Sunday, July 30, 2023

Another Dream

 About a week ago I went out for a walk around a local lake. As I walked around it I began to reminiscence over long ago times when I would go out for long hikes. I would hike in the Berkeley/Oakland hills. I hiked to the peak of Mt. Diablo and Mt. Tamalpais (both east and west peaks) many years ago.

It has been many years since I have gone for a hike like that.

Last week I went out for a good walk around a local lake. I walked half-an-hour in one direction and then walked back. Total time was around one hour and ten minutes.

It's a great fishing lake. So I decided to return and go fishing for trout, bass, or cat fish.

When I returned home I pulled out of storage my inflatable dinghy. I inflated it up and let it sit for a while so I would know if it would deflate. It did.

It has a leak, I thought to myself. I decided to trash it and get another boat.

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At night I had another dream. In it I was testing my inflatable dinghy. It deflated just as it did in real life.

In my dream I checked a valve. Something was wrong with it. I patched it up. My dinghy then inflated.

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In real life I was about ready to throw out that dinghy. But I remembered my dream. I remembered that I somehow fixed the valve.

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The following morning I went out to the back yard where I had inflated the dinghy and left it sitting to see its deflation. Sure enough, one side had deflated

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I checked the valve and discovered that it could be opened or closed. It just had to be twisted.

There's nothing wrong with my dinghy. It inflates and stays inflated. I simply had to twist a valve.


Monday, July 24, 2023

Only A Dream

 Last night I had one of the weirdest dreams ever.

Have you ever had such a bad experience in real life that you wish it was only a bad dream and that you would soon wake up from it?

Well, I had just such an experience last night but it turned out it really was a dream.

It was one of those dreams that seemed so real while I was in it that I didn't know I was just dreaming.

This is what happened.

I was downstairs in my room. I walked out, saw one of my brothers and a couple of other guys with him. I didn't recognize the guys so I didn't say anything to them. I continued on my way and went upstairs. After a while I returned downstairs and noticed that things weren't as they should be. I looked around and saw that things looked very different. I noticed that many things were missing. I immediately realized that many items had been stolen. I have many tools and many personal items boxed up and stored there and most of those items were missing. I was emotionally crushed!

I headed towards my room and realized that some of the walls to my room had been demolished. Large pieces of sheet-rock (gypsum board) had been removed from the walls of my room.

I couldn't believe it. This worried me a lot. I didn't feel safe sleeping in my room with huge portions of the walls literally missing. Then I began to really worry. I thought about my gun cabinet and all the firearms and ammunition that I keep stored in my room. I went into my room and went straight to my firearm cabinet.

I was emotionally crushed again! My entire gun cabinet, all of my firearms, air arms, and ammunition were missing. They had been stolen!

I was devastated! I couldn't believe it, but it was true! My house had been burglarized and many of my belongings including my highly valued firearms and ammunition had been stolen!

I walked out of my room. I headed back upstairs. I walked slowly. Completely devastated. I wished this was just a dream. I hoped I would wake up and realize that it was just a dream. But I knew it wasn't. It was reality. It wasn't a dream, but how I wished it was a dream.

I walked back upstairs and went to my mom. She was on the phone. I told her I needed to talk to her. I told her it was very important. I wanted to tell her what had happened. But she was too involved in her phone conversation. She didn't realize how serious my predicament was.

I looked at her, she didn't look like my real mother but in the dream she was my mother. She had a few blemishes on her face but she was none-the-less beautiful.

Despite the fact that I was just dreaming it seemed so real. Everything seemed so real!

You can't believe the relief I felt when I woke up and realized that everything indeed had been just a dream! It was just a bad dream. Indeed I had just been dreaming. A sense of peace and relief fell upon me when I woke up and realized it was only a dream.

 I cannot over-emphasize how real that dream seemed to be. I was completely devastated as I walked out of my room and back upstairs. I really truly wished it was just a dream and that I would soon wake up. It seemed so real. I was so relieved when I indeed woke up and realized it indeed was only a dream.

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Thursday, July 13, 2023

Henry 45-70

 Today I went to the gun shop and picked up my Henry 45-70 rifle. It's a beautiful rifle. It has a brass receiver and stock plate. It has an octagon barrel and is a side loader.


 

I'm excited! This rifle completes my collection.

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

No STDs

 For many years I worried that I may have herpes.

One day I got an infection. It was a staph infection. Right on the corner or my mouth. It began to swell up. It was ugly! It began to spread to the rest of my face.

I went to the hospital's emergency room. I showed the intake nurse my face.

Ugh! She said. You need to see a doctor right away. And so I was admitted into the emergency room.

A doctor saw my face and asked what had happened. I told him my story. It started off as a pimple and it got infected.

Sir, you have herpes! He declared

I sat there dumbfounded. Exactly how can I have herpes when I hardly ever have sex with anyone?

With the exception of a few strippers, I have never ever had sex with loose women. I felt cheated. I barely touched a woman and I'm being told I have herpes?

Damn! I got cheated on! I've been cheated!

And so for many years I lived my life with the thought that maybe I had herpes. Maybe. Not certain, just maybe.

This bothered me insanely! 

Finally, to ease my consciousness I took the test. I got tested for herpes 1 & 2.

I was so relieved when I got the results. Both tests came back negative! 

After living with uncertainty for many years now I know I have no STDs! I am so relieved.