July 17, 2009

• rambling

  Yesterday I went to Target. No not Walmart. I no longer buy from those evil bastards. Target is probably just as evil but if I go that line of reasoning soon I’ll have to make everything myself by hand. And while that might be an interesting learning experience, I suspect it would get boring, fast.

  Anyway I bought:
  A vacuum cleaner
  A steam cleaner
  Cheap Gardening Shears (that look like scissors)
  Cheap Ratchet Pruning Shears
  Gardening Gloves
  A Small Shovel

  I would have gotten one of those paper masks that you use to keep yourself from being exposed to flu viruses too but I couldn’t find it. I also was supposed to get one of those Air purifier thingies but I forgot what brand I had decided to get. I will get these two things as soon as possible.

  Today I picked some red berries that were growing on a plant that leads up to my office.

  Those are your clues. Now it’s up to you to determine what my nefarious purpose must be! You have less than 48 hours or else it will be too late!

  Last night I dreamed all night.

  ALL NIGHT.

  I never dream all night. Rarely do I dream at all and almost never so that I remember it and very rarely such that I am aware I am dreaming. But last night I was aware of all my dreams and they were quite extensive.

  One dream was like the best dream I think I’ve ever had. There was nothing tense about it. No stress. No worry.  Nothing sexual or romantic or exciting or adventurous. There was like no story to it nor any challenge or striving. No triumph or victory and yet no loss or despair or fear or sorrow. No sense of disappointment.

  It was just, a series of very simple ordinary scenes of a simple ordinary life, peaceful and tranquil with the only interesting aspects being a perpetual animosity-less joking sort of fight I was having with a girl I meet during the course of the dream whom I’ve never met in real life. It was really weird and hard to explain. Almost sort of like we played practical jokes on one another but there were a lot of other people involved who were living in this big house in which most of the content of the dream took place. I got the impression some of the people were my family members and some were hers.

  In the end of the dream there was a hurricane coming and we were getting ready for it and there was some concern levies might break and we’d all drown.  There were questions of how we should get news and whether we should go to the roof. But there was no sense of fear except for the slight fear that some of the people wouldn’t make it home in time so we could wait out the hurricane. But almost as soon as the thought crossed my mind they arrived.

  The dream shifted after that and I was in a store getting contact lenses, something I’ve never warn in real life. And there was a ton of dreaming just revolving around the process of getting and trying on contact lenses. There was some reason in the dream that I really needed to get them and the eye doctor was like really pleased that I was finally switching since my prescription was so bad that I really needed contacts or something. It was weird as it was like they had very special procedures just for people with eyesight as bad as mine. And there was talk that this was much cheaper than me ultimately needed surgery. There was some sort of new contact lenses technology that made it much more effective than normal glasses.

  There was at least one other extensive dream after that but for some reason it’s escaping me right now. Serves me right for waiting so long to write about it.  But anyway it was another weird non-threatening mostly uninteresting and entirely restful dream.

  And when I woke I felt fully rested and in a very good mood.

  And at the same time entirely creep-ed out.

  I don’t like weird dreams. I don’t like it when I dream in ways that I don’t usually dream. Or when I sleep unusually comfortably.  This didn’t feel like something I would experience, didn’t feel like something my mind would come up with, didn’t feel ordinary at all. It contradicts my general expectations and I don’t like that. I don’t want any force messing with the way my mind works, even if it’s just my twisted subconscious. I like things to be simple and concrete. Things I can understand.

  BTW I’ve been playing this stupidass game called Vampire Wars on Facebook almost perpetually. I’ve also been playing stupid farmville a bit too. Why are games on facebook so cheesy and yet so addictive? I don’t even like vampires. OR farming for that matter. Weird.

  I have read some lately believe it or not.

  A book called Godplayers I read was really good. I read it in two days so it was addictive enough. The ending was stupid and didn’t make any sense and all and all it had very little in the way of coherent plot. But it had a lot of fascinating interesting stuff about the scope and shape of the universe. Lots of math and linguistics and physics and computer stuff all mixed together with mysticism and history to create a weirdass universe. It was more of a classic Scifi novel that you don’t see that much of anymore these days. I was never a huge fan of those, but even so I enjoyed this. Next I have to read K-Machines which tells the same story from a different perspective.

  I also read a book of short stories taking place in the world of Mercedes Lackey. It was alright. The first story was Scooby Doo with Heralds. That was just silly. Some of the other stories by other authors were bad enough that they pissed me off. It was reminiscent of when I was a kid I’d read these Dragonlance books of short stories only to realize that I should only read the core books in that series cuz everything else pretty much just sucks.

  I reread Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn a book I haven’t read since I was really young, in High School I think. It wasn’t as good as I remembered it being. Very sappy. The end was dark. Sort of a soap opera-ish book. And this time the main characters really annoyed me. Oh well. It was still well written and very easy to get into.

  I also read the manga Tarot Cafe, all the issues that are out right now. It was interesting especially since I’ve recently gotten interested in Tarot largely because I think I can turn it into a multimillion dollar TCG. But also because tarot is interesting. The manga was less interesting though, but still alright. Hard to get into.

  I need to read the Mistborn series of books as soon as possible because I learned while I was in Texas that the author who wrote them is going to be the one to finish the Robert Jordan series. He’s going to do it in 3 books apparently instead of just one. I hope he’s good enough.

  Next up for reading is some PERN book. I’ve already read a few pages. It’s weird. But at least soon I’ll know what the heck everyone is talking about when they reference pern in forums and whatnot.

  Was planning on writing a long entry detailing my adventures in the great land of Texas but I’ve been really lazy about it. I may yet do it.

  Xanga message system really needs a save draft option. It’s annoying that I started to write a really long letter and it got deleted, when my browser weirded out on me.  And now I have to copy back and forth from google docs to write it to be safe. Anyways, I suppose I’ll finish it, like all my other projects, some time before the end of time.

  Final Fantasy IV The After Years is amazing. It’s too expensive but if you loved Final Fantasy IV you should play it! It’s sooo true to the original it’s nearly perfect. It’s for the Wii btw.

  I on the way to being all powerful in Lost Odyssey. Just throwing that out there. Next up is Fable II or Assassin’s Creed or Portal. Eventually I’ll get back to Blue Dragon too.

  Transformers II was pretty good like I said but I liked the first better. I like movies where things blow up.  Star Trek was the best movie of the Summer hands down. UP was also quite decent. Terminator was a severe disappointment. I can’t remember if I saw any other movies.

  I’m watching an anime called Utawararerumono or something like that. Not sure how many wa, ra, re, ru, whatevers are in the middle of uta and mono and I’m too lazy to look it up right now. It’s ok so far. It’s like a strategy game turned into an anime. In fact, that’s exactly what it is, a strategy erogi game. 

  Haven’t really watched much anime other than that lately.

  I’ve been watching a TV series called Kings. It was canceled, but it’s still interesting.

  Torchwood Season 3 was AMAZING.  But the writers are evil murdering *bastards*. I hate them.

  I have gifts to send to four people and I owe $350 to my parents for an investment club thingy (which I highly doubt is a good idea, but what can it hurt to try? we should probably be investing in China…). Life is EXPENSIVE.

  Mostly I’ve been reading stuff online. Politics and all that. Twitter is an amazing resource for getting links to really good articles about a large plethora of interesting topics. It might seem like a silly tool, but it’s an extremely powerful platform that will have a huge impact on life and society for the foreseeable future.

  You should all watch Democracy Now EVERY DAY. It’s the best and most honest news show that exists. More recommendations for where to get information will come in a later post.

  Enough rambling.

  Now back to programming.

  • 2:37 pm
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