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Post by ironhold on Jan 8, 2023 12:26:12 GMT
I'm 2 for 2 on dreams in which I try to get with redheads.
I wonder if that is supposed to mean anything.
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Post by the light works on Jan 8, 2023 14:36:28 GMT
other than that you find redheads attractive, probably not. I wouldn't take it as an order to hit on every redhead you see, anyway.
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Post by ironhold on Mar 20, 2023 23:57:36 GMT
I've had a lot of weird dreams and nightmares lately (likely due to stress and poor sleep), but one recent one does have me wondering.
In the dream I'm going through some old paperwork when I find a Transformers wall calendar from the mid-2000s; I don't remember the year, but the included artwork was a mish-mash of design cues from three early 2000s cartoons and the first live-action movie.
On one hand, the artwork is awe-inspiring.
On the other hand, several images have bits where I doodled random comments and dialogue quips based on whatever was stressing me out or I was upset about that month.
The only image that was spared is the image from December... which is also entirely out of place. Whereas January - November consisted of various robot characters, December was one of the female human characters dressed in a costume made to look like the Optimus Prime from the first live-action movie, with the image against a plain white background.
I know that the era in question wasn't particularly pleasant for me IRL, but my best guess is that this is my brain saying I still have some unresolved issues I have to work out before I can move ahead.
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Post by the light works on Mar 21, 2023 0:49:10 GMT
I've had a lot of weird dreams and nightmares lately (likely due to stress and poor sleep), but one recent one does have me wondering. In the dream I'm going through some old paperwork when I find a Transformers wall calendar from the mid-2000s; I don't remember the year, but the included artwork was a mish-mash of design cues from three early 2000s cartoons and the first live-action movie. On one hand, the artwork is awe-inspiring. On the other hand, several images have bits where I doodled random comments and dialogue quips based on whatever was stressing me out or I was upset about that month. The only image that was spared is the image from December... which is also entirely out of place. Whereas January - November consisted of various robot characters, December was one of the female human characters dressed in a costume made to look like the Optimus Prime from the first live-action movie, with the image against a plain white background. I know that the era in question wasn't particularly pleasant for me IRL, but my best guess is that this is my brain saying I still have some unresolved issues I have to work out before I can move ahead. have you been binging on transformers material lately? it may very well just be your brain throwing random concepts together to see if it can find anything worthwhile. I think I've mentioned that a lot of my short story concepts are adapted from strange dreams. |
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Post by ironhold on Mar 21, 2023 2:24:17 GMT
I've had a lot of weird dreams and nightmares lately (likely due to stress and poor sleep), but one recent one does have me wondering. In the dream I'm going through some old paperwork when I find a Transformers wall calendar from the mid-2000s; I don't remember the year, but the included artwork was a mish-mash of design cues from three early 2000s cartoons and the first live-action movie. On one hand, the artwork is awe-inspiring. On the other hand, several images have bits where I doodled random comments and dialogue quips based on whatever was stressing me out or I was upset about that month. The only image that was spared is the image from December... which is also entirely out of place. Whereas January - November consisted of various robot characters, December was one of the female human characters dressed in a costume made to look like the Optimus Prime from the first live-action movie, with the image against a plain white background. I know that the era in question wasn't particularly pleasant for me IRL, but my best guess is that this is my brain saying I still have some unresolved issues I have to work out before I can move ahead. have you been binging on transformers material lately? it may very well just be your brain throwing random concepts together to see if it can find anything worthwhile. I think I've mentioned that a lot of my short story concepts are adapted from strange dreams. Nope. Haven't seen an episode of anything since November. This is part of why I suspect this is a warning of unresolved issues, as the era those shows & movies were from was a period of time where I had a lot of drama going on in my life. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Mar 21, 2023 3:42:09 GMT
have you been binging on transformers material lately? it may very well just be your brain throwing random concepts together to see if it can find anything worthwhile. I think I've mentioned that a lot of my short story concepts are adapted from strange dreams. Nope. Haven't seen an episode of anything since November. This is part of why I suspect this is a warning of unresolved issues, as the era those shows & movies were from was a period of time where I had a lot of drama going on in my life. I think you are over analyzing the whole thing. Dreams are just your brain's way of having some fun while off duty. You aren't even supposed to remember them. But when you do, just take them for what they are. Free entertainment. No popcorn required. |
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Post by the light works on Apr 4, 2023 16:46:59 GMT
now here's an odd one - dreamed Ironhold had a couple wasp nests in or around the family home and they needed me to deal with them, because everybody in his family was too allergic to risk getting stung - and I destroyed them by soaking them with water. without getting stung.
