Had a very interesting dream early in the morning that I remember pretty clearly. I went back in time 8 years with the opportunity to give people I knew the gift of being able to look up a single page on the Internet "today" with my laptop. Most people screwed it up and asked for some dumb search that didn't help them very much, but one guy asked me to look up the news page for a company he had some stock in and see what it looked like 8 years later. Since all those other people were just aspects of me in the dream, that was probably the smartest idea "I" had the entire time. I also wasted a lot of time trying to explain to people how valuable this gift could be.

I thought about it after I got up and realized that if i could I go back in time, I would grab a copy of my blog database from today and as many files as I could and drop them on a server I used in 2000, assuming I could remember a password I used back then to login (or maybe just e-mail them to myself). The amount of insight I could get from my own writings from the last eight years would be absolutely invaluable.

Ben thinks its a pretty excellent idea for a short science fiction story. I think I'm going to try it in my "spare time." I haven't done any fiction writing in a long time, and I do miss it.

Spent most of the evening working on code and taking hundreds of pictures of my kitten. They're amazingly adorable. The best eleven are already up on Flickr. Those of you on my IM list have already received the secret pass to view the gallery. If you are currently receiving a picture of a kitten in your e-mail every morning (you know who you are) you will have to suffer in suspense of further kitten cuteness as they slowly trickle in to your mailbox.

Evening weigh-in: 123.5 lbs.

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