This was kind of fun. It’s been a long time since I have written anything down. May have to do that again.
March 2004
Progress – Fiction
She came out of her deep sleep very slowly. It seemed to take ages. She stretched and yawned, shook the sleep out of her bones. She pawed her hooves on the rock floor of her cave, gave a whinny as if to call the others. She looked around the dark cave trying to see if anyone had been there. Her silver horn gave off enough light to just see the walls around her. No one had disturbed her with their presence in hundreds of her years.
Then she recalled what had prompted the deep sleep in the first place. She was the last of her kind. She had hidden herself away in the cave deep within the ancient forest until a better time came, when she could emerge, and possibly find another to help her make a child. What then had awoken her from the deep slumber? Perhaps the time had come to look around. Things could have changed. Maybe the humans were gone now, or had become less warlike, with their fierce swords and bows, clubs and fire.
She walked for a long time, picking her way through the rocks and debris in the anciant cavern. Streaks of gold in the walls glittered back as they picked up the light from her horn. At some point she crossed a small underground stream, stopping for a long draught. Little sightless fish scattered as she dipped her head. She lifted her head as she felt a breeze in her mane. Close to the surface now.
She galloped quickly as the cave widened out, became less sloped. She started to see a bit out light up ahead. She could see the mouth of the cave. She slowed as she got closer. The smells were different. Bad. Diseased. As if something was dying. As she emerged from the cave she was shocked. Most of the ancient forest was gone. There were trees, mostly new growth, less than a hundred years old. She could see the river several leagues away, and long ribbons of rock through the forest. And the noise. It was deafening. In the sky, and in the ground. Everything vibrated with it.
She gingerly picked her way down the face of the mountain she had emerged from. She was having trouble hearing the forest with all of the distraction. She could not tell one smell from the other. She noticed that she was trembling from fear, and forced herself to stop. She went in the direction of the river. It was slow going, as she stopped every couple of minutes to lift her head and listen.
She emerged at the riverbank, and stooped to take a drink. A loud noise, as if from an avalache, startled her, and she felt a great pain in her side, then another in her head. She slowly toppled over, crying out. Blood ran out of the wounds. The light from her horn went out as it dissapeared from view. As she lay dying in the light of the afternoon sun, she decided that maybe things had not changed after all.
Footsteps crashed through the underbrush, Then stopped. “Goddammit”, said the human in the bright orange clothing, “I could have sworn it was a three-pointer. Just another fucking horse”.
Another Day
Vacation is starting to get boring. I’m broke as fuck, can’t go anywhere, starting to go stir crazy. Have a bunch of stuff to do over the next few days thoug. Have to go back on Thursday. I need to do some yard work, and want to move my furniture around. This is basically how the last vacation went. Ready to get the fuck back to work.
It has been nice to be at home with the kids though (at least the two that I get to see for more than two minutes at a time). Read a couple of books, which is something I don’t get to do very often. I have also ripped around 50 cassettes the last couple of days. Barely made a dent though unfortunately. Luckily I have about 160 gigs of free space for them. hehe.
Just beat the god damn dog for chewing up a pair of panties. I think everyone is ready for me to get rid of the puppy. I just brought it home because they said it would be nice for Riley to have company. I’ve been ready to toss both of them out of my car at about 70mph for awhile. I hate having pets. Cats are ok, I grew up with them, but then you have to clean the damn litter box all of the time, or they are shitting on your clothes and plants and stuff. The puppy already chewed through some of my wiring. If it does it again, I may kill it if the electricity doesn’t first.
Damn
Damn, Ten AM on a Saturday morning. Just woke up. Don’t get to do that too often. Usually I’ve been up six hours by now.
woot
Finally on vacation until next Thursday. Stephanie and Anna are also out on Spring Break next week. Chris does not get his until April. Too bad I’m fucking broke. We were going to go to Hilton Head, but her friend has had a death in the family, so I guess we will just end up hanging around the house. I have a bunch of yard work to do anyhow. Just finished scrubbing the kitchen floor, and am going to rip a couple more cassettes before lunch.
Hahaha
Thanks for bringning it to my attention. This was great
Call Cell Phone Stuff
I upgraded my cellphone a few weeks ago to an LG VX6000. Very cool. I am testing out some stuff with it currently. Got a USB cable and loaded the drivers. I can somewhat sync stuff from Outlook now, as well as create my own rings using actual mp3’s. The quality isn’t half bad. Will have to keep messing with it, but this is pretty fun.
I am trying to get my wap pages working so that I can access my HA stuff over my phone, but apparently Verizon blocks all ports except for 80, which sucks, as I run this server on 80. I have tried a shitload of other ports, and the only other one that might be accessible is 443, but I cannot seem to diable SSL in IIS under Windows XP. Will have to keep looking for the solution. I have been beating my head against the wall trying to get it to work.
Quote for Today
“If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow” – John Wayne
Equipment Failure
Damn, woke up this morning and my router has been locked up most of the night. Had to cut the power and turn it back on. Hope it’s not time for a new one. I think I have had this one a bit less than a year, don’t remember off the top of my head right now.
Cassettes again
Starting to try and take a bit of time again each evening to rip my cassettes to mp3. Have finished about eight in the last two days. That only leaves me with about 100 more days to finish