{"id":2229,"date":"2010-09-28T07:59:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T13:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2010-09-28T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T13:59:39","slug":"the-one-about-the-weird-ass-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2010\/09\/28\/the-one-about-the-weird-ass-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"I do not know what this means"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a weird-ass dream last night. I do not know what it means.<\/em> I should specify that my subconscious chose to ooze this one out in one of the brief bursts of REM<\/a> sleep that I had between little E’s outbursts last night (he’s not feeling great). This dream happened between 5am and 8am this morning.<\/p>\n

See if you can follow me on this one. <\/p>\n

I dreamed that I took a dinner break from work (which never happens, because I’m not on a shift where I have a dinner break, and there’s no one to take over for me in the event that I need to leave anyway), leaving tonight’s episode of Baywatch (which the station I work for has never, ever shown) in someone else’s capable hands.<\/p>\n

On my dinner break (which never happens), I went to K-Mart (which no longer exists around here) and found a stash of hard-to-find Atari 7800<\/a> cartridges (which I no longer collect) still in the box. I took my sweet time pondering which ones to get and headed back to work, electronic loot in hand.<\/p>\n

When I get back to work (which it’s impossible for me to leave) with my Atari 7800 cartridges (no) from K-Mart (which is closed), I find that Baywatch (which we don’t show) has been left unattended; the end credits have rolled and there’s a control track break and you can see what was recorded on that tape before…<\/p>\n

…which happens to be an ID graphic for Fox 46<\/a> (which also no longer exists) featuring Babylon 5<\/a> (which never happened – I used to make all of the ID graphics for Fox 46<\/a>, and there was never one featuring B5, which was, shall we put it politely, far from the station management’s favorite show).<\/p>\n

Reasonable question:<\/em> does this whole thing actually happen in the past at Fox? No. The station that’s showing Baywatch, and the station that I come back to, only to discover that the place was left unattended so we aired God-only-knows-what-was-on-the-Baywatch-tape-for-commercial-breaks, is definitely the station where I work now. Following this thing to its logical extremes (never a good idea with a dream), Fox 46 never had DVCpro tapes – the format didn’t exist back then. (How a 46 ID would get on a DVCpro tape, I have no idea<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Quickie interpretation:<\/em> does this mean that my current station has become as chewing-gum-and-bailing-wire rickety as Fox was? (I’d totally accept that interpretation.)<\/p>\n

What the hell do K-Mart and Atari 7800 and Babylon 5 have to do with it?<\/p>\n

Oh, wait: K-Mart, Atari 7800, Babylon 5 and Baywatch and Fox 46 are all extinct entities.<\/p>\n

Hmmmmm.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"WTF?\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a weird-ass dream last night. I do not know what it means. I should specify that my subconscious chose to ooze this one out in one of the brief bursts of REM sleep that I had between little E’s outbursts last night (he’s not feeling great). This dream happened between 5am and 8am this morning. See if you can follow me on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}