I am in my mother's dining room trying to fall asleep. My mother walks into the room, which distracts me. Through the window, we see two police officers escort three prisoners to a construction site. One of the prisoners is abnormally gigantic. The officers restrain the giant and the other two prisoners start beating him. He eventually collapses and appears to have died.

My mother goes to the window to close the shades. We could have simply pretended to not have seen anything, but this act reveals that we saw what had happened. The officers notice and start coming toward the apartment. I start looking for one of my good swords, but I keep finding display pieces. I uncover hundreds of swords that I did not know I had, but none of them are sharp. I decide on using a blunt one that is very sturdy. I could bludgeon someone to death with it even if I can't cut them.

There is a knock on the door and we refuse to open it. After a few minutes, the door is kicked down. The door is actually on the floor and cannot be closed properly again. There are other officers outside who were not part of the crime that we witnessed. One of the officers involved in the murder comes into the apartment and pretends to investigate the crime that he committed. When he sees my huge pile of swords, he grins. He thinks that he has a good reason to arrest me, but I show him that all of the swords are non-functional display pieces.

Disappointed at not finding a good reason to arrest me, the officer starts mounting the door. It's clear that he wants to be unseen when he kills me. At that point, I spot one of my good swords. I grab the sword at the same time that he grabs his gun. I slice his torso in half. I hurriedly clean up because I know that other officers are nearby and they will probably come looking for the one who I just killed.

Just as I finish stuffing the body into my grandmother's old luggage, there is another knock on the door. The door falls down, because it wasn't properly remounted. The other officer who was involved in the murder comes in. As I prepare to kill him too, the alarm awakens me.

I went to some Earth Day events yesterday. At the Times Square event, someone gave me a free beefmaster tomato plant. I kept it in my backpack for 7 hours, which caused some damage. One leaf is shrivelled and almost certainly dead. The whole plant was severely leaning to one side yesterday, but it has spread out overnight and is standing properly upright now.

I have been wanting to do some gardening/farming for the past few years, but I haven't actually done it for unknown reasons. I bought seeds for lettuce and kale a few years ago, but I did not plant them after sprouting. In the past, I have grown peppers, a potato, an onion, and a few spices, but I have never attempted to grow tomatoes before.

I pass by this bakery almost every day. The shelves are never more than a quarter filled and there are no labels or prices. There is a price list in fine print located high above the shelves, but that is for drinks. For nearly four years, they seldom had any customers. I only recall seeing two. I had suspected that it was some kind of money laundering operation, since they managed to survive for so long without customers.

Last week, they posted their sanitary inspection certificate in the window, which they are required by law to do. They received a grade of C, which is the lowest grade possible. I expected this to be the death of the bakery, but the opposite seems to have happened.

The day after they posted the sanitary inspection certificate, I saw two customers inside. The next day, I saw 5. The number of people kept growing and it is now a very packed place. The strangest part is that none of the customers appear to be eating any of the pastries that they stock in the shelves and they are not drinking any of the drinks mentioned in the price list. I have seen people eating rice, noodles, roast pork, and duck. None of these items seem like they should be available for purchase at the bakery. I have no idea where these customers are getting that food or why they are eating it in there.

I get randomly logged out of gmail around once a month. When I log in, I am always asked to provide my phone number for "enhanced security", but there has always been an option to bypass it. That option appears to now be gone, at least for Google Plus. I didn't try gmail yet and I don't need to for that specific account because I am accessing via POP. I have long suspected that they logged me out solely to try to trick me into giving away my phone number. They probably offer Google Voice for some sinister reason that is somehow related to this. They want to know things that I don't want them to know. I refuse to give them my number. To me, this is the death of Google Plus. It was already dying. I haven't logged in for several weeks and I only wanted to look at it today because I had read about a redesign.

I learned about binary trees in a programming algorithms class in 1995. Since then, I have read numerous articles about both binary trees and B-trees. B-trees were never mentioned in my algorithms class. Due to the similarity in names, properties, and uses, I had mistakenly assumed that they were the same thing.

A few weeks ago, I started implementing a binary tree as part of one of my projects. I stopped halfway through this, because I kept thinking that a binary tree wasn't efficient enough for what I wanted to do. I came up with a new idea that I had never heard of before, which would involve a slight variation on binary trees. I wasn't sure if this was genius or folly. This variation is simple enough that somebody else must have thought of it, but it was never mentioned in my algorithms class and I never saw any discussion about it in technical articles that I read. To be sure that I wasn't making a mistake in choosing this new technique, I worked out the logic/math in great detail and I couldn't find any problems with it.

I was about to proceed with implementing this new idea when I decided to read the Wikipedia article on binary trees. Maybe there was some special type of binary tree that would be equivalent to or better than my invention. I did not find any information on a better type of binary tree for my project, but I noticed a link to an article for B-trees at the end of the article of binary trees. I was surprised to see this because I had previously thought that they were the same thing. Upon reading the B-tree article, I discovered that this is what I had reinvented.

As I was getting ready to leave for work, I heard the doorbell ring. I initially thought it was the UPS man with a delivery for my neighbor. He always mistakenly rings my bell for unknown reasons. About a minute later, there was a second ring. This did not match his pattern. I decided to delay my departure by 10 minutes to avoid encountering whoever it was at the door.

When I went downstairs, I saw that somebody was outside. Since I didn't want to be late for work, I decided to proceed with exiting the house. Two women were waiting for me outside. The non-Asian one greeted me in Chinese and tried to hand me a pamphlet in Japanese. I saw that the Asian woman was holding pamphlets with "Jehovah's Witness" on them.

I didn't know how to respond, so I said that I don't speak Chinese and left. Both women seemed surprised by how I handled the situation and continued standing in front of my door as I walked toward the train station. I kept glancing back to see if they would leave or follow me. One of the women eventually said: "It's OK. We speak English". I was already quite far away and pretended to not hear. Right before I had to make a left turn, the women started to leave. They were walking in my direction, so I sped up immediately after turning left and ran to the train once I got into the station.

I just got a call from 360-461-2157. I generally don't answer calls from unrecognized numbers, but I make an exception for unrecognized area codes. I got a pre-recorded message informing me that this was a survey and that I would get two free boarding passes for a cruise to The Bahamas after answering some questions. I don't really have a strong desire to go on such a cruise, but I thought it could be interesting.

Before proceeding by pressing "1" as instructed, I wanted to consult with Google to see if there was any information regarding this suspicious survey. I only delayed around 10 seconds to do this and the automated system hung up on me.