I decided to skip convo and go into work late. I normally wouldn't do that except that it's already 9:30a and I'm expecting my new computer to show up on my doorstep by 10:30a. I get about 7 hours of sleep I just get up later than I should.

I had a really cool dream last night with relatively well developed characters. Okay they weren't too deep but hey, it's a dream not a play.

I don't remember the whole thing, of course, and trying to squeeze it into words as it rapidly fades from memory doesn't help things. It was more like a few dreams which may or may not have bled into each other. The main two things I remember aren't related at all. At some point it was a fantasy thing with a prince and a princess apparently living in exile in a tropical place. I guess they were married because she was watching him playing with his sons and thinking how much they took after him. She also felt a bit distant from him, like he wasn't quite the person she had once perceived him to be. While he was playing war/sword fighting with their 3 or 4 boys she was harvesting bananas (which for some reason in my dream came in what looked like coconuts and for some reason he was wearing armor made out of bananas draped over him like feathers on birds... and they were black at one point but I think they were yellow at a different point). Then there was a scene with a dragon in a cave which was apparently part of the same cavern they lived in. The prince somehow loosed the tongue of the dragon so the dragon could speak. It was kind of a snotty maybe sinister character with a British accent and he was rather large and slender. He could tell that the princess was not a descendent of royalty. Apparently she was adopted into the family somehow so she was a princess, but not genetically. The dragon made some snide remarks about that and then something about her being a woman and inferring that she was inferior because of that. When that happened she basically grabbed him by the throat to hurt him to demonstrate that she wasn't as weak as he supposed (at some point I think I pictured the dragon as a large screen rear projection screen TV. I was behind her and the back of the TV was toward us and she had hold of the right side... but then it went back to being the dragon).

Then the dream shifted to more a more domestic scene. I don't remember much from it other than there was a house/family I was staying with. I wonder if the house is something from distant memories. It was nothing unusual but not one I've been in recently. Of course, I could've made the whole thing up. About the only thing I remember from this part is coming home and bringing an apple pie in that I bought at a grocery store. I looked around and saw that there was already pie there and so my contribution was redundant. The man of the house was at that point an older guy from church [in the real world]. I think I had a computer in my room in that house and I vaguely remember doing some chat room stuff.

Well, my computer and ipod mini just came in. It was a good thing I decided to stay. Since these things were shipped from the factory in China I had to sign for them. My room mate gets a lot of stuff shipped here so it's set up so we don't normally have to sign for packages. Since this was an international order I did have to sign.

Cheers.