life of andyman

Some Saturday morning recaps. I would still be asleep now, amidst a good dream I think I was having, except that the landpeople have sent maintenance people to our house. They’ve begun **violently** scraping 3 years of dirt out of the window sill about 4 feet from my sleeping head, which they could no doubt see through the window.

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title=”It was covered in poisen ivy and long dead, but still… I miss it”

Yesterday they felled a large, dead tree in our front yard. (Click on the picture to see Eli’s video of our tree falling! Open it in a new window, read the rest of my entry, and then it’ll probably be done by the time you check it again [takes about 2 minutes to load, but is pretty cool]).

First lets start with a story that begins over 5000 years ago. A group of Egyptian, nomadic peoples who are endowed the power of funk, they use ‘the power of their righteous grooving to make drop the tunics of [pharaoh's] five luscious teenage daughters.’

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Yes, it’s a band called ‘Here Come the Mummies’ that we saw perform last night. They all dress up like mummies, and in-between songs, they can only say, ‘Arrrggggh.’ And they really do play some really great funk/jazz music’quite good. I bought a t-shirt that says, ‘Here Come the Mummies: Terrifying Funk from Beyond the Grave!’ Anyway, since ’see a band dressed like mummies who play funk music’ was on my list of things to do before I die, I can now satisfyingly check it off.

Also, yesterday Eli and I went on a bike ride that lasted about an hour. There’s some controversy as the distance we traveled (we’re still trying to figure it out officially) but it’s somewhere between 8 and 15 miles (8 miles was my guess, 15 was Eli’s). (**Post script–a couple days later, I drove the route, and my car said it was 7.4 miles. So, if in the future you are in a life or death situation and you need to know the approximate distance between two places, you’re better off to ask me than very-talented-elsewhere friend, Eli).

There was four noteworthy things that happened on the bike ride:

1. Going down a long, straight hill on Tapp Rd. I was riding what I believe to be the fastest I’ve ever been on a bicycle.
2. (images/inline/timesplitters2.jpg” align=”right” title=”Here’s a video game I’ve been playing a lot recently” width=”40%”)Our destination was this huge sort-of-abandoned warehouse. It’s about the length and width of a football field, maybe bigger. Anyway, rather than try to describe the details of the place, I will say this: it is a video game. I mean, it is a warehouse in a video game, no joke. Supposing it were a video game, then there’s creepy staircases that go up to nowhere (that’s where they’d hide the body armor or heart container) there’s some pick-up trucks and bulldozers (which you could hide behind, commandeer, or simply shoot out the windows), there’s just a thousand hiding spots’behind massive pillars that support the place, behind giant stacks of wood, inside little storage nooks that go off the main building’it’s just uncanny. We don’t know if we’d have the guts to do this, but Eli and I were thinking we might try to get all ready, go there, play paintball for about 5 minutes, then quickly leave before we get in trouble. It’s a paintball dream come true.
3. On the way back we were driving on busy street and we had accidentally let it get dark outside. So, I pointed this tiny little LED light on my watch behind me and flashed it, hoping to inform speeding motorists that there were frightened bike-riders in their line of fire.
4. Finally, after a straight hour of bike-riding which included some huge hills on Tapp Rd., my jaw was sore, for some reason.

Now, for some links.

• (images/inline/trexcomic.jpg” align=”right” title=”hahahaha my favorite line in about an hour of reading these comics”) Morgan sent me a link to some pretty hilarious comics called ‘Dinosaur Comics.’ Here’s some of my favorites. Since they use the same pictures every time (haha) there’s only three real characters. So, to allow for more stories, they decided to make God and the Devil characters’you never see them, they just talk from the sky or ground respectively. There’s other characters that speak from off-frame, like T-Rex’s evil neighbors, one of which is a ’sinister raccoon.’ Anyway, here:

  http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=517
  Also, change the ‘517′ in the address to numbers 523, 500, 513, 100, 416 and whatever other number you like. There’s many many good ones and it goes from 001 to 548. wow.

• Howstuffworks.com is a really cool website that tells you…how stuff works. All kinds of stuff. Anyway, through it I found this site, the Lucidity Institute, which is this professor up somewhere who studies lucid dreaming. I’ve only read some of the stuff on the site, but it looks pretty awesome, like ‘Three common failures of lucidity and how to prevent them’ or ‘Two techniques to prolong the lucid dream state.’

www.lucidity.com