Two months ago I got made redundant, so the first thing I did was cut a mohawk as in the last entry. Since then its pretty much been a big holiday. I’ve applied for a few jobs. Had an interview at Woosh for 3rd/4th level System Engineer but unfortunately my networking experience wasn’t up to it. That would have been a sweet job. Applied for a 1st level support position at AUT supporting students and staff, but they haven’t contacted me back on them so I’m still looking.

Here’s what I’ve been up to:

Beach Hop: Easter Weekend

Went with Nick and Tesh and Brad and Jess to Beach Hop in Whangamata (Big hot rod show), stayed at nicks uncles and met Shelley down there as well a few other DF locals. Lots of nice cars there something like 70,000 people attended. Unfortunately we couldn’t get the classic car we were going to take going in time so it was another van mission.

Karipito Forest ride: Week before my birthday

Went with Nick and Tesh down to Wellington. Nick had a contact course to do so me and Tesh accompanied him. We stayed at Nick’s mates house in Upper Hutt. Much hilarity ensued. Bas is a fucking crack-up. Me and Tesh bought our bikes, which was a mission fitting a KX80 and a YFZ450 in one van, but we managed it, not without damaging one of the speakers in the van tho.

Ended up going riding in Karipito Forest not far from Upper Hutt with Tesh and Bas. I had my first crash. Came round a corner quite fast and couldn’t stop in time for some concrete blocks serving as a 4WD blockade. Bent my bullbars in quite badly but bike was sweet as, so kept going. Awesome riding. Very scenic with big uphills and big downhills, river crossings, we even rode up a creek at one time. It’s all rocks tho, big chunky limestones.

Wilsons Road trail ride: Weekend after my birthday
After going for a quick cane at the bike park on my birthday I went to a trail ride out in South Head that was 6k farm loop and 50k forest loop. The riding was excellent, forest enduro stuff, and most of it was sand tracks. There was even a track right out the back that I found that was just a huge long sandy straight through the long grass for ages, with little whoops every now and then. I was going full speed all the way along it.. was KICKASS!

LAN Party

Went to a LAN at my mate Jason’s, got a heap of new stuff and played Left4Dead for the first time, and loved it.

Bombing range

I been out the bombing range twice. Once with Shelley from Wilson’s road and once with Iydden from Rimmers. Both times was pretty good, hid the gas and lunch in the bushes and played around. Shelley had a bit of a hard time but it was her first time on sand so can’t blame her. Did a bit of forest riding with Iydden, got surprised by what we thought was a ranger driving down one of the forest tracks, and gapped it ask fast we could. Later we found that they were tourists as they were walking round the dunes.

Server Upgrade

Alkaif very kindly gave me his old server board and processor to use in my file server that died. I now have a nice Gigabyte board with a Athlon 64 3000+ processor and a gig of ram. I also bought a few hard drives and swapped some over with my system so now the server has 3 x 500gigs and 2 x 320gig. I’m currently have 1.1 TB of stuff shared. Probably not much compared to some people but I’m happy with it. Currently I have 3 computers in my room, with dual LCD’s setup on my computer which makes web development a whole lot easier.

Web Development

I have been working on a new site which is very close to being done. It is something I feel very strongly about and hopefully it will help other people become informed. But more on that when I launch it. Unfortunately the Telescum overhaul I was working on fell behind.

I am also currently playing with screen scrapers, spiders and web bots. I am currently scraping information from the web that I can use for at least 2 sites! But more info on that later as well.

Chopper

Went and saw Chopper live at Skycity Theatre during the comedy festival. Was absolute crackup. He was selling wristbands like the WWJD (What would Jesus Do) band you see, but they said on them HARDEN THE FUCK UP. He commented on the WWJD wristbands by saying something like “Hmmm.. what would Jesus do.. in this situation… Well surely, Jesus would just miracle himself the fuck out of there. ‘Argh I’m drowning!’ *flash of light* ‘Not anymore, hahaha!’”

Taupo trip

Went to Taupo on friday with my family to a timeshare down there. Then the next morning me and Mope went up Ruapehu to see the snow. Unfortunately all we found was ice but it looked like snow. We mucked around the moutainside, despite it being freezing as fuck up there. Altimeter said 1433m above sea level. Man I love the cold. Got back in the van, then got back out again to go for another walk.

