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Pre-Renaissance Faire
October 18, 2002

This Sunday we're going to the PA Renaissance Faire again.  I can't remember if we went last year, but I don't think so.  I believe that Sunday is the last day this season for the Faire, so if it rains then we will probably have to wait until next year.  It's getting a bit too cold these days to trudge around in the dirt and mud to see the same shows that we see almost every year without change.

Hopefully Abby will be more appreciative of the outdoor time and activities, such as the joust and pig shows.  (I hear they have a new pig, but I could be wrong.)  This weekend is a Halloween theme week, and people are invited to dress up in costumes (not necessarily the traditional 16th-century costumes).

PageCat Update
October 17, 2002

Well, I was working on PageCat again last night and after a few stupid mistakes I got some things working pretty neatly.

I can now add graphics via URLs to articles using the HTML editor.  You just click on the Add Image button and a dialog pops up.  This dialog will eventually allow you to specify an existing file from the web server or upload a new file for inclusion in the article.  Before I complete this, though, I will need to add a database configuration plugin, so I can add/edit/delete the database config table.

Return from the In-laws
October 14, 2002

It should read like a B-Movie thriller, "Return form the In-Laws!!!"  Will our heroes return with their sanity in tact?  What strange dialect of English will they speak when they return??

Fortunately, a convergence of events led to a late departure to Johnstown this weekend.  I wasn't feeling very well, and the doctor had prescribed something that made me sleep for most of the weekend.  Besides that, it was raining fairly heavily.  Although, I did take the time to coat Berta's car windshield with Rain-X before the trip.

Dream Theory
October 07, 2002

I was wondering today how much our dreams affect our waking lives.  I had a very... I can't say strange... unusual dream last night, involving a gray vintage VW Beetle and a girl I don't know.  There was another part where I was walking with a guy I don't know who was playing with some cards and telling me strange things.  I was hiding from some people, I think I may have killed someone in my dream.  As many of my more "important" dreams go, this one was pretty surreal.

So I suppose I've been thinking a lot about it today.  Who was that girl?  And as I describe the dream and who these people are, they're not really people that I don't know - they don't actually exist.  It's not like I'm sharing my dreams with someone else.  I don't buy into a collective dream state.  There's no evidence for that.  But I didn't want to say "dream-girl", since that implies something completely different from the role this person played in my dream.