Dreamed about being in a house built on top of an indian burial ground.  There was a power outage.  Went in a walk in closet.  A native american with a short stone knife & dressed in full costume then appeared behind the lion kingdom & started swinging it.  Managed to escape somehow.

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The goog strangely doesn't show the Hopyard route of the last 12 years as an option but a longer route down the canal.   It's .4 miles longer.  The east route is identical to the Hopyard route.  They also recommend Del Valle Pkwy instead of the grand tour. 

Another 20 miler done & a gathering of the rich.  Kind of a haunted time, being the 100th anniversary of the high school.  It reminded lions of the 100 year anniversary in horror movie The Fog.  Lions expected some kind of haunting, but only had the 1 dream.  There were no strange sightings in the dark, during the run home at midnight.  The truck lighting system now manely erases any trace of the night.

There was a most unusual feeling during this reunion that these people who once met every day & took their daily presence for granted would meet ever less often & possibly never meet again.  Lions didn't feel it 10 years ago, but the reality reminded lions of Pirates of the Caribbean.  It really was only 1 day ashore for every 10 years at sea.

 

 Lions rarely stalk on the internets anymore, but it seems a few of the better half still gather routinely.  The Calif* university alumni stick together.  No lion friend requests ever get accepted.

There was more of a profound feeling of time passing. Lions don't feel it, normally. Seeing how old everyone else became brought it back. Lions are rarely around anyone their own age on the running paths & can be forgiven for not seeing the passage of time.

There was also a feeling that they were worn down from decades of family obligations & desired a remembrance of their younger, freer years.

In some ways, it made the idea of marrying a high school sweetheart more appealing than it used to be.  That way the group could vicariously always be together & that younger time could last forever.   

 

Part of it is they have manely aged out of the social networks & moved on to real life things.  Part of it is they're getting on in years, entering the age where you start wondering if they're going to be around, the same animals who in your mind are still teenagers.  Quite a few still looked 30, manely the men.  There's still a real culture of exercise being for men only in this age group & women being encouraged to not sweat.  It was very much a generation when women didn't run marathons & marriage was the end game.

The crowd was smaller than 10 years ago though it might have been less obvious because the venue was smaller.  Most of them came from just northern Calif*.  There seemed to be fewer out of towners.  The 20 year is the one that everyone traditionally is supposed to go to.  That one was a lot more money.

Most of the survivors went to Liverworst in the early 2000's &  bought houses which are now worth millions.  They all have brand new gasoline SUV's.  Few if any had Teslas.  The most successful are empty nesters.  They're all paying for their kid's education.

All the women were married.  The healthier men were all still single in keeping with the averages.

The lion kingdom took just a crummy camera.  Lions are unlikely to live in Calif* in another 10 years.  It's unlikely to be worth the travel for what amounts to very little meaningful dialog & just a symbolic get together.  Maybe it could be worked in a bigger trip.