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

Haunted House

Last night I dreamed....

I was on a dirt road in the forest with Floyd and Vanessa. There was an old house in shambles beside the road. I had this feeling of constantly being watched while I was there. I would glance up at the windows expected to see someone peering out at me. We decided to go inside and look around. Grabbing our backpacks, flashlights and walkie talkies, we headed inside. Deja-vu, I knew that I had been here before. Then, I remembered that my dad took us here when we were little. The house wasn't in too bad of shape, but it definitely needed work. We made our way through the house and didn't find much of anything. I remembered that there was a cellar that we used to explore so we started searching for a cellar door. We found it in the kitchen and made our way down. It was a dirt floor that took up most of the underside of the house. We made our way around and found dirt stairs leading down into a cave. We made our way down and started exploring. The cave was natural in some places but also carved out in others. We kept going deeper and deeper wondering what we would find. At one point I turned around and found that I was alone.

I suddenly found myself outside the house again and called Floyd and Vanessa on the walkie talkie telling them that they could transport outside as well. They appeared out of nowhere.

Then I woke up.

Why Cats Hate People

A lot of people think cats hate people. Well, if they do, this is the reason.

Brave But Dumb

People

Most people are like Slinkies. They aren't good for much, but it is fun to watch them fall down stairs.

Spidey

Be sure to watch Spider-Man: The Peril of Doc Ock. The movie is really well done and is made with legos. I don't know who has the kind of time it takes to make a movie like this, but I'm sure it took quite a while.

Go! Go! Go web go!

ARG!

"After a long day of surfing the web, you crash hard and sleep soundly. But suddenly you are awakened by the persistent ringing of your phone.

You answer it, and the voice at the other end speaks sinisterly, 'If you know what's good for you, you'll back off. You don't want this, you really don't.'

You're sitting in the dark at 3:00 a.m., staring at the now-dead phone, thinking to yourself, 'What have I gotten into?' " - ufiction.com

I was browsing the internet today and came across something that is a little different as far as video games are concerned. They are called ARG's or Alternate Reality Games. If you have ever seen the movie, The Game starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, you will have a basic idea of what these are like. Naturally it isn't anything as extreme as the movie, but that is the sort of thing that these games entail. You become part of the story via email, faxes and actual phone calls. The first game of this genre that I know of was named Majestic. It however had bad timing launching just before September 11th 2001. After that, people didn't want to play a "real life" game about terrorists.

I love bees is an ARG that was made to market Halo 2. If you are interested in finding more ARGs, there is a community for ARGs at UFiction.

T-Money

Went to see T-Money this past weekend with Lefty. We had a chance to go 4-wheeling up a dirt road. On the way there, we got behind a really slow driver. They were cruising along at about 14 miles per hour. I always assume that people that drive like this are just learning how to drive. I didn't get a good look at the driver though, but eventually they came to a stop and T-Money just drove around them. We then went up the dirt road and came to a halt on the way up. The road was almost completely washed out from the hurricane damage months ago. You could get a dirt bike through, but there was no way to get a truck by the washout. Not only would I not trust the road with the weight of the truck, but it simply wasn't wide enough for the tires.

We then hit Lowe's. I can walk around that store for hours just thinking about different projects that I could start. Our primary reason for going was to get a hose clamp for a pump in T's fish pond. I ended up buying a Reciprocating Saw and T-Dawg got some shelves for storage. They also had some pretty neat outdoor lights that I looked at but forgot to show Lefty and T-Dawg. I didn't see any Pond lights though.