FryingMan

+ hiking/exploring on the massive mountainside carvings/statue
The scene [or my memory of it] begins with a group emerging onto a large open area outside high up on a mountainside. Ahead of me is a young asian man (with a small mustasche?) whom I think previously was on our team but has switched sides to the enemy?
I "know" that the place we are is very special massive carving on the mountainside, of a Chinese dog/dragon head. There are huge golden pillars/boulders to the sides, and I look up at the face of the cliffs and see the huge eye carved there. I see in the very far distance, a flat land far away and far below, and know that the carvings on the mountain are quite well seen from even that far away.

I'm looking down at the ground and see all sorts of very colorful stones/rocks. I want to take one or more with me, but I do not know if I have any spare weight left in my luggage. I look at several, and one in particular catches my eye and I pick it up and turn it over and look at it all around: it is a grayish stone covered with beautiful pastel blue and green polka dots.

Another stone has a clear crystal part and a deep reddish-brown translucent part, and I turn it over and see some bits of salami wedged into the rock. Of course, because this is a salami sandwich rock! I pick out the bits of salami.

I see more rocks, like flint/shale, sharp, ragged edges. I pick one up and turn it over, there are large scarab beetles (?) on the bottom. I move up a path picking up other rocks, and there are mussels inside chambers if you lift off the covers.

My colleague CC (companies "3", "b", current company "s") is there and says he's hungry. I ask if he's eaten those beetles from the underside of that other rock. He says yes, I say "even with all those gross wiggly legs!?".

+ visiting anderj101's new room, playing his piano
I'm hanging around a (dorm?) and [pretty sure it's] anderj101 comes up with pictures of his new room! He applied for and got a room for himself, the picture has a couch on it. I go to see his new room. In the picture there is a small square hard (wood?)-floor dance area where he teachers dance classes to kids. I think that those classes are probably why he was approved to get this room all to himself. I see the small area on the picture, and inside the room I see the same area but it's smaller. I look again and it's more reasonable sized now.

Inside the room we both hold out our arms to our sides and spin around in circles, and I say "oh boy, So Much Space!" I revel in all the open space in this room.

I move to sit on a couch, and I feel like I'm so comfortable here I want to sleep. But I say that "I'm just going to sit here and close my eyes and imagine things (decorating options?) about this room" but really I intend to sleep.

I get up and turn around and want to play on anderj101's piano. He says "well don't play that old one, it's out of tune." So I sit down on a (square cushioned?) stool in front of the digital piano which is a shiny, deep burgundy color, and very curvy/swoopy in shape. The keyboard is on the ground with no stand so I can't reach it. Anderj101 says "most people pick up the keyboard and put in on their laps." So I do that. I position my hands to start playing the intro to Arthur's Theme (Christopher Cross), but then I notice that all the keys above middle C are missing and there are only little circular buttons where the key would press down to activate the sound, and realize I can't play this.

I try to play anyway, and position my hands and try to play, but the whole keyboard is now flexible and bending up and down in peaks and valleys and the keys are all sort of squished close together, and I give up after just a bar or two.

We're outside now walking in to some door and I say "love songs are the most fiendishly difficult to play." Anderj101 says "yeah and girlfriends always want you to play those love songs." I say "so you might as well have to be a concert pianist!"

Inside the door I'm standing close with a group of people, one of whom is VTch who comes up, he comes up from the back and around the crowd to stand in front of me. He says someone apparently had been squeezing him very hard on his arm.

+ at work, watching a color printer in action
I'm at a job that I never go to much, it is a moonlighting job. I wonder if I can ask the president for my paycheck, and if I picked it up last time since I don't come around very much. I'm standing at printer, against wall, then I move to the one in the middle of the room which is managed by the IT guy who's desk is right there in the middle of the room. This is a color printer and it has a very special way of printing (dots?). I watch the process of a large long piece of paper has various color designs painted on it in a waterfall pattern.

+ (f) at a party, something about getting beer?