Getting Started with Dreamwidth

After work yesterday, I went to bed and slept for about 10 hours, plus another hour of fading in and out. I'm finally awake now, about 2 hours before I start the work routine again.

I had been exceptionally short on sleep for the past two nights, so it was good to catch up. The first night, it was my own fault for playing a computer game for too late and getting about 4 hours of sleep before work. The second night, it was another fire alarm going off for no reason. It interrupted my sleep 3 times that night and then I couldn't get back to sleep. Thankfully it hasn't misbehaved again, but I promised myself that I would personally disable the device the 4th time it goes off. These new 10-year fire alarms are not as good a deal as I originally thought. At least the ones with disposable batteries can be disconnected. These "permanent" alarms, though, can only be permanently disabled.

Before waking up this morning, I caught the end of another dream.

I was some kind of investigator, and I was pursuing a political-religious cult. I tracked them to large warehouse near a farm. I walked around the building with no windows. The building was shaped like the letter "L", and at the inner bend of the building, I could hear voices. Somebody was using a circular saw, and in between the loud noises of the saw, the people were yelling loudly, which I could hear through the cinder block walls. I don't remember now what they were saying, just that I could hear their voices.

Somehow, I had a pet cat with me (on a potentially dangerous investigation?), and it was sniffing around that corner too. I saw a pickup truck heading toward me. I had been spotted by their informal security, apparently. The guy driving the truck was unhappy with me being there. I said I was just following along with my cat who was exploring, and we'd be moving along when it was done. He was very unhappy but continued driving past me on his route around the building. I looked behind me, and my cat was actually a rabbit instead. Okay, I have a pet rabbit in this dream.

The rabbit and I continue along the edge of the building toward what seemed to be the front and a parking lot. Three people were walking toward the front door from the parking lot, and my rabbit dashed ahead near them to wait for me to catch up. When I caught up, then it dashed ahead toward our car. I think I opened the back hatch on the car, and the rabbit jumped in.

There was some more to the dream, driving between small towns on the road, stopping at a gas station somewhere. Then I woke up.

I have about 2 hours before I need to get ready for work again. Time to make the donuts. (YouTube)