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Dream

9:17am CST Saturday 11 November 2000

(dream)

I was outside by an office building and sitting on some benches with friends of mine when I discovered a baby (human) at my feet. I held it cuddifully as if it were my cat Spot. Baby seemed happy and I just carried it around.

I found $20 beside me, which was fortunate because I owed a friend of mine $20. I offered it to him and he was all, "you paid me back two weeks ago and you tried to pay me back last week and I told you then you already paid me back." I was embarassed and once and for all crossed the item "pay him back $20" off my To Do list.

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Somehow I was in a hospital and needed to finalize some paperwork so I went to the records department and got everything I needed. There were three 8-year old triplets in front of me, who were in line to get braces on their teeth. I accidentally cut in front of their mom, but when they got to the front of the line, their mom went all the way up front to talk to the people behind the desk.

I told them I needed my outgoing paperwork and they printed it out for me and I took it to my car. Jason or someone was going to ride with me- no I think it was Robin from Ohio and I told him about Jason being a stock broker. He thought that was cool and helped me push Scott back from the brink of rolling down a big hill.

I noticed that I didn't have all the pages of my hospital paperwork, so I went back to the office and talked to the lady behind the desk, who had switched to a different seat behind the counter. On the counter was "bible" from a non-mainstream religion; it included nude pictures in it to emphasize the point of what is wrong with sinning.

I got the missing page of my paperwork and went outside to where Evan White (PSWD?) was doing a standup comedy routine with flaming torches. Actually it was just one flaming torch and he played it like a variety of musical instruments: saxophone, bagpipes, uekelele, harp, and others. Quite amazing skills and very entertaining. I was watching all this from way up on a treehouse and at the end of his show, he climbed up the side of the treehouse and I helped him climb in by holding the torch as he climbed over the wooden railing thing. I got a bit of soot on my hands, but not much. I wiped it onto the outside of the wooden fence thing and was careful not to get splinters.

For a moment my vision was washed out by brightness as other people came up the treehouse via the ladder and not the side like Evan did and they all wondered how he climbed up there so fast. He shrugged off their question. My vision was restored to normal and I soon woke up.

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Movies

4:48pm CST Saturday 11 November 2000

Wende and I just had our first movie marathon - we watched Charlie's Angels and Meet The Parents. I really liked Charlie's Angels - it was just the funniest balance between stupid-funny / sexy / action that I've seen! Plus they had almost every cool scene that I love in The Matrix. I woulda been all, "what a ripoff," but there were just too many such scenes to be a coincidence. Helicopter / people hanging from it / fighting scenes / bullet time / and more, but I'm in a hurry.

Meet the parents was not as funny, but it turned around well at the end.

We're leaving now to go eat dinner at Maggie and John's with the whole gang!!

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tunes uni dine

8:11am CST Sunday 12 November 2000

Last night after we left in a big hurry after the movies, Wende and I were reviewing Charlie's Angels together. We started singing Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back," but didn't know more lyrics than after "... sprung" Wende suggested that maybe it was on the soundtrack to the movie. Ah, good call!

We had to stop by Wende's work, and she got stuck there for an hour (ugh), but fortunately, I had my (borrowed) unicycle. I rode down to the music store and bought the soundtrack CD to the movie! I engaged two cashiers in conversation about movies, from Charlie's Angels and Matrix to Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. One guy was all, "have you read ______ ______ dragon" (I don't remember the name) and he clarified that Hannibal is the third book in the series while the dragon book is the first in the series and Silence of the Lambs is the second. Wow. I did not know that! I said "bye" that we were on a schedule and went back to find Wende.

I found that she was quite stuck at work and I realized that I hadn't told the music store peeps that all the special effects in Matrix are in Charlie's Angels! So I went back and briefly mentioned this point and *then* I saw that NIN has a new album (turns out to be the remixes of "fragile" (Maggie and Molly (and gang) this is what I want from you guys for Christmas) called "things falling apart") coming out on November 21st (according to the website nothingrecords.com)

(how's that for a run-on sentence?)

I had high hopes that Wende would want to go soon so I practiced riding unicycle in the back of the store parking lot waiting for her to be finished. I rode around a bit and then I practiced mounting the unicycle without the aid of a curb. (huh huh, you said "mount") After several tries I did it! This means I have successfully completed the components of Level One unicycle riding according to unicycling.org:

     Mount Unicycle unassisted 
     Ride 50 meters 
     Dismount gracefully with unicycle in front 

I wasn't always able to dismount gracefully with the unicycle in front, but I did that a few times. So awesome!

I got hot and sweaty before Wende finished, so I went inside to rescue her. We left within a few minutes.

En route to Maggie and John's, we listened to most of the songs on the CD, and to "Baby Got Back" twice.

Once we arrived, hugs to everyone and I helped in the kitchen a bit and then went upstairs to hang with the guys playing billiards. Have we become *that* traditional? John and Eric made a few trips down to the kitchen (to help?) but none of the girls came up to play (at least not while I was there). Billiards was fun, and I made a few amazingly lucky shots and a lot of crappy shots, including bouncing the cue ball over my intended ball and off the table.

Dinner was announced and we all rumbled down to the kitchen and dining area to feast on the most lovely incredible chicken, homemade bread, yams, green beans and squash, yellow rice, gravy and cranberry sauce ever in the whole planet. Thank you for such a great meal!!

John's brother Kevin set up names in a top hat for us to choose for Secret Santa gifts around the holidays. I chose a name then immediately chewed up the evidence until it was pulpy fiber in my tummy. MMM mmm good. I suggested that we each tell the others what we want for Christmas, but only a couple people went (Meredith and Wende I think) before the conversation sidetracked to something so slightly related that only our group could make the connection. I love our gang.

After dinner I helped rinse the dishes and then we remembered that we forgot dessert!! Cheesecake and chocolate mousse and vanilla ice cream in dainty little dishes. So yummy. And then someone remembered that we forgot the whipped topping! Maggie squirted a bit into her mouth and Meredith passed so Maggie tossed the can to me. In Rob fashion, I squirted more whipped topping into my mouth than could fit and almost gagged but was able to retain my composure, including swallowing with my mouth open, long enough for Maggie to get a picture. Aww yeah. There's one for the scrapbook.

Molly set up the joke and I sputtered the punch line "Kiss me," but it sounded more like "iii eeee." Still very funny. I'm sure you had to be there.

It was pretty much time to go by then, hugs to Eric and Meredith and they left, then hugs to Wende and Rob and we left. Such a great and wonderful evening!!

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