Trail ride in Woodhill

Unfortunately I leave Taupo on Saturday to go a trail ride yesterday in Woodhill forest. It wasn’t that great. Mostly real tight forest enduro tracks but there was some open stuff where I got my speed up. I went on all the tracks even the highest difficulty. Still tricky as on a quad. Real technical steering and shit have to dodge stumps all the time. My chain fell of twice and I ripped off the plastic swingarm guard which I knew wouldn’t last 2 seconds. Overheard some guys talking and one of them said to his mate “Fuck doing that on a quad.”

And yeah, thats about it. Still looking for a place to live and still looking for jobs. Constantly being turned down for both is getting annoying as fuck though. So many people are looking for jobs. And landlords are completely age-discriminating, don’t want young people living in their houses so we’ve missed out on some real mint places.

I wake up about 6pm after my last nightshift and find a text from him asking if I wanted to go on a roadtrip the next day. I said yeah sweet and texted the people I was buying my motox boots and helmet from and told them not to post them cos I was coming down country.

So I went for a drink with Becky and B-rad up at the trig. Sitting on the back of the utes watching the sunset over the Waitoki valley drinking beer is fucking mean (if you replace beer with something tastier anyway).

Then me and Brad cruised down to Nicks to see what he was up to, and we decided to go that night instead and drive the 8 hours or so down in the dark. Since I had just come off nightshift I could drive and not fall asleep while Nick slept in the back. With my quad. We thought we’d take the quad too and stop on the way down and back for a blat.

Brad had work so he left about 9pm. “Drive safe, if you get sleepy, just pull over and buy a big bag of crack!” he said as he got in his car. Crack up… lol.

I went for a blat up the road before chucking my quad in nicks van and went home, got a few things and came back, parked my van up and we left about 10:30 pm.

Nick drove until Papakura BP (bout 2230hrs) and then we bought some supplies and dinner (for myself) and I took over. He jumped in the back and slept on some beanbags on the vanbox between my quad and the front seats.

We got to Taupo somewhere around 0230hrs and after filling up the van and bike at BP headed onto the Desert Road. There was some roadworks and we were escorted through the “three sisters” by a roadworks vehicle – to keep our speed down I suppose.

Got to the “end” of the Desert Road at about 0330hrs. Just after you go down a big hill into the valley but before you get into Waiouru. Pulled over in a big gravel pit next to the road and pulled the quad out, got geared up. Nick reckoned I would need a Swani so I put one on but it ended up being too hot.

Did a few donuts and stuff around the gravel pit, cars and trucks driving past like “WTF is that?!” then went down a track into the “army land” till we got to like, a river thing but didn’t want to cross it cos it looked quite strong. Did some donuts on some sand stuff, did a bit of exploring, then went back to the gravel pit and had turns drifting around the van, and then around each other. That thing drifts so good.

Then we loaded it back up and drove onwards. Nick went back to sleep in the back. Got into Porirua at about 8 and went and picked up my helmet, and Nick started driving. Then went to see Nicks mate in the Upper Hutt motorbike shop, hung around there for a while until the guy with the exhaust system texted nick. Said goodbye, then Nick showed me where he used to live. Went to McDonalds for breakfast and saw Nicks other mate drive past on the way there.

I climbed into the back and tried to sleep while we drove to Miramar, told Skinny we’d come see him at work at like 930… then it was 1030, then it was 11. Got to the exhaust guys house, he was at work and Nick had already paid him for the exhaust so we just loaded it into the van. But the Surf it came out of was sitting there along with the engine and gearbox already removed and sitting on the ground. Nick texted him and asked if he wanted to sell them. Got the gearbox for $100 but the engine was already sold. Loaded the gearbox in as well and went to see Skinny.

I couldn’t be fucked sleeping at this point. Got to Skinny’s work at about 1130. Showed him my quad, gave him the US Office Series and his playstation which I had borrowed. Then we left. I texted the lady who had my boots and tried to organise a pickup from New Plymouth but looking at the map it was too far out of the way.

