Poot

03.19.2010

Thursday morning I awoke from not just a dream, but a series of dreams. In fact, I kept going back to sleep to find out what would happen next. Much like my dream of the one-eyed monster, this doesn't make a lick of sense.

• Dream 1: I am intrepid 1940's newspaper reporter "Poot" Smith. It is not 1940, it is present day. My catchphrase is "Adirondack". Somehow, that's a dream.
• Dream 2: I am wearing pajama bottoms, and pajama bottoms only. I am outside the Forrest Gump house in Alabama and decide to go jogging. I start jogging down a road which I know to be an old airstrip. In front of me are 2 women jogging, and I don't want to bother them but they're going too slow. I pass them and notice they seem to be talking about me in disgust. I realize I've got jogging plumbers crack, so I hike up my pajama bottoms.
• Dream 3: I'm reaching the end of the runway (yes, my dreams really do link together like this) where it forms a t-intersection with a dirt road, the dirt of which has been recently churned by a large tracked vehicle as the tracks are still readily visible. I turn left. I still have only pajama bottoms on and am worried about my feet. Luckily, after a curve and over a hill, Mom and Terry's house can be seen. There are teenagers milling about, because this is the house that's used for gang initiations. Not necessarily bad gangs, even the glee club would use it. The initiation is always to go in and bust up the bathroom on the 2nd floor (there's 3 floors), because everybody is amazed at how the bathroom is cleaned up when they come back the next time. They don't know anybody lives here.
• Dream 4: I'm inside the house, starting at the top floor and working my way down. I pass someone going into the bathroom and say "for god's sake don't fuck it up too bad" and continue on. I see a woman that I know who has a little girl (maybe 9?). I tell her that this is where my mom lives and asks if she wants to see my room. We go into my room, which is where all the extra pillows and blankets are thrown when they're not used. Also in this room is an older woman (just think Wal Mart greeter) in a recliner, hooked up to a dialysis machine. In front of her is a tv tray with a tv on it. I go to her and ask if she needs anything, maybe some water? She says she doesn't need anything and reaches forward to turn the tv stand a little. I ask again if she's sure she doesn't need any water.

After that I couldn't force myself back to sleep anymore. Now to go over the fun stuff!

Dream 1: "Poot" Smith? Of everything above, the part that's stuck in my head the most has been 1940's newspaper reporter "Poot" Smith. I've got nothing there.

Dream 2: I don't know the last time I wore pajamas, much less pajama bottoms. I'm pretty sure the last time I managed a jog was 1985. Plumbers crack happens more often than I want to admit.

Dream 3: The house was really one some friends of Mom and Dad had in St Florian. From what I remember it was hex-sided and at least 3 stories, out in the woods near either a lake or a river. I would have been around 4th grade age, so I don't remember much else except it was a neat looking house.

Dream 4: The woman hooked up to the dialysis machine was very reminiscent of one of the ladies I worked with at Humana in the Pharmacy.

None of this explains where the parts of my dream came from, just that all the parts are wierd. Like me, I guess.

So, until next time, "Adirondack!"

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May the Force be with you. Until April.

03.15.2010

I few years ago I started collecting pieces from the Star Wars Miniatures game. It was the first collectible game I ever really got into, and I think Jerry and I might have even played a game once. I've oft been one to collect games (rules, parts, pieces, etc) and never play, and the Star Wars game fell into that. I even started to get the rulebooks they were putting out for the RPG. I never intended to play the game, but I used to enjoy just reading the rules of games to see how they worked.

Yep, I've been a nerd for a looong time.

Wizards of the Coast, distributors of the Star Wars Miniatures game, recently announced they would no longer be distributing the Star Wars games as they would not be renewing their license with Lucasfilm when it expires in May. The last scheduled product for the the miniatures and RPG lines will still ship, but after that it won't be Wizards filling your nerd Star Wars needs.

Odds are somebody else will pick up the license, but to be honest Wizards of the Coast is the best out there right now. Before Wizards got the license, West End Games had the rights. Different distributors is nothing new in the RPG market - the Star Trek license has been used by at least 5 companies depending on which games you actually count.

One of the fun by-products of reading all of those rules is that it gets your mind wandering about what would work for a game. Jerry and I tried our hand at combining some rules from various games to make a miniatures based war game. The miniatures (ok, toys) we used were Mega Force vehicles. Lots of vehicles. and Legos for buildings. And cotton for smoke. At that point, rules were just an excuse to play with all of that.

Now I'll have a couple hundred Star Wars miniatures to play around with. Hmmm, Keith's boys just liquidated their HeroScape stock (probably 3 or 4 set worth of tiles) that I've still got to merge with my own. I bet I could recreate Endor with Star Wars Miniatures and HeroScape. Just how nerdy am I supposed to be at 41?

We'll see how far this train of thought goes in the coming days.

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Did you hear a tree fall in a deserted forest?

03.14.2010

After a week and a half you would think there was something noteworthy that happened in my life.

There's not.

That's ok, it's a side effect of low-stress. I liked low-stress.

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41.0

03.04.2010

Last year on my birthday I went shooting and killed paper target people. This year... I'm staying home!

I had all sorts of little ways I thought about celebrating today, as I'm taking today (and tomorrow) off from work. Originally I planned a little shopping day-trip to Nashville since I hadn't been for a visit for a while. I had also thought about running around Huntsville to possibly pick up some things that I could tag as birthday loot. I thought about all of that, but when it comes down to it, there's nothing in Nashville nor Huntsville that I really want to go and get/look at.

Gina says I'm hard to for, which is true since I tend to buy whatever it is I want for myself. I gave myself a good Christmas (which I think I may still be paying for) so there's not much out there that I really want, much less need. Since my last birthday I've gotten a new car, 2 new TVs, new bed, had Handyman Mike do some remodeling, new computer, new laptop - I didn't know I was going to make this list before I started typing, but looking at it there's no wonder there's nothing I need!

I started my birthday celebration at lunch on Tuesday when Jer and I went to the Newks and I partook in some pizza and chocolate cake. I seldom have cake, but I wanted a piece of birthday cake and Milner was nice enough to force Lindsay to bring me a piece. God bless my little the Newks family and how they take care of me. Wednesday I worked from home and watched a movie I had been looking forward to since its theatrical release: 2012. There are certain genres of movies I enjoy, and I loves me some good disaster flick! Chock full of unrealistic special effects that are just fun to watch.

Today has been low key. Fiddling with the computer, playing some random Warcraft when the internet is behaving, straightening up around the house. The perfect amount of excitement for me. I'm old and 41 now, after all. Tomorrow.. not sure what I really have planned for tomorrow yet. More than likely a Publix run for some asparagus at the very least. Yessir, I've got 41-year-old excitement NAILED!

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80

02.25.2010

Monday I mentioned my journey through Warcraft and how I was reaching the final level. Tonight, I finally made it.

I didn't know I was going to hit 80 when I started playing. Of course, I didn't know I was going to get wrapped up into it and play for 5 hours. About the time I was ready to quit I was only 8% away from level 80 - I think I was about 40% away when I started. So I decided to just kill and maim until I got the points needed.

So now I have a level 80 main. I've never wanted to do dungeon raids, so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do next. If nothing else I'm going to keep raking it in at the Auction House!

More importantly, I need to slack off playing and get to work on MuchachoQuest!

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