I write this in the shade of our backyard as the house is quite hot. My room read 80F as I left it a few minutes ago! Six months into the year and we're experiencing the start of our third full week of sun, with most of the before being broken random days. I love Western Washington's climate most of the year, but since the only places with AC around here are our supermarkets and about half of our many coffee shops, the first few days of heat really kill.
Today is Jonny's 12th birthday, and to celebrate he had five of his friends over. I won't bore you with a full account of the days events, but I particularly wish to zone in on a particular stretch towards the end of the party. You see, I allowed Jonny and his friends to play with
Oh! A hummingbird just flew by! Err, right...
I allowed Jonny and his friends to play with my big tote of Legos (Lego?). Initially everything started out peacefully, then houses turned to forts, planes to gunships, and cars to artillery. The arms race had begun. You see, boys don't do so hot on imaginative competitions, and everything quickly devolved. Alliances were soon formed, and what I call the "chain of invulnerability" began quickly after the arms race did. You see, the other alliance started building a military force and declared they would soon be advancing on us. Two of the three of the nations on my side of the line were reluctantly drawn away from being peaceful economic nations and forced to build war machines merely for our own survival. The enemy responded by building warheads, and a nuclear arms race began. I cleverly sat off to the sideline and developed my anti-missile defense stations with more than enough munitions to fend them off. As things escalated and my defenses neared completion, the enemy ranks moved out into space, hopping from the moon to Mars. Their warheads launched, and ours were not fully ready! But Aha! I revealed my secret defenses and stopped two of their three warheads before they considered it wiser to devise a new scheme. As they debated and tinkered, I launched my secret plans that only an extra few years of life could devise. I launched an inter-spacial battle ship with a few envoys armed with missile defenses and my master plan... Yes, along with my small fleet came a very large missile. But this was no ordinary missile, oh no, I was too clever for that! It was a scud, you see. A scud! To their dismay, as they fired their cannonade at it it merely broke into smaller and smaller pieces, before all the little warheads came exploding down upon their base! Aha!
RESET!
What?! The losing side quickly revealed to me that this had all been the dream of some Lego figure, and that the real war hadn't actually began. Oh.
In this fresh canvas the same alliances existed, but the enemy team had now changed locations to none other than the surface of Sol himself. The sun! Apparently these peoples live on an ice patch they created on the cold top of our very own sun. Fascinating. My team, in equal maturity, changed our location to the CENTER of Canis Majoris, the largest star currently known to man (something along the lines that if our Sol was the size of a pea, Canis Majoris is about the size of an Olympic swimming pool). Seeing they had been outdone, the others then changed locations to the center of a black hole. Soon after, I moved to a different part of the house which was much cooler, and overheard evidence that the boys had tired of the stalemate they had reached, and decided to instead revert back to swords and guns. At least I was able to maintain a totally mature and non-escalating manner. Yup.
Looking back on the day, I don't understand how girls can have fun with toys that don't kill each other.
The rest is a preview about an upcoming post. To those that it would interest, I've been thinking about things to include in a post with reviews on various Facebook games and applications. I'm not exactly a full-time addict, but over the years I've played quite a few different games, and I figured it would be useful to create a list of the good, the bad, and the ugly in Facebook games, some of the hidden gems addicts and casual players alike might want to check out, and some pitfalls to watch out for when first trying any app. Since Myspace applications evolved so much slower than Facebook ones I never really got into them, so I apologize but there will be nothing about them in the post.
Today's song finally showed up on Project Playlist, I had been waiting a long time for it. It doesn't fit in perfectly with today's post, but it's close enough and is the only thing I can currently think of. As one of my favorite songs of all time, Dandelions compares a mother's love to God's love, "seeing flowers in these weeds".
"Dandelions"
by Five Iron Frenzy
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