Epic Dream

So i had this awesome dream last night, where i was leading this army of not so trained normal people... into battle against my evil son and daughter... and we were fighting around an on this frozen lake... and unbeknownst to my kids i had power over the elements, so i started throwing fireballs at the ice around there approaching army, and making them fall in to the murky depths... and then they attacked with mythical creatures... and this giant cat like thing... like a lynx or something but big and with black and white stripes, attacked me, and i through it into the water and pushed down so that it would freeze... but it broke out of the ice... and i had to do that again but go even deeper this time... and it stayed and my daughter came to me cause she didn't really want to fight, cause she loved me...


i woke up... went back to sleep and...

i was in this school/home for magic people... and we all had certain things we were suppose to do, most of the dream was just me walking around talking to people and checking out the place.. but then this guy (who was this guy at work who reminds me of lock from lost or that creepy guy on the office either way if he ever gets fired... im not coming in for the next week just to be safe) well he was suppose to be working on this project and wasn't and the leaders weren't very happy with him, so they sent me to check up on him, and ***stuff i can't remember *** then he was evil and i created a box around him, but he broke free cause it was a simple box... and then i created a more complicated box and kept changing it and giving it all these groves and nooks and such cause apparently he couldn't fight against that cause it was soo complicated, and also he remarked on the fact that i could just do it w/out drawning on "the one power" how he envied me... and the leaders were impressed, and i locked him away for centuries cause he was actually the evil dark evil being of evil... and had taken the descise of this guy in order to infultrate our school.

God and Dreams

so every once in a while i have these deeply spiritual dreams, where i fight evil. i know it sounds stupid, "fighting evil" but its true... i've learned a lot about myself in these dreams in the past... so normally i try and listen to them... and i actually haven't had one in years, probably due to the fact that i was actively running away from God. well last night i had a dream, the first part was kind of graphic, so i wont go into any detail... lets just say that i was not fighting... i was going along with it, then i realized these girls were demons and they were pulling me closer to something... all i can think of is that it would be hell. then in another dream i went to visit this guy i know's house... (which the house in the dream totally wasn't his) and he wasn't there, so i left, as i was leaving there was this girl leaving as well... and she kinda screamed and started chasing me... it was a kinda evil scream... well then it turned out that i was in a culdisack w/out any enterence or exit... there was this one house with all these chain fences around it... so eventually i went in there, and she followed easily breaking the fences down, or throwing them open... and i kept running trying to get away... i ended up in this bedroom.. it was dark and the only light was this redish tinted light comming from the streetlamps outside... and she came in and started circling me... when i realized... "why am i running? i have GOD on my side" so i stood my ground, but i was curious as to why she was attacking me so openly instead of seducing me like earlier in the dream. why not sneak up and attack me, or be sly about it. i kept asking her, and she would change shape and try to do what i mentioned at the time... but it was weak feints because i now remembered the power that flowed through me, and then i took hold of her head, and said something weird like, "by the holy spirit send this physical body to the grave, and send this demon back to the firey pits of hell to be burned for eternety by the GLORY OF GOD!" and she screamed and crumbled like ash... and then lots more started coming in throught the doors... lots more... and it was more than i could handle... but somehow i was. then i woke up... and i was too late to go to church (even though earlier i woke up with my alarm and couldn't decide if i should go to church or not... i kept going back and forth wanting to go, and then not wanting to go, then i fell asleep again and had this dream... or the last part of this dream at least.

so yeah... like i said i've head dreams like this before... and normaly what happens is im crazy weak and i can't fight them... and then i realize i have God in me, and i have the power of the holy spirit, or (more often in the past) the blood of Jesus Christ (crazy powerful stuff). this dream gives me heart in more than one way, it lets me realize that God is not ashamed of me, or mad at me, but just wants to use me, and can't unless i realize the power he has to use me... and that i need to take hold of it, and USE IT and go forward in His name.
so, i wake up today, not broken and beaten, but a bit wiser... and hopfully a bit more prepaired.

Redhead

So at my workplace all the designers are in one "wing" i guess you could say... the catalog designers and copywriters and such work downstairs, i (along with the rest of the internet marketing group) work upstairs so whenever i come and go throughout the day i can look through the window (the upper half of the wall around the stairs looking into the downstairs art-room is a window) my friend rich works right there in that corner, so i normally wave at him... then, there's the redhead... she works sometimes behind rich... facing away from the window, i see her almost EVERY DAY and have never seen her face, she's never at any functions or anything... now honestly it doesn't really matter that much... its just the fact that i've never seen her face, yet i see her every day... it could be a guy and i'd be almost just as curious. its crazy... and you'd think i'd just go up to her one day and say, "hey! im michael, i work upstairs... and i really just wanted to see your face" but i can't, cause well... that'd be weird... and normally there are big wigs hanging around down there. so yeah... thats it. there's a secret redhead working downstairs that for some reason i've never seen her face... EVER.

In a Steampunk world...

I want one of these...




