Had a weird dream last night - can't remember too much of it, but what I can remember is hmm - started off me walking across a bridge in a city, and the city itself morphing between Brisbane and Ottawa and Quebec City and London. I thought it strange that give us a map right way up and you can recognise a city layout quickly enough, but put it upside down, pointing due south and you would get very confused very quickly - and I thought that was a dastardly northern hemisphere plot to reinforce the supremacy of Europe and America LOL. Then I crossed the bridge to the North Bank of whichever river it was (Brisbane, Thames, St Lawrence, Ottawa LOL) and met up with my workmates.
We were being given a guided tour of the city by our boss (who wasn't the boss we have in reality), and he went over to a Tower of London guard (what do they call them?) and a Calvary Horse Guards dressed up officer - so London it was for this milli dream part LOL - and got them to answer dumb tourist questions. I did my usual thing of hanging back in the conversation while my workmates asked dumb questions (what was the best show to go in the West End blah blah), and then we went into an underground fort, and suddenly I had the feeling I was in Quebec City, and I finally asked a question of the two soldiers or tourist guides whatever they were, what was the worst war the Poms had fought in, and they said War of 1812 - although that was probably my subconscious pro-Canadianess coming out - by this stage of the dream I was trying to control what was going on - that good dream feeling that usually ruins it within a second of your conscious self being aware of it. Got out of the fort, and then seemed back in this part of the world again, there was a Bledisloe Cup parade going on LOL. And then fade to black.
And another dream I had a couple days ago - not sure whether I mentioned it here or not - just a quickie, was at work and was doing work and Sharon came over and asked how fast I was doing work, and I said cancellations about fifteen minutes, and new connections about half an hour, then Rachel came over and I could tell they didn't believe me. Sad sad that I'm dreaming about work LOL. But kinda understandable, have probably learnt more the past six weeks in a six week period since like schol or something :) - of course have learnt more in longer periods of time, but not in that time period, so of course some of it is gonna leak into my subconscious.
But I wasn't going to talk about dreams this morning, this is my websurfing time set aside for diarysing LOL, if that is spelt right. First up, OMG fourteen people have died building Athens Olympic sites, and it still isn't finished - and that is the official count, the unions are saying that the real toll is far worse - but then they would say that, wouldn't they. But yeah, sadly they are believable this time around - evidence of poor safety standards, no protective clothing, and only twenty days to go - no working days considerations this time around, this is timing til Xmas thinking LOL.
Mmm, the latest from Saturn - a billion kilometres away, if not more. Cassini has found lightning on Saturn, OMG even though it has hardly any practical application I can think of off the top of my head, isn't that great in a discovery kind of way? Is this the way sixteenth century Europe thought of the 'discovery' and conquest of the Americas? Let's just hope that there aren't any Incan or Aztec civilisations on Titan or Phoebe or where ever to ruin this time around. Sorry if that has taken the wind out of the sails of the pure discovery thinking, but it is still awesome in an OMG kind of way the discoveries being made out so far away. In one phrase, Outer Space Exploration Is Kewl (OSEIK) lol.
Bleah, listening to the top 40 on the TV - yes, listening, not watching - and Jessica Simpson is ruining Take My Breath Away. That wouldn't be a good enough version of the song for Iceman, let alone Goose or Maverick LOL. If I have the right original movie soundtrack in my thoughts :)
Oh, and bought a book last week - World War 2.1 where 2021 technology gets time travelled back to the Battle of Midway, and becomes a third force in that crucial battle - yeah, I know, it sounds a bit schlocky, but it was the one that jumped out at me from the bookshelves - Australian author, so probably not released worldwide. OMG found a link! Good to see that Colleen McCullough has finally released a follow up to her Julius Caesar books - of course, finally released meaning that it was released in 2001 and I hadn't noticed the series since 1998 LOL.
England are becoming a pretty good cricket team - beating us three nil and then having a good two days against the Windies. Second best in the world I'm unsure of, they are playing at home blah blah, but they are improving and it is good to see. Just didn't need to see a three nil test lost for the Kiwis, we got them back in the one dayers though :) Not even thru to the final - hehehe.
Iraq is still a slow bleed for coalition forces, sad to see. I hate the I told you so thoughts I have almost every day I think about the mess over there. Wish I could find that diary entry I wrote just before the war broke out, but then again, no, it would bring things up too freshly again. Of course, the Iraqi public is getting it a lot worse, and the foreign civilians aren't having a great time of it as well, lest we forget that in amongst all the soldiers dying. Did Fox News really say 'Do not fall into the easy trap of mourning the loss of US troops and asking out loud why are we there' as indicated in a strip of Doonesbury this week? OMG if true, and Doonesbury usually has it right.
Hmm the Sept 11 enquiry. Scary stuff. Just the editorial from the Guardian from today or yesterday am putting a link to here. Especially remembering that INS (Immigration) sent Mohammed Atta a new residency visa to replace his student visa six months after he died hitting the WTC. And another good Sept 11 article here, looking wider at the actual report, and saying how bad the communication between the FBI, CIA and INS was - and the rest of the wider government. Sad looking back, scary looking forward, to Next Time.
Okies, that's about it for this morning - will catch up again later - perhaps tomorrow - I Robot and rugby to go to this afternoon evening :)
Paulie
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