Farewell, Birgit Nilsson, o wonderful singer! In the paper they repeated an ancient fable about Birgit getting bitten on the neck in performance as revenge, by Franco Corelli - which doesn't sound ANYTHING like Franco Corelli at all. I have an old photograph somewhere that I scanned from a book, which shows Franco cooking soup with his dog.

Flooding, etc. The paper said an Alaskan volcano has erupted - didn't they say yesterday that there had been an earthquake off the coast of Oregon?

I had an extremely strange dream that had, as protagonist, a keen-eyed old man, and there was some kind of out-of-control evil that was taking over - however I can't quite describe it as the underlying plot is not complete and I just remember highly-colored snippets.