title: Long Romp Home
date: 2026-03-16

Long Romp Home - 2026-03-16 - TOGoS's Journal

Didn't sleep very well. Felt like I was awake all night. But I did have some dreams.

First dream: We lived in a castle. There was a parking lot on the roof. The king was very easy-going. We went to visit him one day but there were all these people in the dining hall with him and I forgot which one was him.

Some Minecraft-like game. Spawning...pink cubes? Breakin' the rules. But then the rules changed and it was fine. Or something.

"The black planet." Seems to be a ball of gas, which orbits a black hole. There's a popular bar there, floating in the upper atmosphere. I was always nervous about visiting. Don't fly too far beyond it or you'll get sucked into the black hole! One time the 'foundation' (which was this rubbery green stuff) started collapsing from people dancing too hard or something, and this one protagonist had to run along it pulling it back up. It was very dangerous and heroic.

Some 3D first-person video game with a lot of parabolic trajectories so you felt like you were flying. They are having trouble making roads. "At Factorio we managed it just using a few tiles, with crosswalks and everything", I told them. The boss was having trouble sticking decals on top of the LEGO studs. And hinted to him that they should look at the LEGO city plates, which don't have studs in the roads.

Traveling to and from somewhere way up north, north of Minnesota, to visit some family or something. I think it was a lesbian couple. In a big city, or at least a Madison-sized city, with a couple of lakes around it. Actually the city seemed very Madison-like.

To get there was a long journey through a few states. To get home was a never-ending adventure. First I decided to take a different route home, turning onto the highway from next to some hardware store.

Then there was stuff about getting lost, trying to drive on highways that were sideways with bouncy barriers (I may have been Tom Cruise for this part), getting stuck in jail and rescuing ourselves by flipping some switches and borrowing a pickup truck which just happened to have a key in the ignition, having to deal with mentally ill/family issues Ms Rachel.

At some point it became an Ernest adventure.

TODO: Flesh this out more. First need to clear the driveway, get Sara's second coat of CHG soap, pack bags, get tf to hospital for baby extraction.