a nightmarish dream

Here's a confluence of things that wound up in a slightly nightmarish dream I had last night.

I've been getting to know CSS. Cascading style sheets, that is. It's a way of making your website easier. It's very easy to learn, and I'm already doing some pretty cool stuff with it that I've never seen. Soon this site will be all CSSed up, and it'll be easier to update.

I had several people over for the Super Bowl. I'm the perfect person to host a Super Bowl party, because I don't really start paying attention to football until partway through the Super Bowl. We had rich food, we drank Dunkelweisen, we smoked cigars, we had a great time. Toward the end there, I had some Wayne Shorter on the stereo.

Then I went to bed. Before I had to wake up — at 5 am, mind you — I had a strange dream, no doubt brought on by the combination of chili, cigars, Dunkelweisen, and the presence of eight incorrigible men, in which I was trying to encode the Wayne Shorter song "Ju-Ju" in CSS, coming tantalizingly close with hour after hour of encoding, but never quite getting there.