I had a very thought-provoking dream last night, and I think it has something to do with my future. What does it mean?

I am Legolas, and I wield twin purple-blue lightsabers. Am am standing next to Obi-Wan, who carries a crossbow and a dagger. He has a lightsaber in his belt, but he's out of batteries. Suddenly, orcs commanded by the White Witch swoop in on us and attack! I realize that I must make it down to the other side of the island to warn the peasants in their "Boat-City". I am on the top of a hill next to the ocean, and there are wooden stairs that lead down the hill. Obi-Wan and I start to go down. We defeat several groups of orcs before we get low enough that it gets cold (we're farther away from the sun). We meet up with a snowman in a red top-hat that carries a cane, and we decide to travel to the small Boat-City together. Dusk creeps in as we descend the stairs, which are now solid metal. We stop for the night in a snowy village, which is besieged by orcs and the White Witch herself. As they close in, slaughtering civilians, we find two C batteries in an old trunk! Both me and Obi-Wan recharge our lightsabers and attack the oncoming horde. We win, and they retreat. We continue down the hill, following the metal stairs. The snowman can go no farther, since the next town is a giant forge with molten metal and fires and heat, so we wave and continue. We creep past the upside-down stairs, and are greeted by the villagers, who have been forced to make weapons for the orc army. We find that it is the White Witch's HQ, and overthrow her quickly so that we can get to the prom.

What does this mean?

I think it must mean that you have lots of LSD in your future.

I just had a really nice Ham and cream cheese sandwich. Think it's my favourite sandwich.

Toasted cheese for me. Also Subway sandwiches with mustard. Yummy!

Be strong, Cosmic! Fight the spam! Defend your topic!

Or maybe just play it safe and discuss sandwiches...

I'm a big fan of reubens.

-Pufer

Actually, I like donuts. Specifically, glazed donuts. I like to get them from bakeries typically, because the flavour is usually better, but occasionally I get the urge to buy junky donuts from the store. Sandwiches are okay, but I think most people will agree that they'd rather eat a donut. I mean, it's a donut. Donuts are awesome. I like most types of donuts, though I must confess to not much caring for jelly and cream donuts. If I had a choice between one donut and thirteen donuts, I take the thirteen donuts. Just so you know.

Or too much of it in your past.

But seriously I think it means you need to stop watching so many movies because even your dreams are no longer your own, as they are being shaped by Hollywood.

It means you need to lay off the artichoke hearts.

I hate those! They're slightly OK when dipped in molten butter, though. I love butter. Anyone else love butter?

Well, no. Not by itself. You like donuts?

Donuts are good. So is gravy. Especially on mashed potatoes. Anyone eat Wendy's Bacon and Cheese potatoes? mmmmm... That reminds me, I had a baconater recently. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo² good!

Pie is good, too.

Apple pie is great! Pumpkin pie sucks.

I think Pumpkin pie is meh. What are your thoughts on fruitcake?

Ehhehheh.
Here's what I think.

1: Lay off the movies.
2: How did you both recharge your lightsabers, if you had two, Obi-Wan had one, and there were only two batteries?
3. I once had a dream where I was aproxamitely one and a half servings of mashed potatoes sealed inside of a paper bag, and flying through the air, launched by a bazooka.
4. I prefer to make my own sandwiches. I like to put lotsa crap on them. I usually have Breadsmith bread, Miracle Whip, Colby Jack cheese, Alfalfa sprouts, Dijon Mustard, and whatever meat I have on hand at the time.
5.I had a dream where I was me, and I was really young. I was playing outside on the snow-hill at school. I dug a hole with some of the other kids, climbed inside, and I got stuck. Really I did. The teacher had to come outside and pull me out. No wait, that was real...
6.I like all sorts of pie, and haven't tried fruitcake.

I brought my MacBook Pro into an Apple Store today. My MBP's superdrive is toast (for some reason or another), and the speakers wink out sporadically. So I bring it in, and I get put on call. Luckily, someone doesn't show up for a 3:00 appointment and I get his spot (I got into the store around 2:50).