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Post by ironhold on Apr 4, 2023 19:47:08 GMT
now here's an odd one - dreamed Ironhold had a couple wasp nests in or around the family home and they needed me to deal with them, because everybody in his family was too allergic to risk getting stung - and I destroyed them by soaking them with water. without getting stung. Wasps are the one issue we *don't* have right now... |
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Post by the light works on Apr 4, 2023 20:41:54 GMT
now here's an odd one - dreamed Ironhold had a couple wasp nests in or around the family home and they needed me to deal with them, because everybody in his family was too allergic to risk getting stung - and I destroyed them by soaking them with water. without getting stung. Wasps are the one issue we *don't* have right now... not having wasps is a good thing. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Apr 4, 2023 21:02:56 GMT
Wasps are the one issue we *don't* have right now... not having wasps is a good thing. We normally don't have a wasp problem until late fall. Then they get pretty aggressive. But at least now I know who to call to take care of them. |
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Post by the light works on Apr 4, 2023 22:40:44 GMT
not having wasps is a good thing. We normally don't have a wasp problem until late fall. Then they get pretty aggressive. But at least now I know who to call to take care of them. pro tip: wasp spray comes in foaming and non foaming - foaming has never been effective for me. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Apr 4, 2023 22:55:26 GMT
We normally don't have a wasp problem until late fall. Then they get pretty aggressive. But at least now I know who to call to take care of them. pro tip: wasp spray comes in foaming and non foaming - foaming has never been effective for me. Since they reformulated all bug spray to meet EPA requirements, I think your water idea is probably the most effective. |
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Post by ironhold on Jun 8, 2023 19:57:50 GMT
One from this morning I've been mulling over, especially in light of everything else today.
I've somehow, for some reason, moved to another city. It's one of those "it used to be smaller and a little more rural, but now it's grown up a bit too fast as people have flooded in" kind of cities, the kind where I have to navigate a divided highway and then U-turn just to get from wherever I'm living to the downtown area.
There *is* a Mormon congregation in town, but for whatever reason we're temporarily meeting out of a converted facility downtown that I'm guessing was some sort of club or lounge at one point given how the interior is (you can still see royal blue paint everywhere) and the way the entrance doors are. It's not the best place to have services, however I suppose it's perhaps a stop-gap while the regular chapel is being built; who knows. The congregation is just happy to see me as they're still small and growing. Possibly it's a newly-formed congregation in that region.
I have family with me and take them with one Sunday. Instead of staying with me for the block of services and Sunday school as well as the monthly potluck, however, some of them start making excuses for why they need to leave early. I'm guessing they were so creeped out over everything that they just weren't comfortable even though they knew it was a temporary situation that would eventually be resolved.
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Post by the light works on Jun 9, 2023 2:37:56 GMT
had a two parter last week. part 1, I'd ended up inside the perimeter of a top secret infrastructure project. secure water lines for a SCIF sort of idea. so I had to blend in to keep from throwing a monkey wrench into the works.
part 2: I was in the middle of a "militia" group who were about the most incompetent idiots you can imagine. so I was stuck trying to A: prevent them from whatever destruction they had in mind. B: brevent them from causing collateral damage, considering they were probably going to fail, anyway. and C: not tip my hand in order to prevent them panicking and doing something that would cause collateral damage.
