Nazrax

July 8, 2013

Dream Research
I'm researching dreaming. I'm finding stuff on Indian (i.e. in India) sites about dreaming, but they've got lots of religious over- and under-tones, and they're very poorly laid out. Even the article on Wikipedia has lots of the Indian religious stuff, though there's a note near the top that it needs to be cleaned up and get the "foolish superstition" removed. I look up from my laptop and out the window. I'm surprised that, even though it's night, the trees are well lit up - but they're siloetted, lit from the ground. I don't remember installing any landscape lighting.


Changing the Build
I'm changing our build/deploy process to allow linking libraries against other libraries in the build. I'm having trouble with linker errors, but I finally get the build working. I have to modify the deploy process to use the old mechanism before a certain build and to use the new mechanism after it. Beyond a certain revision, deploys are RPM based, so that makes it easier.

I remember seeing a web page that's a list of our builds, one per line: just revisions as links, nothing else. Near the top of the list were SVN revisions; later on the page were the newer Git revisions. I also remember seeing a terminal (white on black) with a linker error.


Consolation
I'm in a clearing in the forest, consoling a kid who's been beat up. In front of me, at the edge of the clearing, there's a steep incline. It's just dirt with a few roots sticking out of it. A tree has fallen down the incline and rests against it.


Long Driveway
I'm in a car driving down a driveway towards the road. I think I was the driver, but I don't actually remember being behind the wheel. I don't know what was to my right; to my left was some grass, a short gentle slope, then a big lawn
with a single small tree. As we drive past the lawn and the tree, we see a large ornate white house. A driveway goes off to the left, then splits. One fork goes to the house; the other fork goes to some kind of out-building.

I continue driving past the house and reach a T. If I turn right, I get to another small building. If I turn left, I'll get to the road.


The Healing Cat
I'm on an island floating in the sky. It's perfectly flat and is covered with grass. I can't make out the edges, so I don't know how big it is, but I know it's pretty big. There are no structures on the island.

Now I'm on another island. A woman wearing strange, heavy clothing is here; and I have a tiny, pure white kitten with me. The woman takes the kitten; now she's become young again, and the kitten is gone. I get mad at the woman for killing my cat, but she says it's OK, that the kitten will be back shortly. Sure enough, there it is. She explains the kitten can heal people, that it disappears for a bit after it heals, and that it enjoys it. The kitten is puring; the woman takes her glasses, sticks the earpiece into a hole in the kitten's head, and "stirs." The kitten purs even more.

Now I'm back on the first island. I have the kitten, and an older man is standing near by. There's also a cardboard box full of containers of toxic chemicals that I need to work with. Between my hazmat suit and the healing cat, I should be OK. I chose one of the chemical containers at random, fire it into the sky, and explode it.