Weird Dreams & Company
Last night I dreamed that me & Hugh Laurie were hanging out in the bayou with a couple of the Egyptian gods. (Yeah, I have no idea what brought that on.) We were sitting on a weedy raft somewhere in a swamp. Thoth and Anubis were on the raft with us, and Ammut floated in the waters. The whole dream had a hallucinatory near-reality feel to it - the gods were made of everyday objects: Ammut was a bloated and decayed crocodile corpse in the muddy water, and Thoth was a living version of those bird-sculptures made of garden tools, only blackened and rusty. His beak was a long old scythe blade. Anubis was just a form made of shadows. I can't remember a thing they said (or why Hugh Laurie was there!) but it was an interesting dream. I wasn't frightened, for they seemed familiar to me, but I was apprehensive - it was kinda like being invited to a meeting of the most powerful people in your field, and showing up wearing the wrong thing. Nothing bad is *necessarily* going to befall you, but the evening is somewhat tense and slightly dark.
Other than that, a friend of mine from Star came up to visit today. We played around with the swivel guns, blunderbuss, pistols, and blanket guns for a while, then Ekk fired up the forge and made him a small blade. Keith wants to learn smithing, so will be probably coming up fairly often while he's living in Johnson for the winter.
It was really nice to have company.
Other than that, a friend of mine from Star came up to visit today. We played around with the swivel guns, blunderbuss, pistols, and blanket guns for a while, then Ekk fired up the forge and made him a small blade. Keith wants to learn smithing, so will be probably coming up fairly often while he's living in Johnson for the winter.
It was really nice to have company.