No Doubt.

Tonight I spent a simple hour with the most beautiful creature on the Earth.

I know that boasts much, but we guys understand how blind to the rest of the world we become.

I don't want to embarass her (or myself for that matter), but the Elf, the Fairie, or Nymph, take your pick...

At that point there wasn't a doubt in the world.

Not for me.

In that hour, it was Christmas all at once. It brought back the holiday cheer that I've been noticeably missing.

She may not have understood, and may still not (at least until reading this), but it has been many, many years since I have felt the world stop like that.

So simple, such a modest time of an hour, but I would not trade it for a thousand hours in another lifetime.

It was a good evening.

I have tasted that feeling. I know it exists, and once I regain control of my faculties it shall once again reign supreme.

I'm glad I have a computer that boots quickly, I know how silly it sounds, but some things I have to share before they are lost to me forever. I had to get this off my mind before it vanished into tomorrows hubbub. Sometimes I'm more like a goldfish than the level 35 Technomancer that I play myself off to be.

If God sees fit to make it snow a healthy storm in the next 24 hours, he will be my hero again. It will have made this a very good year indeed.

That's no Moon! That's a battlestation!

Yeah, actually it is a moon.

Is it sad that it's been so long since I've been here that FF didn't recognize my URL?

Yeah...

So I got fleet crashed two days ago, but I got a moon out of it and will have to live with it now.

A moon actually being the most singly hard to get and best strategic tool in OGame.

Also, an update from my previous post: I got a message back from someone in the city, but they've forwarded on my querry to someone else. I'll probably wait until the middle of next week to give them a call to find out what's going on with that. They made the mistake of giving me their phone number....


So today is Christmas Eve, eve... So it's Adam?

Bad joke from work...

I hope everyone is smarter than we are and has their shopping done...

I've been out shopping once and am already set to just hand everyone $20 and say "Have fun with that, see you next year!" Lol.... I've always been a lamer for gifts.

Only once or twice can I say that I actually put any effort into it, and one turned out ok, but I had an advantage, the other one, on the surface anyways, turned out perfect but I had an advantage...

So this year, I have the perfect gift, in my mind... I can't find one, naturally (I am in no way surprised), but I have decided that I won't rest until it is with it's rightful owner.

Can't wait for the reaction, rofl... Almost a little intimidated, believe it or not, there are strong powers at work here, but they obviously don't know who I am. I will come out ok and the like.

Also, I haven't gotten a chance to tell anyone, but I have finally unravelled the mystery behind my mystery trip.

Now I understand why this must be a secret and the like. Which means it is sealed away forever now.

It sounds like it might actually go threw as well. Some paperwork still needs to be signed and the like, which I'm told won't happen until January, but the people that will be deciding have already made preperations that make it look like we will definately be going out there...

Anyways, enough about me, what's up with you all?

That good, eh?

The concerned citizen.

Yeah, so, I just sent an e-mail to Layton City's Mayor and then submitted a comment via the city website.

Vermillion has a concern about one of the intersections here and I felt it needed to be voiced. So I'm trying to figure out when/where/what the city meetings are so we can participate in starting, or being involved in, setting up a solution.

I feel hopeful for it, so we shall see.

Also, Vermillion, I don't want you to see this as anything but the first step.

Many things might not work, but they are not useless, they will light our way to the final path and our final decision.

If we must change the world, if we must run a race, then we must move forward as often as possible.

We will fall, we will stumble, we will be shot down, but only we can defeat us.

All things you know, as all of us know it, but it doesn't matter what you know, it matter's what you do.

You may have been frustrated, but tonight you accomplished a great many things though you may not realize it. Some of those things I let you know about, and some of them I don't specifically know myself.

As is the motto of the Seventh Fleet, remember this also: "We do not stand alone."

"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays" my support for you in your endeavors.

I may have bastardized a quote from another government agency, but I will support you in this, I will support your cause. Keep what we spoke tonight and when your opportunity comes, when it rings your doorbell, answer and seize it.

The ghost of Christmas past.

Well hello there stranger.

Long time no chat indeed.

Ironically I had just thought to myself that it would be some luck of mine to speak to you ever again.

Moving on, and then you surprise me like that.

Just waiting there, hoping to talk to me.

Just as lame as ever, half of the time struggling for something to talk about.

4-5 months of nothing and then whammy.

Good day to you, too.

Have a good one.

Adventure.

"Listen, do you hear that?"

"What?"

"Exactly..."

So Saturday I made the right move for once.

Friday, Frank comes over, asks me if I want to go on a long, gruelling road trip with him to the Idaho boarder.

Sounds exciting, right? Not so much.

I didn't feel like an adventure. Didn't want to go.

What the HELL is wrong with me?

Saturday morning, 9 AM, calling Frank to tell him he better not leave without me.

I regained my senses.

We left. Be back in the afternoon, perfect.

We leave, we grab a number, we kick ass and come home.

Our mission, accepted and kicked was to acquire a Christmas Tree for each of us.

Harvested by ourselves, no farmed trees this time.

Something like a 6-8 hr round trip all be told.

Those were my first words when we got out of the truck.

No planes, no trains, no cars, no birds. Just us and the impending storm. The trees, and yeah, power lines, but even they couldn't rob me of this.

While we were going up there, he admitted that we were now relying on the maps and that he didn't know the way from there. "No worries, it's an adventure from here on."

It was very much worth it. I figured it would be.

I got a nifty flash light returning, too, not to mention I got a fully legal copy of one of my favorite games of all time, finally: Starcraft (ok, so Brood War is what I needed a legal copy of, lost the disks for the others if you care and you're FBI or something. I have it all legal now, sucka.)

Which I played with Squirt today and we kicked it. It was actually pretty damn good. He got pwned pretty badly in the first game and I pulled his ass out of the fire and saved him, the second game however and life intefered. Whitney called, dinner came, and we soldiered on, but I picked a fight that I wasn't ready for and barely pulled it off. He definately carried the weight of the second game, though I helped a ton and got the battle plan hammered out.

It was great.

To continue the streak today, I managed to colonize my 3rd colony, and am on my way to my 4th in 3 hrs.

My 3rd colony is twice the size of my Homeworld and 2.5 times the size of my first colony and is right in the middle of a mess of action and a few trouble makers that we've recently dealt with. Here comes the pain again.

It's a great deal of fun.

I hope your victories are equally as fruitful.

Have fun.