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human civilization that I am worried about. Again
sorry, I did not mean to rant, but I just could not
help myself. I’ll get back on track.
But is there really something to this predicting
the future thing? I did have an experience when I
was young, that kind of makes me wonder. Right
after the wife and I got married, we decided it was
wise to buy a mobile home for our first residence.
Yes, I will admit that I was trailer trash for a while in
my life, but back to the story. In our search, we had
heard about a mobile home for sale from one of
my father’s drinking buddies, but we did not know
the price. A week or so went by, and for some rea-
son, we could not seem to get the asking price.
Then one night, I had a very vivid dream. In the
dream, I was told the asking price for the trailer
was $5300. The next morning, I told my wife about
the dream and the price they wanted for the trailer.
We laughed it up as nothing and went on with our
day. Later that same day, I got a call from the guy,
and when he said $5300, [♪ Twilight Zone Theme
♪ ♪], I about dropped the phone. How could that
be? I had a vision of the future that had not hap-
pened yet. I have pondered over that for years.
And by the way, I cannot recall it ever happening
again, well at least not that vivid.
Maybe that is how you do it, go into a dream
state, and the future will present itself to you. Like
Edgar Cayce, remember him? He was that guy
they called the “sleeping prophet” as he would
spew prophecy while he was in a sleep-like
trance. The story goes, that angels visited him
and said they would tell him things when he was
asleep. Getting hit in the head with a baseball as
a child probably helped that along. While in his
trance, he would practice holistic medicine and
did a lot of faith healing. He even predicted the
great depression, which if things were anything
like today, would be an easy guess if you were
paying attention. People believed him though,
giving him donations, as he managed to work his
scam for a lifetime.
And how I digress, back to the original ques-
tion. When will the damn glovebox be done? If
you really want to know, it will take a bit of work.
It seems like I always get myself in trouble by an-
swering too quickly, without thinking about all the
actual tasks required to get something done. But
everyone always wants to know right now, and un-
der pressure, I will spew a wag, a “wild ass guess”
without the science. Then later, I will think, I prob-
ably should not have said that. Next comes the un-
comfortable experience of not meeting the com-
mitment, and then having to make another wag,

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