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I had a strange dream last night… The first part of the dream that I remember: I was walking along some back roads which looked like rural parts of Sonoma County. I was walking alone but there was a kid following me. I walked by a freeway overpass/onramp, and there was a service station and a store, and not much else except for open grassland. I was looking for a restaurant or somewhere to buy food, but I couldn’t find any. A group of kids were sitting in front of the service station and they laughed at me. I walked on. ...

I have accomplished a few things this weekend. Yesterday: I filed all the papers on my desk into file folders on the letter tray (not filed, but ready to be filed, mostly). I spent some hours last night tagging all my mp3 music with album-cover art. Today: I cleaned the meat-drying trays and arranged the meat slices to soak in the soy sauce. So we will be able to make jerky today and have it ready tomorrow night. ...

Some other ideas I might like to incorporate into a game:

I wanted to experiment with the “community” features, so I created a community for Thursdayfolks. Thursdayfolks is a chat list for Miche and I and many of our friends. The new Thursdayfolks community contains some of these folks, but not all, since not all of them have LiveJournal accounts. Info Join I’m not expecting many folks to post there actively, but you can if the mood strikes you. If you post via the web, view the “full” set of options instead of the “simple” options and you should see the option of posting in thursdayfolks instead of your default journal. For the Windows client and others, there should be an option for “Select Active Journal”. ...

Interests I checked out the list of people who have similar interests to mine and found: 1. le_merle is still at the top of the list and leading the pack by a lot, and 2. there are a lot of other people on the list that I don’t know. 1. le_merle’s score is not that surprising, considering I used his list as a starting point for my own list, so an interest is more likely to be on my list if is was on his, back in September or so. 2. the interests shared with lots of people I don’t know is not surprising, but also not very informative, since they all tend to list a LOT of interests, meaning that there is a lot of overlap when looking at my list, but not very much when looking at theirs (probably that means that I didn’t place very high on their lists.) ...

The last few weeks have been stressful due to work, especially last week. I hope it gets better soon. There are some indications that it might get better, but then again, this is Operations, the land of the unexpected. I have been on some high-blood-pressure medication for about a month now, but it doesn’t seem to have lowered my bp at all. I have to go back to the doctor on Tuesday and he will probably increase my dosage, or switch me to another medication. I will also start taking the Flonase (anti-allergy, I think it is a steroid) because I think the nighttime congestion and snoring are due to allergies. I would also like to go get allergy screening done and perhaps arrange for some shots, if it looks like they would help. ...

If you’re reading this, you are in my Secrets group. Please don’t discuss my secrets with others, even if they are listed on my Friends page, they are not likely to be secrets_ok. If you’re uncomfortable about keeping secrets, best not to read below the line. I’ve added a couple people to my Secrets group, so if this is your first secret, there are some previous entries now visible to you that weren’t before, so if you get bored, enjoy. :-) Things have become quite tense with C. C and I had a very long chat today, which was good in a lot of ways. I explained that when he refused to sign the written warning on Monday, that had made me quite angry. I probably should not have taken it personally, but I did. ...

I was up quite late working on a report for work. I am now incredibly tired. For some reason I thought it was Wednesday when I woke up, though it was clearly Thursday when I went to bed at 3:30. I got a huge coffee mug from 7-11 (20 oz) and everybody kind of chuckles when they see it, like I’m a huge caffeine freak or something. Never mind that I haven’t put coffee in it, it is usually hot chocolate or sometimes tea. I’ve gotten into the habit of stopping at 7-11 for a 79c hot chocolate in the morning, which is like 1.09 in a disposable cup, so I’m saving money and helping the environment. ...

I am thinking of running an RPG, and I’m gathering info to see who might be interested in playing. Please take the survey if you might be interested in playing at some point (and if you think you would actually come to a game run by me). (If you don’t know me, but we have some friends in common, feel free to answer, and you may be invited to a game if/when it materializes) ...

Created a script to back up my journal (current month) onto my shell account, in case Live Journal should tank at some future point. In its default state it downloads the current month, and is suitable for running every night. If you uncomment the foreach loops it will back up those months you plug in. The strategy is to back up the current month every night right before midnight. The risk here is that if I backdate some entries to before the current month, they wouldn’t be backed up, and I would need to run those months again manually. Hmm.