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Fermius Firefly

A Dream Log, whenever I remember the dreams I've had.

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Location: San Marcos, United States

Fermius is a pen name drawn from a series of short fiction I wrote when I published the small press magazine Stellanova (on paper.) I play RPG games to escape from my daily grind as a technology wage slave for the state of California. I eat out a lot in order to do my part in supporting our increasingly service level economy. I am butler to 2 feline masters. If you ask them they will tell you I'm not very good at it, late with dinner, don't have enough hands with brushes in them, and sometimes I even lock them out of their office.

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Under Construction

The district I work for has several sites under construction. I was touring them, and finding that most of the roads were also under construction, making me late for my many meetings. I was driving an interesting two-wheel vehicle that would have easily fit in a 3 foot square. I was in an almost standing position, and the thing had split handlebars that controlled the wheels independently. I was dodging cranes and skip loaders and wondering at a couple of narrow passages how a normal car could ever possibly get through. It turns out they couldn't, the construction folks had waved me through because they wanted to see the strange vehicle I was driving. Things were so jammed at one point that they let me drive into a skip loader shovel, and they lifted me over the trench they were digging so I could continue on my trip.

Later, I had all the tile off of the roof and piled in our driveway. While I had the roof open we decided to raise the roof over our offices to make an upstairs porch/solarium. We hadn't made any plans for stairs, though, and I was trying to convince Nan that we didn't need any. A ladder would do for me, and the cats could climb up the carpeted walls of the ladderway. I could tell she wasn't buying it.

Ad astra per technica,
FF

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