Shangri-La .... or so it would seem

Diamond Mine

I used to play this game all the time at my old job. Be careful, it is addictive.

Diamond Mine

Keys

After work today, my mom called me and informed me that she locked her keys in her car. She asked where the keys to the truck were and I told her. She wanted me to meet her about halfway to give her a spare key to open her car. After she looked for the truck keys, she called me back. She told me that she found the keys and then my cell phone went out. I called her back, but the line was busy.

She called back again and I told her the phone went out on me. I then said that the last thing I heard was that she found the key. Then I said I was on my way and would meet her halfway and she said she would bring my textbooks. Well, I pulled into Food Lion and thought it strange that she didn't beat me there, since it was closer to her. I called her back and she apologized and said that she talked to Steve for a while and was almost there.

I was totally confused when she pulled up in her car. The same car that she had locked her keys in. Apparently, when we were cut off, she went on to explain that she had found her car keys in the driveway. I didn't hear this at all. And then when I told her I would meet her, she thought I must have really wanted those books.

Gone Fishing

I was cleaning up outside and called Beaver to see if it was ok if I dropped it off in his field. I finally got ahold of him and he was on the lake fishing with Nathanael. He told me to come on up and join them, so I did. I had to cut across someone's property to reach the dock so I could get on the boat. I brought them a couple of foot-long sandwiches from Subway and cookies. Both declined my offer of cookies, so more for me. Donna and Camden showed up later and we all had a good time cruising around. It is a private lake, so people weren't as friendly as I would expect. When I go to a public lake, people always wave and chat out on the water. Here they ignored one another. I guess money does that to you for some reason. We didn't catch a thing, but everyone but Donna went swimming at the end. I always imagine something swimming underneath me when I am floating in a big lake like that. (I don't swim at the ocean at all because I constantly think of sharks.)

Afterwards, I went to the Bryson's house where they were nice enough to feed me. They really are great people. I'll try to get some pictures to share here soon.

I have the Helm

Well, right now it is just me at work. Everyone else is either on vacation or off on errands. It is quiet right now and I hope it stays that way. The little voice in the back of my mind is telling me it will change soon. Perhaps some local cops will storm the place looking for contraband of some kind.

I hear the door chime....

It wasn't the police like I thought. It was just a kid dropping off some information.

My boss just came back too... back to work for now. =)

Office Space

Last night I dreamed....

I was back at SoftBase and had an office again. It was a large spacious office that was very nice. Suddenly, some guy came in and started throwing my stuff on the floor. He informed me that this was his office now. His crew started grabbing things and bringing in his stuff. The boss came in and told me that I was to move into an old office. I found it and it was like an old house that was falling in. Rain water was leaking through the ceiling and pooling in the floor. There were also big spiders and crabs everywhere. Sean showed up and tried to help me get rid of them but there were too many.

Treasure Map

Last night I dreamed.....

I was living in some sort of post-apocalyptic future where I came across a treasure map of some kind. Nathanael took the map from me and tried to find the trasure on his own. He was killed in Iceland by some kind of snow monster. Before he took the map from me, I did make myself a copy. I was on my way to find the treasure myself when I came across a town of some sort. (It looked like something out of Mad Max) I was on a motorcycle and it gave out on me near a boy sitting outside his shack. He helped me fix my motorcycle and gave me a place to stay the night. There was a local warlord of some type that ran the town. The next day he went around and told everyone that he needed their toes. I was afraid that he was going to cut off everyone's toes in some horrible torture. Instead, he pulling out some nail polish and painted everone's toe nails. After getting my toe nails painted, I left to seek my treasure.

In the town the next day, an invisible force showed up. It was a monster of some kind and was after the map I had. It was tearing up the town and was bigger than an elephant. (An elephant actually ran away from it at one point.) The warlord told the invisible monster that I had the map and what direction I left in. I think this was the same monster that killed Nathanael and it was now after me.