Then she said she needed to go to Wanganui and could meet us there. We needed to go to Horopito to a vintage car parts place and Wanganui was perfect. We stopped and went for a ride at Tangimoana. Had a play on the beach and dunes. Was pretty mean. Unloading and loading the quad was a bit of a mission with all the other stuff we had loaded in the van though.

Got to Wanganui and had subway. Must have looked funny to a bunch of prissy schoolgirls in there. No sleep, barefoot, sweaty, smelly, quad in the back. Had to wait for the lady for a while but eventually she turned up at about 5 and we got the boots and took off up State Highway 4 to Horopito. The start of which is an awesome road, with some nice scenic views.

We left a little too quickly however. About 40k’s away from Ratehi the empty light came on. We forgot to gas up at Wanganui. We were eying up diggers and farm equipment wondering if we could steal a bit of diesel if we needed to, to get to the next gassy. State Highway 4 is scenic, but its a bit back country and far from anywhere *cue deliverance banjo*.

But after 20 minutes of not talking in aticipation of wondering whether we were gonna make it we pulled into the 24 hour Caltex at Ratehi at about 7pm and filled up. I jumped back in the back and tried to sleep again while Nick stopped to try get into the vintage car parts place but it was shut.

Took SH4 around the west side of the mountains, and got back on SH1 at Turangi. Stopped at Taupo for Burger King (I ate so much junk food that trip ). Then carried on. I tried to sleep again but couldn’t.

Nick was getting pretty tired driving and we pulled over at Tokoroa at about 1130pm and got some energy drink and chocolate. Gotta feed the brain with glucose to keep it awake. Then I jumped in the drivers seat so Nick decided to sleep. I jumped back on the highway and followed a B train all the way back to the Bombays. It was wierd I was falling asleep in my seat when I wasn’t driving, but I got behind the wheel after having the sugarfix and I was buzzing, focused as.

Got into Auckland about 1, but got detoured at Papakura, thought we were gonna get mugged at some lights while driving through there. Then got detoured again at Northcote. By this time I was starting to get tired but finally got back to Nicks, parked up and then I drove home in my van.

By end I had been awake for 31 hours with 1 hour sleep, Nick was more than that cos he didn’t sleep very well.

Ended up being 26 hours of straight driving with breaks of no more than an hour. What a mission!

I was working new years eve so me and Brad, Nick, and Tesh decided to head up to Pakiri, one of the the meanest, whitest beaches NZ has for new years eve eve. They got there new years eve eve eve night and smashed some pipi’s (literally). Brad even cooked some up and ate them, got drunk and consequently vomited them back up. He no longer eats seafood.

So they had already been there for a day and a night by the time I got there after work on new years eve eve. They had been on a 8 day bender by this time, consuming a 40ounce bottle of Jack Daniels every night leading up to new years eve. Sometimes more than 1 and other times throwing in the odd bottle of Appleton Rum.

I left work at 7, put my double bed in the back, picked up some supplies, 2 bottles of Jack, sausages, coke, L&P, sprite, ice, bread and sauce, and headed up there. Bless daylight saving. Last petrol stop was the turnoff at Warkworth. I headed on but my fuel gauge looked deceivingly lol, though I though I could have only done about 250k’s on that tank so should have heaps left. Besides the gassy in Matakana shut at 8, and I I was there at 8:15. I carried on, through some little town starting with M then through Leigh, and started going up this massive hill.

Massive hill. Got to the top and had the mean view! Right around. Could see all Omaha beach and right around to Pakiri and all the way up Pakiri beach. Was awesome!

Then I started going down and it turned to gravel, that looked like it hadn’t had new gravel or a grader down it in about 5 years and was quite narrow with a 200 metre steep drop down one side, and a vertical wall on the other. And bumpy as shit in my lowered van. Took ages too. Brad told me they had driven up it that day and Nick was drifting his van round every corner on the gravel. I would have shit my pants had I been in there.

Got to the bottom of the hill and it went back to tarseal. Weird that such a road would be neglected by the council to such a state of disrepair but oh well. Then turned off and down another looong fine gravel road until I was almost at the beach and I saw the others parked up. Did a handbrake slide onto a driveway bit but was almost in the ditch, so did a 97 point turn to get onto the grass and through a mud puddle, then backed up to nicks van and opened the back doors so one went under the other. This was our campsite. Right under that big tree.