I would totally make it in a steampunk world... with crazy steam powered robots, and cars. Also sweet Dirigibles, and tesla guns, and evil scientists, and awesome aviators pilots. yes and cell phones like these with sweet binary hole punch cards, so business men like me can make sweet designs on them and give them to ladies to put in there phones... awesomeness.

Zombie Apocalypse

All i know is if there's a zombie apocalypse and you get turned into a zombie, im shooting you in the head. no questions asked... and i expect you to do the same to me, i don't care if there is some fabled "cure" SHOOT ME IN THE HEAD because seriously... i will not hesitate to shoot you if you so much as get bitten. just so you know, but on the bright side, i dont intend to be anywhere near a zombie, im gonna go down into my safe house with only 2 exits and crazy thick steal walls and hope and pray that bryan is on his way down as well, and we will escape to our private yatch thats out off the coast full of supplies and weapons so we can just sail the ocean either to a place w/out zombies or till they all die or go away. so if i were you, i'd totally try and be with me during the apocalypes... zombie or otherwise, because trust me, i am ready! i have israeli gas masks.

Dreams and Childhood

so i had this CRAZY dream last night where i guess there was an apocalypse or something... it wasn't really that bad apparently cause we were just walking around... probably a world wide EMP or something. either way we were walking around the shopping center by overtons, and josh had to get a prescription filled at the eckards that isn't there in real life... and some how we found/new about this safe house that was under the shopping center. so we go down the tunnel to get there, and we have to get on this moving metal raft that went along this acid river... that protected us from the giant rats and evil zombies... and we followed it down, and found a couple dead giant rats (just like the ones in fallout 3) and one guy laying in the acid river dead... and eventually we got to the hatch, and went inside our new safe house and instead of being all metal tables and very industrial looking like i expected it was decorated like some fancy mid 90's home, kinda reminded me of my aunt sarah's apartment forever ago, it was actually kinda nice, had a pretty nice tv and all... a couple bedrooms... but all our clothes were messed up so i went looking for clothes cause we "knew" some how that there were clothes... but only jumpsuits (or speedsuits however you want to put it) just like the ones in Fallout and Bryan and David found some and it turns out that there were only one for each of us... and we wore them every day, and at night were suppose to put them in this thing that cleaned them or something... and each suit was colored for a particular job, and everyone had a job... and bryan and david just happened to find the suits that were for the leadership and the easy jobs or whatever... and i found an orange one that was for the repair man, so i ended up being the repair man... even though i thought bryan should have been cause he's better at that stuff than i am. oh, the people who were in this safe house were Me, David, Bryan, Josh, Bec, Katie, two random other girls and one random other guy (sorry sam i guess you got eaten by zombies) and andrea my ex girlfriend who has been popping in my dreams recently when i least expect it. now understand i have not played fallout in a few weeks, and i haven't seen andrea in years, and only recently have almost talked to her on facebook... so it was kinda random... but basically everyone has someone except for me, and i "had" andrea... who didn't like me, and no one knew why she was there, or how she got there but no one liked her and everyone thought she was a whore, and for some reason i was all taken up on her, and wanted to be with her... anyway she was kinda like whats her face from lost the hot blonde who was all prissy who ended up dying the one with the brother... she kinda just didn't want to deal, and refused to do any work... which made everyone hate her more... it was a very interesting dream. very... detailed.


THEN

i was going through my morning blogs (Engadget) and they had some random post about commenters getting to rude and bla bla bla but the picture they used for it was AWESOME!

yeah... see that T-rex... i had him... and the brontosaurus and the Pterodactyl and the guys that came with it like that weird cobra headed guy hanging out the front of the T-rex and the guy with the helmet on-top... and when i was kindergarten i brought in one of the human guys (like my only one) and was playing with it during nap time, and the teach took it and said she'd give it back at the end of the YEAR! not day, YEAR! then she forgot and due to my 5 year old belief that all adults were infallible i did not press the subject. i apparently still have some of the dinosaurs in the attic, im totally gonna check those out when i go home for christmas!

Middle-Man

So... i have this problem, i care about people. now i know that sounds like some self righteous egotistical thing to say, but really... i do but more in a selfish way... i'm intrigued by people, by why people do things, and i love helping people, i think because its me influencing there lives, and i think i just enjoy being a part of peoples lives... knowing that there lives would be different if i didn't do anything. so don't get me wrong, i'm selfish... but it makes me happy to make others happy... so why not. it does tend to get me into trouble sometimes... i've learned a lot, and have changed my ways a bit, but still i put myself in situations where i'm the middle-man... because i do enjoy figuring people out, and normally in middle-man situations i have the opportunity to show off my talents to the one person(s) who would appreciate it, because they are the one other person who focused that much on that other person... but i focus that much on EVERYONE! ok... not everyone... just people i deem interesting. so i'm sure i'm missing a ton of crazy interesting people. oh well, such is life... i do have to say that i've learned much, i think the next thing i need to learn is to be secure w/out having to prove myself to anyone... i think that is probably one of my biggest social problems right now, feeling i have to prove myself, wanting people to see how awesome i am... hahaha and to tell me that im awesome. sure everyone's like that, but i realize it, and i want to change it.

so i think i'll try.

ps. realize i am awesome! ;)

EA Games SUCKS!

