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I dreamed that Jack had been gone for a while, off in the larger world doing who knows what, and has just returned. He is happy, ecstatic even, with the news that he has struck a major business deal, something having to do with the healthcare industry, and that he has struck his fortune and will be a millionaire. He even hands out pamphlets to me. I think, in the dream, of Teri's phrase, about how she likes the way he hustles, how he at least tries to do something with his life. At first I am taken back by the news as I just try to blow it off as meaning nothing to me, but then I realize that this is likely just another empty hustle, another delusion in his mind, like his construction company. One of the really striking things in the dream is the way it began, with me getting out of bed, with Jack's wife in it still sleeping - perhaps her younger, thinner self.
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Wow, I just got a vivid reminder of the tensions and stress that one could feel in those old Blurty debates. I've started reading my old print-outs of e-mail notifications from those days, and I was reading a long and trenchant exchange between Gabe and me in a debate on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Even as I was reading her reply, I was feeling the tightening in my guts and the fiery urge to answer arguments that I felt were wrong, while at the same time appreciating the sensitivity of badly desiring not to estrange her and lose our e-friendship. It wasn't all LOL-cats and pleasant banter. Ah, but while it lasted...
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I see, when you get a little deep into GTA 4, the police pursuits become much harder. Getting back into the game after all these years, I was thinking they were a little easier than I remembered. But I'm also more heavily armed. I just wish that one could interact on a more personal level with some hot chicks, aside from explicit sex - less arcade shooter and more role-playing, I guess. Maybe a scene, for instance, with Niko and Michelle having breakfast at his safehouse (she in her underwear, he in just his pants), and the player has a few choices as to which way the dialogue goes.
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Wow, I just got a vivid reminder of the tensions and stress that one could feel in those old Blurty debates. I've started reading my old print-outs of e-mail notifications from those days, and I was reading a long and trenchant exchange between Gabe and me in a debate on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Even as I was reading her reply, I was feeling the tightening in my guts and the fiery urge to answer arguments that I felt were wrong, while at the same time appreciating the sensitivity of badly desiring not to estrange her and lose our e-friendship. It wasn't all LOL-cats and pleasant banter. Ah, but while it lasted...
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I see, when you get a little deep into GTA 4, the police pursuits become much harder. Getting back into the game after all these years, I was thinking they were a little easier than I remembered. But I'm also more heavily armed. I just wish that one could interact on a more personal level with some hot chicks, aside from explicit sex - less arcade shooter and more role-playing, I guess. Maybe a scene, for instance, with Niko and Michelle having breakfast at his safehouse (she in her underwear, he in just his pants), and the player has a few choices as to which way the dialogue goes.