The genius I talked to was really cool. He tested out my superdrive. Sure enough, it failed. He also told me that they'll take a look at my speakers, since their problem couldn't be verified there and then. Since I'm under warrantee, the repair is free. The superdrive alone costs $311 to repair.

Then the Genius and I got on a discussion about Marathon. Before initially shutting down my MacBook, he noticed to Aleph One icon in my dock. He told me one of his coworkers has the logo tattooed on his arm. Also, he mentioned that his four hard drives are named after Leela, Durandal, Tycho, and Thoth. I then told him that my three computers were named Leela (the MacBook Pro), Durandal (eMac G4), and Tycho (ThinkPad 600E). It was pretty cool. Before I left, I asked if he was allowed to speculate on tomorrow's keynote. He told me he doesn't know anything more than I would. At that point, my MacBook was already to go in, so it was time to leave. We said goodbye and parted ways.

I head outside to find out that it's snowing. Yay! Unfortunately, however, this meant I have to drive home on the Roosevelt Boulevard (US Route 1) in the freakin' snow. It wasn't too bad. The Boulevard had some traffic, but I still made fairly decent time coming home.

Now I'm on my old eMac G4. I definitely don't remember this computer being this slow. I mean, it's not slow, as it has a decent 1.25 GHz G4 and 1 GB of RAM in it, but I guess that's nothing compared to the 2.2 GHz C2D and 2 GB of RAM I'm used to. I'm just glad I have this computer to fall back on. And I only have to wait 3-5 days for this repair.

All in all, I had a good experience at the Apple Store today, and I'm looking forward to the keynote tomorrow. I'm expecting something big, and not just the MacBook Air.

Today I set fire to my own intestines. It was a fulfilling and agonizing four hours.

It means you watched a few movies back to back and your brain is going through it all. Also you're attracted to your mother and wish you could go to the prom with her.

I'm attracted to his mother, and wish I could take her to the prom also. But hey, who isn't?

It means you should lay off on the movies and drugs for a bit.

I don't think drugs had anything to do with his lust for his mother. It's just common evolutionary imperative. You grow up with a good mother, you look for those same traits in a potential mate. After all, you survived childhood, and the only reason you get attracted to people is because you want to have babies with them. Cosmic_Nusiance just found a perfect match with mommy.

I had dream that i was playing high school football once.

It was very odd.

You both are terrible people.

Yeah, reubens are fantastic. I normally don't like rye bread, saurkraut, or swiss cheese, but that magical combination with corned beef and thousand island dressing, cooked the proper* German** way, everything just clicks.

*Toasted or grilled is no good; pan frying is the only acceptable way to prepare a reuben.
**Actually, reubens are American in origin.

I'd usually launch into a lengthy story about how, back when I was in second grade, I had a dream where I was a vampire and went around killing my classmates, except for my best friend who I just made a vampire along with me. I regaled my friend with the story the following day and my teacher (who was your typical, old-timey, mean-ass Catholic school nun) took offense at it and...

Well, I'm not going to tell the story because I quite honestly can't remember the rest of it. I know I got in trouble, I know it was absurd, and I know it used to be one of my better stories, but I'm drawing a complete blank here. I blame Shlimazel.

-Pufer

I've had okay fruitcake in the past, but not recently. So it's a bit iffy.



Don't you all....

So today was the Keynote of MWSF. I got up at the crack of noon so I could follow along online. Turns out there wasn't anything major aside from the MacBook Air. Kinda disappointing, but the MBA is still pretty cool.

After the Keynote was over, I looked outside to find out that it was snowing, profusely. It only stuck a little bit on the ground, but it gave a nice looking cover of white.

Also today, I got a call from Apple. Turns out my MacBook was repaired within 24 hours. I'm seriously impressed. I'm going to pick it up tomorrow afternoon at sometime. It's going to be nice to have that computer back again. With the exception of the size and multitouch trackpad, my MacBook is better than the new Airs in just about every way!

