The selk bag came in the mail. Its so warm inside. Winter better watch out. I’m reloaded like a major sports franchise with no worries about the salary cap. The final piece of the puzzle is… a shovel. Two nights ago I awoke in a cold sweat. I found myself on the couch surrounded by flashing L.E.D.’s, the computer screen dark, and a nightmare slowly, powerfully receding like the waters of a flood. I picked up my phone and started texting my friend Brian, who had been a player in the nightmare theater. He sent back a few comforting messages, what a good friend does, and I was able to go back to sleep. I thought I would record those messages here with my (additional thoughts) in parentheses:
Delivered: Nov 10, 2009 3:50:31 AM
I just woke up from a nightmare that mrs p (brian’s new obese cat) bit kitten (brian’s new baby cat) and there was a fire in the base$ent of the ECG that eric knew about but had to keep the place open anyway (there was a fire in the basement of the restaurant, about a year ago.)
Brian K (Mobile)
3:51:48 AM
Yeah-being open is important
3:52:18 AM
You and I were in the basement keeping the fire under control and eric was serving all these vips up top and then we shut down and one cat bit the other
3:53:35 AM
It was horrible kitten was screaming and mrs p was crushing her head and a weird australian voiceover said something like
Brian K (Mobile)
3:53:52 AM
vips=mris (here Brian is suggesting that while my brain told me that Eric was dealing with Very Important People, what Eric deals with in reality are Management Restaurant Interventions)
3:54:26 AM
“This is how mrs p treats her girlfriends” and there was a giant xmas tree
3:55:17 AM
You were in the basement tending to a dryer with these wild orange flames whirling inside it was crazy (This picture shows how the previous fire started in the basement…)
Brian K
3:56:41 AM
I mean symbolism
3:58:21 AM
Haha I don’t know man my brain is fucked anyways thank you for listening sorry to hit you with all this now
Brian K
3:59:26 AM
A time will come when I’ll babble worse
wilderness cat texting in the dreamtime – dream well and of good tidings!
You remind me of a ginger bread man….catch him if you can, you can’t catch 3rd Arm. He’s the Gingerbread Man.
HAHAHAHAHA you and sara are the only people i know that would order that sleeping bag! she got one like 3 months ago and hasnt even used it yet! if i hadn’t already purchased a brand new LL Bean sleeping bag for my road trip across the USA then i would have purchased this instead: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/starwars/bb2e/?cpg=112H