Got there about 8:45 which is slightly quicker than Google said (my trip there) (I left Dairy Flat at bout 730).

It was just started to get dark, luckily I had put a bottle of Jack on ice and we got into it. I had about 3 shots worth in a cup with coke and I was gone. Cheap drunk – not being a drinker has its upsides . I was stumbling around then Nick started pouring another cup and I grabbed it off him, “Coke is for girls!”, I slurred, and started to scull it straight. “Naa!” he said as he wrestled it back off me “You’ll be passed out in no time you idiot!”, and filled the rest up with coke. Then I sculled that anyway.

I was stumbling around and we started cooking up the sausages. Water and sauce in a pan with precooked sausages on little gas cooker. Nick was eating them raw. Had a few sausage then went round the other side of the van and got out the other bottle of jack and had a few swigs, Nick was like “What’s chumba doing,” and came round the side and grabbed the bottle off me as I cracked up laughing and tripped over air. “Fucking menace,” he smirked and put the bottle in his van.

I got up and (with the support of the van) made my way round to the center of the van where the others were sitting and talked shit with them. I was holding onto the backdoor (which was the makeshift roof), and lost my grip and fell on my face between the vans. My head missing the towbar of nicks van by inches, and started laughing uncontrollably.

“Holy shit,” Nick said, “This is getting serious. We better oshify* this shit!” and put his shoes upside down on both towbars. * OSH = govt dept Occupational Safety and Health

Much drunken hilarity ensued, and then I wanted to go for a swim so we walked down to the beach, and the tide was in. The sand was nice and cold. The water wasn’t too cold, I didn’t go too deep cos I was drunk and it was nighttime and I didn’t want to get eaten by a shark. I was the only one man crazy drunk enough to go though.

Then on the way back we’re all drunkenly tackling each other and shit. Then I was like “Hey Brad, hold this!” and threw my wet (unbeknownst to me sandy) towel in his face and got a big clump of sand in his eye lol. He’s like “Ah fuck, my eye! Oh not fun…” and we had to stop, and Nick was like I’ll help you, got a handful of sand and smacked it into his other eye.

Brad was not happy to say the least. Man we’re awesome mates.

Went back to the vans and after getting the sand out of brads eyes there was more drunkenness and singing to Pantera and Black Label Society and Metallica into the early hours of the morning. Much to the disgust of the people around us I am sure. Then Nicks like “I bet you can’t headbang to an entire song!” and put on some Dying Fetus. So I did, headbang the entire song. So furiously in fact that my neck was stiff and sore for the next 3 days.

Went to bed at about 4 or 5. Got up, cooked some more sausages. Went for some swims in the daylight. Lazed about while Brad played some tunes on the geetar. And then we all went home. There was sooo much traffic on the road heading north, backed up for miles in about 5 places. Soo much better to have your new years before new years.

That night I went to work, lay on the roof of the carpark next door and watched all the fireworks go off the Skytower.

I think this is like my longest post ever.

We’re sitting outside at the picnic table, cranking old school stuff like sabbath and eric clapton, all of us pretty wasted.

Topic of laughter for the night was saying smashed pipi, pipi smasher, because the week before. We had been offered (very stupidly) a gig at the Smashed Pipi pub in Mangawhai after some chick at a jam heard us (read: Joe) and thought we were awesome. Which we are, most definitely not.

Topic of laughter, because (as you will know if you already have a dirty mind) pipi representing the female genitalia, and smashing, the act of… fornication. Plus we are apparently 14 years old, thus making it funny. So you can imagine all the euphanisms we were coming up with, including telling threatening each other that we would smash the others pipi if they weren’t careful. Aren’t we evolved.

I get up to go and put on another song, I think I was trying to put on Deep Purple or Cream or something (there was no metal on the jukebox) and instead of hitting 81 on the thing, I hit 61. Which happened to be Vengabus, by the Vengaboys. Man did I feel like a dick, everyone cracks up laughing and points at me while I sit back down, and then they’re trying to make up a combination of my name and vengaboys, with gay taunts and what not. It was to be expected.

