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Rainy daze! Watch the waves crash along the shores. See the surge of water as the waves subside. What am I saying? What am I doing? Transient and trivial! All is--or it's not! Sleep! Ah, yes! I slept in today. I listened to the rain drops pounding on the roof and decided that I needed to sleep. Now, the rains continue and I'm ready to head back to bed. Didn't do my laundry today. A postponed task for tomorrow's agenda--a handful of ashes and spice. Aurelius still ringing in my head.

Dreamed last night that I was riding a bicycle with a group of people. We each had a custom set of wheels. Our bikes were tricked out and modified in various ways. We were riding on a bluff above the beach. We could look out over the ocean. There were some dark undercurrents wafting around us but overall the mood was bright and fun.

Watched a documentary (more like propaganda) tonight--Mr. Death. It's about a strange little man who became an accidental designer of execution equipment (gallows, electric chairs, gas chambers, chemical devices and such). He then got a request to help defend a history revisionist by going into the Nazi death camps, illegally taking samples, and getting tests made that would prove there was no poison gas used in the facilities. He believed that his samples and subsequent tests proved that the Holocaust was a lie. He being somewhat wacky and naive got wrapped up into the groups of people who bought into his results. The film traced his journey from being the son of a prison official, through his time as a purveyor of execution devices, to his trip to the camps, and his loss of stature (outside the revisionist camps) and believability. Strange film--strange person--strange is life!