do -- if you ever read this, i had like a ton of dreams about you this morning. we were just chillin', munching on these huge bags of korean snacks... i vaguely remember something about a 125-dollar bill.. anyway, i had fun ;D

i was reading about dreams and i guess most people have a flood of dreams starting at around 4am? i always thought it just felt like that cuz you only remember the last few. and then they say that dreams are just leftover thoughts and images from your day, but sometimes there's all these complex plots and twists that i feel like i would never have come up with on my own.. but of course the first few moments after waking when i'm pondering the dreams i'm not thinking too straight. it's probably 90% nonsense..
dreams are such funny things.

did you know that people born blind dream too? they dream in sounds.
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is it me, or is our blog page just slow lately? is the template really meaty..? everything i post takes a lot longer
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i'm glad you feel better fro :)
i'm still kind of lightheaded. three fingers on my left hand were numb and tingling this morning.
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fro: did you sleep on your fingers?
oh, you didn't know? Google bought Blogger - hence a lot of heavy behind the scene renovation i think, which is partly why the template died (this is entirely my stipulations, i think it was google and my joint efforts that killed our template)
the template's not meaty, actually it's kinda trim, but Blogger is having issues, indigestion or something. I think they are still working out some bugs.

a real life Scam Alert:
Police want you to be aware of a new scam. Thieves are putting a thin, clear, rigid plastic "sleeve" into ATM card slots. When you insert your card, the machine can't read the strip, and asks you to re-enter your pin number. Someone behind you watches you enter and re-enter your number. You may give up, thinking the machine has captured your card and walk away. The thieves then remove the plastic sleeve with your ATM card, and empty your account.
To avoid this scam, run your finger along the card slot before you put your card in. You can feel a couple of tiny prongs on the sleeve that the thieves use to get it out of the slot.
(courtesy of my credit union)

have you heard the story of Stone Soup?
my elementary school class performed it, i think it was the first play i was ever in.
it's about these two hungry scoundrels who come upon a villiage and scheme up a way to get themselves a nice meal. they pretend like they're a pair of great chefs, carrying around a stone and boasting about how great stone soup is. Stone soup is very tasty, but stone soup with a few carrots, now that's excellent.. the rather miserly villiagers they run across are reluctant to participate but they do, contributing what vegetable or spice or meat they have, until at the end there's a really grand soup, and the whole villiage is brought together to feast.

i don't know why i was thinking about this exactly, but just that in some way, some of what our consultants do for the government kind of reminds me of this.
(have i totally lost you? that's ok, i'm not so sure i understand myself)

hello? what's with your insurance? is it just that you haven't decided on one yet?
.. and i'm not making diagnoses here, yo, i'm just saying, adding wilma to your diet might help. as in may or may not..
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fro: i was just kidding, gosh golly! my insurance is sorta funkidelic though... i wonder if they would still pay me if i had to go home and sleep every 3 hours of work.
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fro again: stone soup, i've heard of that one, it doesn't quite make sense (in relations to your work) to me.
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yeah, i thought as much. but since it's like way too boring for me to explain, we'll leave it half-sketched..

dude, i don't know, but should we be worried? ?? sounds serious.
anyway, chew some flintstones, it might be vitamin deficiency

I took my chewy flintstones vitamin (wilma, i think) and i'm feeling better now, but yesterday i was feeling anemic -- lightheaded & dizzy like i have bad circulation or something -- and was more unconscious than usual last night.
anyway, like most other times when i'm extra tired, i was having some intense dreamage. not that i remember anything spectacular happening, but just that it was all so clear and felt real. you know how sometimes you dream yourself asking if you're dreaming? i was like, huh? this is a dream??.. it was such random normalish stuff: conversations, scenery, little details... i dreamt someone asking me a question and replied out loud. (don't know if roomie heard me.. hehe.)
With the sun rising in the morning, i thought to myself that it must be close to 8:00 and opened my eyes to check the alarm: 5:12 ?? was i dreaming? shall we just go back to sleep and let our real alarm wake us?
but no. it was almost eight. the clock must've broken overnight.
i had to check another clock and my wristwatch before admitting it and fought my way out of bed..

bonjour, le fro.
i'm bored. been reading through operations manuals and an instrumentation report. snore...
it's nice to have a slow week though.

snow again?? ok, drought's over, it can stop now. for real.
yes, i'm so ready for spring too.
i wonder if a new york outing would be possible, one day in april or may..? It would be nice to check out MoMA (matisse picasso ends in May) and eat yummy Malasian food @ china town.. ;P

i have small group tonight.. or else i'd go with you.

sounds good

if we do, will we have everything together on one site (old&new)? even if we come back to the small size someday?
and image hosting means that you can directly cut and paste pics off the web?..

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
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the template keeps changing.. where are you getting these?

they are not!!
:*(
they're smart, resourceful, and very very cute.

i'm hooked on BK hashbrowns.
fat little quarters, crispy and warm.
yum.
i consoled myself with them after driving out to essex(?) for a meeting that was postponed til tomorrow.
also stared a squirrel in the face for a good five minutes.. the resident inspector puts peanuts out on the railing of the office trailer where we meet. i was standing on the platform when this squirrel climbs up and starts munching away on them like i'm not even there... cute little critter.

sad!
how very corporate looking.