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Last night I had some ridiculous dreams. To start off, I was in my house with my family, and Kanye West and Jay-Z both came round, with groups of people following them around the whole time. I didn't see much of Jay-Z or his posse, but at some point my dog bit one of Kanye's gang, which made Kanye really mad, so he started trying to kill my dog with some kind of weapon, I think it kept changing from a knife to a huge sword. People (who were possibly my family, I don't quite remember) kept trying to stop him, but he would just kill them as well. A few times I tried to stop him as well but every time I would get stabbed, and then jump back in time and be alive again like I was respawning or something. Eventually it ended up that he killed my dog without anyone getting in his way, and then I woke up. After a little while I fell asleep again, and then in a sort of follow-on dream I was in this museum, where Kanye and his gang were trying to steal some kind of artifact that could revive people, like he was a baddie from Indiana Jones or something. I was following them around for a bit, because so I could get the artifact for myself and revive my dog, and also keep it from Kanye's apparently evil hands. They'd found a secret passage in the museum where this big perspex wall tile slid away, and there was some kind of clue to the artifact's location somewhere in a room along the passage. The artifact wasn't actually in the museum, in true Indiana Jones style it was off in some foreign country. After following them I found this stuff out, then ran away through a bunch of busy gift shops. I saw some of my friends as I was escaping and they said hi, and I told them not to draw any attention to me and they seemed to understand. At some point it transpired that I was now an outlaw, I dunno if Kanye had some police connections or something. As I was escaping the museum Kermit the Frog also was trying to escape, pretty sure he was also an outlaw but I don't know what for. Eventually I got out of the museum. It was night time and I was looking for somewhere to hide. I ended up going through this big abandoned building, and way up on a stone block Johnny Depp started talking to me, being as quiet as possible. Apparently we were really old friends. There were some other people up there as well, and they joined in the conversation but loudly, and Johnny had to tell them to shut up otherwise "it" would hear. It turned out that "it" was Queen of Pain, except she was also a vampire-kind-of-thing. She did hear and started chasing these people, who jumped off the building and ran away. A lot of them got killed, there was blood everywhere. I started running away again, but I wasn't ever really scared, it was like I was a protagonist in the story so I obviously couldn't die. I came to this little place on the edge of a forest, and bumped into someone from upper school, who helped me hide in a tree for a bit. We apparently were also really good mates when we were young (in reality I barely know the guy) and had built this little house next to his real house. I asked if it was still there, he said it was, and we went and got some rocks out of the way of the door to the house. When we got in it was just a tiny room with a bunk bed, there were dead leaves scattered about and a homeless-looking guy sleeping in the top bunk. My friend told me they'd let him sleep there because he was in fact homeless. So I went and slept in the bottom bunk, and then woke up.

This has been mine for a good while.

I was looking through some stuff and apparently I was accused of Hacking in PS2 without my knowledge. I played on the EU servers so I think I just lagged into the enemy spawns on a few occasions. Pretty funny.

Last night in Elite:   Spent about 30 minute flying around trying to find a decent price for some synthetic fabric I bought earlier. Come up to a small docking station, only to have my docking request denied. Means either I'm about to die, or that the station is ocupado.  Judging by the other ships also circling the station, it turned out that someone went AFK on the landing pad, and everyone else had to funnel into the remaining functional pad. Spent a good 20 minutes waiting my turn, shooting the breeze with the other pilots waiting there. Finally get in, do my business, fuel up, and start to head out. Few of the pilots I was talking with want to join up, so we do so. Get in a wing and fly out. Among the three of us there was me, with two days, another new guy (3 days), and the more experienced of the three of us. Vet want's to go mine, we tag along, only to realize we cannot a) mine without a mining laser, or collect the ore without a refinery.    So we head off to the nearest station while he mines, to try to get the equipment. get to the station and I can't afford it. So I open the job board, and take a contract to deal with some pirates in the same system. Other Guy goes on a quick courier mission. On my way back, I run into the system authorities, who just so happen to be taking on one of the pirates I was assigned to kill. I jump in and help, and get my bounty. Did that three more times, and have enough for the mining equipment.    Go on to mining, figure out how to collect and refine materials with Vet's help. He'd blast some things for me to collect, then point them out with the lasers. Let me do that a few times, then we went to work on our own asteroids. There's something calming about mining. You fly over to a rock, carve a smiley face into it, then lock onto the little chunks that fly off. Then you lower your collection scoop, fly over, and pick it up. Look to the right and pick what you want to refine it into, then vent the rest. Repeat that about 300 times. After venting a few almost-full deposits by accident, and I've finally got a full cargo hold of random minerals. I head back to the station, sell my wears (no where near making up my losses yet...), inform my wingmates I'm signing off, then head out.      I like this game.

I just read Dune during my trip, after remembering one of my favourite teachers raving about it. Damn, that was cool. Loved the world-building that went on in it.

Own New Vegas on the PC? Yes? Have you shit your pants yet today? No? Here you go

Go wild.

One of the picures i've taken; one of my favorites! (Here's a shameless plug to my blog with no followers! I'm uploading most of my pictures there!) http://mewwy2.tumblr.com