As I was laying half awake during some dark hour and reviewing everything I could remember about the last couple days, I recalled that on several recent drives I had seen several Kenpo 5.0 stickers on car windows. I also noted that I had not remembered seeing a single sticker, window or otherwise, for any …
I accidentally held down my iPad’s button while I was walking around with it and the Siri thing came on to ask what she could help with. At exactly the same time, I spotted a sock of mine on the floor that one of the dogs had just chewed up, and I said, “Assholes!” Siri …
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In one dream last night, I was in a movie theater with Sydney. While the movie was playing, I remember being more focused on the stuff that kept falling out of my coat pocket than I was on the movie, and each time I retrieved my stuff off the floor there was more and more …
I was standing in the kitchen and on a whim, I called several dogs over to give them some kind of crunchy treats before I realized that I’m completely out of them. It’s on my list of things to do over the next day or two, but they didn’t seem to grasp my intention to …
I remembered a small chunk of a dream where I was with my family some kind of kid’s activity place. There were a few parents around, and lots of kids running around in vague groups. I was sitting on a bench near a little outdoor cafe with round tables and parents drinking coffee and using …
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I remembered a snippet of a dream where I was playing piano for people somewhere, and I said something like, “I call this next one Spooky Monday,” and then I started to play the Jackson 5 song Never Can Say Goodbye. Someone said, “Hey, that’s the Jackson 5 song Never Can Say Goodbye,” and I …
There was a cop in an SUV conspicuously parked on the street outside the school this morning, pretty typical. So I dropped her off and looped around the lot, and when I pulled back onto the street and slowly approached the SUV from behind, I noticed thin gold letters on the back left side that …
I just saw this black and white picture of Michael McDonald and the eyes were blue. I’d just had a conversation a few days earlier with my daughter about “blue eyed soul,” and I asked if she noticed anything about the picture. She said, “Yeah, the eyes.” I asked if she remembered what that meant, …
I thought I’d found a killer spot at my kid’s school at pickup time, but I didn’t pay attention and now I’m stuck next to “sunflower seed guy,” this old dude who eats a pound of sunflower seeds while he’s waiting for his grandkid and spits or throws the shells out the window of his …