dream

I had a dream last night that was no doubt spawned by Battlefield because I can't imagine where else it could have come from:

I can't remember the beginning too well, but I think I was accompanying some important military person and one or two other people when we were shot at and the guy I was with died and he had this handgun that I knew I should get but it went skidding away. I got it and thus battle ensued and I hid in rushes and started making my way to the enemy base. The enemy were some variation of Asian, common enough in video games that I don't feel so bad about it. Anyway, at some point the marsh turned into rows of clothing racks (!?) and I was hiding under and behind them and sneaking around. I believed I died several times but I wouldn't let that be and never actually died for good. (I guess I respawned? each "death" was blurry for a few minutes) Eventually I worked my way to the base, which was like a castle/fortress place. I knew I would have a hard time of it, taking it down, while all the military people were running around and one guy in particular wanted to find me. I knew I should take down the rest of them, I'd already shot several of them, because I knew the moment I took the fortress they'd swarm me. But I did it anyway, it was a desperate attempt and perhaps might surprise them into me winning. I shot one of the main guys at the head of a tunnel that began under and behind the fortress. A bunch of women who were naked were in a sort of round tower top (though it wasn't really a tower) and I started to shoot them sniper style until I realized they really weren't any threat, and in a next tower over a bunch of naked men went at them and they started battling so I left them to it and entered the tunnel. Turns out it had some religious meaning to them and had artifacts that I destroyed. I considered holing up in the end of the tunnel to make a last stand because I wasn't sure how to get into the tunnel. When I peeked around the side I saw people marching around in the rows of clothing racks and I knew I'd be spotted if I tried to get around to the front of the fortress to get inside. The fighting between the people off to the side garnered attention and the soldiers and everyone knew something big was happening at the fortress. The guy in charge of everything fled and I thought him weak and compared him to our own president who would do the exact same thing and how much better our country would be if we had the Harrison Ford character from Air Force One as our president. But that was besides the point. I found a trapdoor at the end of the tunnel and started digging at it and moving the dirt to make a mound in front of me as protection from anyone who ventured into the tunnel after me. I woke up as I was cleaning the last of the dirt from it. It was above me and I was going to go through it into the fortress.

Haven't begun the new book yet, I'm working on something that's more important at the moment. Technically I should wake up Victor and get a shower in. The heater just clicked in. As soon as it's off again I'll go wake him up and get on with my day. I don't know how I'll get his Valentine's Day present done in time. I have so much work to do on it and it's taking so long. I spent an hour the other day on just one and a half aspects of it.

Something I've been meaning to say for quite a while now is this: I was thinking about that song, Holding Out for a Hero. That line, "...and he's gotta be fresh from the fight". Either she's hoping for an impossibility or she's never met a hero before. It is my experience that a hero fresh from the fight is anything other than fresh and is to be admired at arm's length.

Oh, the Hallmark commercial for Valentine's isn't so bad this time, at work. This year it's saying that the holiday should be about how much you love "us". Which is so much better than the one from a few years ago that advertised "buy two get one free" on their Valentine's cards. 0_0 That year someone either wasn't paying attention or had a sense of humor or was very bitter.

The gift card commercial is amusing. It's saying that you should get these gift cards as presents and then lists them. They're all for restaurants that we don't have here. Oh, yeah, that's a gift I'd want. It's also a gift to yourself because they aren't going to take that gift card and go eat by themselves.