Ok, to begin my story i must start from the beginning, that would be Thursday the 11th. i was skimming the internet and found out that EA games had put out some games for the T-mobile G1 being a G1 owner myself, and very curious as to what a major gaming company could do with the phone, i decided to purchase one of said games, it was between tetras and monopoly, i chose monopoly because it had pretty good graphics, and seemed sort of fun, so i went through the process on my phone of purchasing said game. it sent me to an error page before (i thought) the transaction was complete, so i tried again, thinking i must have done something wrong, and it sent to me the same error page, i forgot to mention, this payment wasn't through EA games it was through some other company called "bango" which i guess services mobile companies... and i had to make a bango account before i was able to purchase anything, anyways, i saw that i could "top-up" my bango account, so i thought "that must be the problem" so i put money in there (you could only do so in $5 and $10 increments and the game was $7) well even after doing this, i STILL never received my game, well needless to say i was kind of irritated by this point, so i went to bango's customer support and they said they couldn't do anything, that you had to contact EA, so i went to EA's "customer support" if you could even call it that. first you had to sign up for a EA Master account, then after signing up for an account, the ONLY customer service that is available is a form that you can fill out to ask questions, no phone number, no email address... just a form, and in this form you were suppose to select the model phone you had, and OF COURSE the G1 was not listed, even though they sell games souly for the G1... hmmm... i chose a t-mobile sidekick and continued explaining in my "question" that i did NOT have a sidekick but infact had a G1 and that the fact that they didn't have that as an option was absurd! after submitting the question it says they will get back with you in 24 hrs. well... YESTERDAY i realized i had not heard back from them, a little over 24 hrs i thought, so i filled out the form AGAIN explaining that it had been well over 24 hrs, and i had heard nothing. then i started scowering the internet for a support line, i was tired of not being able to talk to someone in person, and getting this resolved. eventually i came across a website not even affiliated with EA games that had information on it including a support number, i called this number, and they gave me the Customer Support number... (why this number isn't on EA games website i do not know) i called and waiting on hold for HALF AN HOUR while the music cut in and out like a cd with scratches, i almost shot myself in the head... it was ridiculous EA FREAKEN GAMES! the makers of the SIMS a huge freaken company having THIS horrible of costumer service... well eventually i got in touch with a rep and told them everything you read here, and he found my account, i haven't gotten my money back yet, because i had to find my "bango" id and send it to them via the form i had used originally, and even after that he said it would take about 3 business days.... all this because i wanted to try out a stupid game on my phone. so, if ever you think about downloading a game for your phone from EA games... just know, DON'T its not worth it!

Silly Ideas

So while looking through wikipedia yesterday i did some reading on the war of the roses, its pretty freaking interesting, and seems like a ton of literature and movies were loosely based on some of its events. as i was reading i came up with this idea... for a massively multi-player real life game, where it would start out with 2 opposing houses, and each would have its own sigil, and would wear it around everywhere either it be a pin, or a patch or whatever... and the point of the game is to have more people on your side than on the other, so you'd try to convince people to join you, especially if they are on the other side. where it would get interesting is when you get into inner house politics, say... for example, i am the leader of my house, and say someone under me feels i am a poor leader and should be replaced, they can subtly gather support from those under me, and then when i least expect over throw me as a leader! now, i understand i am only seeing the awesome scenarios that would come from this, and not the silly stupid things... and im not sure exactly what would happen when two groups each of an opposing house met in the wild... but i think it'd be awesome!


on a side note... my ribs hurt... and i dont know why, i woke up at 6:30 this morning (as i have 2 alarms one at 6:30 and one at 7 and i normally turn off the first one) and i felt fine, but then when i woke up again at 7 my ribs were sore... and have no clue why! who knows what crazy acrobatics im doing in my sleep...

as for now, JOIN THE WHITE ROSES! woooo!

Medieval Knowledge

In my random wanderings of the internet today i came across a Medieval Bestiary with some very interesting images of medieval artwork, mainly from Europe, depicting many different fictional and non-fictional beats. As i was going through i came across a Basilisk, which i always thought was just a large snake that had a lethal gaze. Well it turns out there are two descriptions of a basilisk one is that, a snake, not even necessarily that large, that has a lethal gaze, and is so poisonous that is scorches the ground around it. Another description which is normally seen in Western Europe is of close kin to the the Cockatrice, a creature i am familiar with, which is a beast that has the head of a rooster, and the body of a reptile (mainly a snake) and most often is depicted with wings, the difference i am seeing is that the Basilisk does not have wings, and the Cockatrice does not have a lethal gaze. they are kin in that one is a snake that is roosted by a cock, and the other is a rooster that is roosted by a snake. very interesting i must say.

You can look through the medieval artwork yourself, the website kinda sucks, but oddly has cooliris capabilities... which is nice. http://bestiary.ca/beasts.htm GO!