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Was in Polson, the backyard. The tent was set up and I was hanging out inside.

I heard screams and people running down the street. I get out and look outside — there’s a huge grizzly bear chasing this man. I think the guy shot at it, which angered the bear greatly.

The man climbed up one of the trees on the side street, the bear also climbed up. I tried to be a distraction, throwing rocks and yelling at the bear. Didn’t work so much.

The man and bear started wrestling in the top of the tree — I think I saw the man get bit. I ran inside and called the police. When I went back outside it was pitch dark. There were stars everywhere. I forgot I locked the back door so I was locked out.

Scared, I waited for the police to show up, half expecting an angry bear to jump out of the darkness and eat me alive.

The brother and I took a little trip to the Best Buy this morning and shelled out a chunk of money for a HDTV receiver for the ol’ CRT widescreen. I’m not sure exactly why we waiting so long to buy one of those things, because…

I spent all day watching TV.

Yes, yes I did. And I’m not a real huge fan of the television in the first place, but today was different. Today, the television was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever set eyes on. I watched things I normally would have nothing to do with. For example — basketball. I never watch basketball. I also never watch the US Figure Skating championships… but the picture was so clear and mesmerizing that I couldn’t look away.

In all we get 6 channels: NBC, CBS, ABC, the CW and two PBS’s. No FOX to be had, so we sadly were not able to find out how Homer Simpson invented single handedly invented the grunge genre last decade. That’s a shame. PBS wins hands down for best use of HD. Parrots are pretty.

I also would like to add that the CW should not exist. It’s a good thing it wasn’t available in HD, or else I might have actually succumbed to watching an episode of Life is Wild.

If I hadn’t spent all day watching TV in a hypnotized stupor, I might have actually done something productive. (Not likely, but I’d like to think so.) This will prove an excellent scapegoat for the next couple of weeks, until HD finally loses it’s shiny-ness. Hopefully it does before I watch The Biggest Loser, or something equally unspeakable, just because it’s in high def.

Oh lord no… NO. Must send this device back to the bowels of hell from whence it came.

I was going to wait until tomorrow to throw this up here, but sleep is eluding me at the moment. So, in order to take my mind off of sleep, I’ll type up the dream I had this morning!

I was a preacher and I ran a church camp for kids. The kids gathered around fire and did rituals wih garlic and onions. A lot of the time there was pain involved — kids got burned — onion juices in the eyes and and such.

The most disturbing part was the end. I got up in front of the crowd of around 3,000 and started preaching… “How many of you felt the pain of Jesus while working in the fire? Applaud for me louder if your pain was more intense!”

Applause — LOUD applause.

“That is the pain of JESUS CHRIST,” everyone said it with me.

I said a bunch of stuff about hellfire, the apocalypse, death, etc. I sounded just like the freaks on channel 42.

By the end they had figured out that I was a fraud and the auditorium cleared out, during my maniacal preacher-laughter. Mom and Dad were infuriated and they said they would chase me and Karl. We rushed off the stage and jumped in Mom’s car. I got in the backseat first, the engine was in neutral so the car started rolling. I jumped out and got into the front seat in time to stop for a guy on a bike, who was crossing the street. Got the car started, road away.

Woke up.

It’s way too cold outside. If it were 250ºC colder, we’d be at absolute zero. (Fun math exercise: What temperature is it outside, in Fahrenheit?) For this reason, and the fact that I made a huge pot of spaghetti last night, there’s a great display of physics on my screen door. At least, there was until the sun came out and melted it.

Some day my quest to destroy the sun will be realized.

I snapped a shot of these pretty patterns.

And once we were freed from the tyranny of the sun, I got another shot.

Physics can be pretty!

It’s true. Think about it.

Eventually I’ll have some nice informative content for this thing. I’d like to dump some useful knowledge on the Interwebs, but I’ll probably run out of interesting content by the second post. Also — there may be random posts from the sleepings of tomfite. I’m thinking about creating this dream aggregator / visualization built off of RSS feeds and the like, and this would be a great way to play around with that.

In the meantime I need to figure out why my subdomain isn’t redirecting the way I think it should be (blog.tomfite.com anyone?) and skin this puppy so it matches the rest of my glorious and all powerful site.

In reality, I’ll most likely get distracted by the Internet and abandon this project all together. We’ll see.