THE DAILY DIVERSION

I've been pretty busy at work. I've been in the middle of two projects as of late (which I think I mentioned during my last post), and we've actually rolled out the pilot on one of them. The other one is getting ready to roll out. Once they both get going I'll probably be spending most of my time cleaning them up and making sure the input information (from other users) is correct.

So, I've pretty much gone from an internal bank examiner to a programmer of bank usable software. Hmm... I haven't noticed an increase in my paycheck though.

Anyway, I've had some crazy dreams these last couple days and I thought I'd share what little I can remember of them. I think part of the reason I've been dreaming this way is because I've been taking Melatonin prior to going to sleep. Yes, I've been having problems sleeping again (mostly getting to sleep and staying that way), which makes my takes even less tolerable. To learn more about this fascinating, and cheap drug, check it out here. I usually take a 5mg tab, whereas my wife will take the 3mg tab.

This is actually the brand I use...

Okay, so where was I before I got off course? Oh yes, dreams!

Well, I had two crazy ones a couple of nights ago, but can only one main theme in one of them. The theme was that, somehow, a shark had gotten loose in a house, and it could swim under the floors. Yeah, I know that's a bunch of crazy talk, but it happens. I can also remember that I was jumping from chair to chair, making sure not to touch the floor. Every now and then you could see some movement under the carpet.

Last night I had a couple more dreams, but can only remember one of them, or at least the main focus of one of them. I really would rather not talk about it, but then what would be the point of my bringing it up, right?

So, I'm watching an episode of "Criminal Minds" (we watched it last night, so that's why it was in my head), and the main guy, Mandy Patinkin,

and the second in command, Thomas Gibson,

keep putting a huge vibrator up Matthew Gray Gubler's ass.

Supposedly they are testing to see how much pain he can take and it gets to the point that he can't even feel it, unless they turn it on and it starts vibrating loudly.

This is where things are really, really crazy. I am actually pulling in things from the waking world on this as Adrianne's alarm (her cell phone set to vibrate) is what is actually "buzzing" and I'm hearing it in my dream. I finally wake out of the dream but I don't hear the vibrating any more. However, I do roll over to see what time it is, and it's 6:00 am (on the dot at that), so I wake her up to see what time she was supposed to get up (since it's usually prior to 6 am). She searches for her phone, which she usually keeps under her pillow, and it had found it's way to the floor, thus the reason she didn't hear it.

So, my disgusting dream about a poor actor getting a vibrator shoved up his ass actually turns out to be a positive. It helped my wife to get up on time and not be late for work. I told you there was some craziness going on!