December 28th, 2023

Take Diane back to her place to help her with a Java class. Go past some homeless pods, then turn into where the wrecked houses are. Go upstairs and her place is nice, but still needs work. We sit down and start going over what she needs help with. Get the code working and I’m working hard to try to get her to snuggle with me. She finally sits in my lap. Go home and panic because I can’t find my phone. Erika said you probably left it at Diane’s.

In some store, pooping. Wipe and realize I left my pants on. Cover it up and go down to a better bathroom. It’s a cage and guys have just left. I arrange the potty and scrape the poop off. Wash the pants as best I can.

In some big class, the teacher mentions some concept in passing and I look it up and ask her some questions about it. I put it in my notes.

December 26th, 2023

Extract a bunch of liquid sugar-squeeze it out into a container. Start looking for a place to refine and package it. Easy to do a little, a big hassle for the full load. Try a bunch of different places, they’re all hard to get to.

December 25th, 2023

In the garage at 30700, walk outside, look up, see a plane high above. Hear another one, comes past low, very fast, like a shadow.

In a room off a garage, two ladies come to the door, asks if I’ve had breakfast yet. I say no, tell them I’ll meet them at the dining hall. Think about how they should stay and play around. Go to get dressed, a couple of guys barge in, playing some game. They play around a bit, thinking I’m with them, then I yell that I’m 62, they quiet down then leave. I try to tidy up a bit, the area next is messy. Leave it. Go into the dining hall, look for the ladies.

December 21st, 2023

Walking down a street in Long Beach, come to Alamitos? A big plane crashes right in front of us, almost vertical. A big plume of smoke, but no debris. I say, it’s fake and watch as the fuselage starts coming towards us with the pilot on top. I cross and go towards downtown. I balance on a barrier and dogs follow me and try to bite me. I shake them off. A girl pushing a cart goes right in front of me and I jump off and yell at her. Note the barrier is up and down and tall and tough to get up on. Get to a circle with a park in the middle. Skaters are rolling up and jumping to the fence. Go through, see it’s blocked and go around as the park closes. I’m at seventh and cross and head towards home.

Sitting at a park with a pool. Kids and parents are going to do some race with sitting and paddling to the other side. I go back to my chair and look at old books and stuff. Open them up and they’re moldy. Panic because they’re not done yet and go back to the pool. It’s fine, they’re almost finished.

In a big room, they’re going to run some race between a swimmer and a runner. Go up some stairs and sit to watch the race. Go back down and start to tidy up and area because they’re going to toss things. Claire comes and takes over because it’s her stuff. I go and sit by the started and ask how they’re doing. Go back up the stairs and the race is over-see a replay and the swimmer won.

December 18th, 2023

Going to go on a small plane, but the pilot veers off, goes up a hill, then down past houses.

Investigating some person, there are a bunch of odd clues left in random places in the room. Look at them, then go into the kitchen. Some lady comes in and we think she wants play. We grab drinks from the cabinet.

At a train station, watch as the train crashes into a truck, sending it into a house which collapses, and a bunch of houses collapse in turn.

December 14th, 2023

Ozzy is freaking out in a band meeting. He’s fed up with drugs and wants to quit. He’s tossing around bags of cocaine and dope. I corner him and talk to him some.

Trying to leave, but it’s super snowy and slippery, and no one wants to take me. Walk back and look for my car.

Meeting with some recruiter and she says that the client is super interested in me and wants to look at my resume. Gives me an email address. I walk back and out.

December 6th, 2024

Walking down a path, watching people fly dual lines. Say I’m a quad line only, walk on, more people flying.
In a recovery, some guy sets some explosives and we run. Get out to the street and walk away.

December 5th, 2023

We’re trying to catch some waves, but they’re breaking fast and on top of us. Go under, and try to hold on as they pass. A couple of smaller ones come and we make our way behind them. One guy gets too close to a big one and gets sucked in. We go after him, but can’t find him. Leave out the side and gather up our stuff.

Walking through a supermarket, they have a lot of old stuff like laudanum. Not sure if we’re supposed to get them. Pick up stuff as we wait in line. Go around the other way.

December 4th, 2023

Driving to a store with dad. We go around the side and past the front-looks like it’s closed. Go park and try to figure out where to go next.

At 30700. Trying to hide, go into the back yard in some bushes and look out. Back into the garage and the kitchen. Get caught and swing a sticky rope and escape through the family room. Man gives me a book on surviving in the wild.

