Thursday yesterday. Therapy, Climbing, "Star Trek", eating salad with sticks, and fire music

New therapist yesterday, recommended to me by Sierra. It was productive first session, with a fair amount of waterworks, and some good insight.


After climbing with Brian, I picked up Rose at the UW and we headed to the Cinerama to watch the local premire of "Star Trek".

We ended up seated next to Gabriel and Liss, after encountering Elf and Omaha, and PaulF and Joan in the crowd. On the way in, I also ran into Amber and Sakura.

I'm undecided as to the long term implications fo the Star Trek franchise, but this reboot has promise. I very much like this variant of Spock, this McCoy is perfect, and Captain Pike was inspiring.

There was a lot of catchphrase fan-service.

The movie is entertaining and fun.


Afterwards, Rose and Liss went home, and Gab and I met up with Paul and Joan for a late bite at B&O. After taking Gab home, he showed me his "fire whistle", an instrument made out of copper that, when fed burning gas, plays middle C. He is building a set of 8, to make an instrument to play at Burning Man.

Dreams, last night

A dream last night, examined in waking light, is a mixture of my memories of walking rural dirt roads in summertime Alaska, and yet are linked to my last two trips to Vancouver, in that I kept meeting people who, in the context of the dream, I knew from meeting them in Van, or them knowing people I met in Van.

And yet, I've never met any of those people.

I have the strangest feeling that the memories of this dream will evaporate as they all do, and yet someday I'm going to meet these people, and be overwhelmed with deja vu.


I've been feeling deja vu a lot, the last month.


One of them, when I meet them, I may feel the need to apologize for killing the power to their house by accidentally perfectly nailing the powerline to their house with a frisbee.



In another dream, I had some amazing insight into some previously unconsidered implication of the interactions between creativity, the collapsing barriers to entry of both media production and short run manufacturing, and localized recommendation systems. I clearly remember thinking "I have to wake up so I can write this down!". And yet, I did not wake up. And now it's gone.