February 21, 2007

My dreams took me to the heart of a political campaign! Guess in whose campaign I worked on? X's! Apparently, he was running for congress. In the dream, I helped out, and was so proud of him(of course, I'm also proud of X in real life) Unfortunatly, I woke up just before the election results were to be announced. What a shame!

Y was quite surprised at my dream, to say the least, but asked with large grin "Does his rich wife pay for the campaign? Do my nephews and nieces help out?"

I laughed, and told him that in the dream he used math to help X focus his efforts more efficiently. This gave my youngest ideas for a lecture he could do in one of his courses, and he talked about it at lenght, even equations down on the only clean napkin left on the table.

Eventually, I was able to go to the living room, and read the paper. Then, I did some crosswords. After a while, Y joined me in there

"I finally got to see the videos Greg posted online" he began with a chuckle, and added that he sent the links to others. I'm sure he got a laugh out of seeing actual videos of X as a baby.

"It uh...was great to see mom..." Y added quietly, and went back to grading.

Stan called to me say that youtube also had Johnny Carson clips. What a pleasant surprise! I had enjoyed watching it, but now, none of the channels carried by my cable company showed reruns. Many times, I'd put it on, while waiting for a teenaged X to come home(he liked to break curfew), working on a project, or being exiled to the living room couch by my wife.

Stan(did I mention he was my business partner?) also told me that he enjoys reading my blog, as does his wife and kids.

"You should do a Vlog!" he added(prouncing it va-log). "You'd do much better than most of the ones on youtube"

"Writing's fine" I told him.We would have talked more but his wife needed to talk to her older sister. Before he hung up, he told me about a site where I could play scrabble online with other players. Finally! It's hard for me to find someone to play scrabble with. Neither of my sons is a huge fan of the game. It was nice to play against other good players, though sometimes I got stuck with the bad ones, some of whom accused me of cheating by using a word list, or challenge my word, thinking it wasn't acceptable in scrabble. Talk about being a sore loser.

X joined us for dinner. I was more than happy to put a third steak to cook.

"I had another weird work dream" he told us.

"Oh yeah?" I was curious.

"My boss gets this consultant right, who just drives me nuts!" X began. "He starts to organize and clean my desk, and has to pat each cubicle four times as he passes them..." My Eldest sighed. "And then he tries to botton a violent suspect's shirt!"

Both Y and I laughed.

Well, I'm gonna try to find more good Johnny Carson clips, so that's that.

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FParkes

Johnny Carson was one of my favorite shows ! Leno can't even compare! Late night will never be the same, though Conan and that Scottish guy are okay.

No word on Millie, huh?

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Hlong

Looks like you've come into the youtube side...hehe.

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gothchick

youtube is awesome! The only bummer is that clips can only be ten minutes at a time.

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troll666

HA!HA!

You play scrabble and you are a loser

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Dr. Feelgood.

Scrabble is fun, but only when I put obscenities on the board. Tell me most wise wordmaster, which is worth the most points?

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whiteandnerdy88

You have the weirdest dreams! Does professor Y put something in your tea?

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TBC

a/n: I promise to mix things up a bit in the next part.