Just before I woke up, I was dreaming Miss said something like "I can't believe you're going to wait over a year just to get in on a long-distance D+D game" and I was like "wth, I told you the next session was Nov 11, that's just a couple days away" and she responded with a "well don't have a tantrum about it - what, do you need a high chair?" Jaw drop. So I woke up feeling like, oh, you really wanna pick a fight, huh? But of course no one was picking a fight with me. I subscribe to the theory that dreams are often the psyche's strategy sessions - preparing for a foreseeable challenge or figuring out a take-away that redeems an unsatisfactory experience. What's the "foreseeable challenge" here though? Having to repeat myself? That's kind of an unavoidable fact of the social condition. And it would be unlike Miss to directly push my buttons the way she did in the dream, so if it was strategy brainstorming then I don't think that part was a real focus of the mental drill.

Google's "Guides" program highlighted a 3-month trial subscription to Google One for "top contributors". I almost trashcanned that email but then I saw One provides 100GB cloud storage for $20/year, and that's about the price point I will accept for a cloud backup more reliable than Mega.nz. Now I just need to figure out an elegant sync solution where I hold the encryption keys and the cloud doesn't two-way-sync trash back into the local repo.

Visited the Wake Co SPCA shelter, or more specifically, visited some cats there. I know we've been talking about adopting a cat for quite a while now, but I still have very mixed feelings on a gut level and springing "let's visit an animal shelter today" while we're out running errands only increases my resistance. I would feel a lot easier about the process if we said "starting next weekend we're going to visit the shelter regularly until one cat particularly grabs our attention." You wouldn't adopt a child spur-of-the-moment.