Today I picked up my MacBook Pro. Nothing too exciting, really. I went into the store, handed my Genius Bar page to one of the workers, and he retrieved it. Then he checked me out. It turned out to be a $521 repair I got for free. I have a new superdrive, new speakers, and a new soundboard.

They didn't have any MacBook Airs in the store. Not surprising, really, as they won't be shipping for another few weeks.

I came home and booted the MacBook. Everything is running great. It's nice to have this computer back.

There's way to many posts I want to quote to put them all in one post, so I say this. Ehhehheh.
High School football eh? That's normal. I once had a dream about when I was about 3. My mom was putting me in the bathtub and I couldn't see my feet. I didn't freak out or anything, just said "Mommy, I can't see my feet." Apparantely:
1. I still had my socks on.
2. It wasn't a dream.

What?

That's weird. If you just hit the reply button to G-Spark's post, all you get in your post is "What?".

Try it!

That's worse than my story.

-Pufer

I'm not a good one to analyze the dreams of others because I haven't had a dream that I have remembered in the last six years.

I dream mostly in text. From time to time I have a vivid dream complete with imagery, but most of the time it's like reading a book.

-Pufer

Weird.
Especially since when I'm reading a book I see imagery.

(Of course this would make sense why you make such long posts )

I dreamt last night that there was a blizzard that swept into our area during the night. There was snow literally piled up against the door of our house, about 4 feet deep. I had gotten up (in the dream, mind you) just to look out the window that's been put into that door and watch the snow come down. The full moon shining through the clouds made it all the more serene. Dang I love snow, and full moons. Those are possibly my most favorite things in life.

I just ate a bacon sandwich.

It needed ketchup...

I've got more. You wanna hear them?

More bacon sandwichs? I'm good thanks, not hungry.

What the ###### is up with us Americans? Our bacon blows compared to proper back bacon. Crispy, fat-laden pork bellies are crap. Granted, we don't ever refer to sandwiches as "sarnies" and thus win something back on the stupid application of terms, but we clearly lose on the bacon front. Lek's bacon sandwich is vastly superior to ours.

-Pufer

Not too mention the fact that Lektor and bacon is an amazing combination.

I had an orchestra concert last week. When the other orchestra group was playing after my group played, during the first concert we had that day, there was a girl with a really long solo part in two different songs. The accompaniment was really good, and she played very well, but for some odd reason I kept nodding off. My group had soloists for all but one song, and they also did really well. There was a girl a lot younger than most of us, and two cello players, a lot younger than some of us, and they all did really well. The next concert we had that night, I had just happened to go on a fruit snack binge, so I didnt' fall asleep.

Today, I went to the place where I have rehersal and I found out from my friend we didn't have rehersal that week. I walked home in the freezing cold, ( I had a coat and a hat ) and by the time I got home my legs were freezing. My hands are still stiff, almost half-an hour later. I used to love snow and Winter and full moons, but so far, all three have brought me nothing but trouble. Snow gets in my face, shines sun in my eyes, Winter meant we had to start with dance for gym, and full moons, means I have a lunar project to work on, that I've procrastinated from doing.

I don't use the term 'sarnies' so does that just generally make me superior to all Americans?

It often seems that Danish bacon has the best reputation over here, although I generally purchase local produce.



Damn straight. Even better when you add ketchup

We should make a poll, or topic about what way people prefer to eat bacon.

It's really quite obvious.

I like bacon.

So do I! Want to be my maid of honour?

Better take it. That type of offer only comes along once in a lifetime.

-Pufer

(don't tell him, but I'm not actually a girl... )

(Have no fear, your secret is safe with me. However, what the hell type of unequal world is this that blokes can't have/be maids of honor? It's not like a vast majority of the maids of honor kicking around are unmarried nubile virgins anyway, so we should be able to expand the term 'maiden' even farther in this usage.)

-Pufer

I'll be your bloke of honor!