Okay, so I am in the mood to write while I am sitting on a boring butt call that barely requires any interaction from me. In fact the program that this telecon addresses doesn't really involve me at all. I think maybe 10 percent has to do with my team. However, the boss wants me on and so I am on it to report issues for our informational purposes.

Last night was our first Pig rehearsal with our newcomers, Laura and Tres. They are both going to be great additions. I think they each offer something different and unique. I am really excited about the direction and momentum that is taking place with us. At the moment I am the only guy. Denny is sitting out and directing for the next 6 months, which I think is going to be very beneficial for us as we work on our show. I believe with his outside view and experience with the Pigs, we can really shape our troop and provide the audience with a more entertaining show. It would be nice to experiment with new games and mess around with more technical aspects. For example Anne brought up a game that we are going to practice and see if we should add it into our next show. It's kinda like Scene Styles. But instead of asking for a variety of genres from the audience, we are going to put together a music playlist with different types of songs. Dan will play little snippets of it for like 15-30 seconds and we think it will change the move and create a new mood for the scene. So maybe he puts together 3 song choices (melody of music only like a soap opera would have I imagine). Maybe something horror-like and they something upbeat. That's the idea I get. Looking forward to see what happens. Again, just experimenting with some new games.

So, check this out. I had this incredible dream last night. I am not one to usually analyze my dreams even though I do have very vivid dreams with some color at times. I've got to tell you about last night's cause it was pretty awesome. I only usually remember the last portion of my dream. Which was this:

I went over this guy Eric (Asian guy that is a senior database develpoer on my team at work). The reason I am pointing this out is because I see him as pretty intelligent and that reflects in the type of job he has in life. Anyway, I went over to his house, which was furnished with lots of cultural type of nicknacks and other things like this cool small bongo drums from Africa. The one really cool thing he had was this telescope. When I came over, with my girlfriend, Susan, he was working on tracking movement with some of the stars in a nearby galaxy. He told me to check out Mars cause the planet was doing some ultra cool stuff. It was like a wild child acting out; changing up its movement and just having a good ol' time. As if it was trying to break away from the norm and show off to the rest of the planets. (I am probably analyzing this too much but it was just such an awesome thing to watch in my dream). So, Eric allowed me to look through the telescope that was very technilogically advanced and sophisticated. I mean you could magnify stuff up pretty close (so frigin cool). At first, I could look through it and see the Milky way and then began to move it to my left when I saw this one red dot that stood out from all the rest. Eric tells me to look closer and bring it more into view. As I began to do this, I noticed that it wsas teh "wild child - Mars" and the Red Planet was spinning out of control. It was chagning its axis from left to right and right to left. It was moving in such so many different directions and had incredible motion. I had to keep up with it through the telescopem, which was difficult at first because of the planet's erradic behavior.

So as I magnified it up closer I could see that it was spinning and at the north end of it's axis, which was similar to our axis, there was this weird dome shape to the planet. I can't really describe it in words. But imagine one of those small lightbulbs that are kinda round a fat looking. The the end that you screw into the light fixture was the top of mars but a little more sublte than the light bulb and it was located on the side of Mars that we don't usually see. Kinda like the Moon's dark side.

Well, that's all I remember. It was so cool to see. Makes me want to go out and buy a telescope. All of a sudden I have an enourmous interest to learn more about Mars. Something very intriguing about that dream. Not sure why it's been on my mind but it was one of those dreams where, after you wake up from it you wish you could fall back to sleep to continue it some more.

...happy planitarium day to you!