John and Bill showed up friday night, the initial plan was to go to Tsumani's, a dance club, there failed to be any cohession there, and I was certian they charged a cover charge which I at least could not afford, so we got beers, and slowly the rest of the old gang showed up. Tom and Char, Adrian, Brian, and BJ. John was excited that he had finally read Dune, apparently from an early age him mother had said he should read it, then his sister, and then me on numerous occasions. So I was able to have the discussion of the meaning of Leto's golden path, the horizon beyond which the great sandworm could no longer predict the future for man, his role as a God became obselete, this to me is about free will in a way, and symbolic of living beyond a calculated destiny, over the horizon of forsight. We also discussed the question of what was the origin, and how did the Honored Martes evolves out of the scattering, which I believe that they where Bene Gesserit originally and when their supply of spice was diminish they had to find some alternative way produce the chemicals necessary to extend life and there abilities. They certianly differ from the bene gesserit by quite a bit, but still the aim is social control, Bene Gesserit's use religion, whereas the Martes have developed a system of domination through sex. The other big questions for me is Duncan Idaho, who is perpetually cloned throughout Leto IIs reign and beyond. Why Duncan, and I would say that he represent the characteristic that Leto has lost, humanity, particually the noble Atredies traits of loyalty and self sacrifice, what Leto was trying to save but could not be. Adrian explain a bit about dual core processors, which was also very fascinating and I was able to draw analogy to the binary nature of the human brain with a chip that had a dual cpu, each side specializing in different type of processing. I enjoyed spending time with some of the people I've known longer then anyone in this area, people all connected by having spend much of thier lives involved in roleplaying games, reading and video games.
Later that evening much of the group left, and BJ and Bill decided that we where going to go to Tsumani's a dance club. Bill bought me and AMF, a pretty burly mixed drink that was blue, and between sips I spent a good amount of time out on the dance floor, totally into the dance, something I thouroughly enjoy. We left around 2, and I got home and was online chatting for a while before I crashed, ended up an online conversation about geology, I ended up helping someone with my web researching and finding links about a fossil formation, don't remember what it was called anymore, but it was prevelant in Michigan, and I believe even the Michigan state rock.
Saturday I had to work, somehow I manage to do alright working on only 4 hours sleep, something I do perhaps a bit more often then I should. Saturdays aren't really that busy anyway, so I had a chance to read and setup site meter for this blog, think I got some posts in even.
Well Saturday evening, I got home from worth and there was a message from Bill saying he would pick me up between 7-8, we where going to a bbq party at Frank's, in Cottage Grove. This ended up being a really fun party, again John and all our friend, and Frank, and a bunch of his friend, so over half the people there I had never met before, there was a bonfire, and a really neat tent setup with sofas and a table.....(to be continued)
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