I was with Stan and we were in some kind of building/warehouse waiting for a shipment to arrive. Someone we haven't heard from for ages, Brian, was supposedly the one with the shipment. It was of his art. It was all packaged in elaborate crates, like crates that carry musician's equipment. Supposedly he had constructed the crates himself, and they had windows so that the art could see out. (?!?!?!) I looked in one of them, and the art was some sort of weird windowbox construction framing a soft, plush Frankenstein doll, a roll of masking tape*, and something else but I forgot what. Brian was really gloating over his art and his shipping job. I just thought it all a bit weird.
*OK, here's a masking tape story which might've inspired its appearance in this dream. A couple weeks ago, I went to an art supply store in Madison to get some Rives BFK and Arches Cover paper. I also picked up some liquid calligraphy inks (that I use in acrylic painting) and a roll of masking tape (so I didn't have to make a separate trip somewhere else to get tape). Since I was busy at the counter filling out a tax-exempt form, I wasn't aware of what the prices on the items were...I mean, I knew the paper would be several dollars a sheet, as would be the bottles of ink, and well, tape's tape. Later that week, I bought a printer that has archival inks and can print on high quality 100% rag acid free paper so that I can start selling my digital prints. I was comparing the prices of the paper made for use especially for the printer with the prices of the Rives and Arches paper I bought. I checked the receipt and saw a charge of $5.15. I couldn't figure out what that item, the most expensive individual item on the receipt, was. It wasn't paper, it wasn't ink...it was...MASKING TAPE! Yes, I bought a roll of masking tape that was over $5!!!! Not any masking tape, no, this was DRAFTING tape. Oooh, excuse me for confusing the two. I felt so stupid. I bought a $5 roll of tape. It better be damn good tape.
Labels: Dreams, This Boring Life
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"I bought a $5 roll of tape."
rotflmao! congrats on the cool printer, btw.
Well...it might be the case that the $1.98 rolls of tape won't actually stick anything down anyway so... the $5 might be better spent than the less than $2 ones.
I am now using my elite, precious roll of tape, and noticed that the price was $5.11 instead of $5.15 as I had mentioned. Wow...I saved a whole 4 cents!
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