It’s snowing again and I have a massive sinus headache. I’m going to take my allergy meds in a few and I hope it goes away because it’s really starting to get annoying.
I was acting weird last night. For the first time in ages I didn’t feel like being online, so I pulled up my AOL pager (hey, I’m still addicted to e-mail), turned off my regular AOL, and played some Neverwinter nights. When I got bored with that, I was actually in bed by 11 and read some of “the Pentagon Wars” until a little after 1.
I fell asleep and had this epic dream. It was something out of “Escape from Experiment Island” on TLC. Four teams made up of people from TechTV were trapped on an island and the only way off was to build a battle machine that could launch home-made missiles at the other teams using a riding lawn mower and whatever they could find on the island. The goal was to battle the other teams and get access to the helicopter to take them home.
Megan, Patrick, Morgan and Leo had teams. I don’t remember the other people on the teams (though I think a bald Ray Weigal was on Morgan’s team), other than they were the usual nameless faceless drones you see in the background on most TechTV programs.
Patrick’s team had a wild idea of taking guitar strings and make a mini-catapult that was towed behind the lawn mower. In the final battle they would hurl their paint balls at the other team.
Megan’s team made a modified crossbow launcher that would be hand held and would shoot the other teams.
Morgan’s team made a slingshot out of her bra. I’m not kidding. I have a sick and twisted subconscious. But you all know that. It was mounted behind the driver and a team of two would pull it back and fire the paint balls.
Leo’s team had jack squat. To his disadvantage, he had the work station next to Morgan’s and when he heard that she was walking around braless he couldn’t work. He couldn’t lead either and his team essentially told him to get a life and all joined Patrick’s team.
I remember the battle starting and Leo’s machine blowing up with him sitting on it. It didn’t matter, really, because he forgot to add a wheel and he was trying to drive and throw paint balls at the same time.
Patrick’s team got an early lead and was able to get some hits on Morgan’s team, but the sneaky Megan’s slow and turtle like contraption silently snuck up behind both Patrick and Morgan’s team and eliminated them both.
So Megan won and got to go home with her team. The rest? Well, they sat around bitching (and/or leering) until Morgan and Patrick ended up tying Leo to a tree and they all found another way off the island.
I don’t know what happened to Leo, nor do I care at this point. This dream scared the hell out of me.
Maybe this is why I woke up with the worst headache I’ve had in a while. I so need a soda and some chocolate. I have water and total raisin bran instead.
This is Stef’s revenge, isn’t it?
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