Things seem to be a little ahead this year in general, they say.. Harvest was nearly a month early.. Everything seems kinda early. A few days ago I see the dreaded.. The truly dreaded without any doubt in my mind whatsoever.. The grandest dread there ever was invented.. I am talking of course about a commercial I saw on the tv.. Oh woe is me those dreaded words being uttered "BACK TO SCHOOL".. Uck... I mean school starting was not looked forward to by me ever.. Not any year, from the very start to .. Well my last year wasn't bad.. Truth is by the time I was a junior in high school things were better, maybe not great or good but tolerable.. So we were in the local walmart today looking for wedding gifts and came across the school supply aisle.. I looked at some of the things they have and thought how things have changed.. Way back when I went to school (stone tablets?) they had the three ring binder things that I just had to have.. but now they have them in a zip style thing that has a thing to put your pencils and other things in a pouch for all the important things (cell phones and i-everything I'm sure).. And as cool as all this looked all I could think was how much longer they will be using actual books and switch to the new technology.. Imagine having the i-pad and having to hand your homework in on SD cards or flashdrives (zipdrives)?? The day coming where school is in the house not a building .. and you only go to the physical school two days a week for "hands on" type of classes.. The new interaction of kids talking to each other in the same room via texting.. That isn't at all far fetched, my little brother does that now with his wife and they can be sitting on the swing on their porch.. I wondered and told mom how different things might be for the nephew somewhere down the line and more than likely for Tabitha's twins.. Makes you wonder how anything will be in 18 years when they are about to start their senior year of school.. 2030.. The class of 2030.. How's that make you feel??...
Then the first game of Scrabble today started off well.. I passed my first turn, only to have the computer pass it's first turn.. I've always wondered if we both pass three times in a row even at the start will the game end.. So rather than risk that I played and scored fairly well.. Then the computer played and we were off.. About the fifth turn the computer was starting to kick some serious ass and I remember thinking well here's a loss.. But then something happened, through my giving up being down by about one hundred points I threw in the towel and figured might as well see how bad it can get.. The computer must have switched to the first level (beginners) because suddenly I was out scoring it.. Soon the computer passed a few turns in succession and I was right back in the think of things.. But was it too late?? Turns out it wasn't too late, the letters were perfectly timed and I started to score quite well.. And then miracle of miracles I scored enough to win.. strangely enough..
Then tonight I was again playing a game of Scrabble and this time getting my ass handed to me thoroughly and the strangest feeling came over me.. That damn deja vu thing.. I was playing a word and I had a thought go wizzing through my head and I thought it was nothing but then it happened again.. I thought I hadn't had a weird assed dream in quite a while.. As I have noted I am staying awake until well past twelve for a couple reasons.. First it is way too hot to bother trying to get to sleep.. Second I try to avoid dreaming if at all possible.. The old saying "a man who never dreams goes slowly mad" I think I'd like to take my chances with that.. When dreams and reality collide, and it seems like it is happening all the time now.. I'm slowly not being able to tell if this is the dream or if this is reality.. Who in their right mind would wear full body armor and go shoot a theater full of people.. That can't be real.. Who's gonna be there in the off chance and have a gun for deffence against something like this?? What's next a shooting at a football game bathroom?? Talk about twisted..
Badge Henry
Then the first game of Scrabble today started off well.. I passed my first turn, only to have the computer pass it's first turn.. I've always wondered if we both pass three times in a row even at the start will the game end.. So rather than risk that I played and scored fairly well.. Then the computer played and we were off.. About the fifth turn the computer was starting to kick some serious ass and I remember thinking well here's a loss.. But then something happened, through my giving up being down by about one hundred points I threw in the towel and figured might as well see how bad it can get.. The computer must have switched to the first level (beginners) because suddenly I was out scoring it.. Soon the computer passed a few turns in succession and I was right back in the think of things.. But was it too late?? Turns out it wasn't too late, the letters were perfectly timed and I started to score quite well.. And then miracle of miracles I scored enough to win.. strangely enough..
Then tonight I was again playing a game of Scrabble and this time getting my ass handed to me thoroughly and the strangest feeling came over me.. That damn deja vu thing.. I was playing a word and I had a thought go wizzing through my head and I thought it was nothing but then it happened again.. I thought I hadn't had a weird assed dream in quite a while.. As I have noted I am staying awake until well past twelve for a couple reasons.. First it is way too hot to bother trying to get to sleep.. Second I try to avoid dreaming if at all possible.. The old saying "a man who never dreams goes slowly mad" I think I'd like to take my chances with that.. When dreams and reality collide, and it seems like it is happening all the time now.. I'm slowly not being able to tell if this is the dream or if this is reality.. Who in their right mind would wear full body armor and go shoot a theater full of people.. That can't be real.. Who's gonna be there in the off chance and have a gun for deffence against something like this?? What's next a shooting at a football game bathroom?? Talk about twisted..
Badge Henry
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