That’s an interesting interpretation of “real” butter. Huh.

I accomplished nothing today. Woke up with a headache, bought breakfast down the street, took a nap, bought a few things at Trader Joe’s, ate cheese crackers and raspberry kringle for dinner, and am going to bed early. Ugh. After flying all day yesterday and dealing with my parents all week. My room is a mess and my toilet is running but I DO have a massage booked tomorrow. So yay that.

We had dinner at a really good... sort of international stret food place. It got a rave review in the Post a while back. Counter order and take it to your table, and it really was forking delicious. There were four of us and no disappointments at all. It's on the list of places we go now, for sure.

Before that, I tidied up my office and not much else accomplished, but that's fine.

Tomorrow morning, I start an acquatics exercise class at the community center, which is good, because it will get me back to he pool, which I've been not doing since before Christmas, which is not good for my mood or my physical well being. So that's good.

And I need to get a work project done tomorrow that I've been putting off, but I set a deadline to get it to someone else tomorrow, so I can't avoid it anymore. I doubt it's even really as "hard" as I think it will be. Blergh.

Now I just need to sleep -- I was just awakened from a dream where I had been stood up for a blind date at a movie but went to see the movie anyway... but suddenly got a leg cramp as I was.looking for a seat... the actual leg cramp woke me up. Nice that I got it into the narrative, though not really that hard to do no matter what the dream was, huh?

Anyway... good night.

Anyway... good night.

Sleep deep and well. Full day.

I was just awakened from a dream where I had been stood up for a blind date at a movie but went to see the movie anyway

I've been having stress dreams almost every night. And they all involve travel. Usually trying to catch a flight and there's some issue getting to the airport, or paying for it, or I missed a connection, or the bus takes the wrong route.

So many of them wind up with me at a counter trying to pay for something and the card is rejected, or I'm pulling out nothing but receipts from my wallet.

And it's weird because (a) we've got money now; and (b) I'm not going anywhere.

In fact, I've barely been out of San Francisco for the last three years.

And by "out of San Francisco" I mean Berkeley and Oakland.

The last time I left the Bay Area was Fall of 2019.

The last time I left the Bay Area was Fall of 2019.

Yeah. I went to Colorado in the summer of 2020, but other than that I have only traveled for work. In two weeks I'm doing a 3-day hike in the Marin Headlands, but that's it for actual travel plans right now.

Sleep deep and well.

Thank you! I did.

Dreams do find weird, repetitive ruts, don't they? Especially the stress ones, which, understandable that you're having, of course.

Counter to that, my last one before waking was basically an elaborate Emmy opening number - in some gigantic, multi-level mall-like place with a huge, open-atrium bar - starrring Tom Holland singing and dancing his way through a dream-hilarious tale about working next to the Lord of the Rings cast (when he would've been a toddler at best, but, hey, dream time is bullshit) and by the end, he had morphed into Tobey Maguire. I did read a Spider-Man meme with all of them yesterday, so...

Short version: I'm up and about to start working for an hour before the class. So, that worked.

Counter to that, my last one before waking was basically an elaborate Emmy opening number - in some gigantic, multi-level mall-like place with a huge, open-atrium bar - starrring Tom Holland singing and dancing his way through a dream-hilarious tale about working next to the Lord of the Rings cast (when he would've been a toddler at best, but, hey, dream time is bullshit) and by the end, he had morphed into Tobey Maguire. I did read a Spider-Man meme with all of them yesterday, so...

That is an AWESOME dream!

Man, I forgot how good multi-grain Cheerios are. Super tasty!

Aw, a cereal post! I am delighted.

I love Cheerios. Yeah, it was a pretty damn delightful dream!

OK, morning swim exercise done, getting coffee on the way home, quick shower, then do the project that's due today. (The deadline for the final add to the website got pushed out by two weeks, but I REALLY want to be done with the copy, so I'm just going to pretend.)

I have dropped Jim at the ferry; he will be in Denver for a week. Which means I get the place to myself for a week, just enough time to miss him again at the end of it. Later today I will see Ken!