I�ve started having the nuclear warfare dream again. I thought I�d seen the last of it when Reagan left office, but I was mistaken. It woke me up at 7:30 yesterday morning. Well, that and our neighbors slamming their back door, which is about 10-15 feet from out bedroom window. That added a whole new aspect to an already terrifying dream - Sensurround sound. Not the best way to start the day, but I�m sure I blew any plaque build-up right out of my arteries.
On a completely unrelated note � when people who�ve never been there ask me what San Francisco is like, I can now point them to this story. One of the things I miss about The City is the sense of goofiness (to put it mildly) so evident down that way. That�s not to say the Seattle doesn�t have its playful side � we did, after all, get a visit from The Monolith in 2001. It�s just not so much of a daily thing here � possibly due to the heavy Norwegian influence. Then again, Ballardis home to the people who market this, so maybe I�m all wet on the wacky Scandanavian concept.