Rambling Thoughts on Rambling

Okay. It's 0549 on Sunday and I've stopped by to post a rambling thought or two before going back to Fallout 3. If you've found my blog site, Terminal Gamer @ blogpost.com, there's a short discussion about this title as well as Mass Effect 2 and a couple of others I play on a somewhat regular basis. I watched two episodes of that BBC show, Top Gear, one of favorite television shows and one I watch streamed from NetFlix. The Bugatti Veyron was on the first episode from season 13 and it was and is the greatest car ever built! Technologically speaking it screams AWESOME and as for the real factor of speed - it is second to none, literally. Beautiful, fast, and obviously a dream to drive the Veyron embodies all those manly qualities that once made driving so damned much fun for those of us who enjoyed tooling about in a Trans Am, Corvette or Z28, back in the day when American cars ruled the highways and byways of the nation they were produced in. Tons of metal and multi-decibel level exhaust systems reigned supreme, like dinosaurs bellowing into the night as they roared along effortlessly on cheap fuel and affordable rubber! Yep, I owned my share of fast cars and now I tell my wife that line from that tune by that band, "...you don't look a day over fast cars and freedom..." Our lives have slowed down a lot but as long those memories are alive and well, there will never be an old age that takes away the freedom of driving down a highway at ninety-plus miles an hour while the tunes scream from the eight track and your hair blows in the wind!

Goodnight, time to go and explore the town of Minefield!

I was sitting on my sofa and thinking, "It's been a long time since I got out and just aimlessly roamed the countryside. Maybe I should plan to take the biggest of my four dogs and just start walking, an Ozark Mountains "walkabout" that might take me to an entirely new life. In fact, it might even reanimate my existence in ways I can not guess at from the safety and comfort of the sofa. Then, as if it were an epiphany delivered by some unseen power, I realized the last time I left the safety and comfort of a sofa to "walkabout", I left a job of nearly eighteen years, a marriage of the same span, and the Northeastern part of the country to arrive a few days later in Midwest Texas! Yeah, it worked out okay in the long run, but it sure was a longer journey than I anticipated. Today is more like a day to surf the Internet and go places I could never go by auto, foot, or plane, or train! Space...my final frontier only to be realized through the magic of my computer.

Did I say, "my computer"? I did, didn't I? I guess the cat's out of the bag now! Everyone on the planet will flock to my home, (assuming I tell them where I REALLY live!), just to see my magical computer...it's not like anyone else's you know. I kid you not. My computer is both a work of high-tech and magic combined to take me places and let me record those journeys of flight and fancy.

What else? For now, I'll give your brain a break from the brainless ramblings of one with little to concern themselves with...beyond of course, world hunger, ever worsening levels of education, religious fervor, failed technological promises, corrupt politics (is there any other kind?) and more...