Day 29

Had a pretty okay mood on. Tried to fix the outside water hydrant, but I couldn't get the water shut off valve to close.

Worked on mixing / finishing a bit.

Our neighbor brought over some plums from his tree.

We bopped the ball around at the tennis court, and then had a cherry beer at Berthoud Brewery.

dream

I had a sexy and super intense/real-seeming dream with a woman who was a scientist, and seemed very interesting as a person.

At a certain point she had on a costume and I asked her to remove it because it was making me feel uncomfortable. She did. Then I asked if I could photograph her, and she gave consent, but then my phone wasn't working. I fumbled with it trying to make it work.

Then I was charged at by four elephants, each one made of liquid. Of the large three, one was made of water, another of milk, and another of lemon curd. They each had tusks and were very big. The small one was younger, and was made of tears. There was also a tusked boar charging at me, I don't think it was made of anything weird. When I looked around for the woman, whose name I didn't get, I saw her from a distance in a topiary garden and she flipped me off, which was upsetting, but I felt like I deserved it.

Then I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep for the rest of the night, ugh.

Day 30 final day

I'm guessing I should count the final day of the protocol as the day before what would be another dose. So that's today.

I slept almost not at all. I had aforejournaled sexy dream with not sexy elephants, then woke up in a sweat at around 2 or 3. Didn't look at the clock. Had a few bouts where I ~almost~ went to sleep, and had these interesting shifting pattern mandalas spin in my vision like I was dreaming while awake, but it didn't lead to anything. Around 5:30 or 6 I started to cramp up in my intestines and by 7 (or whenever it is Carrie gets up now) I had to get out of bed for a cramping-pooping marathon that lasted until 11:30.

I decided to call the town to get them to shut off the water so I could repair that outside hydrant, so I left work early, but after hours of struggle I couldn't get the head casting off. My brother came by with a ridiculously large pipe wrench and both of us tugging on it together finally broke it free. I broke off a brass connector inside the head casting, so I'm going to take that to work to try to drill it out with a pneumatic drill. Things definitely didn't go to plan there. I thought it'd only take an hour or so. Ha ha. Every muscle in my body is sore after all that struggling with that dang faucet. oof.

Also we'll have no water until sometime tomorrow. double oof.