Quote from: ChasSmith on October 01, 2020, 08:32:18 AMFinally, as usually happens after a few hours of this, I did fall asleep for about an hour and a half, getting up at 8:30 which is late for me. And as also often happens in a late sleep like that, I had yet another of my epic dreams touching on several very familiar themes:It's time to leave the office but my keys and wallet are nowhere to be found. In backtracking to find them, I hear the voice of my boss from 1988-1990, but decide I don't want to bother reconnecting with him at this time. Now the building is a familiar hodgepodge of the Cleveland Institute of Music (I have dreamed several times about this one particular corridor) and some old church or concert hall (that I know I've also dreamed before), a lobby with fancy arches around the 4 or 5 elevator doors, and then the Clorox headquarters building in Oakland CA that I visited in 1999 when they'd acquired our company. I decide to take the elevator back up to the 4th or 5th floor, and realize I'm in underwear and a t-shirt. A couple of times I see piles of silver change (mostly quarters) on the floor but don't quite get to the point at which I start picking them up, Then I'm carrying some piece of aluminum foil or cellophane trash I did pick up, and I want to get rid of it but there's no wastebasket to be found, even when I go up to another floor which is teeming with people I never see in the daytime. I wonder if this is because of Covid, and I finally decide to be rude and drop it in the middle of this long staircase. Downstairs, I head outside where I have to walk, or preferably run, down this street and turn left and up a long block which runs uphill, and the place is covered with snow and it becomes one of those dreams in which you try to run and can't get moving.Whew. I probably left out a couple of things, but that gives you the gist. Weird dreams in times of COVID are definitely a thing. Mine center around murders and hiding the bodies... yeah, I don't know....
Finally, as usually happens after a few hours of this, I did fall asleep for about an hour and a half, getting up at 8:30 which is late for me. And as also often happens in a late sleep like that, I had yet another of my epic dreams touching on several very familiar themes:It's time to leave the office but my keys and wallet are nowhere to be found. In backtracking to find them, I hear the voice of my boss from 1988-1990, but decide I don't want to bother reconnecting with him at this time. Now the building is a familiar hodgepodge of the Cleveland Institute of Music (I have dreamed several times about this one particular corridor) and some old church or concert hall (that I know I've also dreamed before), a lobby with fancy arches around the 4 or 5 elevator doors, and then the Clorox headquarters building in Oakland CA that I visited in 1999 when they'd acquired our company. I decide to take the elevator back up to the 4th or 5th floor, and realize I'm in underwear and a t-shirt. A couple of times I see piles of silver change (mostly quarters) on the floor but don't quite get to the point at which I start picking them up, Then I'm carrying some piece of aluminum foil or cellophane trash I did pick up, and I want to get rid of it but there's no wastebasket to be found, even when I go up to another floor which is teeming with people I never see in the daytime. I wonder if this is because of Covid, and I finally decide to be rude and drop it in the middle of this long staircase. Downstairs, I head outside where I have to walk, or preferably run, down this street and turn left and up a long block which runs uphill, and the place is covered with snow and it becomes one of those dreams in which you try to run and can't get moving.Whew. I probably left out a couple of things, but that gives you the gist.
Quote from: Jane on October 01, 2020, 01:29:22 PMJohn & Druxy how big are your counties? Texas counties will each be limited to a single site for voters to drop off their mail ballots ahead of Election Day, under a proclamation issued by Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday.Ginny it seems as if you only have one drop off spot in your county.More than 2 million
John & Druxy how big are your counties? Texas counties will each be limited to a single site for voters to drop off their mail ballots ahead of Election Day, under a proclamation issued by Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday.Ginny it seems as if you only have one drop off spot in your county.
I've been voting by mail for about ten years now and find it convenient. But this year I am concerned as Trump has threatened to disqualify all mail-in ballots. I'm not sure how he would do this, but some are recommending that as many people as possible don a mask and vote in person. It's quite a mess!
The Met is doing all Wagner next week, including the Ring cycle.
Quote from: John G. on October 01, 2020, 03:06:59 PMThe Met is doing all Wagner next week, including the Ring cycle.Oh no. DR Elmore will be glued to that all week! Tonight/tomorrow is the Julie Taymor Zauberflöte. I saw that at the theater and I remember just not being in the mood that night. I will watch it tomorrow.
I played a Judy Collins CD and Birdy Barnum went to sleep....
tonight's feature is I Was a Mail War Bride with Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan. It was made in Heidelberg while Mom was living there. She saw Grant shopping. It was a thrill for her. And I understand that.
Quote from: Jane on October 01, 2020, 01:29:22 PMJohn & Druxy how big are your counties? Texas counties will each be limited to a single site for voters to drop off their mail ballots ahead of Election Day, under a proclamation issued by Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday.Ginny it seems as if you only have one drop off spot in your county.Yes, it’s at the Board of Elections building, 15 miles from our house. We’ve been going there to vote early in person ever since I retired and we dropped our absentee ballot applications in the box late in August. We will also hand-deliver our ballots.There was some talk of additional boxes being added, but our county is too red for that to stand a chance of happening.
