I have no idea what was going on last night in my brain.

The first segment that I remember is being on a Canadian television show about a family of red-heads. The only American actor on the show was Diane Lane. It seemed to be part comedy-part drama. There was a huge altercation outside where Diane's character was dealing with her little girl who was being a total brat in front of the entire family. I turned to see how the rest of the family was reacting. The rest of the family was just watching, with two of them filming the spectacle on their phones.

I was looking up who Diane Lane's husband was on IMDB, but kept typing in Dianne Wiest instead for some reason.

The next segment had me in high school, standing in line to vote for student offices. I stood there with four other kids. The three ahead of me were obvious ne'er-do-wells. The person in charge of voting, I think was the counselor, was the typical sniveling manipulator, played by actor David Palmer. The counselor dismissed the three ahead of me, stating that they didn't even go to school there.

When he got to me and the kid behind me, he told me that we couldn't vote, but wouldn't tell me why. So I kept hammering at him, stating that as a student at this school and had the right to vote. I climbed up on his table and demanded my ballot, or a provisional ballot which he had to give me. Visible shaken and aggravated at my demand, he went to get the "ballot." His assistant had to give him a separate shirt to change into as he had sweated through the one he was wearing.

He returned in his new shirt and a stack of paper. I looked at him and said, "You will not win this." I started in on his enormous attempt to block me, answering asinine questions about Italian movies and essay questions contrasting actors in different movies. I'm not sure there was an actual ballot in the stack.

While I was filling this out, an elephant with a marching procession paraded through the hallway. The counselor jumped up and excitedly proclaimed, "It's the first president! The first president!"

Another teacher, played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, came up to me and told me that an educator had to sign the bottom of this stack and he told me to bring them to him.

"He already filled out my ballot, didn't he?" I asked. The Rock just winked and nodded at me.

I would have loved to have seen how this was going to end, but Boo the Devil Kitteh started pawing at me and woke me up.

It's been a busy week so far:

• My boss is out of town, so I'm acting branch director this week. Luckily, there are a lot of trainings going on, so we're on a near skeleton crew. It's not been crazy busy, but the workflow has been constant.



• Playing competitive teams at softball continues. It's an unusual thing really. We got trashed by a team who we should have beaten, but then beat one of the best teams in the league afterward. I actually had one of my best hitting nights. I have found that my "no f**ks to give" attitude seems to be helping my game as there is no longer any pressure on me.



• Boo the Kitten is settling in well. She got her first bath at home last night. She jumped into the unflushed toilet, thinking the lid was down I'm sure. She wasn't happy and neither was I. She fought the bath, but it was a necessary thing, I assure you. She is getting along with Milo the Cat, which is a good thing.



• Most of my evening time is being taken up with coloring the pages for the next issue of "Grizzly and the Bear Patrol." It's taking about 90 minutes a page. Not sure why, but I'm trudging through it.



• Dentist appointment this morning, so I'm going in late today. I did manage to get my bicep workout in this morning, so ... yay...