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4:09am CDT Friday 21 April 2000

(written pre-phone)

I just woke up from a weird dream. Several chronologically disjointed pieces were combined.
1) My (parents') house from when I was in 3rd - 7th grades. This was 1977 to 1982.
2) I used to be a mobile DJ - this was like 1995 or so.
3) The TV show Futurama.

I was asked by my ex ex ex ex boss if I could DJ for a wedding. I said no problem.

The day of the wedding arrived and I was at my dad's house, but it was our old old house in which we lived when I was in 3rd to 7th grade. I recognized I needed to leave for my DJ gig when I realized a few critical problems: 1) I did not still have the sound equipment. 2) I did not still have my cumberbun.

In 'real' life, I haven't had the sound equipment for years. Probably 4 years. I just gave away the cumberbun when we just moved.

There was also one other problem - I wanted to watch Futurama, which had just started on TV. The episode in my dream had a few funny one-liners:

Bender and Fry were in a library searching for something that had been left in a book in this library 1000 years ago. The camera angle showed Bender looking through books labeled "Future" and showed Fry way across the room on the same row of books.

Fry said something and Bender retorts, "well that's because I'm looking in "Future" and you're way across the room looking in "Futurama.""

Then the camera shifts and turns out Fry was right beside Bender, but the first camera angle had been using a mirror on one wall of the library.

The next scene was a combination of Simpsons and Futurama: Santa's Little Helper (Simpson's dog, for those who have other priorities) was chasing a hotdog on a string being tauntingly pulled by Bender. The hotdog fell into the sewer and Santa's Little Helper went after it. He ended up lost in the sewer and in a big cavern of a sewage pipe. There were old cars and barrels of crude oil and other 20th century artifacts. The narrator made some comment about how the citizens of the 20th century had wastefully thrown all kinds of good stuff away and it still clogged the 30th century sewers.

So that was the first half of that episode of Futurama, and I had to go do a DJ gig, but had no equipment, had no cumberbun, and turns out I had no address of the wedding.

Then I woke up, much relieved.

It's 4:51am. Good night again.

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8:11am Good Friday 21 April 1000

(It's been a while since I typed a 1 for the millenium...)

I'm at work early today, shifting my schedule to match Wende's 7am work schedule. I haven't made the 7am mark, but I was here today at 8, fully 2 hours earlier than my 10:am and still not be late.

This is also good for me to gain some extra hours and be more likely to get 2 weeks off this summer for General Assembly and for Youth Council.

Yesterday we moved online a new version of our latest big project. I rewrote much of the screen that lets people add people's names... This time there is lots of error-checking. A lot of our time has been used in cleaning up bad data. This will help a lot.

Today I may send out The Feel Good Net! I copied it from linux to Windows formatted floppy so my Internet-enabled computer at work can send it.

Last night I wrote 2 journal entries which are patiently waiting in my linux box for a dial tone.

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