with Kris and the people from outside. They’re admiring my forearms and asking me to flex them. Talk about the day we broke up and how I wasn’t drinking.

Drive up to Eileen’s house-I get out and go upstairs to poop. Start, and the alarm starts beeping. Some guy is trying to disarm it and didn’t get his code right. Go outside to help. Cal Eileen-she tells me to tell him he has to deal with it.

Driving up across a bridge to get to the freeway. The street is confusing, and there are blockages because of construction. I gointo the intersection, then pull a u-turn because I’m going the wrong way.

At a pool, try to set up something. Walk over and ask Salem if they want to to the thing. They don’t answer, but someone says they don’t. Look up and it says “love you eric” then son, then a bunch of text about some convention. Then it scatters, and the drones fly all around. Catch one, and it’s totally automated. They fly around, getting stuck and freeing themselves. Someone sees that they’re stealing data. The boss says to turn off all electronics and turn the tv on. I turn mine off, then on then off again. We go into the hotel room, and start investigating. I watch a tv show and they mention a company. I tell the boss. then look around. Find a little chip thing, and it’s active. Go back and show it. They try to send a fake work order through the interface.

Walk up and get in line for some show. Look at the stuff on the tables. Salem picks up a sheet of thin windowpane. The girl says it’s free. Salem asks if it’s ok and I say yes, but only one. We go back and wait.

Walking back and forth along some cliff edge with stairs down. Start going down, but a family is stuck. Go back up and over, but the stairs are close to the edge. Go down one way, to a room. I’m an arbiter, and it Kris K and some guy and a credit card. He tells his story and Kris is sobbing.

At work, in a garage, working on getting systems set up for a car manufacturer. Get a good way through the bits for a car show. Some executive comes up and talks to my boss as I walk out to the door. He introduces me as the one doing most of the work and she congratulates me.

Wilting tables at a restaurant. Some other waiter comes up and tells me she added some charge to a big bill for some lottery tickets. I go and look at the bill, then walk back and tell her she’s fired. Go look for the owner to tell her what happened, can’t find her.

In a big building under construction. We’re under attack, and need to get away. We get the big ropes on and jump. I go all the way to the second floor and climb down through someone’s porch. Walk away, and guys are running around shooting. I take cover, then go to the next building. Some lady is there to help, and I pick up something a cop threw as we was running towards the fight. She then comes at me with a scalpel, saying I should’ve stayed in the building. I catch her arm and disarm her.

In a library, deciding what to read for a book Club. I pull out a binder with 4 Octavia Butler stories. I look over the papers in there-these are rare and unpublished from 1970. I say it’s her radical stage.

Walking along, go into a liquor store. Looking for whiskey for egg nog. Salem comes in too. Some guy gets garroted in half inside a plastic bag. Everyone is shocked. We leave and the lady wants to talk to Salem and tell them how mature they are. Salem ignores her and walks away.

At work, cleaning up my desk, getting ready to move. Go back and it’s another group in the office.

Hanging out with Diane G.
Skating with some girl. We go around, then stop asks start talking. Look up and there are twinkling white lights speeding around. She says they’re fairies, and calls to them. A couple come down, and sit on my open palm. They talk very high and fast, then leave.

Walking past a large fenced in pigpen. The enormous hog looks at me and raises these enormous spikes all over its body, with really big ones behind its head. I walk away fast and it follows me.

In somebody’s house in downtown Long Beach. It’s actually a building. I notice sand on the floor, and start sweeping. Do the dining room, then the kitchen, then into a living room. It’s the morning after an all night party. We leave and walk down the street towards home.

Walk down to the gamelan room at UCLA. There’s only me and another. Play a little and leave.

Sitting on a porch. Roger and someone else comes and sits. The other guy pulls out a tiny thing and gives it to me. I close it and inhale. The stars start showing the constellation lines. I give the thing back and he refills it, but spills a bunch of liquid all over. I walk out and up the hill. A bunch of ROTC groups are running down the street. I jog back to my place.

At 30700, looking at the sky from the back door. See a bright light coming closer from up high. I go to grab it, but it went away.

Working for Steve Miller, going over generating the sound effects. I have my Kronos, but he’s showing me how to do it using the old stuff, including an odd sheet of plastic that you use like a 2d ribbon. Finish up, walk over to the garage. Talk about how much leaving the car is for the tour and when we get paid. Go back to the storefront, there are a ton of people sleeping in the entry hall. Walk around to the living room and lay down on a couch. More people come walking through and I wrap myself in a blanket and try to go to sleep.

Helping Judy B out with something, try to crawl through a framework.

In some workroom, trying to get a sewing machine in working order. Run a wide stitch on a swatch, seems ok. Change to a narrow stitch and try to run through the same swatch and reverse. Didn’t go well.

at 30700, looking out the back. Lightning hits a tree very close. We go into the kitchen, then back. Another one hits a tree right next to the house, but it’s more like plasma that lights up the bottom of the tree for like 3 seconds. We run into the kitchen to get away from it.

Building some sort of structure for a performance. Someone else is doing one that looks like square creates in a pyramid that they smash. Talk about whether we want something that does like a blow-off, or a finale. We’re like hanging from wires and swinging or zipping across.