Only in Dreams

I would have to do a crazy 45 minute commute to work every morning. It involved driving downtown under all the bridges where I would catch a metro-like thing. I somehow ended up at a church activity (of a family ward) where I ran into Annalisa Milo. She had grown up quite a bit and we were talking about life and such. I found out that the restaurant was still open and running up in Salt Lake. I dropped by and started talking to the Milos. Turns out that Nerissa is living in China doing business. I happened to be there at the restaurant right before they opened and so the Milos were doing a training with the servers. Sister Milo introduced me to everyone there and mentioned how I was just back visiting even after leaving on such terrible terms. Allusions to them knowing this fact kept popping up. Afterwards I was talking with the servers, dividing out their tips and asking about who usually does that job now that Nerissa was gone? Some guy went off on a tangent explaining how Cucina Tuscana was doomed because on the first night of summer when he opened the porch, somehow an ill biblical omen was there. I think it was some number of people who came in or something. He was raving that no one else noticed it, but that it was clear as day. His argument was very convincing. After that I was talking with Sister Milo again and she had mentioned that they still had the painting that I had given them. I didn’t remember any painting, but suddenly memories started flowing back of a family portrait that I had given to them as a gift. I joked and said “I would really like to come over and see that painting. I’m surprised you still have it!”

Brityn came over and we were going to watch a movie. In particular some chick flick that I was supposed to have. When I was looking through all of the DVD cases, I realized that most of them were gone/stolen and so I didn’t have any type of chick movie. It was getting late, but we were still talking and she brought up the fact that Ty ripped her off by charging her a $25 DJ finding fee because he got a DJ over to her place one night they threw a party. I said, well Ty’s piano is still over at our place so feel free to come over and play $25 worth of time/practice while we still had it.

There is a robotic ear bunny thing that goes around and to see if you are lying or not or if you are loyal to whatever government/political power. It hooks up electrodes to you and asks you questions if it senses that you are incorrect, it shocks you to watch for stress. Apparently being shocked and the stress response can show loyalty. Kind of like a big brother thing. Except that a friend runs it. It was my first time doing it but my friend was helping me through it. The guy running it was an idiot and didn’t realize that I kept getting the questions wrong and I kept on stammering when I was getting shocked, but the operator just figured that I was new. But in actuality, I was anti-government.