Today was this first day that I volunteered at Harvester's.  I didn't get that much done because I was getting to know the lay of the land.  I had a good time and the time went by very quickly.  I kind of don't want to wait for two weeks.  Afterward I went to DirectBuy for their little spiel.  I signed up on the internet last week sometime in order to get points or something.   I didn't win the grand prize, but the gave me two $100.00 gift cards to restaurants.com.  I went out there and I was a little disappointed that not all locations of a restaurant were in their database.  I wanted to get a gift card for The Melting Pot in South Carolina where my sister is, but that location wasn't an option even though my local Melting Pot was in the database.

I actually had a pretty good holiday weekend.  Friday I took one of my cable boxes back and cancelled part of my cable services to try to lower my bill.  After my psychologist appointment, I went to the DMV and waited forever to return the tags on my car I had sold.  Afterward I went to some friends' house and played Settlers of Catan (by Mayfair games in the US).  I won the first game and I haven't won in a while.  We played with Seafarers, Cities and Knights, and Fishermen of Catan and Habormaster from Traders and Barbarians.  It can be a pain to set up, but it can be a lot of fun.  Saturday after I skyped (I htink Skype is a wonderful thing) my little sister and saw my new niece, I rummaged through the basement to find the bungee cords to secure my bike to the carrier.  In the end, the bungee cords were in the garage and the bike carrier did not fit on my car.  I have two carriers and one fits on a small car (I bought it for a Miata) and the other went over a spare tire on the back of a SUV.  Since my current car is neither of these, I ended up putting the bike in the trunk.  I took my mountain bike to the shop for new gear shifters right before they closed.  I then went to Sam's Club to do some grocery shopping.  Later I swapped the TV in my bedroom with a small flat screen I had on the wall in one of the extra bedroom.  The TV in my bedroom is like 20 years old and the remote no longer works.  This was not a problem when I had it connected to a cable box.  The new TV is larger, but without the cable box I am not watching it too much.  I really miss the on screen programming, but it is keeping from staying in bed all day.

Sunday was the big day.  I got up early to go to mass and then went to some friends' house for a pool party. Of course I didn't get in the pool, but it was enjoyable to talk with some of the other there.  At one point we were reminiscing about the good old days when memory was sized KB and you had to manage the memory using HiMem for some things so that Windows could run.

I left the pool party early so that I could go to some other friends' house where we played Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot (by Playroom games).  Since we haven't played in a while it took some time to remember the rules.  We played with blue, yellow, red, violet, green, twilight white, perfectly pink, and stainless steel decks.  I wanted to add in wacky khaki, but the others were against it.  I am hoping we will add wacky khaki and ominous onyx in the near future.  It really depends on when we play again.

Monday I ended up sleeping most of the day.  I was tired on Sunday because I got up early and so I slept a lot on Monday.  It was good to sleep, but I did not get anything done.  I still am not getting much done, or at least I am not getting the things I want to do done.

I talked to Mom Monday night and she was trying to book tickets to visit my little sister and her new baby.  She was having some difficulties and once I got her to share her screen on Skype (see previous comment), I was able to help her get what she needed done.  It did take a very long time, so we didn't talk much about what was going on, although I did talk to Dad for a while prior to talking to Mom.  He seems to be doing well.  They had a small party for my older sister who turned 50 at some point in the weekend.  I hope she had a good time, I haven't talked to her since then.

One day last week I woke up and wrote down the dream I had.   I was back in college, but the campus was nothing like the college I went to.  The other odd thing was that I looked as I do now and not as I did when I was younger.  I was looking for my friends after having an argument with my little brother (who did not go to the same college as I did).  Everyone was partying and having a good time.  I am not sure what exactly was going on--there was just a lot of people carousing and some were even dressed in costumes.  I was trying to participate, but was not getting a positive response from the other people so I continued on.  At some point I started dancing with a beautiful woman who did not know how to dance.  It was a bit difficult because we were dancing outside on a large expanse of grass.  I was leading her in a waltz, although I don't remember any particular music--we stopped to talk to some people who were in our way.  I don't remember the conversation, but it was brief and I was explaining the steps and what I wanted her to do when I woke up. 

I am not sure if I truly dreamed this or if this was what I was thinking in that time when you are in the process of waking up.  Normally, I think about all the things I have to do and imagine how well I am going to do them in the mornings.  Of course, I am always disappointed because things never go that way.  Anyhow tomorrow is another day and maybe I will get something done.