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Missed doing a post yesterday! I felt fairly punk'd out for most of yesterday. Had lunch with B (daughter's partner) and we went to a garden supply place and picked up some topsoil. I went to bed when we got back and slept for several hours. I awoke around dinner time and seemed to be less off key as the evening progressed.

Woke up early this morning. I awoke while I was dreaming. In the dream, I had just been hired by four young software engineers. They had obtained some venture funds to help them develop a series of applications that users would find intriguing. Their ideas and documentation were in very preliminary states. There was going to be a lot of work required to bring their ideas to fruition.

That was one of the reasons they had brought me on board. I was glad to be working with them, but I was feeling somewhat isolated from them. My experiences and achievements were so different from what they had done/were doing that I was fearful that we'd never gel as a team, and they would have to let me go.

In the dream, we got into a design session on one of their ideas. It had to do with letting users experience an array of foods that were ostensibly the same, but were not. Each dish, although of the same ingredients, would be tweaked in some way to make it taste differently for each person.

I suggested a schema that was similar to an audio script I had concocted for an April Fool's Day joke. I had created segments of the script in such a way that each person had small variations in what was being said and done. At some point, everyone realized that the script they had was in fact not the same for each of them.

The four guys liked the idea and told me to go ahead and map out the concept for their project. I felt like things would be going well with them. I awoke and spent some time taking care of some bills and doing some dance step research.

Had an hour of line dancing in the afternoon. The class went well--it's a very beginner's class but just what I need right now. I signed up (online) for the August sessions. Let there be dance!

Planning to go to Fry's in the morning and pick out a new telephone for MD--her phone is dead or dying.