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Dreamed last night about being in an HR office. I was there along with a lot of other people who were being laid off. I knew several of the people because I had hired them. I nodded at a couple of them and they nodded back. No one was talking much. It was not a happy mood in the place, although I seemed to be at peace with what was happening.

The dream morphed into some other dream sequences that I now don't recall.

I arose late this morning. The coolness is making me want to stay wrapped up and warm. I had hot oatmeal for breakfast instead of a smoothie. Had the smoothie later on.

I keep feeling like I want to go somewhere, but have no place to be, no place I want to be. I reserved a copy of Dale Peterson's biography of Jane Goodall. I'm first in line for a copy when it gets into the library system. I checked Dale's listings on Amazon. He shows more than nine titles there--not exactly sure how many--quite a few. He's been busy.

He has one title, Storyville, USA--a travel with Charley kind of book with him and his two kids. They went from Louisiana to Alaska via all manner of small towns with odd names. It was really done to give his wife a break so she could finish a book she was writing. Turned out to be the source of a really good travel story.

Will add more later. Just wanted to register my dream while it was on my mind.
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Hazy day from my mental/emotional viewpoint. I'm feeling on-again, off-again about where I am with everything. I think I've made progress, but I find that I'm also thinking that I've not done much at all. It's like I'm riding a roller coaster and I'm up, down and all around. I'm tired of the repetitious states of being, but can't seem to affect the cycles or alter the patterns.

Doesn't help that the whole world (except for me a few others like me) is looking forward to the weekend. For me, it's just another set of days with seemingly predictable activities and rituals.

L is heading up to Sonoma for a weekend of R&R. I just joined her for dinner (I had a milkshake) at the new burger place on California Ave. You can get a burger-in-a-bowl there. That's new!

So will it be another early to bed and late to rise day tomorrow? Or will the winds shift the course of things and let variations play? Who knows until the day breaks or does whatever it does to make its appearance. So be it!