Hmm, woke up this morning with a loud ringing and near total deafness in my left ear.

Makes me wish I had listened to more loud rock music. At least then there'd reason for it.

I'm now in the position of trying to guess if or when this will go away, and how long do I wait before doing something about it.

I think it's less ringy and deaf-y than this morning, but that may be me just being hopeful.

Of course, it's far from the worst thing I know about today, so I'm not really complaining.

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Drempt two dreams of not in the past week, one of which was my argueing with a friend about a piece of furntature in my house and what it was called.

I was trying to convince him that the tansu in my house was in fact, a tansu. He was calling it something else. Maybe it's symbolic, but I can't seem to remember what he called it, as if my dismissal made the word slip out of my head entirely.

In spite of all my attempts, he would not be convinced of the truth.

My other dream was about sneaking into a huge, spanish-style hotel to commit a robbery.

It was a large, building with a big atrium inside, and lots of exposed beams and wood ornimentation. Apparently, it was also mostly empty, and was being prepared for a large party.

I had several iron gates to get through to order to get to whatever I was robbing, but I was quite adept at getting through them with a pick set. Following a long corridoor, I got to the room I needed to get into for whatever I was robbing. it seemed that the dream had taken a lot of time to get to that point.

And then I work up. I'm not sure if that's funny, cruel or both.

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Happy belated birthday to the Dalai Lama, who turned 70 yesterday. If anyone deserves many years of happiness, I think he might be up there a bit.