I don't remember everything leading up to this, but I was at a party in a co-op like building. I was hanging out with Elena and we decided to clear off the air hockey table and play. I scored first but that was just because Elena wasn't paying attention. then she got all these goals past me and won.

since this was our air hockey table we started playing another game. she scored one, then I started scoring. I started to think if I keep scoring then she won't want to play anymore. she started to make noises along those lines, and suddenly my foot tickled.

I looked and there folded up at my feet was a small asian woman with glasses. she said she was going to give me a gentle foot massage while I play, and was that OK? I started to say yes, then realized, "gentle" = "tickles". so I said only if it's not as gentle as she started.

I turned back to the air hockey game and this sales type guy tried to sell Elena and I these different paddles for the air hockey game. they looked sort of liek gelatinous frisbees. we weren't terribly interested but we took a pair of samples just to make him go away. at this point I looked at the paddles we were using. they were flat, with a teardrop-shaped hole in them so one could have extra momentum hitting the disk.

anyhow the game was interrupted and Elena didn't want to play anymore. she stuffed the disk, two paddles all in her goal. the machine accepted them and said "storing" in a feminine mechanical voice. I thought it was neat it all fit and Elena said well how do you think it stores its stuff? I put the two paddles into my goal and it did the same thing. I bent over and peered in the slot and it had all these rail mechanisms. in the side of the table was a little bracket. that held the disk so someone else could start a new game.

so, I was at work, and it was crazy busy. not sure what was going on. my boss had me stuffing envelopes. after a while I realized it was the paperwork from reviews and salary raises. I was a bit surprised that she trusted me so much. at one point I noticed her salary, the raise, the new salary. the new salary was $30K and change. I suddenly realized how priviledged I was.

I dreamt that I was in the top floor, or maybe the second down, in a tall building. it was well-air-conditioned. I was talking to my boss, Maria, and found to my surprise that she played AD&D. after talking to some other co-workers, we thought maybe we would get a game together. I realized that all the characters I had rolled up lo so many years ago, and sat on and never played, were all specialists of one sort or another, and that maybe I should roll up a generalist.

I ended up on the roof of the building. it was flat with that gravelly covering big tall buildings often have. people from my burning man camp were there like Mike and Meli. we were talking and about to leave when we saw a really BIG tornado off in the distance. well, not so far off. well, some folks thought it was far and interesting to watch from the roof. it was very dark against the bright hazy afternoon sky. I and a couple other people decided to hide in the stairwell. it was close enough to be very windy by the time I walked across the the stairwell doors. Mike went and hid in his hotel room. the three of us went down half a flight of stairs as the wind howled. I was afraid my friends on the roof would blow away, or be impaled by straws, or something like that.

I went across the street and a coupple doors down. there was a house with a screen door in the side. I looked in an it was all dark wood.

bohdan was lying there, next to a guy with blond surfer hair. I was very surprised. then bodhan started to nuzzle him and wag his tail. the guy loved and and started to play with him.

I was sure bohdan would snap at him any time, but he didn't, he was really into the guy.