There are two completely fictional recurring locations in my nightmares that sometimes merge. One is a convenience store that shares its grounds with a multimedia type store (books, DVDs, music etc) while the other is a thrift type shop that usually attracts a very rough crowd of customers. Sometimes, these two concepts combine into one, or sometimes both will appear independently within the same dream.

I honestly don't know the origin as there is no real world analogue known to me for either, I think the big anxiety they latch onto is that of financial insecurity as I am often in these shops without the ability to pay for things that I really want, but in reality I love thrift shops and convenience stores, they are some of my favorite places where I buy the stuff most important or enjoyable to me.

Big fan of NBC Sports solving a problem, the fact that both of their star color commentators in Townsend Bell and James Hinchcliffe were on track at the same time, by bringing in the legendary Tom Kristensen to pull about an hour in the booth. Fascinating hearing the insight of a king of the artform and of course he's an old friend to IMSA broadcasts with him often doing an annual Zoom interview during the 12 Hours of Sebring where he was wildly successful.

Tom never managed to get a win at Daytona, but with 9 wins at Le Mans it is safe to say dude knows what he's talking about when it comes to longform endurance racing and it was something a little bit different than the norm which is always welcome even if it was mostly them being cheap not wanting to hire another full color commentator for the race.

When I was a kid we first got digital cable or satellite around 2000ish, and one of my favorite things to watch in those first years was all the reruns of old soap operas on SoapNet. I didn't understand what was going on like half the time, but I really enjoyed the drama nonetheless. So I guess I shouldn't be shocked that suddenly in my 30s as I am the weakest I've ever been to pure nostalgia in my life that I've suddenly developed an interest in soap operas again.

I've been watching Dark Shadows and looking for high enough quality versions of the Passions series that don't hurt my eyes as I loved the work by its creator as a kid and watching Dallas and deciding that next week there are a 1-3 daily soaps that I plan to start watching starting on Monday through a couple streaming services I have access to. When I do, I'm going to start doing a post about them once a week, minireviews I guess or documenting my path trying to catch up completely blind to what's happening initially anyway.