Over the past few nights I've had dreams that I never got around to writing down.

In one (maybe 3 nights ago) I had been working on Crapi 22 and it was TOTALLY AWESOME!!!! Actually it was very unlike my usual levels. There was that smoky brown sky and huge pits of lava and cacodemons flying around. There was this mountain/building complex coming out from the lava in the middle of the map, and on it were stationed all the human enemies (sergeants, troopers, chaingunners), and they were fighting with the hell monsters (seemed mostly cacodemons) that were coming across the pit from a notch in the cliff on the other side. I was doing a lot of running around this station in the center, figuring out how I could make the level better and stuff. Mainly I think I was adding closets. And then I was working on this totally cool new section that was down near the lava protected from the cacodemon-infested area by the cliff. I was modelling the place out of computer paper and using these jello-like blue blocks for windows. But the windows were way too thick so I had to cut them, but the jello screamed when I started cutting into it, so I was going to have to do something else...

The next night I had a dream where folks were setting up these big machines on the moon. They were supposed to be sensors or something but I was thinking that they also had some self-replicating factories up there because I kept hearing about how more and more of these things were popping up and there was no way they were sending all that from earth.

I was running around. Maybe away from some people, but I was doing a lot of work. Somehow while I was doing this I got hurt, and my arms and legs were all smashed up and I woke up to find they had been amputated. These people were coming after me and I couldn't run too well without arms or legs, so I took what was left of me and shrivelled up into this little green gremlin and ran off and jumped into my little spaceship and took off just before the people caught me.

And then I was back diddling with some audio cables.

Last night I had a dream where I had this hotel room on Odana road. There was this hardware store on Odana road that I liked to stop at, so I was walking there. And one time I ran into Holly and Sara walking down the street, and they went into the hardware store with me. There were these big, flat white boxes on a shelf near the front of the store marked "CELL". I wanted to read more about what was in them but that was all the words on the box.

And then I was having a flash back to 11th grade, which was the last time I had done the magic orb contest. See, there was this magic orb somewhere outside (seemed to be out in Verona, though none of the places in this resembled anywhere in real life), and whichever team managed to get the orb and take it back to their church before the other teams caught up with them won. Somehow I had managed to win all of the past 5 years. It was always terribly exciting. I'd fiund the orb in some building somewhere and jump back on my bike and ride as fast as I could back to church. It was hard because when you picked up the orb all the other teams knew where it was when you picked it up, and they'd all start looking for you.

The last couple years, though, the orb was just this stupid colored blob of jello. That's why I quit and didn't do it, anymore.

Yay I'm caught up on dreams, now. I think the burnout from those CS classes has finally passed and I've found a new programming project to keep my busy for a while: TMapGen, a map generator for Sauerbraten. I did a bit of refactoring the Sauer code and now I've embedded a Lua interpreter. Now for the fun part :D