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Post by wvengineer on Jun 9, 2023 12:54:26 GMT
Last year I had a wasp nest in the eves of my house, and a yellow jacket nest in the ground in my side yard.
Fortunately, I was able to soak the wasp nest with the long range spray cans, the type that will shoot a stream 15 ft. That was just enough to reach the nest from the ground.
Wasp spray does not work with yellow jackets. The traditional approach around my area involved a pint of gasoline and a match. Yeah, the wife would not allow that one. It took a bit but was able to find a spray that advertises being affective against yellow jackets and it did work.
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Post by the light works on Jun 9, 2023 14:16:02 GMT
Last year I had a wasp nest in the eves of my house, and a yellow jacket nest in the ground in my side yard. Fortunately, I was able to soak the wasp nest with the long range spray cans, the type that will shoot a stream 15 ft. That was just enough to reach the nest from the ground. Wasp spray does not work with yellow jackets. The traditional approach around my area involved a pint of gasoline and a match. Yeah, the wife would not allow that one. It took a bit but was able to find a spray that advertises being affective against yellow jackets and it did work. I forget what the youtube wasp removers use. I know one of them would put a screen over the entrance and then pour something down. my most prejudicial ground nest attack was to drop a pint can of (illegal) Diazanon liquid on the hole as I walked past. all I know is that the foaming spray never worked for me. I could dump an entire can into the entrance and it would foam up real pretty, and the next day, it would be business as usual. the liquid, I could kill two or three above ground nests or one underground nest with one can. |
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Post by ironhold on Nov 5, 2023 13:31:35 GMT
Basically, this morning I had a dream in which I lived a speed-run of a TV sitcom.
In the pilot episode, I moved to a new city for a job. I've had the hijinks, and now that it's the finale I have to move away from the city.
Cue what you'd expect from the process of having to move, amplified by it being a sitcom.
Me having to figure out what's going to ride with me in my garishly orange SUV and what's going to have to go onto the moving truck... with the twist being that much of what I'm pondering over is novelties, toys, games, and other bits that by all rights should just go into plastic tubs that are duct-taped shut & put on the moving truck in order to make room in my SUV for what is truly valuable. There are also jokes asking how the bleep I managed to cram this much into an apartment.
The female lead being so distraught upon learning that I'm going to have to leave that she runs right over, professes her love, and demands that I take her with me because she doesn't want to stay if I'm not going to stay... all while being absolutely starkers and dripping wet because she was in the shower when she found out. Let's just say that her wardrobe for the scene was indeed her birthday suit...
The comedy relief reflecting back on how when I first arrived they were just barely old enough to work a much-needed part-time job at whatever organization I'm with... and now they're an adult who, thanks to one last growth spurt, is even bigger than I am.
The eccentric maintenance guy wistfully remarking that he never *did* manage to figure out that issue with the plumbing.
Et cetra.
Sounds like it would have been a fun sitcom to watch, and given the stylings of everything would have likely aired during the 90s and 2000s.
Now I just need to figure out a title and what the actual premise would have been.
