Astral Projection

  One of my favorite Three Fish songs is 'Found A Widow' from their second album, 'The Quiet Table'.  As you may know, Three Fish was the side project of Jeff Ament, the bassist for Pearl Jam.  Anyway, this song is about astral projection.  In this song, the singer can go where he chooses.  I don't have that kind of control.
  Sometimes in dreams I go places that my wife and I believe are real either in this world/dimension or wherever. Since I'm a very lucid dreamer, I'm able to explore my surroundings and experience them with all five of my senses.  As often as possible, I try to find something to eat in those dreams.
  Anyway, right before I woke up this morning I had one of those dreams.  This one was unusual though in that I was interacting with someone.  Normally I'm alone.  I think I jumped into someone else's body like in the Three Fish song.  The dream started with me in a college dorm room.  I was naked.  There was a college girl there.  I had the feeling that I had talked my way into being with her.
  She began to take her clothes off and as she did, she said, "I guess I'm supposed to take my clothes off 'cause that's what they always do."  By this I think she meant that's what she'd seen in movies.  I could tell that the body I had jumped into had been with women willy nilly, but that the girl had had nil willy.  I felt bad for her and I looked her in the eyes and said, "I know that for you, you're not just taking off your clothes, but you're bearing a piece of your soul to me.  But to me, you're just getting naked.  I wish I felt the same way right now that you do.  I wish this was as special to me as it is to you.  You deserve to be with someone who is going to treat you as special as you are."  By this time, she was crying and then I woke up.
  When I woke up, I told the dream to my wife and she said it was sweet what I tried to do for the girl.  I just hope that if she really is out there somewhere, she didn't have sex with that guy and that she'll find someone who loves her.  Someone who will appreciate it when she bears her soul to him.

Napoleon Strolls

  The other day I went to the Cox store to return our old modem.  I thought it was quite humorous that it was right next to a restaurant called Jimmy Johns.  There might as well have been a Dick's Sporting Goods on the other side.  In Georgia, there was a restaurant named Dick's Wings.  When I first heard about it, I thought it was a gay bar.  It wasn't until I saw it spelled out that I realized my mistake.
  Anyway, my wife and I have come up with a new way of referring to walking our dog.  We call it a Napoleon Stroll.  You see, when we say the words 'out', 'go' or 'walk' he always knows what we're talking about.  Even if we spell any of those words he knows.  The other day, when we were walking him, we commented on the fact that he pees on everything we pass.  That marks his territory.  We figure he needs to let every dog know who's boss because he's so small and has a Napoleon complex.
  He's already shown himself to have a rather large vocabulary, as well as some knowledge of spelling.  My guess was that his knowledge of history and psychology terminology are fairly limited so we started calling our walks Napoleon Strolls and so far he seems to have no clue what we're talking about or else he might want to pick that bone apart.

Another Stupid Commercial

  There's this commercial where a lady says, "My pharmacist recommended bubble gum....and patience."  She's talking about flavored medicine for her sick child.  But what I get out of this is: she needs her pharmacist to tell her to be patient with her sick child.  What is this world coming to?
  I'm always getting emails from Borders.com.  They're always telling me about sales and whatnot.  Anyway, I just noticed that they've come out with their own electronic reader, the Kobo.  Barnes & Noble has their Nook and amazon.com has their Kindle.  I guess I'm just confused as to why Borders seems to be struggling with sales more than B&N.  My daughter was just telling me yesterday that B&N never has what she's looking for and she always ends up having to go to Border's for it.  I, myself, have had that problem.
  Oh, I just wanted to help promote the website of some friends of mine that I met on the set of 'To Kill A Memory'.  There was a guy named Gary I met who had his four children be extras.  Their website is www.mylittlehomestead.com.  I've checked it out.  It's kinda cute.  They're a very musical family and there are several videos of them performing music.  At least one of the songs is an original written by them.  Anyway, give it a shot if you like and then you can see them on the big screen when the movie comes out!

White Meat Chicken

  They're showing 'My So Called Life' on cable right now.  That's when I first found admiration for the acting abilities of Claire Danes back in the mid-nineties.  You ever notice how in TV dinners and everything, they always boast about being made with white meat chicken?  I've always found white meat chicken to be too dry and tough and less flavorful than dark meat chicken.  And no, the color has nothing to do with it.  This isn't a metaphor for nothin', I mean this literally.  There's nothing wrong with white people.  Gosh, I should just quit while I'm ahead.
  On the subject of chicken, my kids had gotten me a shirt years ago for Father's Day that says, "This is what the world's greatest Asian dad looks like."  Now I do realize, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm the greatest Asian dad. I just look like him (you know, since we all allegedly look alike).  I'm sure I'm the greatest Asian dad that they have.  That's one of my treasured accomplishments in life.  That and eating dark meat chicken.

What's In Your Fridge?

  We were watching 'Return of the Living Dead' on Netflix the other day.  The guy who's showing the new kid around the job looked familiar to me.  He was Stephen's boss in 'Poltergeist'.  The guy who Stephen yells at near the end of the movie, "You only moved the headstones!  Why?!"  I quote that all the time.  I also like the quote from 'Return' when the new kid makes a disparaging remark about the situation and our man says, "You'll keep your mouth shut if you like your job," to which the new kid shouts, "Like this job?!"
  There's also the classic line when the zombie calls dispatch and says, "Send more paramedics."  Just like Domino's, they deliver.  Speaking of food, in 'Poltergeist', there's that scene where a man gets hungry in the middle of the night and goes to the kitchen to get a snack.  He opens the fridge and pulls out a slab of raw beef and puts it on the counter.  It's not covered with anything.  There's no plate.  It's just a hunk of meat sitting in the fridge and he handles it with his bare hands.  He puts it on a clean counter and doesn't wash his hands.  Instead he handles a chicken wing, which he puts in his mouth.  Boy, those were simpler days.  They didn't worry about germs.  Nowadays, if the e-coli didn't kill you, the salmonella would.

Stupid Commercials

  Once I saw a commercial for a headache medication that said it cures headaches twice as fast.  You had to read the fine print at the bottom of the screen that said 'As opposed to using nothing at all'.  So by those standards, if it takes four hours for my headache to go away au naturale, then it would take two hours for this medicine to work.  Those are some pretty low standards if you ask me.
  There was another commercial that says that 85 % of people don't get enough calcium in their diet.  They go on to say that if you eat their product, you'll get 50 % of your recommended daily allowance of calcium.  Now, what that tells me is that 85 % of people don't eat their product.  If 4 out of every 5 people hate your shit, why the hell should I eat it?
  You know, I try hard not to be a name dropping groupie on this blog.  I know I've told you a few names.  Well, this time, the person shall remain anonymous, but I'm just so excited.  I put in a friend request on Facebook and was surprised as hell when she accepted.  I've admired her work since the early nineties.  I'm honored that she added us.  Any connections could help us with our dreams.

Decision Making

  I think one of the biggest flaws in my decision making process is that I don't leave room for human error. I make plans or choices that rely on every single thing going exactly according to plan.  As I often find out, that rarely happens.  When something goes wrong, I have a built-in excuse as to why it wasn't my fault.  That's the difference between me and Kayla.  She has the foresight and the wisdom to plan for many possible outcomes.  She also doesn't have the prideful need to make things not her fault.  If something goes wrong with a plan of her devising, she's gracious enough to accept blame.
  On a completely different note, I've been able to build up quite a network of connections on both Facebook and Twitter!  All this is aiming toward our goal of helping Tibetan refugees in India.