Entries this day: Ultimate dream

Ultimate

12:59am CDT Sunday 16 July 2000

Only 9 people showed up for ultimate tonight, and for a significant time we only had 6. So Bill showed us a new game call Boo- something. Field like the following:

     		       *    *
     
     
     
     
     
 -----------*----------------------------*--------------
     
     
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     		       *    *

Legend:

* = a cone  (near the top and bottom are "goal" cones.  
    The cones with --- through them are just markers
------ = imaginary lines

Two teams, three players each. The object of the game is to accumulate points. A team accumulates points by knocking over a goal-cone. If a team drops the frisbee, the other team immediately plays, but has to move the frisbee past one of the imaginary lines before knocking over a goal-cone.

We played two games of 3-on-3, and one game of 4-on-4. All three games were fun and challenging. (It seemed to work equally well with the different team sizes.

Then we got one more player and played actual ultimate, with 4-on-5. I was on the four player team, and happily, we won. I left after that and here I am!

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dream

9:18am CDT Sunday 16 July 2000

(dream)

I was at work, and Deborah was verifying that she had our correct SSNs so that we could start having our checks direct deposited into our accounts. While she had the work financial numbers near my desk, I noticed a line that said "35 million shares outstanding."

"Kevin," I asked, "what is the deal with all these shares?" "Are there shares out there that no one can purchase?"

He was all, "I have no control over what people can buy."

So I decided to do some reseearch to see why our 35 million shares were 'out there' but not available for purchase. Went back to my work computer, where my computer mouse was in a tangle of wires, reducing my productivity.. I felt rushed to get home before Wende got home at 1pm cause I told her I would be at home. In anger, I yanked the mouse to try pulling its cord free of the other wires, (it partially worked) and then I noticed it was already 1:20pm.

So I wrote a quick note to myself and on the screen: "Research IPOs"

I grabbed two slices of pizza that were left on my desk cause I felt like I shouldn't waste them. I was munching one on the way out the door, then I realized I was just about to eat lunch, and I didn't have to 'save money' by eating this pizza. I mentally blessed my life to be abundant enough to bring me food whenever I need it. I threw the pizza into the trashcan on the way out of the building (big open building with lots of windows and floors of dark roughly cut rock) and I even spit out the piece that I had in my mouth.

Burst out into the parking lot (which happened to be the parking lot of my old church) and there was Spot! With intention to scoop him up and take him hoome, I was all, "Spot?" but it wasn't him. So I zipped on past to my car. Got in my car and the scene melted into me being at home, and I woke up.

Today Wende is supposed to be home earlier than usual, about 4pm.

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