A note about the Rabbits

Allo chaps!
Although their origin story is quite a bite more complicated and much more entertaining (I shall have to sit down and write it one of these days), I shall have to suffice with a piece of it. The rabbits which run around tugging my ears and asking for cookies have a sort of sixth sense. That is, they are attracted to a mood, or setting rather like a red herring. A red herring is a bright red bird (he goes by many names) and waits until a story or adventure is underway and then flys right through it like an acrobat, expecting all eyes to be on him. He then flys back out, waiting for his next act.

Where was I? Ah yes, about the rabbits. They have a similar personality, only tend to wait until the audience is almost begging for a break from the mundane. It's that moment after a long day at work, or more often, right in the middle of a long day where one asks oneself, "can anything else go wrong?" or 2.3 hours into a final exam where hysterical laughter is heard because your still on page 1 of your notes. It was during these kind of times when the rabbits came bounding in from all over.

Anyways, in a way, I rather like those hectic days, they make you appreciate the quiet days more, and leave you with a sense of accomplishment and adventure. Sort of like the "that was a horrible day, but what a story it will make!" kind of adventure.

Yesterday was rather like that, noisy neighbors, 1 day after getting over a cold, sore neck from the bunnys antics (dropped a plate of brownies and I had to run over to catch them). Then, the fire alarm goes off and the halls of my master's work get flooded!

Anyways, this is quite rambling because my brain has been used up today thinking up plans for the weekend (wot wot)! Happy Memorial Day Weekend everyone, and I'll see you next week hopefully with a story or two to tell.

Woof

Word Game

 Creative Writing Challenge for the day: See what you can type using only one hand, or section of the keyboard! For example, you can use just your left hand and the left side of the keyboard, or right hand, or home row, etc! Good luck!

Left hand only 
we reserved seats at a secret starcraft fest.
we were arrested after dad ate deer eggs
we are scared at a secret were-fest. 

Top row only
we owe it to you to pepper your puppy
to torture you we tore up your poetry

Right hand only
uh, my polky puppy jump on moon.
pumpkin lollipop

Enjoy!

Free Write Challenge

“Never before in the history of warfare had there been a continuing explosive; indeed, up to the middle of the twentieth century the only explosives known were combustibles whose explosiveness was due entirely to their instantaneousness; and these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men who used them.”

This is an excerpt from H.G. Wells The World Set Free, in which he predicts not only atomic bombs, but the idea that humans are creating devices designed to harness more and more energy and power. In today’s world, the subject of power and especially energy is all over the news. We may not have flying cars, or cities floating in the sky, but we have instantaneous communication over the vast majority of the entire world, video calls via smartphones and computers, and a great many robots. In a sense, we are living in the future. However, what might the world look like in 100 years? My free-write challenge today is to write about an aspect of what life might be like 100 years from now. Have fun!

Mankind has been struggling ever since the great oil crisis of 2082, where the world’s last supply of oil was used to save the Mars Mission. The colony on mars was only beginning to prosper, but needed additional supplies faster than our modified ion engines could deliver them. Our new united nations had voted to send up rockets with a load of seedlings, oxygen canisters, and medical supplies. This trip would take 12 rockets, using the last 6 tankers of crude pulled from the Pacific Ocean. The oil reserves in China and the Middle East had already been tapped and emptied 2 decades prior, and Alaska had finally been drilled out, the investors leaving not even enough oil for a kerosene lamp. As crude oil was becoming rarer and more expensive, alternate energy sources were sought out. Building on the research of the early 2010’s, countries and factions had been producing windmills, lithium batteries, and dams to lower their reliance on crude oil. But it was not enough. By 2100, the cobalt and silicon mines (used for lithium) were dry, and windmills couldn’t power cars, although Elon Musk was rumored to have a windmill powered yacht. Old gas powered cars filled wasteland dumps all over the world. The remaining cars were an odd assortment of electric cars running on decade-old lithium batteries, and new cars which used a blend of new energy sources. MazX, a Chinese company, was using miniature nuclear reactors in their cars, although the rods had to be swapped out every 250,000 miles. An india car company was using solar panels, but they were running out of silicon to continue mass producing them. Meanwhile, America, a dwindling nation, was back to using coal power motors, albeit with hyper efficient steam engines. Canada, or North Britain, as it is now called, was researching Moon-powered cars, attempting to harness the power of the tides by using a material called “super water” that reacts strongly with the moons gravitational pull. These test cars worked great at full moon, but with a new moon, would hardly get up to 20 miles an hour. Bicycles were back in full production, as were dog sleds, at least among the teens. The landscape however, would be forever scarred. Mass landfills dotted the world. Empty drilling platforms and mines were everywhere. The future had arrived.