Last night I stayed up pretty late working on TRWebChat. Eventually I went to sleep and I had lots of cool dreams.

Sarah was in there. I think I was carrying her around the house on my shoulders. Something about Africa...

I was outside with Fizz. It was getting dark out. We were in the country out West of Platteville. I think we had been driven to where we were, but now we had to get back to Madison. Fizz was saying there was no way, but I said that all we could really do was start walking. We could probably stay in Platteville somewhere. We got to 151 but it was all muddy. So we had to walk through the mud, and then our feet were muddy. Eventually we came to a Woodmans and went in.

I was standing around behind one of the counters like I would have if I had been checking there. One of my rats was with me. And then some folks went through with this girl about my age. She looked a little bit like Jill. Then I realized it was Alexis from 5th grade. So I was talking to her about random stuff. She liked my rats.

Eventually me and Fizz got out of there, and now it was daytime. The highway had gotten nice and wide and paved, now. I was riding my bike right down the middle, and he was running along side. I was carrying most of our stuff in my basket, though.

I was golfing. I had a caddy with me. And I think I was trying to convince someone how great golf was. Or at least I was telling them about why I liked it so much. (I've never played golf.)

And in the middle of the golf course there was a pond. And it turned into a swimming pool and the kids were going to play in it so people were telling me that it shouldn't have those steep floor height changes. So I went in with Zeth and was making slopes so that by the time you got to the end of the narrow part (reached the wide part of the pond/pool) the floor'd be at the same level. I had a few bugs and had to fix them. Then there was a big kettledrum in the middle of the pond and my dad and I were banging on it. From above and below.

Then I was a baby whale. We lived around an island that was sort of split in half by some sort of canal or bay. It was like that was our house. And if I looked at it the right way sometimes it looked like my real kitchen. Or a courtyard in a Doom level. Down at the south end of the bay was a wide, short, waterfall, as if there was a dam there. None of us ever went that way because we didn't think there was any way we could jump up that. But one day I went ahead and did. On top there was a channel parallel to the dam, and on the other side was a steep cliff that went straight up out of the water. I could go either east or west from where I was, but it looked like there might be another (non-cliff) island to the west, so I went that way.

Eventually I came to the end of the canal. There was a short cliff that went up to a plateau with grass and trees and some humans on it. So I started talking to them and they seemed nice enough. Pretty soon I had my whole pod coming over. We liked to hang out with the humans and they told us about cool stuff. And they wanted us to help them hook up a pipe or get some dirt or something, and we were working on that.

One day I was swimming along the canal toward the humans with my ma. There was an airplane taking off from the runway in line with the canal and I was jumping up out of the water towards it. And I accidentally jumped clear out of the water and landed on some rocks. I was seeing myself from the outside, and I didn't look very happy. I had to click the 'show blood' button and then I really didn't look too hot. The humans were running from all around to come help me...

Later I was standing on a catwalk-like structure looking into this huge room that extended down and out into the ocean (but it wasn't full of water). The whales had finished hooking up the pipe or delivering the dust, and someone turned on a machine and a big stream of this dust shot out into the room from the left wall. A guy next to me took a fire hose and shot it into the stream of dust and it turned into oil and got caught by a big sink on the other side of the room. So now I understood what all the excitement was about.

  Mountains
         ___/                               _____
     ___/   \                            __/   __\
    /        \                          /   __/
   |          |____                    /   /Home island/bay
   |          |    |                  |   | (also w/ trees)
   |  human   | big|                  |    \       |  |
   |  camp,   |room|                   \_   |    _/   |
   |some trees|____|                     \_ |   |   _/
   |          |................ . . . .....\|...|__/...
   | ........ |
   | runway   |   long canal   
   |          |
    \_________|_____________ _ _ _ _ ___________________

Mountains                               More mountains?

There was a new railroad being built into Platteville. I was thinking about how in the future even Platteville would be a big city with monorails and subways all over. And then I was on the subway with Fizz. And we had to get off. So I was looking for my gloves and hat, and they were next to some guy with a beard. I was hoping that those really were my hat and gloves and not his. But as we were getting off we got in a fight with some chinese guy. He was totally trying to hit me and stuff. So Fizz handed me a baseball bat with a broken handle, and I stabbed the guy in the stomach, and we won the fight. Fizz had to update his web site to talk about the advantages of fighting with a broken bat.

olde railroad map

I was in our living room except it was messed up and had little tiny stairs going into the hallo and into the kitchen. It was Dawne's wedding and the Sheiers (sp?) were there. And it seemed like our living room was buried down in a dungeon somewhere...

Legolas and Gimli were about to get into a fight. Legolas had carved this really cool 'ship' puzzle. One of those things where you're supposed to try to get the chain off the strangely shaped piece of wood. There were these tinly little green guys that helped him out. He put it down to go to the bathroom or something. The chain led down across a big pit to the next level of the dungeon. Gimli was there and then Legolas came back and asked where his little green friends were. Gimli said that he had stomped all over them. Legolas got super pissed.

I was waay down deep in this dungeon. Like I was on level 80. I was thinking about how long it had taken me to get down this far and stuff. Except there was an elevator that went all the way from level 80 to the basement (which was the lowest floor, right below level 127). So I was going up and down this elevator looking for a bathroom. I went back to level 80 thinking maybe I should take the stairs down to the basement. There was this australian cowboy with me, and he said that the scalloped potatoes I had cooked were 'alright chow'.

2005-01-28: Hey, I finally finished this entry!