We are having an unusual

We are having an unusual morning thunderstorm. There were dark clouds and lightning all around as I drove to work. Maybe the weather had something to do with my bad dream last night. It was the second bad dream I’ve had in three days now, which is pretty strange.
On Saturday night in the hotel in Austin, I dreamed that my parents’ house burned down. I know that’s a fairly common dream, but I can’t say I’ve ever had it before. I chalked it up to the fact that we all slept horribly in that hotel room, waking up every hour or so until we were all thinking “ugh, isn’t it morning yet?? I can’t sleep!” If any of us had known that any of the others was having the same trouble sleeping, we would’ve just gotten up and had a little party or something. The room had some kind of bad karma. Seriously.
But last night I dreamed about another shuttle accident, which really freaked me out. The accident was caused when the orbiter was hit by a mattress (yes, a bed mattress) that fell out of the sky, which of course is bizarre and impossible, but when you’re dreaming you don’t recognize things like that. The astronauts managed to bail out and survive, while the orbiter landed intact (tank, boosters, and everything still attached) on the deck of some tall office building and teetered back and forth like a see-saw. Also bizarre, but again, didn’t realize that while asleep. So I was totally freaking out, and woke up all in a tizzy, heart pounding, only to realize that it was still dark out and I was still in bed.
Whew.
After a three week break, we finally get back to our baseball season tickets with a vengeance this week. We have tickets to the Astros vs. Cubs tonight and Thursday, and vs. Angels on Saturday. And only one month until the All-Star Game!