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Dream4.04

4:04am Wednesday 26 July 2000

(dream)

we were the poke' mons. (ack). I was Shadowe. Other names were hollered like "blodle" and "chilsed" or "aglonse"

shouted names as we moved from otside parking lot into 1 story strip center bulding room. big empty room and we all went in and it was my job to write the rules on the door on the inside of the glass door in dry erase marker. rule like Do Not look at the answeres before the quest is finished.

as I was writing, the door was all moving (being a door on hinges and all) so David J helped hold it steady (from LRY) and then Adam L (OKC) wanted to write the next rule he said, so I gave him the marker and the surface on which he wrote was no longer the door, but the floppy fabric of his unbuttoned button-down shirt, which he was wearing. he signed his initials in highliter on the shirt.

I was all, "what about writing the other rules? and he was all, "I got it" as in "I'll do it." so he began to write. then I was trying to figure out what I was feeling, what I was trying to stave off. what is this feeling and I woke up.

this is interesting to have actually caputured the moment in my dream just before transition to waking up. it wasn't like the cats woke me up, but I was introspectively trying to figure out what I was feeling in the dream and woke up.

hmmm

4:13

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Dream6.18

4:19am Wednesday 26 July 2000

pee, get a drink, sleep

4:32am

stretch turn sleep after almost making it to sleep

6:18

(dream)

tossing and back and forth wake to almost alseep, seeing wende in my deams then waking up.

then soon asleep and on an outdoor patio type thing with wooden slats and big oak trees around it,. then asking my friend if I could ride his unicylce. he was all, "um, my other friend is coming over," plus he had taken the pedals off the cycle. So I just hopped onto my own unicycle and was riding it with zero problem at all. I was even on a giraffe cycle, with the long neck and riding and had to duck below trees and even hit the trees a bit, but still rode through no problem. I went almost all the way around the block where we lived from my third grade to 7th grade years, but my back wheel came out from under me part way around, but I was still riding on the front wheel, trying to get the back wheel re-aligned under my butt. Never could quite do it, although I was in continuous riding motion the entire time. the fact that my unicycle had two wheels never seemed odd. Finally got around the bock and parked in my driveway and got off and woke up.

6:23am

gonna feed the cats now.

lovely that they did not wake me up last night (except spot for once just before I got to sleep for real.

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applet

19:09 Wednesday 26 July 2000

Been working on the java project for Dude. I thought I had it essentially figured out: the applet opens, reads an input file, displays some mages with hyperlinks, done.

However, I initially neglected to realize that the applet cannot just open a file, because the applet is running on the user's machine, while the file is stored on the web server.

This means that the applet has to open a connection to the web server, which it is allowed to do, and read the file, which it is allowed to do, but I couldn't find any examples of this. Found something close, and when I'm a bit less brain fried, I think I can figure out how to implement it. Now I'm leaving work to go play ultimate!!

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ultimate

9:49pm CDT Wednesday 26 July 2000

Ultimate was great tonight!! I'm pleased that I set a goal to play from 7:30 to 9pm and stuck to that goal (normally I stay until the very end). I ran plenty and had one great defensive play early in the game. Then Mark L and I were on the team receiving the kick-off, and he stepped in front of me.

I was all, "what?"

"I'm getting the disc."

"Okay. I'll run down there and you throw it to me."

"Back left corner?"

"Yeah I'll fake it toward the center and then zip over there."

Disc was thrown, I sprinted to the middle of the field. Just as Mark caught it, I super sprinted right through the crowd, barely eeking my way around Mike who was like, "WHoah!!" as I zipped past him.

To the corner disc was coming fast and low and I caught it in a lovely roll across my back from right shoulder to left hip. So fine. Totally ecstatic to have made such a great catch!! Andy (I think) likened it to Neo in _The Matrix_ where he does a cartwheel to pick up the machine gun. What a great compliment!!

Later in the game, I was part of a billiard-like collision. I sprinted one way, was slowing down as the disc was turned over and Al and Raymond started running my way. Al bounced chest to chest with me, and I was grabbing his arm to keep him from falling back and then blam Raymond hit him from behind, the back of Al's head bonking Raymond's forehead. Ow!!

Raymond had a bump, and I'm sure Al did too. But they both claimed to be okay as they stood on the sidelines.

In my last great play, I was on defense and Shawn had thrown a long pass toward the end zone. Tony (offense) and I both ran crazy fast for it, but he came in at a 90 degree angle to my motion, and offense always has the right of way in ultimate. I slowed down so as to not have a mid-air collision with him.

I went home after that play and on the way out saw Sarah and I-forgot-his-name drive up. Said HI to them and asked about Java programming; I'm looking for an example of an applet that can read a text file off its server (while the applet is running on user's browser). They didn't have an answer for me.

As I drove off, I recognized what I'm missing most about Wende being gone. I haven't had my quota of hugs! I have basically not touched anyone since my I-group on Monday (and crashing into Al tonight). And before that I hugged Jennifer and Maggie and Molly on Saturday.

Definitely need more hugs.

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zzzzz

23:36 Wednesday 26 July 2000

Didn't work on Java, but read through messages on posted on BBST.

Bed now.

7:02am Thursday 27 July 2000

At 4 am-ish I woke briefly from a dream about FSD (my work) doing a survey on itself.

Today is the day that I've been asked to clean up the house- just like scrub the shower and the sinks and mirrors and sweep the floor kinda thing. Wende's parents come into town tomorrow for their family reunion.

I'm not yet saying it's "our" family reunion, and that's okay. I've never been to this family's reunion before. Maybe next year. Maybe not.

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