Dreams

I had the weirdest dreams again last night. I dreamt a lot about Switzerland, I guess wander lust is striking again. I dreamt that the whole group for the Peru trip came with me to Switzerland first.

They were terribly unimpressed by Baden (I don't see why!!). I went to work, and when I came back, Sarah kept complaining that they had "summitted" the town castle at least 15 times.

So, I took them to Interlaken to see "real" mountains. There are these three huge mountains you can see there, one of which is Eiger (you know the famous "North Face of Eiger" one of the most difficult climbing routes ever). I had to talk Sarah and Jason (he was there too for whatever reason) out of attempting to climb Eiger. Finally they succumbed to my arguments and decided that we should summit Jungfrau instead.

Jungfrau is called the "Top of Europe" for whatever reason. Anyway, there's a train that goes to the top of it, and I was having a hard time convincing Gavin and Jen that any mountain was worth summitting via train. Emily kept saying "Well, they had to build the tracks somehow, so someone had to climb it". I kept saying it wasn't going to be us (I've seen the tracks, it would be a precarious route). I finally convinced them to take the train by luring them with the promise of ice caves at the top.

I basically dreamt about Switzerland all night. Well, ok, briefly I dreamt about Jo. I came home and she had completely relandscaped my back yard with all these random trees and shrubs, and it wasn't quite finished (there were big ditches everywhere). I was pleased though that she did away with some of my least favorite parts of my yard. She kept calling it her God-Garden. It was pretty hideous. Well, not all of it, and because she put so much work into it, I didn't know what to say.

Then I went back to dreaming about Switzerland. You know, I rarely, if ever, dream about Atlanta/Georgia Tech, or Virginia, or Florida, or Philadelphia. But I dream about Switzerland all the time.

Then, my alarm went off at 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, and 8:00, when Nick came in and said "You know, you will have to go to work sometime." I'm not even going to comment on the irony of that (Nick's usually a pretty late riser).

Where in the world?

I got an e-mail from Cari today. It didn't indicate where she was or how her trip was going. It was from her hotmail account and when I tried to reply, it was full. I like that her handle is contrarycari -- I wish I could come up with something like that for my domain name.

The great name hunt

So far, oldpilesofrock.com seems to be getting the most votes. I like it too, it just kind of looks funny (old piles of rock OR old pile so frock... see what I mean?). Mindy had a few suggestions but they're in my hotmail account which is now blocked at work. Karen suggested booky.com and throughtheconstructionzone.com (which I think is probably a better name for her journal than mine!) When I finally settle on a name, I'm probably going to even impose on Sarah, web designer extrodinaire, to help me with my layout.

Let's talk about the weather!


Either I'm getting too used to Houston, or I think this summer has been unusually pleasant. I mean, we still had our week with heat indexes in the 110's. But, it didn't really start getting too hot until July. And today, its in the 70s, low humidy and breezy. Downright pleasant. In Sarah's words: "I think the city mistakenly thinks it's late October." They are expecting record lows for August this weekend. I am absolutely thrilled (and will probably use this opportunity to get even more yardwork done and take the dogs on even longer walks). So, keep an eye on my little weather nymph in the corner -- she may even have to put on a jacket.