From: "Rob Nelson" To: "SaturdayList" Subject: a Dream? 7/24/97 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 07:59:06 -0600 Well, let's just say I've had a dream... it involves everyone in the regular Saturday crowd. please, enjoy. you'll laugh, you'll cry. please, no flash photography. no gambling, for entertainment purposes only. --------- begin Dream 7/24/97 ------------ Where: Rob's parent's house on Loren Von Drive Who: The Saturday crowd (Mike, Grace, Nate, Kiri, Rob, Phi) We're sitting in the living room in my old house (Saturday gang- Mike, Grace, Nate, Kiri, Rob, and Phi). We had just been somewhere, like to a toy fair or something. We're shooting the breeze about what we'd seen. Nate and Kiri are going off about how cool this propeller was. No plane or anything, just a propeller alone that moves through the sky. Mike and I are laughing so hard at the absurdity-- I mean what's the point? JUST a propeller? Meanwhile, Grace and Phi are talking about how cool the Starship Enterprise model was which had actual working Phasers. For some reason, we start throwing objects around the room at each other. I'm throwing a little star shaped boomerang toy I just got- it's awesome! The harder I flick my wrist the faster it comes right back to me. I then say something like, "Wow! Is this what we do when we look bored?" -- which triggers something immediately in the room: the lights go out and some sort of haze sets in on the floor. We all rush behind different furniture as if we're playing some stealth game. At this point I bump into Grace behind a chair. She mumbles, "Don't EVER look bored!". Everyone in the room apparently takes this as a challenge, because in an instant I say, "Oh yeah? Let's see if you can find SPACE!". At once, you hear an incredible scurry from all other people in the room- they've just run outside. I'm a little behind, but I join them. Still playing the stealth game in the dark night, I rush dive in front of the bushes and elbow crawl up the hill. Right now, everyone is SPACE except Grace. What I mean by SPACE is the space character on a computer. I.e., the lack of any pixels - completely invisible. So I bump into Mike outside, and we're real excited from all the action. We're laughing a bit because Grace hasn't figured it out yet - that we're SPACE characters outside. As we sit outside though, we hear this noise from inside. Some rhythmic pattern- Grace is using the Enterprise and it's working phasers to emit light looking for us. Then we laugh outside because, of course, if you shine light on SPACE you still won't see it. However, after a bit I start to feel really sad for Grace, who's inside alone, not getting it. I look sternly at Mike and say to go comfort Grace. He knows I'm right and goes. (As he enters the garage, Jesse is also entering a few feet in front of Mike - he's also going in to comfort Grace. Jesse sees Mike, realizes Mike better do it, and yields to Mike.) Mike enters the garage...