Dreams from this morning, most of which I recorded on a page of my SE4130 notebook while Clifton was talking about how to interface the PIC of 8051 to an LCD:

Our house was on a dead-end road, 2 or 3 houses away from the circle at the end. We had big grassy backyards that connected to those of our neighbors, and I recalled having gone to a party at a big yellow house on the circle (we got there by walking through backyards, which was cool) where some guy I had attempted to work for lived. I was sort of pissed at the guy because he didn't hire me and it was sort of weird being at a party at his house. He was trying to be nice and stuff. That had been during the summer when the grass was green and you could run around outside in short sleeves.

Now I was climbing around between the basement and upstairs. There were some light switches that I was trying to figure out how they worked (whether the light was on or not seemed to be an xor of these 3 switches) and also deal with some soggy floorboards that covered a pond on the floor above the stairs. Scuba was over and he and Fizz and I were playing Super Mario World and Scuba was showing off how he could find this one secret but then I was playing and I accidentally came across this super-awesoem secret that was totally rad-i-kewl and like a whole new game and Mario was doing this jump and in mid-air stop and spin down on enemies and it was like soemthing Sonic would do and it was awesome. We were playing this in the garage which was like a tent and all the flaps were up so it was just poles and a tarp for a roof and between our house and the neighbor's backyard as in real life.

I had done one of those time warp things and now I was in my parent's house asking my mom what year it was. She seemed confused. "I need to know what year it is so I know what school to go to". It'd be great if it was a year that I was still in middle school because then I could walk to school easily (assuming that I stayed at Toki instead of going off to Spring Harbor, which I didn't think about in the dream but now that I am awake I'm not sure staying at Toki would really be a very good idea). I figured that probably wasn't the case, though, and I was going to have to take the bus or bike or something to get to Memorial.

Next I was running through the halls of my highschool with a shotgun (just like in Doom), running through huge crowds of troopers and sergeants and not actually shooting at them even though I had a shotgun with lots of ammo but instead just trying to push past them quickly and not get shot myself. This was mostly upstairs in the math area. Then I went down to the cafeteria and there were people eating and then there was also a group of jerks and one of them was quietly setting up big speakers around the area and then he turned on a microphone and there was lots of nasty feedback and he started yelling ant it was really annoying but I was mostly out of there by that time. I had gone out the front door ant it was foggy and I walked clockwise around the building and passed a smoker. Soon I was almost behind the main building, looking past it to the track building. And Kitrek walked by, and he was dressed all sloppy and looked like a bum, and I thought to myself "I hope he didn't get messed up because of me".

There was a water tower behind the school with a long, steep, curved stairway up to a platform near the top. This was used byu interviewers to judge potential employees. You couldn't go up too fast (you'd run out of breath) or too slow (because they are impatient), so you had to practice going up these steps for a while before trying to get a job. Clifton was up at the top yelling at me, coaching me.

Later I slid down a long slide on the other side of the tower that went to a road at the outskirts of the city. Fizz was there, too. As I watched in the distance I saw a space rocket launching, and told Fizz about it because he wasn't looking. But then a couple more, different ones went off. Random companies launching new satellites was our guess. But why did they all did it today within a minute of each other?

Fizz's parents were there and were giving us a ride home. As a birthday present they had bought me a night at 'Sleep 'N' Go'. It was this place that you could go if you were getting stressed overworked and not getting enough sleep. You'd lie on a table and they'd inject you with something that would make you fall asleep instantly. As they were bringing me in I was saying that I had things I needed to do in the morning. The people working at the place said "don't worry about it. What time do you need to wake up to get to work?". I said "8:30", and the next thing I knew I was waking up, feeling refreshed.