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Dream

8:15am CDT Wednesday 16 October 2002

(most extensive dream ever)

Sally and I were hanging out at some small city that I've never previously been. We were in her old neighbohood, inside a cafe type thing, with lots of other students, all friends. Sally was eating some toast from another's plate and after a while I reached over to get some eggs off this plate that had apparently been abandoned, and she was all, "oh! no, those are his; he still wants the eggs, just not the toast."

We were in an old garage looking for something, as there was some common enemy, looming in the near future, the possible end of the world via aliens or something.

In this garage were lots of small parts and tools like an auto garage, with rags and grease and half started and half finished projects all over the place.

We came across an object that looked like a long sharp tusk with some buldges down in its length. This turned out to be a mysterious otherworldly object,, a portal to a whole 'nother univere at its very tip. For if one were to look down at the very tip of this tusk, there would appear an intricate city of infinite expanse all within this tiny point. Any different angle one viewed the tusk tip would bring into view a different portion of this universe, each of which seemed to never end. As if all the points of view from that other universe were focused onto this tiny point.

Scientists on our side did not undersand this phenomenon, and generally feared it, and feared for the safety of humans who studied it too carefully, thinking they might be assimilated or fall into this other universe somehow.

Though this universe in a point was outside in a dense jungle, and surrounded as if guarded by an intense cloud of mosquitoes, thousands of human visitors flocked to it, just to get a glimpse of this magical phenomenon.

Fred pulled out some super mosquito spray, and I was all, "why would you think necessarily that their mosquitoes would be affected by our mosquito spray?"

"I can't know for sure, bit it's possibly better than nothing."

As our group walked across the mall parking lot toward this forest with the mystery point, Fred doused himself in mosquito spray, and hardly noticed that others might need it as well. As we crossed paths with a japanese girl she said, "you'll need more than that."

"More than that what?" I asked, wondering if she was talkng about the mosquitoes.

"The mosquitoes back there are amazing. You will each need that much spray, and even that might not be enough."

Wow.

I woke up.

One percent tax

9:13am CDT Wednesday 16 October 2002

I just bought a 99 cent thing of travel shampoo (after leaving my first shampoo in Austin, and my second one in Kalamazoo) for 100 cents. When the girl said, "one dollar," I was all, "what's your tax rate around here?"

"7.5 percent." She examined the receipt. "But you only got charged 1 percent tax for this."

"Do you have any idea why?"

"Nope," she smiled, "no idea."

I'm not complaining. "Okay, have a great day!"

Website work

1:39pm CDT Wednesday 16 October 2002

I've been working on Kim's website for some hours today. I'm getting a bit hungry. Also need to mail Bryn's letter.

Now the site correctly Creates new files and Modifies existing files. Still need to create/update the file viewer once they exist. This setup should work for all three different file types: poetry, meditations, sci-fi snippets. But I haven't test that capability yet.

Also still need to allow the creat

I've been listening to music quietly through my little speakers cause I can't find my headphones. Last place that I know I had them was Memphis.

bike estimate

2:30pm CDT Wednesday 16 October 2002

Fuck.

The cats at Illinois Cycle sell new rotors for $65. My $40 doesn't quite cover that.

I feel sad and wonder what is the lesson I get for blessing that cabbie's life and letting him off with giving me $40.

The wheel is bent as well. I'm hoping I can fix that without buying a new wheel.

Sigh.

I'm going to shop around for a new rotor. They say that no other place around here will have it, and that I can expect to pay at least $35 for a new one.

2:40pm

Oh my gosh. M&M Mom is going to buy me a new one.

I am so so so so thankful for that!

4:40pm

My bike is at the shop (actually just the wheel) and I'm back at Kinko's.

bike repair

8:43pm CDT Wednesday 16 October 2002

I took my bike's wheel to the bike shop; asked them to just unbend it; I can replace the rotor. Visited Kinko's to work more on Kim's website while they worked on the wheel. Emailed M&M to get M&M's Mom's phone number to give to Kinko's so they could call when the repair was finished.

Still working on the website at 6:30pm, I knew the bike shop closed at 7pm, so I called them, verified it was complete, went over to pick up the wheel and the rotor.

Chatted a bit about bikes and Japan (told them an overview of my adventure) and paid $85 for truing the wheel and the rotor.

Got back to M&M's Mom's house and the door was locked. She thought I had left. What's worse: she had gotten a call from the bike shop saying the bike was ready and cost $15, and since I had been gone so long, she thought I skipped town with the $ she loaned me for the wheel plus rotor (more than $15).

I was like oh shit in my mind cause of course I wouldn't skip town on M&M's Mom; I have too much history with Maggie and Molly to dis her like that. She asked to see the receipt, but it was written in light ink and small print so she couldn't read it. I paid her back the difference between what she had given me and the actual cost of $85.

But now I'm in a weird space cause I also got $40 from that cabbie, so I'm thinking I should give that to Mom, but *also*, my wheel is still not truly fixed; it's still bent some and will cost like $65 to replace, but *also* it's still round enough to roll and I'm not going to fix it until it's way further gone than now.

I don't want to try to explain all that to Mom because I think it will make me look like I'm trying to over-justify myself and over-explain and not really be worth it.

Pooh. Money is so stupid.

I will pay her the remainder when I have a job in Japan.