Nazrax

Bed @ 2240
Wake @ 0140 /w full bladder

Call of Duty
I'm getting ready to play cooperative Call of Duty 4 with a friend. It's been a long time since I played, so I watch a video refresher. I get a reminder mainly about stealth, how to sneak, how to stay out of the light, and how it's pretty much impossible to hide when you're carrying something important, which glows like a beacon from y our back. Now I'm watching another video staring a couple of guys. It's much more colorful than the first, and at first I think it's something else, but eventually I realize it's still for this game. Now I'm watching as a couple of guys are sneaking across an area full of pressure plates (each of which has a special marking) to get to an artifact in the center. As they're getting close, a large man walks brazenly through the area, reaches over an unbroken ring of pressure plates, grabs the artifact, and starts to walk off. The first team sits stunned for a moment and then goes into action, trying to take down the newcomer and his team. They manage it, though some suppressing sniper fire makes it difficult.

Now I'm seeing the game as if I'm inside it. It's night, and I'm carrying the artifact. I see an enemy sniper off to my left, on the other side of a multilane road, though doesn't yet see me. I've got two teammates (one of whom is currently very stealthy while the other is slightly stealthy), and they manage to take him out so I can move. I can't see myself, but I know the artifact is making me glow. Now we've reached an elevator. One of my teammates wants to show me something, and he asks me to hand him the backpack. I do, and he immediately jumps into the elevator, pushes a button to close the doors, and laughs at me. I realize he's going to get credit for delivering the artifact instead of me! I bang on the doors of the elevator, then try to open them with my hands, but nothing happens (other than additional laughter from inside). I run for the stairs behind me, but it's many flights to get down to the mission objective, and I know he's going to beat me. I kick myself for forgetting about the artifact glow (huh?), and I wish I could play coop games with John again. We used to do it on a regular basis, but it's been a long time and he's just not interested any more.


Slippery cave
I'm in a cave with a friend. We've both got little sliding board. The cave is steep and fairly straight and covered with something slippery (snow? That doesn't seem right - we're not dressed for cold), and many people are sliding down a long way, going from the opening of the cave all the way to the other end. Now I'm about to go, but something's changed: there are large bare patches, and most of the crowd is gone. My mother-in-law apologizes: she thought everyone was done and has started cleaning up and putting away, though she says if I want to slide I can just put down <something>. I look around for it and see it (it looks like rolled up carpet); but I'm confused again because it looks like it's no more than twenty feet from the cave mouth to the far wall, and I could have sworn it was far longer than that before. Maybe I was thinking of a different cave. I walk deeper into the cave complex and find another room with sofa cushions on the floor. Maybe this is what I'm looking for. There are a variety of cushion designs, including some that look like they came from my own house! Initially, I think that all the cushions are of the same height, but looking again I see they're all sorts of shapes and sizes - some of them aren't even "box"-shaped. I see at least one or two foam blocks that look like cubes cut in half, triangular and sharp. I pull them out and go hunting for pillows of an appropriate size and thickness to fit in nicely with the pillows around the spots which held the weird "triangular" pieces.


Cleanup snafu
I'm helping clean up, including throwing a lot of stuff away. Something goes wrong, and I'm embarrassed. I end up throwing away a bunch of stuff and immediately running to get far away from the trashcan - I was trying to avoid some kind of threat.


BTB @ 0200.
Woke @ 0400 /w crying baby

Fragment: My second daughter is standing in a stark-white kitchen.


Woke @ 0545 /w noisy kids
Final Fantasy cheat codes
I'm playing Final Fantasy 7. I run to the top of some stairs, jump off, and land a long, long way down. As I land, I remember that, if I input the right code during the fall, I can get something really good. I go back up and try again, trying to remember the code, but it's just not coming to me. I send a quick message to John, asking if he remembers, but he doesn't. I try to look up the code another way, but something else comes up and I have to walk away from the game for a while.