That's how I make sure I'm dreaming - I look for anything written. Written words in dreams are always changing and illegible.

This is why I have a recumbent. It's a lawn chair with wheels.

By me there's a post a month of a photo asking if it's a wolf wandering the neighborhood. When it's not a fox, it's a stray poodle. We're 25 miles from NYC.

There was a whole plan for space colonization.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space

I was a lazy jerk that just bombed out of the local college in record time. I figured I'd try photography trade school. She was a natural artist with no plan and picked the same trade school. We were in the same 6-month program. She specialized in lab work, I went into product photography. Class started October 1984. We had several family deaths, financial ruin, and other calamities - but supported each other through it all. Lived with family and in the car. Got my life on track in my 30s. Bought a house in 2000, married in 2004, kid in 2009. Now a boring but desperate suburbanite staring down the next downsizing wave and big medical bills.

Yes. Migraines. It wasn't my parents but an early job in the late 80s. Dude next to me smoked so much it was a problem with fouling the equipment. We had to re-do jobs all the time for failure to clean the settled soot. I left the job and one of the reasons was the constant migraines.

I'd love to hear them. Does anyone have a sample of the kind of music they would have played?

I have two.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brink%27s_robbery Summary: an armored car was robbed by desperate "most-wanted" types. Bug national new.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilchrest_Road,_New_York,_crossing_accident Summary: school bus full of kids hit by a train. The reason why "this vehicle stops at all rr crossings" is a thing.

VisiCalc

Yup. The scouts seem to be organizing a vigil this week. Looks like the whole town is gonna go.

If you can find a new one. They are $45+ on ebay used. None of the usual US sellers has any.

My neighbors are going for 2 weeks in a week. They've been planning for more than a year. This will be their last chance to go as a family of 4. I can't see them canceling.