{"id":1404,"date":"2008-02-29T23:21:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T05:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/29\/still-here\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T23:21:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T05:21:59","slug":"still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/still-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming."},"content":{"rendered":"

I think I said that a couple of posts ago, but it’s still true. I have lots going on and nothing. If that makes any sense to anyone.<\/p>\n

I think someone at one time or another said, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” I think I know what they meant.<\/p>\n

I have everything to do, yet I can’t do anything. I’ll get everything sorted out. Don’t worry. It just doesn’t make good blogging. Maybe I’ll look around for some fun things to post.<\/p>\n

This may be counter productive, but I loved the play in today’s xkcd comic:<\/p>\n

\"xkcd:<\/h3>\n

I’ve been getting ideas for a new thriller lately.\u00a0 Actually, lots of ideas for the action in thrillers, but I need to find stories to accompany the action.\u00a0 I had a peculiarly unusual dream the other morning.\u00a0 It was so unusual that it’s stuck in my memory.<\/p>\n

I was walking through a refuge camp next to a wagon.\u00a0 Initially, the empty flatbed wagon was being pulled by a horse\/mule-type creature.\u00a0 The wooden plank bed of the flatbed was richly detailed.\u00a0 Once I got into the part of the refuge camp where I was going to be staying, the person walking next to the wagon (was it me or someone else?) was holding a cylindrical device attached to a cable attached to the wagon, and clicking on the cylindrical device powered the wagon.\u00a0 I remember wondering about that, shrugging, and thinking perhaps it was a hydraulic system.<\/p>\n

This particular refugee camp had a lot of mud and starving, dying people with flies on them (not a not of flies, but some) and large eyes watching me.\u00a0 After I walked by the starving, dying people lying in the mud, I came to the open shelter where I would be staying.\u00a0 There were two other people there who I knew.\u00a0 We greeted one another.\u00a0 They had a hoist-type device chained to the shelter and raised.<\/p>\n

At this point, I woke up.\u00a0 The dream was vivid and colorful (as colorful as rich shades of brown can be) and like absolutely nothing I’ve ever dreamed before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I said that a couple of posts ago, but it’s still true. I have lots going on and nothing. If that makes any sense to anyone. I think someone at one time or another said, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” I …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}