Dreams:

I was walking down the bike path and passed a 'family party' (there were grown ups and little kids; maybe I thought they were Republicans because I didn't want to talk to them at first). I talked to them briefly and then moved on.

I was visiting the top floor of a hotel because I had some friends or coworkers there and I was delivering stuff to them and/or coming to talk to them about something. The hotel was two buildings connected at the top, but the top floors didn't quite line up, and they hadn't really taken that into account when they constructed them, so there were a lot of crooked doorways and the toilets were at strange angles. I was surprised that it didn't fall apart.

Then there was this...large bridge-like structure. I'm not clear on if it was actually a bridge or what other purpose it might have had. There were wide, grass-covered (maybe) ramps that led up to the top from 'the other side' (of a wall? from underneath? I can picture the thing but not sure where you'd be coming from if you were walking up). The ramps would fold up, sort of like the ramps on large car ferry boats.

Passing back past the park, but now it was an ocean with giant trees growing out, and the people lived in the trees. I was helping them climb higher, or maybe I had created new and taller trees for them. It seemed we were on a small planet that only had this ocean and people lived on huge branches high above it. I started modifying this place with my map generator, and I made the ocean deeper (an ominous sound played when I took my boat out over the deep water), and then I generated some 3D convoluted simplex noise just under the surface. I liked how it looked, and I went for a swim, knowing that drowning didn't hurt in this game, and I would respawn nearby if I did.

Other thoughts that aren't dreams:

I've been drinking less coffee this week. Had a bit headache at times, but not too bad. Drank a bunch on Wednesday and felt really good when I went to the Concert on the Square to meet quark314. We had a really nice chat about nerdy physics stuff and I think we're going to do it again next week. Knowing so many people who are getting advanced degrees in sciencey things makes me feel a little bit lame for working at a boring old office doing boring old web software day in and day out. I'm sure there's other things I want to do with my life, but I haven't figured out what they are, yet. I am thinking about rejoining the outing club soon.

I've been eating a lot of mulberries from my backyard. Woody gave me the idea to spread out blankets under the trees to collect them as they fall off. I collected a few tupperwares full, but the ones that fall now are mostly from the white mulberry tree and are mostly gross, so I'm thinking it'll be time to take the curtains back in, soon.