Entries this day: Alarm Dream Work concert i-group

Alarm

12:47m CDT Monday 18 September 2000

The building alarm blared again, this time after I went to sleep. I timed it. It rang from 12:38 to 12:47am. Wende slept through it.

Weird that there is no simple system in place by which the people who are affected can be compensated by the noise pollution. I think the neighborhood would essentially have to sue the building owners, and they would blame the alarm company, and the court battle would rage far longer than 9 minutes.

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Dream

7:42am CDT Monday 18 September 2000

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I dreamt that I read someone's prediction about how the US Government would soon be overrun by a dictatorship, and they would be take by coup, for a quick succession of 8 different dictatorships.

The final dictatorship was predicted to be the good dictatorship; the one everybody would enjoy and it would reign for the remainder of eternity.

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Work

5:06pm Monday 18 September 2000

Today at work I've sent a bunch of emails to people so they can log into our site. I moved some code to our production box for our bad client, and they will look at it tomorrow even though they wanted it active today.

I have sent to the Youth Office my Continental Advisor Training application.

And now it's 5:52pm and I'm late for I-group. Bye!

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concert

4:15am CDT Tuesday 19 September 2000

Yesterday Wende asked me if I would be willing to attend Lyle Lovett concert with her this Friday. I was all, "eeerg.. um... umm... Lyle Lovett? Ewwww.." but I said I would probably do it for her.

"Would I have to wear jeans?"

"Nope; you could wear shorts and t-shirt! It's at the Woodlands where we saw Tori Amos."

"Okay; I'll go."

Maybe I'll enjoy the show. Yikes!

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i group

3:48am CDT Tuesday 19 September 2000

Last night I-group was great for me. We started talking about sex (which is almost a rare subject for us) and I expressed anger/sadness/confusion about me-an-Wende's lack of sex life. We had been loving and sexual with each other a lot, but that has mostly shut down since I cheated on Wende back many months ago. I have since told her I will never cheat again, and I have not cheated again, but the damage is apparently still there.

Tom offered me a great insightful thought - that I could offer some sort of symbolic something as a make-up, something that I could present to Wende to officially put the past in the past and start with a new and lovely present and future. ("That's why it's called the present!")

As he spoke this, I visualized myself presenting engagement rings to Wende. I am not one to wear jewelry; I haven't even worn my toe ring in several weeks. I have told Wende that I didn't want to wear a wedding ring, but I know Wende really wants that symbol of our relationship.

This visualization is so not what I expected that it kinda scares me. The joy of the possibility grew in my mind.. as I drove home I thought of something *really* cool - to call Lyle Lovett's peeps and do the ceremony on stage at Lyle Lovett concert this Friday that we're going to attend.

I will call Lovett Motorsports (which is local and he owns) to see who I should call to set this up. I'll call Sam Malone on 104 KRBE to see if he can hook me up. Sam is a sucker for helping his listeners do romantic stuff like this, but I haven't heard them giving away tickets.. we'll see.

He'll be on the air in a couple hours.

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