7/22/25

I'm at a UAW variety show being held in an elementary school gym. I'm sitting near the back on the side. Johnny Carson comes in and stands behind me. I mention to him that I talked to him on the phone a couple times when he was on the air but he probably wouldn't remember me. Then they set up a seat for him near the front. 

7/18/25

Wally wears a beret and a scarf on his head. He lives in Florida and tells this guy to look him up the next time he's down there. 

I have some magic mushrooms. I'm afraid I'll get caught with them so I put them on a shelf and someone else gets busted. 

I'm at a graduation party for Zander. I wear a beret and scarf and give a funny speech into a video camera they have set up. Then they have an incredible spread of desserts.

7/16/25

 

Bess was at my parent's house and she wanted a "little something." I give her some cake only it was crumbly and fell apart. I went to several neighbors houses only they didn't have any desserts. 

7/20/25

 

I drive to downtown St. Paul with Eleanor Sertich. We're going to a couple museums. She needs some money so she walks over to a bank. A restaurant owner says I shouldn't park there because he needs the space for his restaurant. We get into an argument. I go to the bank and get Eleanor. We go to Tony's and chat. We get along just fine. Then we go back to the parking to the parking spot and the owner put a bunch of pizza boxes to reserve the spaces. I park there anyway and we visit some cool museums. 

7/14/25

I go downtown in the early evening and the fireworks are going to go off. I get caught in the zone and most of the area is fenced off. I finally find a way out and figure I can watch them from a distance and avoid the traffic jam after they go off.

I drink a beer that's 2% alcohol. Then I'm in a liquor store (in England?). I'm going to buy two bottles of scotch that 65 pounds a bottle. Then I change my mind and take a pass. 

7/12/25

I'm inside the Belle Isle Aquarium and I'm trying to take a bunch of photos. It turns out I'm using a movie camera and I end up with a bunch of short movies of the various fish.

I have the seed of three pretty flowers. They look like Snowdrops and are violet, white, and pink. After I plant the seeds, I reach in a bag of topsoil and there are a bunch of rocks, and pieces of bones mixed in. 

7/10/25

I'm on a walking tour of Lansing with a bunch of people. We stop in a coffee shop. There are some day-old pastries foe 25 cents. Peggy Beadle is there. She's working for a division of Ford that supplies specially-equipped cars for rich people. I tell her I'm available for free-lance work. I join the rest of my group--they have to move several tables to let me fit in. 

7/8/25

I was working on a project downtown. Then I left the office and walked over to in front of the Renaissance Center to catch a bus. I left work a couple hours early so there weren't many busses running. I had trouble finding out where to wait for the Kercheval bus. 

7/7/25

Someone came out to trim the two trees in our front yard. He did a horrible job and trimmed the daylights out of the trees!

I have to write and perform a piece for the piano for Jim and Margot. Jim books a venue for me to perform at. 

I have a cat that I'm supposed to poison. There are little tablets that look like cat treats and I keep trying to get him to eat them. I feel terrible about doing it because he's such a sweet and pretty cat. 

7/3/25

 

I'm at a Phish concert by myself. During the break the band goes out to lunch and I go with one of the members. I have trouble following him but then I find him in a shop meditating. Then we go to a restaurant. They serving shrimp with garnish on top of it. The guy next to me takes mine but using some chopsticks, I try to pick some up that are in the middle of the table. 

7/2/25

I'm outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. It doesn't open until 10:30. I complain that there are probably 100,000 tourists in the city, waiting for it to open.

I'm at home and two robbers walk into the house. I wake up.