Saturday, Dec 4th:

Ed and Alyssa got married again. The ceremony took place over three days.
( Rachael Ray makes violence possible, the Unending House, and the monsters it creates )

Wed, Jan 13, 2010:

Huge black battle tanks parked along the road in rural British farming towns to defend them from radical environmentalists. The government didn't know which towns would be targeted, and the tanks were pretty obvious, so the radicals just picked other towns.
( Increasingly Surreal Violence )

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010:

I walked out to the strawberry tree in our yard. It grew by the base of the huge pine tree, and it looked like a pine tree without any needles. It was 34 degrees and damp outside; I had to trim the tree before winter and harvest some forgotten strawberries. I accidentally cut off a fruiting branch, and the berries ( Read more... )

Wed, Jan 6th.

Pop music played over the PA at the public library because it was a special day at MPR. I joined a couple friends for breakfast, and they drove me to a new place in a residential neighborhood. Small trees along the property's edge hid the restaurant from the street. The winding walkway was lined with page plants, tall shrubs with ( Read more... )

24 December 2009:

Alyssa and I sat talking with Jenna and Kayla. They told us they had gotten some [Big] salt a couple weeks ago, which was bigger than Kosher salt. They noticed the [Big] salt has a natural lemon flavor, like lemon verbena. They got help from their respective boyfriends, and the four of them started selling it in front of coffee ( Read more... )

Monday, 7 Dec 2009

The orange light of Sonoran afternoon blanketed the valley. Everything it touched buzzed too brightly for us in the shady interior of a ruined building on the cliff side. Below us, tall grasses waved around the edges of a shallow pond.
( musicin68 knows her animals, unusual gatherings, monsters )

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

I went to the kitchen to get a plate for my supper. I noticed a big utility sink on one side of the island counter; I didn't think we had one of those. I glanced inside; it was half-filled with dirty dishes soaking in murky water. The pesto shaver lay unwashed atop the pile.

Alyssa must not have washed it after dinner ( Read more... )

Monday, 9 Nov 2009

A college math professor posed a question to his students, and they gathered into small groups to work on it ( Read more... )

Friday, Oct 2nd, 2009:

Alison was on good terms with her old undergrad adviser from Carleton. He was a respected polymath close to retirement, and she was trying to convince him to name her as his replacement for one of his jobs at the university. (He was a senior staff doctor, he chaired the Geology department, he taught the occasional biology ( Read more... )

Tuesday, September 8th 2009:

I ran into a couple guys I thought I recognized [from other dreams?]; they looked like Paul & Storm, but [NotPaul] was thinner than Paul and [NotStorm] was heavier than Storm. About 20 of us were tromping down a wide metal staircase outside a large building (like the entrance to the Macalester Heating & Cooling plant ( Read more... )