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Dream

7:00am Monday 30 April 2001

(dream)

Inside an old haunted house, riding on a skateboard, pulling a wagon with Wende, someone else, and John G from my extended men's group. I was pulling them along a hallway and then it started to go downhill, and I couldn't see the bottom. I wanted to go anyway, and pulled toward downhill then coasted coasted quickly faster and faster downhill then stopped, and held them back from sliding downhill with me. Then a little bouncy ball rolled down the hill and I chased after it. It reached a bottom, which was like a T intersection. Doors to the left and to the right. The ball bounced around in that area as I tried to catch it. I finally caught it and then tried to climb back up the hill, but Wende and John and them were leaving me, and the doors at the top of the hill were closing. I was scared of being left alone, then realized it was a dream. Instead of waking up, I stayed sleeping and poured love over the entire scene, the dream went away and I was still sleeping, then I slowly woke up.

twofifty

2pm 30 April 2001

Dude called me. "Yo. I wonder if you can help out a buddy o' mine."

"Maybe."

"He needs an expert witness to testify in court on a case he is on."

"yeah?"

"Yeah. It would kinda be a volunteer thing, because you could only charge two hundred fifty dollars per hour."

"Well forget it then," I joked, almost choked.

"Ha ha. Yeah."

etc.

- - -

So I called his friend, but it was actually for a friend of his who is the lawyer in this case. I faxed my resume' including my computer skillz to the lawyer guy. We'll see what happens. Tomorrow is the day that he has to give the name of who his expert witness will be if an expert witness is needed.

So I'm not billing $250/hour yet. I'll let you know!

keyboard

12:26pm Monday 30 April 2001

Last week or so I got an email from Targus soliciting stories about how user's have enjoyed their collapsable keyboards. I sent them a copy from my journal of how my keyboard got run over by a roller coaster, but still worked for the remainder of our trip.

In reverse order below is a surprising email exchange between me and a woman named Rachel who apparently works for the company looking for the stories:

From:   Rob
To:     Rachel
Date:   30 April 2001

HI Rachel!

Wow!

Wow!  Thank you so so very much!!

The truth is I already bought a new Targus keyboard to
replace the one with a broken hinge and latch.

So that I can write a journal entry on a moment's
notice, I keep the keyboard in my shorts pocket all
the time; the broken latch made the keyboard too bulky
and I just bought a new one to replace it.

I greatly appreciate the offer!

It's hard for me to turn down a free keyboard, but it
seems like the right thing to do in this case.

I'd love to hear back about the
story-acceptance-status; call me if you have any
questions!

    - Rob



--- Rachel wrote:
> Hello Rob!
> 
> While your story is still being evaluated and
> considered for use in our
> promotion, in the interim I would like to offer you
> a replacement
> keyboard.  I really enjoyed viewing the pictures of
> your journey and
> appreciate your sharing this with us. 


> 
> If you forward your mailing address to me, I would
> be happy to send you
> a new Palm keyboard to replace the one with a broken
> hinge.
> 
> Many thanks!
> Rachel
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> www.thinkoutside.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thunderrabbit
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 7:20 AM
> To: user Story
> Subject: User Story Form
> 
> 
> PLEASE NOTE:  this story *is* in the public domain,
> so you guys can't
> use
> it according to your agreement thing.  But it's a
> story of the
> impressive
> durability of the keyboards.  But maybe you already
> knew that.
> 
> The full story is part of my journal online at
>
http://www.robnugen.com/cgi-local/journal.cgi?dir=2001/02&file=17keyboard.html
> 
> We join the story as Bryn and I are at Luna Park
> (amusement park) in
> Melbourne Australia:
> 
> 
> 
> After the mousetrap, we went to the Gravitron, which
> did not have a line
> at all, so we actually had to wait several minutes
> inside the hot
> circular
> room. They don't care if people turn upside down or
> anything they want.
> Wow! I decided I would not try to turn upside down
> though, because I had
> all my stuff in my pockets. I patted them to assess
> that mykeyboard and
> Handspring Visor and camera were still there.
> 
> My keyboard was not.
> 
> "Bryn; I don't have my keyboard."
> 
> I didn't freak because I still had my Visor. I was
> just, "hmm. it must
> have fallen out on one of the roller coasters."
> 
> - - -
> 
> After the Gravitron, we walked back to the second
> roller coaster and had
> the guy look in each car. (Each car could hold 4
> people only; there were
> two cars, but I couldn't remember what color car we
> were on.) He did not
> find it.
> 
> Over to the first roller coaster and asked the guy
> at the gate. Once the
> train arrived back in the station, he checked the
> train, and then walked
> up the first incline and down the first hill.
> 
> He came back with my keyboard unfolded but
> essentially still intact.
> "I'm
> not sure how good it will be," he consoled.
> 
> "It is great; thank you very much," I said, hoping
> it would still work.
> 
> I caught up with Beaner who was walking to the front
> of Luna Park to
> tell
> our ride why we were late. It was exactly four
> o'clock.
> 
> They were later than us, so I tested out the
> keyboard using Bryn's palms
> as a table.
> 
> Our ride arrived to this scene and we had them take
> a picture and then
> told them the story.
> 
> The keyboard works fine, but one of the hinges is
> broken so it's a bit
> less sturdy. Also, it doesn't latch shut on all four
> corners, but it
> stays
> mostly closed when it's folded up.

keyboard2

12:34pm Monday 30 April 2001

I actually just called Rachel; I was so excited about the offer, etc. She wondered if I knew anyone I could give the keyboard to... so I guess I'll accept the free one! I currently do *not* know if I know anyone who would like the keyboard, but I may offer it to Steve from Ultimate who I've voted most-likely-to-buy-a-keyboard-after-seeing-mine.

Or I'll give it to someone in YRUU. Who knows. Let me know if you desperately need it!

thunderrabbit at cheerful dot com