JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 12:15 AM Saturday, July 09, 2011
I told my girlfriend later that night I was either getting fired the next day or I would be promoted.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 12:10 AM Wednesday, June 15, 2011
I don't know what "Cater 2 U" is supposed to be about but it makes me feel nostalgic for the summer of 2004, and specifically 27 June 2004, when I completed that Ironman Coeur d'Alene triathlon course in Idaho. I will never again participate in the activity of that racketeering organization unless I am ordered to, and if so then I have to wonder what would be the point, but I long for those days when the world seemed almost normal despite the aggravation around me on a daily basis and the fact that I was in good enough physical condition to complete that course that day. That only real reason this song makes me think about that, other than it is in 2004, and this is trivial, is about the post-race food that was catered and I didn't really stay around for a lot of it anyway. I think about it too because of the element I watched tonight in the 2001 film "Bandits" where Bruce Willis was in the boxing ring and I think about how as a United States Marine in 1994 I was heavily training in that area and of how I always thought of how I could avoid gun battles if I was an adequate pugilist. Writing about it now I think again about thoughts a few weeks ago of an experience I have not written about before of how my theory of fighting with fugitives with my fists was a failure because I stepped into a takedown of a fugitive by a team that failed, while I was supposed to remain in my assigned position on the perimeter, and the fugitive slugged me and took my primary weapon and after I was knocked the ground I had to pull out my backup weapon and kill him before he could use my weapon to kill the other Deputy US Marshals he had fought off.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 4:18 AM Thursday, September 29, 2011
Star constellations
I wasn't going to write about a dream I just before waking up and getting out of bed but I was later in the shower and I started thinking about a possible explanation for the star pattern I saw in my dream and so I decided to write about that part and to try to write the least about the rest of the dream as I could, which I feel compelled to not write about for no real reason.
The compelling part about the dream is the pattern of stars I saw. The dream seems to have started with me and I was out in the woods somewhere and the light was dark and I had some kind of ability to radiate laser beams from my fingers or somehow create laser beams. As I think more about that as I write this now I thing again that I did not actually see the laser beams but I am vaguely aware that I could see the patterns I created on people with the laser beams. The notion of the laser beam is never really visually established in the dream but that is a notion that is strongly in my mind after waking up. The last thing I seemed to do with my laser beam power was that I saw myself form a pattern of stars on the ground to my left. The power seemed to stop working at that point. I also found my puzzled about how there were five stars in my creation when I expected only four. Since I was wearing those stars on the epaulet on my black jacket then I was thinking of how the United States Marine Corps has never had a five star general officer and I don't think the USMC should ever have a five star general officer.
What I puzzled about was how the pattern of those stars did not seem consistent with how an officer of the United States military would wear a five-star pattern on his uniform. I seemed to be wearing the winter working dress uniform of the United States Navy. What was unusual was how one of the stars was set away from the other four stars.
When I was in the shower and was thinking about that visualization in my mind of those stars that I had created on the ground and then was wearing my shoulder, on the black jacket that is the type United States Navy sailors used to refer to as the "Eisenhower" jacket, I wondered if that pattern was supposed to represent the star constellation we call the Big Dipper.
Ah, yes. That has got to be it. Just now as I wrote that word "Big Dipper" I remember dialog that happened soon later that is consistent with that notion.
So going back to what I was thinking as I decided to write this note, I thought about how my visualization of the star pattern did not match the Big Dipper very well. But then I started to wonder if I was seeing the pattern of the Big Dipper while I was standing on a planet or moon that circled a star that was very distant from our planet Earth.
I keep thinking of reasons why that all could be just a normal dream. But maybe it is not.
After my laser beam power stopped working, I saw some of the people I had been forming laser beam patterns on and they were all getting into cars and leaving in a long procession of army-type vehicles. They all seemed to be from World War 2. I noted the color pattern of one of the vehicles but I cannot think of any comment to make about it.
Then I seemed to be a sentry on a hill in downtown Seattle Washington. I was aware that I was totally alone in my role. I was also aware I was wearing a United States military uniform but I cannot visualize any details about it from the dream. I was there for a long time. Some kind of conflict started among a few local people that had walked up and I was trying to stay out of it.
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- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 1:38 PM Pacific Time USA Thursday 21 June 2012
