I forget why, but there was a woman we jailed. Her husband somehow just walked in while the guard was away and spoke to her while she was in the cell. The topic was revenge.

So he goes home; follows whatever instructions she gave him, and winds up taking the arresting officer and a few others including myself hostage.

The revenge plan somehow involves cooking something, so there's a bunch of pots filled with boiling water. I grab one of these and pour it onto the guy. He screams something about me ruining his plans and seeing the inside of his skin. Then he chases me around a bell tower with his flesh sloughing off.

Dreamt my girlfriend and I were mice and we were driving an RC car to Oklahoma.

We wanted some bananas for some reason so we stopped by a Home Depot and were pondering if wood glue would be a close enough substitute

Went to ALA Midwinter over the weekend.  They were selling Raspberry Pis for $30, so we (being my wife and I) grabbed one.

Question: what shall we do with our newfound toy?

Same thing everybody does with their new toys this time of year (Valentine's day)...

Pleasure yourselves with it.



On a related note I need y'all's advice... should I get a 7", 8" or 10"

tablet, that is.

Dreamt I started a war between the US, Canada, and Germany...

When I left this dream sequence there was a weird new political map of North America... the US stretched from Alaska to Mexico; now possessing the western half of Canada. Canada annexed most of the northeast, and Germany somehow took the Midwest and deep South.


How did I start the war?

Well, I thought a perfectly reasonable place to store an explosive device loaded with sarin would be on the shoulder of a busy highway. I mean, no one would randomly activate it, right?

I thought better of it and went back to retrieve it... only to have it detonate when I was just barely far enough away to escape the explosive damage. (It leveled a very tall stack interchange)

I ran in the opposite direction as fast as I could, holding my breath, and trying to find a lobby to duck into to escape the gas.

They never pinned it on me, but rather the US somehow blamed someone else for terrorism.... etc, etc.

Project Acoustic Kitty!?

I've been calling it Sound Pussy! I've been making an idiot of myself!

I haven't seen a such a misleading title since "Dick Tracy."

Sorry, I know how you feel about false advertising...

I'm banned from BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse 

Last night's was a weird one.
I was back in school... maybe 8th grade. We were getting ready to play against the school I actually went to in... volleyball?

Anyway, the conspiracies were everywhere. First, there was free food outside meant to distract us from getting ready and to make us sluggish during the game.
Then once we got inside there were police everywhere and they were obviously being manipulated. A bunch of school guards being promised promotion straight to detective? Yeah, right. I asked one how many detective spots were available and he gave a non-answer.

I forget how, but I discover that there's a specific door they seem to be guarding; so with the help of a friend we position an oil drum so that view of the door is blocked and we pick the lock. Inside there's a metal crate. I begin to open it when in my mind flashes the eye of chaos. I quickly reseal the crate, but it's too late. My vision changes; the crowds disappear, everything changes to shades of black, purple, yellow, and red. Strange beings and demons roam where there were once people. I realize that not being able to see what other humans see is problematic (In a "They Live" sort of way) and I'm going to draw attention to myself. I reach out for my friend to help me although I can't see him anymore. I try to just not react at all, but eventually a tall bright red demon grabs me and hoists me up two stories.

When I come to I can see normally again. I get the distinct impression that the police are watching me much more closely than anyone else. I decide to go on the offensive. I get a few friends and we steal a police corvette. Apparently I know a driving prodigy who drives the car expertly; swerving and drifting to get police attention, and then causing a number of non-fatal car accidents. We all hide behind our ages to avoid prosecution, but I got what I was after; a copy of the police record on me. (Not sure how that was actually helpful)

The dream then becomes less about me and more about what's been going on in the police command center. It's filled with mythical creatures (I specifically remember a centaur) they're trying to discover who broke into their servers. They manage to trace it to a policeman who recently quit. Apparently he's some super computer genius. The narrative then switches over to him as he's dismantling a power tool to continue building... something. This is where I woke up.

If I work from home should I set fire to my apartment?

I bet you'd be great at that.

You could post a selfie with the conflagration in the background.

...I'm sure the fire marshal/investigator/police/insurance adjuster will never see it.

Found it!

I wrote a game once.
It produced random numbers you had to enter through the 10-key.
It kept track of your speed and accuracy and the numbers would grow in length the longer you went without making a mistake.

I wrote it when I was working retail to help speed me up at the register.

Zombie dream.

Group ended up in a fenced yard with heavy tree cover and deep "ponds" about 2 - 3 feet in diameter with emerald and turquoise colored mosses. Quite pretty.

I'm curious about what first video game(s) you can remember playing.

For me, we had a few games on 5 inch floppies for our old IBM compatible (286 CGA or EGA I think)

1. Space Decathlon - Sort of 10 games in one; including: Rocket Sled (Navigate a maze), Lander (land on targets w/ various points), Asteroid Defense (incoming targets from 4 cardinal directs at increasing speed; shoot the targets), Some sort of navigation game (side scroll through a randomly generated obstacle course)

2. Virus (or Virus Rage?) - I don't remember much about this game. I didn't play it much because I didn't understand it. I seem to remember it being a board of cells and you try to prevent a virus from spreading. There was a cool syringe graphic though.

3. Pacman - Not sure which version this was, but it used the ASCII smiley face as Pacman, and there was a bug where if you got enough extra lives they'd break the wall of the maze allowing you to go off the board.

Can't find any space decathlon screenshots.

Virus Rage: