dream journal

I've been taking codeine-based cough syrup for the last few nights, so that may affect the quality of my dreams.

Night before last: I was charged with untangling Donald Trump's finances, using Quicken. I found that the most effective strategy seemed to be to recognize that two accounts were distinct in name but not in practice, so I would do a global search-and-replace to rename one of them to the other. Eventually I was down to one account labelled "What Donny Wants".

Last night: a series of vignettes about companies willfully and passive-aggressively over-interpreting privacy laws to make them such a pain that customers complain and get them repealed. For example, the magazine subscription that has to be renewed every two months because the company deletes your name and address from their database after two months so they no longer know where to send the magazine (although they've already charged you for the whole year).

movies

Since shalmestere and I have both been sick for the past week (nothing life-threatening, just seasonal crud), we've watched a bunch of movies on DVD, mostly checked out from the library a few blocks away. I'm not coherent enough to write reviews right now, so I'll just list them for now:

• Dec. 30: Sorry to Bother You


• Dec. 31: Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot


• Jan. 1: The Time Traveller's Wife


• Jan. 1: Blackadder Back And Forth, in honor of the New Year


• Jan. 2: Philomena


• [ETA: Jan. 3: Pirate Radio, which we saw when it was in theaters]


• [ETA: Jan. 4: Persepolis, which we also saw when it was in theaters]