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On Valentine's Day I managed to get sick. I stayed out late and after coming home my body completely fell apart. Through the whole night my body couldn't decide if it was blazing hot or freezing cold. I had muscle aches and the worst headache I've experienced. Along with that I had the sore throat that always accompany's any sickness I seem to obtain. I barely slept at all.

Why am I bothering you with these details? I'm curious if anyone experiences the same thing I do in this situation. I'm a very sound sleeper. When ever my body and mind refuses to fall asleep I have the tendency to hallucinate or I guess I can dream while I'm still conscious. I usually interact with some unforgiving object or someone or something is talking to me and won't shut up. While it's occuring it seems very real and reasonable. Only in hindsight does the situation seem unusual.

That night I was apparently working on some large machine while in bed. I was going through some sort of maintenance procedure. Or maybe I was training myself how to do some sort of maintenance procedure. Anyways the whole night through I was opening and closing compartments, pulling at wires, and looking through books that I found really boring.

I wish I could that this dream or hallucination came from no where but I know it was just me reliving my current job. The machine resembled the photo printer at work and lately we've been having train on procedures due to the slow season.

Anyways, I'm curious if anyone has ever had this experience where they awake dream through the night.

What's Entertaining

"Males/females of any shape or size to model for glorious clown figurines. Will be required to ware unflattering clown uniform. Flexible hours, statue will be sluggishly hand crafted and be kept for personal collection. Pays in cash in cash '13/hr', compliments, in actual peanuts '1 once per hour'."

Classified Ad posted in the Western Herald on 2/10/05
*note I left the spelling and typo errors and that no contact info was left

I love the absurd. I've been eager to find anything that seems truely non sequitur or is generally just odd.

I've found a phone number for something called Sonic Supper. It's rather fun to listen to. I like to listen it on speaker phone on my cellphone.

Any interest = 718 303-9553

Robocut

I've recently purchased a Robocut. I'll admit it's pure lunacy but secretly I've always wanted one.

For those who don't what a Robocut is, it's the cheaper cousin to the Flowbee. For those who don't what a Flowbee is, it's a device that when you hook it up to a vacuum it sucks your hair up a tube and then cuts it. It has a guard that is adjustable in length to set what you want to cut your hair to.

I've successfully given myself a horrible haircut and will wearing a hat more often.

Josh Franta

Let's say you're a sentient being. You find a rocket. Inside that rocket you find a list of names. A massive list of names recorded on a tiny piece of metal. What would that information recorded in a manner completely foreign to you provide. I'd say absolutely nothing. All it provides is the person whose name is on the list some sort of strange bragging rights(or rites?). "Hey, they put my name in a time capsule on a rocket they launched into OUTER SPACE!", says chachy guy leaning over to a girl at a bar.

Let me back up a bit. Quite a bit actually. So I Googled my name for the first time in a while. It's lame but we all do it. We've all even been to sites dedicated to it. I'm glad to say I'm number one. This is due to the wonderful and enormous Moped Army site.

Also on the Google list are two people with Franta domains. One being Franta.com and another with Frantastic.com. Unfortunately they're both bum links. I listed them more for affect and I like the look of red text on a post. I have a history with Frantastic.com. The person who owns the domain emailed my AOL account back when I was 17. He sent me an email just saying "Is your name Josh Franta?" Or something similar to that. It surprised me because my screen name didn't indicate my name at all. Apparently he had done some searching and liked finding other people with the same name. The stories really not that interesting but what I did get out of it was the term "Frantastic."

Back to that list I was talking about. Also on the Google list was a website dedicated to the Stardust project. Stardust is a spacecraft that will collect material from the comet Wild 2. The Stardust will then return to Earth. It will be interesting to study pieces of that comet but we all know this microchip is purely for raising money.

It provides the need we all have to say, "Michael John Franta (Sgt./Army) was here!" We all want our names known whether be in the most obscure or bizarre places. It's why we do things like Google our names.