Book Without End

Had best night of sleep in a while - just about nine hours. Had some strange dreams. One I remember vividly, I was on top of the Empire State Building with my family. We were on an open balcony that sloped down with no railing! So here we were some 100 stories above the streets of New York City and one slip would plunge us to our death. Oddly, nobody seemed perturbed by that fact and my dog was trotting around the edge of of the sloped balcony like it was the most normal thing in the world. One part of the balcony led out onto some sort of deck and people were sitting out there on chairs and tables, again no railing to protect them from falling.

Right across from us, mounted on what looked like radio antennas, was a huge billboard showing a map of the United States. I got concerned about the dog going off the railing so we put it in some kind of protective sleeve so it couldn't walk anywhere. The only problem was, we had to hold the dog because if we put it down, it would just roll down the sloped balcony into into the streets below.

Just before that dream was even a better one that I vaguely remember. I was in an enclosed building that was full of water and I was suspended by some sort of mechanical device on a cable. I had an oxygen tank on. If I released some kind of clutch mechanism, I fell into the water and dived below. I never did hit bottom and I had to bring myself back above the surface and try again.

SO I woke up very late - around 8AM. Took dog for six mile walk in Bedford, took down the last of the Christmas lights and then out for another walk at Cranberry bogs. I then lit a fire in the fireplace and tried finishing "World Without End" by Ken Follett. I'm up to about page 870 with still about 150 pages to go. It is actually more like "Book Without End."

Breakfast: Wheat Bagel

Lunch: Two hard-boiled eggs. Two sunflower rounds.

Dinner: White Bean Soup with spinach, crackers and cheese. Two handfuls raisins.

Liquids: Two coffees. Four JC minis. One bottle Mead.

Tomorrow is the Super Bowl.