Papal Announcement
Here’s another strange dream that I had over the weekend…
I remember running around town in an attempt to get streaming video from the Vatican to display in all of the churches in town. Even the Protestant churches wanted to see this one because the Pope had some world shaking announcement that he was about to make. I’m not sure what the announcement was, but I remember feeling that it was one of those days that all of mankind was going to remember.
Oddly enough, the smaller churches in town were really easy to setup. The hardest ones were three huge Catholic churches that were somehow really close to each other. I had to fly to the roofs of the three churches, and then aim these really large satellite dishes at an orbiting satellite that I could somehow see.
Once the dishes were aimed, I had to run cabling from the dishes to a control room. The control rooms in the churches were awesome to behold. They were the best-of-breed electronics, dozens of TV displays, buttons, switches, levers, slides, and all sorts of other great stuff there for controlling the various displays around the church.
I got the first two churches done, and I headed to the third church. It was made of solid gold and gleamed in the sunlight. The floors were covered with white rugs that were somehow unstained despite the thousands of feet that had tread upon them. The windows were all stained glass, and they depicted many of the stories from the Bible. Over the altar at the foot of the pews was a huge crucifix that hung from the ceiling on golden wires. I stopped for a moment in awe as I drank in the sights of such beauty.
My reverie was interrupted by a priest pulling on my elbow, “Excuse me, Sir. We need you to come this way.”
I gladly followed the priest back to a control room that was even better than the other two that I had seen. I’m not sure what made it better, but I had the sense that no expense was spared in creating such a wonderful place. There were problems here, though. Despite the best equipment, they were having problems getting the feed from the Vatican. They started asking me all sorts of questions, and I had answers for most of them. Suddenly, I was in over my head, and I couldn’t answer their questions anymore. The techs in the room starting asking me if I knew anyone that did know the answers to their questions.
I turned to my left and said, “Yeah. This guy.” As I turned, my friend, Shinto, appeared behind me. I pointed to him, and the techs started to barrage him with problems. He stayed very calm and focused as he pushed past the techs to get to the console in front of them.
As he sat down, he mumbled, “I can fix this. Give me a few minutes.” Shinto typed away furiously for a few moments. Then he flipped some switches, and started to type some more. In a short amount of time, Shinto looked up, “Ok. All fixed.”
The manager of the techs stepped up and told Shinto, “You’re hired with tenure. You now have a job for life if you want the job.” Somehow he didn’t seem happy about this, but he accepted the offer.
The manager looked out a window into the chapel of the church at all of the people that had gathered to listen to the Pope speak. I looked out the window as well, and listened in on the announcement. The Pope’s image faded into view, and as he started to speak, I woke up.
I never did find out what the important announcement was, and I wondered about it for the rest of the day. What was he going to say? I guess I’ll never know.
