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Happy 75th birthday to the Golden Gate Bridge! Three years older than me! I awoke about 3am last night and had to read myself back to sleep. Then, I slept in this morning and slept through until about 2pm is the afternoon. I must have needed the rest. I really conked out!

Dreamed sometime during all of this sleeping about a handheld electronic toy. I had helped develop the device and was demonstrating how it worked to people from the media. The device was a custom designed mobile unit that you could carry with you. When you got near a person who also had one of the units, you could interact via the devices. There were several games mounted on the units and you could initiate one of the games or the other person could start a game. Once the game was selected, the two you played the game and scored points based on the game that was selected. In the dream, the devices had certain powers that would let you assume certain attributes that affected the way you played the game. There were many strategies that the players could use so each encounter was unique and different.

Watched a film this afternoon--Elegy. It was a film based on a Phillip Roth novella about an older man and a younger woman--their encounter, affair, separation, and ultimate reunion. It had an all star cast (Kingsley, Cruz, Hopper, and others). It was a somewhat slick film, very modern and sophisticated, but with lots of emotion and pathos. Cruz was undressed a lot in the film. Aside from her bold nude scenes, she did a good job of playing her part in the film. Maybe one of her best performances--on a par with her work in Volvier.

Memorial day tomorrow! Not sure what I'm supposed to remember!