Dreams and Things

I remember having this intense dream earlier in the month. I thought I would share it here. To protect both the innocent and the guilty I have changed the names in it. Janis is my previous wife and Eva is my current fianceé. I am in a house and it is dark except for the room where I am which is dimly lit. I think Janis is in one of the other rooms. I have trouble lighting a cigarette because the callous on my right thumb is so thick and painful from having used lighters for so long. I am doing something, perhaps building or refurbishing the room. There is a droning in my left ear.  [I later later learn after waking that this is from Eva snoring in my ear.]  The drone is persistent throughout the dream. I feel inadequate but for what I don't know.  I think I move into the living room. I have another girlfriend who is not there at the moment. Janis comes to visit. She greets me with haughtiness. She wants to make amends but I sense it is for her own fee...

Moving to San Francisco I have lived (mostly) in San Francisco since 1980. I remember clearly the circumstances that made me move. I was working a swing shift at IBM at the time. On my way home at around 9:00AM it was still dark and sleeting (an unsavory combination of snow and ice.) My sad little VW hatchback lost control at the racing speed of 5 MPH on a single lane bridge over Antarctica-like cold water. The car went into a full spin around the road until I reached the other side of the bridge. It was exactly at that time I said to myself, "I'm moving to California." I made preparations. I filled my hatchback with my few precious possessions, camping gear and my meager savings and headed west with my girlfriend. Our destination was San Francisco where  a friend of a friend of her's knew somebody we could stay with. She got his phone number. We traveled across the country on I-80, camping along the way in my pup tent or the back of the hatchback depending on the ...