I can remember a game on my Apple II gs as a kid - it was an adventure game, although I have never been able to remember what it was called. My forgetfulness makes me one sad panda.

In the game you would wander around, it was set up much like the "quest" games that activision did (space quest, kings quest, etc.). I remember the part that I got stuck on. There was a man who lived in a dome house, and you would go talk to him and he would give you a riddle, hinting that the next part of your quest had something to do with a "bottomless lake."

This would inevitably lead me to wander outside his house, find a lake, jump in, and drown. I remember contemplating what the riddle meant, and always coming to the conclusion that some lake somewhere would be bottomless (which in my child's mind meant there was a secret room down there).

I never did beat the game, but I would kick it's butt now if I could remember what it was.

That was a random thought, and the point of this post was to talk about something else. Sort of. First, I think I need to write here a little bit more. I really enjoy it, but it is hard to do after populating DIY:happy with a day's worth of content. My little bro should be helping out a bit soon, and Jake claims to be close to getting an internet connection at his new place (see map at right), so that will take a bit of the load off.

But I am thinking of starting another blog. This one would be a story blog and it's purpose, among other things, would be to sharpen my skills in fictional writing. I have always been weak in this area. Every time I write a fictional story I think to myself, wow - that was a load of crap.

So my new blog will probably be a load of crap too, but I plan on making one entry per day, reporting on the events of the previous day, from the perspective of the main character. I don't think it will be written like a journal, which means it probably won't be first person either. I'll probably do it in normal third person style, but still from the perspective of the main character, if that makes sense.

That's what all that adventure game stuff was about. My story will be an adventure story. I'll try to mix some humor in there (if you could call my sense of humor "humor") to keep it, you know, semi-readable. Each day will be a story in itself, but tie into an overall bigger story.

Tonight this all seems like a really good idea to me, but I'm not going to act on it until tomorrow, because often times I will have a really good idea at night and think it's total crap in the morning.

Anyway, this new blog will be on a new domain (perhaps one from the handful I own that have gone to neglectful custodians - I'm looking at you, Rex and Rachel). Neither Rex nor Rachel read my blog, so looking at them right there will do no good. However, when there domain turns into some lame story blog they'll get the idea.