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Nov. 29th, 2007 05:26 pmCustomer quote: "I can't get my unit up. Er, I mean I can't get turned on. Um, nevermind. It's just dead."
Nov. 29th, 2007
I've had two dreams of "Zagreus". And they were both nearly identical. The first happened last month, right after the Dionysus dream, the second was today.
In both dreams, I'm going about my daily life, having normal conversations with people...but random words are replaced with the name "Zagreus"...for example, I'd be buying somehting in a store and the casheri will say "That will be thirty-two dollars and twenty-six Zagreus, please." Or I'll run into a freiend and they'll greet me with "How the Zagreus are you?" This continues throughout the dream.
http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Zagreus.html
ZAGREUS was the "first-born Dionysos," a god of the Orphic Mysteries. He was a son of Zeus and Persephone, who the god seduced in the guise of a serpent. After he was Zeus set him upon the throne of heaven armed with lightning bolts. The Titanes, inspired by the jealous goddess Hera, sneaked into Olympos, tricked the godling into setting aside the lightning bolts with the temptation of toys, then seized and dismembered him with knives. Zeus recovered the child's heart and making it into a potion, fed it to his love Semele. From the drink she conceived the younger Dionysos, as a reincarnation of the first.
In both dreams, I'm going about my daily life, having normal conversations with people...but random words are replaced with the name "Zagreus"...for example, I'd be buying somehting in a store and the casheri will say "That will be thirty-two dollars and twenty-six Zagreus, please." Or I'll run into a freiend and they'll greet me with "How the Zagreus are you?" This continues throughout the dream.
http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Zagreus.html
ZAGREUS was the "first-born Dionysos," a god of the Orphic Mysteries. He was a son of Zeus and Persephone, who the god seduced in the guise of a serpent. After he was Zeus set him upon the throne of heaven armed with lightning bolts. The Titanes, inspired by the jealous goddess Hera, sneaked into Olympos, tricked the godling into setting aside the lightning bolts with the temptation of toys, then seized and dismembered him with knives. Zeus recovered the child's heart and making it into a potion, fed it to his love Semele. From the drink she conceived the younger Dionysos, as a reincarnation of the first.
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Nov. 29th, 2007 08:17 pmHmmm...so if I set up one of those flexible spending account things with work to pay for laser surgery, a high end estimate is that it will require $70/paycheck.
However, the reduction in taxable income will reduce my net pay by less than $40/check. However...I can't set it up til April if I want to actually be able to cover the surgery with it because of when the plan year renews. Though, the full amount of the yearly contribution is available for use up front (I'd just be screwed if I were to leave the job.)
Wow. So I was seriously thinking about getting contact lenses after the holidays. I need to find out if I can really do this, medical-wise...but if it were possible to have the surgery only six months or something like that down the road, it seems like it would be pointless to spend the money on contacts.
However, I can also use this to pay for a monthly transit pass pre-tax...so I'm looking at setting it up awhile to account for that and modifying accordingly come April.
However, the reduction in taxable income will reduce my net pay by less than $40/check. However...I can't set it up til April if I want to actually be able to cover the surgery with it because of when the plan year renews. Though, the full amount of the yearly contribution is available for use up front (I'd just be screwed if I were to leave the job.)
Wow. So I was seriously thinking about getting contact lenses after the holidays. I need to find out if I can really do this, medical-wise...but if it were possible to have the surgery only six months or something like that down the road, it seems like it would be pointless to spend the money on contacts.
However, I can also use this to pay for a monthly transit pass pre-tax...so I'm looking at setting it up awhile to account for that and modifying accordingly come April.