Waiting to go to a thing. I have some work to do with virtual servers, but haven’t started yet. Ask the boss which one to use to demo, figure it out. We get ready to go, end up in a room with a woman. There’s a bunch of money in a box, give it to her, ask if she was thinking it was for sex. I want to, she says maybe.

December 3rd, 2023

Trying to put together a table of contents for some report. The report is on the second floor, and I put up a ladder to get to it. Get the first page, go back to the ground, copy it. Go up for the next, but someone is having issues because of some school stock trade that made a huge pile of money. They decide to put it into warrants. A bunch of people come and I reset the ladder, but the ladder says it’s unstable. I go look and come back and Bill E and I pull up the end and move it forward. It’s OK now.

Walk into to auditorium, it’s a fancy thing and the Trumps are there. I ignore them and go sit at the top, then move down so I can see.

November 29th, 2023

Walk down a path. There are a lot of little tiny houses and he points out his. They’re charging a ton for them. Go across to the boardwalk and walk back, singing Nubian Nut and wrap a cord around my hand. He says to stop as we walk through a bunch of people. Go into a bar and get fancy drinks. They’re weird. I pick up one of the pieces and eat it. Take one from someone else. We leave and go one way. Start wandering around the mall, end up at the pier. Turn around and go through another way-get splashed my someone in the water thing.

In between time, Fall to Winter

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Well, it only took 2 months to call this. I’m trying and failing to stay afloat. Only broke 3 days and one missed bill this time. Saved by Mathias. Hopefully I can hold on until Spring. Not much else-it’s cold and dark-the usual Fall->Winter. Time keeps passing, don’t really have a lot to say-I might have an app idea. The family is fine-just keep trying to stay on track.

Monday afternoon (9/18), trying to stay motivated, but everything is done. Maybe I’ll just go and hang out on the front porch… Pretty quiet weekend-regular Friday and Sunday workouts. Tried to give blood Friday afternoon, but failed the checkin (Mad Cow was still on the file), Erika tried the sample, couldn’t. Picked up a new outdoor couch for the front porch. Took Erika to OHSU for a sample on Saturday, Next Adventure, binz, the estate sale where we got the couch. Picked up the couch Sunday, cash only-rrrrr.

Thursday noon (9/21), Trying to start a new task, but have to wait on a prod deploy. No gamelan last night, messed by lower back up working out on Tuesday, went to the Dr’s to re-up my BP meds. Such an exciting week-doing my laundry, need to take out the trash.

And it’s now October (10/4), Wednesday-time is flying. Not much going on, we’re into fall-the leaves are starting to change. Need to pull the AC units, etc. Trying to clean up a bit, keep the living room and kitchen in order. Really need to paint the south wall…and leaves are coming. Skipped a few workouts-Salem needed rides, Erika went to a church thing in Salem, etc.

Thursday, finishing up coding a thing (got it done and to UAT), then on to another thing (got that done, but not to uat yet). We’re running out of time. Ok gamelan last night, failed the lancaran bonang bit. Thought I had it, but no.

Wednesday (10/11), busy, can’t go to gamelan because Erika is taking the car. I don’t remember what happened last weekend, but it’s rainy and cold. Good workout-started late, so did a 5 minute fast tai chi, which was fun. Busy doing work… I did take a/c units to storage on Sunday, and much around moving stuff in the bedroom. Trying to keep the kitchen clean-need to work on other house-related stuff. Salem had PreACT testing today. Change of plan-I’m dropping her off and picking them up. Still can’t do gamelan, I think.

Monday (10/16). Busy, working on the same thing as last week. We’re totally out of ca$h this week… Decent weekend-the usual workouts, driving around Sat. to look at storage sheds. Mowed the grass and took out more a/c units Sun. That’s it…

Tuesday afternoon-a very messy sprint end/start.

Monday (11/6). Haven’t touched this, but it’s not a super long duration. Not much happening-Salem is one of the main puppeteers for Little Shop of Horrors, and we went to the opening last Thursday. They did well. It’s a decent show. Cleaned out the gutters on a too short ladder. I need a bigger one to put in the gutter covers. They switched our trash service to Thursday, and didn’t tell me. Saturday took Salem to Beaverton for a friends’ show after their matinee, hung out at Powell’s and ate at an ok Italian restaurant. I tend to get one of the parmesan dishes to tell how good the cooks are-no veal, didn’t dare the eggplant, got the chicken and it was a hair overcooked. Eggplant has the narrowest range of doneness, chicken the widest. It’s like sweet and sour pork at a Chinese restaurant, and tamales/chile relleno at a Mexican one. Hard to ruin, but also hard to get right. Have a week off starting Wednesday. Want to clean, put up the gutter covers, maybe get a storage shed. A week ago Sunday was Halloween at church-Erika made me help, and I was wiped out-skipped working out.

