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AL ABOARD! Patent on the rocking/fishing chair pending,
and that's patently ridiculous. (Lifelike illustration by the author.)

I once read that you should never write about your dreams. 

Some writing advice; such as the following, I can live with.

• Don't write italics because nobody reads italics; 
  
• Employ lots of quotes; 
• Lists, too;
• Stick to interesting stuff.
  
  

But write off dreams?  

As my good friend the writer Rick Mayoh would put it, "Hogwash fiddlefaddle!"

Dreams are often the high point of my day. 

In the early hours of Friday, July 26, I awoke from a dream about having John Lennon and Bob Dylan at my place for a sleepover and I was surprised they were both way nicer than I expected. (I know the exact date because I told my cousin Roseanne about the encounter in a text message.)

Also, my dead parents visit me on a more than weekly basis.

This past Wednesday, my late brother Ed popped by to ask whether I wrote friction or non-friction. 

Plus dreams can serve up life-altering opportunities.

Last night, my pal Marty Seto and I visited my brother in law Al MacNevin on Manitoulin Island where Al was demonstrating his latest invention: A gas-powered twin-cylinder wicker-yet somehow seaworthy combination fishing/rocking chair.  

 If that's not a million-bitcoin idea I don't know what is. 

YOUR GUESS IS  AS GOOD
AS MINE: How'd Marty 
get here?

"But Peter!" I hear you say, "Were you or were you not this very morning laughing with your neighbour Don because his electric garage door opener cacked out and you told him about the Friday morning your  garage door broke so you underwent a hasty $750 hosing at the hands of  a couple of 24-hour emergency garage door quote unquote experts who didn't speak English and whose receipts didn't have names or addresses on them? 

"And didn't you then tell Don that in 1985, you met a young man who told you he was going into the electric garage door business and you thought, 'Ha. Electric garage doors. As if they'll catch on!'" 

I also--since you brought up the subject--didn't see a future for bottled water or portable phones.

I forget what this story was supposed to be about.

But if you need more writing and/or investment advice email me. If you'd like to get in touch with Marty or Al, I can arrange that too.

But if you'd like to reach the fish, drop them a line.