I saw something... a vehicle... from the FUTURE!

Yes. The FUTURE. As in... not of this time.

I saw a vehicle, like a van, but not. I was young, pre-teen... perhaps 11 or 12 when I saw it. The family was driving on a lonely isolated road while vacationing. If I remember correctly it must've been in Colorado. Typical two lane mountain road, winding, up and down. Sunny, dried tall grass, stubby green pine trees. Snow capped mountains. The occasional semi truck. Mostly cars.

I was somewhat bored. This was before the advent of iPods, portable DVD players, PSP games, even CD players. If I was lucky I probably had a tape deck, the old school walkman. I was staring out of the window of the family sedan, a big brown cop-car-looking Chevy. Cars occasionally passing us from the other direction. We turned a corner and that's when I saw it.



It was big, beige and flat-ish. It looked like a squashed van. The windows were tiny slits, the wheels were covered and I remember seeing a stripe of color along it's side. Slightly underneath the stripe was a panel marked "Weapons." It wasn't a Ford. It wasn't a Chevy. It wasn't even an import. It wasn't military. It was something else... Suffice to say I had never before seen such a vehicle.

It passed us quickly, in almost a blink of an eye, making not one sound. I break the mundane silence by exclaiming, "Did you guys see that??!!" Of course no one else did. My mom was reading a magazine, I don't think she even looked up. My sister was asleep. Not even my dad, who was DRIVING for Pete's sake!!!

I turn to see where the Weapons Van (that's what I call it now) had gone, but by then the road had twisted and the strange vehicle was gone.

This wasn't imagined, it wasn't a hallucination. It wasn't from a movie, it wasn't some nerd's souped up Toyota Previa...




It was a vehicle... from the future.

-Jeff

I know I'm not here much lately...

Sporadic postings are annoying... but I've been pretty busy at work. I'm taking some supervisor skills training classes every Tuesday. I have 1 more SOP to write for the company. (And it just happens to be the hardest one. ) Why did I leave that one for last?

We've been redecorating the home. Buying furniture, tables, lamps, bookshelves and electronics. Most was from IKEA so you know how that goes... you gotta put it all together yourself. They actually went pretty easy this time... the bedroom furniture we bought last year was a pain and took forever to get built.

The lamps ROCK!!!!! I love them. (pics as soon as we're done and as soon as we find that blasted camera.)

Yesterday we bought a ficus tree, a nice floral arraignment and a really nice vase. Had a nice quiet dinner at Iggy's before the dinner crowd got in. Got a free cheesecake. Ran some errands, rented movies and did the weekly grocery shopping. When we got home we ran into my wife's sister and her husband. (They live like 3 doors down from us.)

They got fish and a small tank. We visited with them for a bit and went back home. It was almost 10 PM by the time we sat down to watch a movie. It was okay, my wife likes twisted drama movies with a twist ending. In fact the movie was called "Twisted." How's that for a name? It was okay. One down, four more to go!!! :D

Cloverfield... that was a great movie. Plus we are now caught back up with Battlestar Galactica. FINALLY back on the air!

Well, since I wasn't at work yesterday, the afore mentioned supervisor training class, I had a TON of work waiting for me today... been getting caught up with that.

I had a meeting planned for today at 3:30, planned it last week, but of course no one is showing up. Typical. So I canceled it and rescheduled for next Monday. It's going to be interesting to see how many show up next week.

My boss is on vacation for the next two weeks, YAY! I also have a couple of training classes next week. I love being the one to train on policy. That way everyone does it the right way... my way!

Peace!

-Jeff

TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes!!!! My wife found a GREAT deal on a flat screen, 40 inch HD LCD TV. A Samsung. Beautiful picture. Great shape. No scratches, no dings, virtually brand new! For a bargin.




$699!!!!!



That's the pic from the online classifieds website, KSL.com. Quite possibly the best local online classifieds place ever. Perfect for local deals.

We drove out to Centerville last night, took a look at it and realized it was pretty darn good. PLUS it came with a wall bracket! That's like $30 bucks extra that they threw in for free.

Stick it in the back seat and head home. Once home, I get busy hooking it up to the DVD player, just to see if it's all good.

Start the DVD and... it's black and white. WHA? Okay... fiddle with the color controls. Still black and white.

GREAT... that's why they sold it, the DVDs only play black and white. Wait, but the menu is in color. So something else is wrong. My wife gets online to see if she can find some info. I recheck the connections...

Whoops!!! The DVD cord isn't plugged into the DVD player all the way. I plug it in, retry the DVD and it's in COLOR!!!!

Haha, I'm an idiot! Phew!!!

Anyway I grab the recent Best Buy ad on the way to bed... find the current 40 inch Samsung HDTV LCD flat screen...

$1,699.99!!!!!

WHA??? We got $1000 off retail???!!?!?!?!?!?! Sweet deal!!!!!

Thanks so much, wife, you rock!!!!!!!!

-Jeff