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     Had another can’t get home because car is impounded dream.  I am really beginning to hate these.  I know my subconscious is screaming at me to pay attention to something I’m ignoring or not getting and the frequency of these would suggest a degree of urgency.

     In this dream, they had moved my car to an impound lot near my home and suggested I call my wife to come get me.  We only have one car so no way she could do that.

Went down to Edmonds Marine View Park Beach today just to see the water front again because I could.  Was kind of hoping for a colourful sunset but it was not to be.  Still getting the hang of this camera so under-exposed nearly all the pictures.  Oh well, live and learn.

     I signed my release papers today.  I’m kind of free.  Until the court processes the paper work, I still can’t leave the country without a court order, but at least I can leave the county, or travel out of state.  I can’t relocate to another state without first getting permission.

     Even after the court processes the paperwork, I probably won’t be able to own firearms (no big deal since I never have) or vote (bigger deal, because, even though I know my vote will be swamped by bought votes, it’s still symbolic).  Because I’ve got a no-contact order, apparently that may hold the case open and make getting my voting rights back difficult to impossible.  It all comes down to having money for attorneys, which I don’t.  The rich and the poor live by two entirely different sets of rules in this country.  Gotta love it.

     Well, at least I can travel within the states where I want to, don’t have to avoid minors and feel like some kind of leper, don’t have to go sit in an office for an hour to report in to a community corrections officer, or have my house regularly invaded by same.  I get to use whatever computer sites I choose to now, can use IRC, peer-to-peer, and some social media sites that I previously was restricted from.

     Woke up about 3AM out of a nightmare involving our dog, Mei.  She was throwing up something resembling bloody turds.  In the dream this was late at night about the same time the dream was occurring.  My wife works nights and so had the car.  I tried to call her but she didn’t answer her phone, and so I tried to call my oldest son and just got voice mail on his phone.  I left a voice message saying we had to get her to an pet emergency hospital, then I woke up.

     Then later I had a dream, I was in high school watching a basket ball game.  A tall lanky black kid who had been the team star was struggling.  He had injured himself and wasn’t recovering well.

     Today I go into sign my release papers from community custody.  I think this dream is a fear on my part that I won’t be able to get back into my own game fully even after my freedoms are restored.  A fear that maybe I’m too old and no longer have the mental capacity to just “get it” any more.

     I’m about thirteen hours away from no longer being under community custody.  Go in to sign my release paperwork tomorrow.  I’m a little bit nervous, afraid they’ll try to make me sign some of my rights away by agreeing to things that are neither required by law or reasonable.  I’m hoping that’s not the case and it all goes smoothly.

     I’ll be celebrating Friday evening at The Rock in Lynnwood.  It is my favourite pizza place and I haven’t been able to go there for six years.  Wish all of my family could be there to celebrate with me but unfortunately that’s not the case.  I plan to arrive between around 7-8pm, depends somewhat on when my oldest son gets off work.  How long I stay depends on who all shows up.

Lynnwood Rock
4010 196th Street SW
Lynnwood, WA 98036
Hours: 11:30am – midnight
Manager: Martin McAuliff
425.697.6007

Two days until I go in and sign my release papers from community custody.  Looking forward to not having all the restrictions on my life I’ve had to deal with over the past three years, in particular the ability to travel outside of King County without getting permission first, the ability to go to public places where there might be children.  Looking forward to seeing the Puyallup Fair again, and my Father, if he wants to see me.

I mostly have my allergies under control using a combination of ChlorTabs (Chlorpheniramine Maleate) and AllerClear (Loratadine) tablets for general antihistamine, Flonase to help keep my nasal passages from being so stuffed up I can’t breath through my nose, and Optcon-A Naphazoline (a generic version of Naphcon-A) to keep eye goop under control. The Chlorpheniramine Maleate makes me drowsy but Loratadine by itself doesn’t provide adequate relief. This is mostly effective except I still have some skin rash. What has worked well for me in the past as far as skin goes is Triamcinalone cream but to get it I have to go to a doctor, that’s $140 because I don’t have coverage and another $60 for the actual medicine, and the doctors will never give me a decent sized prescription because they want to keep collecting those $140 office visits and I just can’t afford it so just have to suffer through it for now.

My feet are still dried out and I’ve got some fungal funk going on. My heels and sides of my toe boxes are cracked to the point where it makes walking painful. I’ve been using pro-ex Clotrimazole cream on that because it’s cheap (88 cents a 1.5 Oz tune) and Profoot Heal Rescue, and it seems to be slowly helping. At least it’s not to where it is bleeding any more.

I’m trying to find some health insurance I can afford but so far no go. I keep hoping you folks will give me a clue as to what you want to I can change Eskimo North into something that is wildly successful so I can afford it but so far that hasn’t happened.  I don’t know what to do about that except keep on keeping on.  I think of when Paul asked God to remove his affliction and he asked three times and it didn’t happen, sometimes that’s just our lot in life I guess.

     If Google wanted to improve the search experience, one thing that would do that would be to remove results pointing to teasers, where you get the first part of an article but then to get the rest you have to have a paid subscription to something.  I run into these all the time with New Scientist for example.  As far as I am concerned teaser articles amount to just yet another form of spam.