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Consulting Music Holiday Dream

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Guh. a long, complicated, shifting sequeceof dreams blurring. I woke, Iwasn t suree it morning or evening, Ithink it day I was not monthI d woken up in, a moment it felt as I d livedthrough, dreamt between, days, accountingfor ordinary amounts of time compression in dreams. It combined a team consulting gig working Karl, Pennsic, blogging, bits multiple bands, in amost confusing mishmash. I on electric bas guitarat end. Most of dream place in a bizarrely laid outoffice, combining worst elements of a cubicles andb enclosed offices was not enoughspace to build walls leave room people towalk. I on a team captained by Karl I thinkabout a of my friendslist I forthe rest of you, fannish entrepeneur a strongpersonality a destined to employmost of mid Atlantic fandom as computer jocks, who worried behaviour in officesof client, it so long mostof us worked, worked, doneconsulting, that, I forget which. Someof folks on team people I d workedwith Karl IRL, bandmates, justrandom friends. The office a warren of tiny, irregularly shapedoffices to desks looked likedesk components of a cubicle standalonedesks. Each desk a shallow sink in it, andrunning water. And a narrow, verical window tothe door. And narrow p ageways were, it as on a submarine. At point I to sneak to write a blogentry Pennsic, on a tablet PC somethingI ve whatthat is, imagine a PDA grown up to legal pad sizr insteadof in palm of hand sized, running samecl of OS d expect on a laptop or desktop computer, but a stylus of a keyboard. At time, Pennic ness of situation w omehow clear perhaps an in dream recollection ofthe previous dream? connection faded bythe time I to scene of dream. Atvarious points, I talking to members of theclient s staff music. Our group occupyingextra desks scattered client s warren, and vacant desks, spacewas terribly crowded. And we constantlysqueezing in corridors to find morepeople we to talk to to suss parts of theproblem we hired to solve. And sudddenly it Christmas, andbaked goods started appearing, I attemptingto arrange in a I a reasonto p reception area in time to grabsome of interesting cookies verycolourful, incorporating hard candy in a thatwas tasty in dream t work inwaking life brought, theywere reception area a barely widerspot in middle of a corridor, lookedmore a nurse s station a reception desknext to it so crowded at point, ofthe cookies brownies, it anexcuse needed to oneself to caught inthat office traffic jam. I ve forgotten transition scenes betweentalking bands I play in to invited toperform, we wound up in an auditoriumthat a lot space justas poorly designed as rest of office, ledby a person a bizarre combinationof band leader, music director, recordingengeneer I ve worked with. Some of client sstaff acting as stagehands, rest beingspread in bizarrely arranged auditoreum. We discovered a famous rock musician inthe audience I t recall BrianSetzer, I t s right, weasked it be if we performedone of songs in repertoire. I w upposed to lead piece on electric b, and struggled to remember it it beensix or years time I d playedthat song. I song started, woke up inthe middle of it, told my b wasn tloud to find preson hadcontrol of my volume knob my amplifier halfwayacross auditoreum me to to turnit up. we wound up making song sound aMark Knopfler version Dire Straits soundinganything original, I t rememberwhich song it because thought, thissounds Dire Straits woke me up, I gotan odd mashup of The Sultans of Swing LoveOver Gold stuck in my head. There was, of course, a lot in middle. I faintly recall of ociationsin it, no additional details. Toward veryend of dream, my awareness narrowed to justmy fingers b guitar toremember tune I had not played in so long

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