Wednesday, taking a week off-it’s weird being out in the middle of the week. Sitting in a Les Schwab because one of the tires has a slow leak. Slept in, meh breakfast at a patisserie in Sellwood. Walked around looking in the antiques mall. Need to get stuff done. Ok workout last night-did a 12/3/30-not sore today, so there’s that.

Thursday, sitting in Schwab’s again. They have to get the tire from another location, so I’m sitting here with the tablet. Good gamelan last night, but I completely blew the start of one piece-guess my brain wasn’t in it… spent the rest of yesterday at the binz and food store.

Thursday night-watching a dumb TV show from 1970, but with Karen Valentine-simply a gorgeous woman. I think Harlan Ellison had something to say about this one. Busy day-new wheel, lunch, home, stuff to storage, shop, make dinner, get Salem, more dinner.

Wednesday again (11/29). We’re broke. I need to read my stack of library books. Nice time off, got stuff done, but got some downtime too. Took Salem to a play in Gresham last Saturday, a thing, they got a ride to school afterwards, picked them up there. Erika rented a truck to bring up a bed for Salem from Salem, got me more Gatorade-I like the cucumber lime ones after working out. Couldn’t work out last night-gym was closed for electrical work-worked out the rest of the days last week. I think I’ll call this. Claire broke up with their girlfriend-some drama, but they got over it pretty quickly. Had Mediterranean food for Thanksgiving.

Page 23, sentence 5: “The problem is our minds are so locked in one frequency, it’s as if we can only see at 78 rpm; we can’t see anything at 33⅓.” The Fifth Discipline.

November 28th, 2023

Run down a hill to J.D.’s annex. See him outside, so stop and sit on the hill. Walk back, then climb up a steep section with one hand. A bunch of runners are doing it too. Get to the top and run through a gym, around and back out. Talk to a person at the desk. Run between the next building, talk about how Christina runs faster than I do, but I have more grit.

Working on a new project that will monitor multiple video feeds and let you take stills of them in real time. Showing it to the military folks, but say I haven’t figured out the interface yet. I think about using the number keys for each screen.

November 23rd, 2023

At some barracks office, trying to make up a list of things needed to outfit a fighting vessel. Lunch in all the specs and get a huge printout. Someone starts firing at the enemy, and we get behind a concrete wall under a window. Some guy stands in front of the window, and I know he’s going to get cut to shreds. The bullets come flying and they’re huge, and he gets cut to shreds. Someone comes to help, and he’s just a skeleton, but still alive. Someone else stands to the side, and doesn’t get hit.

Walking through a parking lot, a free people are tossing a ball around. It comes my way and I catch it and toss to someone on a balcony in the apartments. Here tosses out back to Julianne R, who throws it really hard against the wall and it goes into the parking lot.

November 22nd, 2023

Sitting with a group, looking a tarot cards and offering our thoughts. Someone said something about Jesus and I give my thoughts. Kathleen Lennon comes in, and she’s not wearing a bra. I’m quite attracted. The meeting breaks up, and some girl starts to faint. i help her to a chair, but she needs her meds. We go to get them, but she drops them down to the lower level. I go and get them and give them to her. There’s stuff all over the floor, and the girl that lives there says she’s never moving when I ask about all the stuff. I say I tried that for a long time by consulting to pay for everything, and have 300 credits. Walk back up to the meeting, and it’s another one. I stand by the side and listen-they’re talking about having a music popup thing.

November 7th, 2023

They’re jamming a bunch more people in our bedroom. I go in and my bed is moved over and another pot at the foot. I crawl across and my little space between the bad and the wall is still there.

Flying with someone, and they have a fighter. I go next to them, then ahead. We start running into clouds, then odd clumps of fluff, then bags of blue liquid. I ask the other person what’s up and it looks like we’re in some other dimension. Everything solidifies into the Harry Potter dimension and we walk through the library. I pick up a wand that’s not finished, and it has some papers with it. I talk about finishing it, drilling a hole for the thing, and it has a flower on the end. Walk away and someone is talking about the papers.