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Post by ironhold on Nov 5, 2023 14:16:52 GMT
Basically, this morning I had a dream in which I lived a speed-run of a TV sitcom. In the pilot episode, I moved to a new city for a job. I've had the hijinks, and now that it's the finale I have to move away from the city. Cue what you'd expect from the process of having to move, amplified by it being a sitcom. Me having to figure out what's going to ride with me in my garishly orange SUV and what's going to have to go onto the moving truck... with the twist being that much of what I'm pondering over is novelties, toys, games, and other bits that by all rights should just go into plastic tubs that are duct-taped shut & put on the moving truck in order to make room in my SUV for what is truly valuable. There are also jokes asking how the bleep I managed to cram this much into an apartment. The female lead being so distraught upon learning that I'm going to have to leave that she runs right over, professes her love, and demands that I take her with me because she doesn't want to stay if I'm not going to stay... all while being absolutely starkers and dripping wet because she was in the shower when she found out. Let's just say that her wardrobe for the scene was indeed her birthday suit... The comedy relief reflecting back on how when I first arrived they were just barely old enough to work a much-needed part-time job at whatever organization I'm with... and now they're an adult who, thanks to one last growth spurt, is even bigger than I am. The eccentric maintenance guy wistfully remarking that he never *did* manage to figure out that issue with the plumbing. Et cetra. Sounds like it would have been a fun sitcom to watch, and given the stylings of everything would have likely aired during the 90s and 2000s. Now I just need to figure out a title and what the actual premise would have been. Just checked. Toyota's "Solar Orange" color is available on their Toyota 4Runner SUV just like it is on their Tacoma pickup, so presumably it's also available on their other SUVs (as in my dream the SUV I had was rounded rather than boxy, so likely a crossover even though I'm so big I'd realistically need a full-size). But that would put it in the present, as Solar Orange is a relatively recent color in Toyota's palette. |
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Post by the light works on Nov 5, 2023 14:37:48 GMT
Basically, this morning I had a dream in which I lived a speed-run of a TV sitcom. In the pilot episode, I moved to a new city for a job. I've had the hijinks, and now that it's the finale I have to move away from the city. Cue what you'd expect from the process of having to move, amplified by it being a sitcom. Me having to figure out what's going to ride with me in my garishly orange SUV and what's going to have to go onto the moving truck... with the twist being that much of what I'm pondering over is novelties, toys, games, and other bits that by all rights should just go into plastic tubs that are duct-taped shut & put on the moving truck in order to make room in my SUV for what is truly valuable. There are also jokes asking how the bleep I managed to cram this much into an apartment. The female lead being so distraught upon learning that I'm going to have to leave that she runs right over, professes her love, and demands that I take her with me because she doesn't want to stay if I'm not going to stay... all while being absolutely starkers and dripping wet because she was in the shower when she found out. Let's just say that her wardrobe for the scene was indeed her birthday suit... The comedy relief reflecting back on how when I first arrived they were just barely old enough to work a much-needed part-time job at whatever organization I'm with... and now they're an adult who, thanks to one last growth spurt, is even bigger than I am. The eccentric maintenance guy wistfully remarking that he never *did* manage to figure out that issue with the plumbing. Et cetra. Sounds like it would have been a fun sitcom to watch, and given the stylings of everything would have likely aired during the 90s and 2000s. Now I just need to figure out a title and what the actual premise would have been. so, basically using the dream as the framework for a story? I do that, on occasion, but there is usually only enough for a short story. |
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Post by ironhold on Nov 5, 2023 15:08:20 GMT
so, basically using the dream as the framework for a story? I do that, on occasion, but there is usually only enough for a short story. If nothing else, I add it to the world-building as a recent sitcom that was as popular as it was occasionally controversial, with the bit in the finale where the female lead is *literally* nude for that scene being one final attempt to push the boundaries (even if, realistically, the camera angles and such would have concealed it). Once a show hits 100 episodes, it's almost immediately shunted off into syndication these days, making it plausible that a local TV station where my characters are is airing it in a late-night slot as filler. That being said, if we use me myself as a model for the main character, then their being in the military is unlikely. It's possible that the character was involved in academia and brought on board for a program that wasn't long for the world, or is an employee of a company where it's expected that you have to be willing to take a job transfer from time to time in order to rise through the ranks. It's even possible that the move was originally meant to be semi-permanent but because of a family situation "back home" the character has to leave, which would explain why it was so sudden the female lead wouldn't even stop to put clothes on before running out of the shower and down the public hallway. And it's not that far-fetched to think that the female lead was so ultimately unhappy with how things were going in her life that her relationship with the lead was somehow a go / no-go in that she'd rather abandon everything, possibly burning bridges in the process, to go with him than stay where she is. Maybe have it that she was a "defrosting ice queen" type who was angry at the world because she was angry at herself over something and the male lead was the one who helped her work through it. |
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