Clever girl...*BLAM!*

July 15, 2008 2:00 AM

One of the disadvantages of having a clever mind is that the subconscious has a lot more to work with.

As you’ll notice from the time I’m awake at 2 a.m. Yes, another nightmare.

This time I was in some sort of a cross between a casino and a hotel. The building was one of those old country mill style buildings - you know the kind - that has the white clapboard siding and is almost completely square but at least two levels high. This one though was up on stilts in a summer beach area and the bottom of it was a large and deep flooded basement. The proprietors used the flooded area to store boxes that needed to keep cool so he could save on electricity.

My partner in crime was some sort of errant adventurer - not an Indy type but one of those leather jacket “cool” guys.

So things are going well, we’re partying and suddenly my partner pulls me aside and says “The sharks are coming!” and then promptly heads off to get some weapons leaving me, of course next to the opening of the basement area.

Great. You can guess what happens next - someone jostles me and I fall in. Worse yet this is a party and some drunken sots won’t let me climb back out of the hole.

So this area is underwater but fairly well lit from ambient light of the floor slats above.

Can we all sing “Where are the sharks? Send in the sharks! Don’t bother...they’re here!” I thought you could...

(Note: The sharks didn’t sing - that was me just now. Though I can’t say I would be disappointed in my subconscious if they _did_ sing...)

I spend the next few minutes of time between taking in breaths of air at the floor level avoiding direct contact with them before I notice the stack of empty long cardboard boxes. (Presumably waterproof.)

“Aha! Sharks can’t swim backwards! If I get them in the boxes it’ll at least slow them down!”

As you can probably guess I spent the next half hour playing Trick the Shark into the Box.

Finally the drunken assholes above realized that it wasn’t a game any more and let me out.

This was also about the time my partner showed up with weapons and the sharks started ramming the floorboards in true horror movie fashion. I remember my partner toasting at least one shark before I woke up.

I’m gonna try to go back to sleep now and dream about something mundane thank you... ‘Night!

Sharks...why did it have to be sharks...

July 15, 2008 11:10 AM

So as one might guess having nightmares at 2 a.m. causes one to be tired at work. Go figure.

I don’t really have the time to but I really want to sleep in tomorrow as I’m off work. But...there’s a ton of stuff to do around the house and I _have_ to work on my truck tomorrow.

I didn’t get anything done when I got home yesterday. I was pretty damn tired and took a nap right away. Or at least tried to.

Regardless I can’t sleep in tomorrow so I need to make sure I go to sleep early tonight.

I looked at used vehicles online today and it looks like if I want another Dakota it’ll cost me about $5k this time for a decent one but that’s just at first glance. But I really don’t want to chunk out the cash right now. When we didn’t have the mortgage it was easy enough to pay those loans off quickly but now it’s obviously a little harder.

I do have another option through the credit union at work that we’ve taken advantage of before and that’s a car loan through them. It gets deducted from my paycheck automatically just like the personal loan so it would always be paid on time and the rates are comparable. It might be worth it for a newer truck than the one I’ve got but I really don’t want to add to our debt.

For now though I think the best plan is still to fix my truck and bikes and work with what I’ve got. The truck I’m fixing just to get me back on my schedule because it really eats a lot of gas. But once it’s out of the garage I should be able to fix one or the other of the bikes and get back on two wheels. Hopefully before it snows...

Devouring another anime - a weird “harem” anime this time. (Note: A harem anime is an anime that has a bunch of girls/guys fawning on a single member of the opposite sex. Or at least that’s the direction the story is written. Some of them are pretty blatant but most don’t contain any serious nudity or sex. That’s usually covered under hentai.) This one is fairly funny and totally mindless which is what I need right about now. I’m going to certainly mangle the title here but it’s Negima! and it centers around a young boy wizard teaching in a mundane junior high all-girl’s school. Hilarity ensues of course. ;-)

Like I said - mindless. Nothing wrong with that. And for some reason I laugh at one of the nicknames they call him - Negi-Bozu which is roughly translated as onion-head. For some reason that makes me chuckle every time I hear it.

I really want to start collecting anime again but it’s getting costly to do so and I just can’t justify the money. I mean rain barrels are going to cost me a minimum of about $89 or so a piece shipped. And I want about four of those for the house at least. Then there’s siding replacements which we may or may not get to this year and paint and a whole buttload of other little things that I just can’t begin to go into. With the truck running some of that cost goes down because I can get crate lumber from work but still it’s quite a bit of expense. Thankfully I’ll be able to put some of it off until next year but there’s a lot I want to get done _this_ year or that can’t wait until next year.

It’s always something...