Entries this day: Bridging Savvis dream molly reunion

Bridging

00:01 Friday 28 July 2000

just as I was on the sleeping side of the awake/asleep line, The phone rang. Loren (sp) (female) was callling to verify that I still wanted to fuck with the router tonight. (that's not the term she used)

They are still on hold with Northpoint. Seems to me like they should have a hotline super connect number to reach them.

I was flip floppin around in bed for 40 minutes before I got to sleep, including a few close calls to sleep but awakened by air conditioner coming on or cats squeaking somewhere or something.

Loren said that hopefully they would be on with Northpoint soon. I'm going to either sleep or write a letter.

I feel helpless here.. I want to sleep, but I'm not particularly tired. maybe that's my answer. I'm not tired so stay up and do something.

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00:29 Friday 28 July 2000

I was talking to Spot and Tinkerbell on the bathroom counter, wondering if Tinkerbell will ever quit randomly chasing Spot around or if Spot will ever get a backbone and swat the snot out of her when the phone rang.

It was Wende!!!! She said the Bridging Ceremony was lovely and she, Arlene and Debe all just stood in the back and cried "as if all our kids were getting married." Can you believe it? : Nancypants, Oliver, Shira, Elizabeth, ... all graduating!! They will actually attend rallies for one more year and then attend the bridging ceremony at GA and that will be it. So actually we will still see them for a year at rallies.

00:33 Friday 28 July 2000

No call from Savvis yet. I hate to call them back and say "forget it; I'm going to bed" They've been on hold with them for 1.5 hours now. Not like on hold, crick in the neck from cradling the phone... but still. I dunno if the hold time would be relatively shorter if we tried again in the morning. But in the morning I know I will be even antsier (ancier?) to go work on Java at work and stuff.

I think I'll sweep the floors now.

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Savvis

00:52 Friday 28 July 2000

Loren just called. Northpoint has no record of DSL service at my house under FSD. They're going to look under my name and by address and she'll call back. Absolutely amazing.

1:04 Friday 28 July 2000

Floors are swept. Well, the second and third floors were swept down to the first floor, resulting in a cat furball the size of a cat.

No contact from Savvis yet.

1:23 Friday 28 July 2000

Northpoint can't find my DSL circuit in their records. Loren is going to go to their hardcopy files and find the original order number with Northpoint. She offered to start again in the morning, but the grand irony is that I'll be at work and they'll want me to unplug the router and shit and let them test while it's unplugged to see if it's the router or the line or whatever. Bluh. Unfuckinbelievable.

But, on the other hand, good night; I'm going to bed.

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dream

5:31am Friday 28 July 2000

(dream)

in this dream I lived on Methil drive at the inside a corner:

            
                   * = my apartment
          * |      - = Methil
------------|      | = a different street

each week I would walk down to Matt's house to spend the night. This time when I went down, it was like 1am by the time I got there; too late to knock on their door. So I headed back. I found a hot red pepper on the driveway again this week and started eating it on the way home. On the way home, there was a large garbage can being used to boil some hot peppers and corn on the cob.

the guys beside th trash can had a pepper tied to each ear of corn and were going to eat it. i offered them each a bite of my pepper, but they refused, saying it would be too hot. i asked for a piece of theirs then, but there was some type of anger when the one guy gave me a piece. i was all, "do you want it back?"

"No, it's yours now."

so i left and ate it, kinda watching over my back, fearing they would throw a knife at me.

then a car drove by and turned in front of me, i was scared at first, but he was stopping to talk to his friend in a different car with a lovely female in the back seat being driven somehwere. it was 4am by this time and she was dressed exceptionally, down to nice high heel shoes and dress. i wondered why she was dressed this well so early in the morning. the other guy got in the car beside her, and left his truck on the street.

i recognized that somewhere in the world it was evening or midday, maybe she was going to an event somewhere else in the world. the president does that, i reasoned. why not she.

as i was walking the rest of teh 3/4 of a blcok to get back to my apt, my hips started to hurt so badly that I could hardly walk because they hurt so much. i stopped walking and noticed a woman and kid across the street walking and i felt embarassed in front of them for having gotten so old that my hips were hurting.

i rested there for a moment. and woke up wondering about something.

5:39am

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molly

7:49am Friday 28 July 2000

In an unexpected change of events, Molly woke me up this morning, with a lovely phone call inviting me to dinner. I had to decline since Wende and I are going to family reunion.

I think this is the third time I've mentioned the reunion, and ironically all three entries are stored here in my Handspring Visor.

I'm going to work now. Yay Java!

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reunion

22:28 28 July 2000

So we are here at the family reunion. arrived about 30 minutes ago into a chorus of hellos and greetings. Wende is describing how I missed the turn coming into the street and everyone yelled from the deck "WENDE!!!!" watching us. I was embarassed at first but soon got over it. Met everyone, learned two names. maybe three. I get the feeling that people stayed up to greet us and make sure we got food. now everyone is going to bed. Wende and I will be joining her sister Stacy and husband Roddrick at a different cabin tonight. I hadn't met Rodd before; he's cool.

22:53 28 July 2000

Now we're at the cabin where we'll sleep. Two bedrooms, one kitchen, and one loft. Rodd is sleepin in the loft where it's warm. Tomorrow night me and Wende are sleeping up in the loft. Especially if Wende is cold tonight.

Rodd is tellin' lies about how Rodd and Stacy never slept together in college. Actually she apparently stood up in the bed one time.. while she was asleep. Stacey, you need to lay your ass back down and go to sleep.

23:36 28 July 2000

just talk talk talked with Stacy and Rodd. We're going to sleep in the loft tonight and maybe tomorrow night. Rodd and Stacy told spouse stories on each other, while Wende and I offered a few thoughts or insights or laughter as warranted.

Once we all split for bed, I came down the loft ladder face first just to see what it would be like. I essentially got stuck for a minute laughing holding myself up with my arms at the bottom and toes at the top. Wende took a picture on someone's camera. So funny! Mostly funny because we are tired I'm sure. Now it's potty time and then bed time.

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