Then someone says, “Oh! The van!”, refering to my green van, “The Vengabus!”, “AHAHAHA” and everyone cracks up laughing again… classic…

THe Vengabus

Saturday when we’re on our way to get the engine, Brad texts tesh to ask what the plan was that night. She replies, “I reckon we all get drunk and take the vengabus to the smashed pipi.”

Hehe, good times…

Shelley’s friend Ella is apparently into pop and stuff but she came anyway. Didn’t ask her if she liked it though. Pretty sure Shelley liked it, Nick and Brad just thought it all sounded the same, and didn’t like the growling vocals. Everyone is like that at the start though. They played Colour of Sleep and Skin Coffin and Lacertine Forest but unfortnately not my favourite song in the whole world, Cruelty Incarnate

Was still good though. Dawn of Azazel and Metal Tower supported them. The bassist in Metal Tower had a Warlock Bass Guitar.

Anyways, here’s some of their tracks if you haven’t heard them before:

They were out of shirts by the time we got there too which sucked. I was going to buy a hoodie for $40 but forgot… (??)

Unfortunately, I am a lazy fuck and I never got around to putting my speakers and central locking cable through, before Sunday but no one else but Nick came with me. Brad went riding, as did Shelley and Tesh. It was a mean sunny day, had a bit of a jam, got yelled at by Nicks mum for distrubing the neighbours, and left at about noon.

I love roadtrips. Grabbed some subway at Bombay. Got down there at about 3, met the dude in New World carpark in a suburb called Gate Pa (wtf?). Checked the guitar out, no wobbly neck, sweet as. Dude gave me some cash for gas which was cool of him, and we decided to go for a drive and check out the Mount (Manganui). Quite a few people on the beach. Nice girls everywhere, including one of my types (black tshirt and jeans on a hot day) lol.

There were tonnes of dicks just driving round and round in their peice of shit cars though.

Left there, Nick had a sleep in the back, while I stalked some chick in a white skyline all the way back to Papakura. Don’t remember what time we got home. Tried out the guitar, its got a mean sound but only on that amp for some reason. Sounds like crap on Nicks amp.

Then stayed up until about 4am playing Far Cry 2 (awesome game).

They’re setting up the factory as like a private workshop for the various hot rods they have and our cars etc etc. Got an engine hoist and they’re getting a car hoist and stuff.

We’re rummaging round in these boxes, and I find a freaking lan cable tester! I’ve wanted one of those for ages. Riki says he’s going to go look through the skip again. So I go with him, and we’re sorting through this skip like a bunch of homeless people, I found me a ethernet card still in its plastic bag. Was mean!

Riki grabbed a whole bunch of clothes out of there as well. Then the guy comes out and hands us this stereo, so we got a couple of bags of stuff. Go back inside cos its raining and Riki’s like “LOOK I GOT SOME PANTS!” and puts on these bloody suit pants overtop of his jeans and starts parading round.

Then nick rips open this other bag, full of suits and suit jackets and shit, so suddenly it turns into a fuckin formal occasion. Sorting through stuff and playing with a big industrial gas heater (like a jet engine), and moving mechanics stuff around in suit clothes. Was random as, we must have looked like such dicks.

So then we took off, van convoy (riki’s, mine and nicks), drove past Becky who didn’t see us at all. Went to the club still in suit pants, and Riki was still flaunting his suit jacket. Got pretty messy after a few jugs. Everyone was down there, Bo, Brad, Shane, Mike, Andy, Joel. Nick’s old man turned up later on with Shelly and Becky, which was awesome. Drinking with that guy is funny.

Stayed pretty late, we were the last ones there and they wanted to close up, but we still had like 3 Pantera songs on the jukebox to go.

Brad tried to do a slide on the way out but spun right around cos his tyre was flat.

Driving back to Caltex for some munchies, Nick and Riki are in the front with me driving, and there feet and hands fucking everywhere – on the roof, windscreen, Riki’s sprawled out trying to knee nick in the face, Nicks grabbing my head trying to pull it into Riki’s crotch and shit. Then Nick finds a can of black spraypaint and starts painting my windscreen! Riki’s yells something incoherent and starts getting his feet in there rubbing the paint all over the place.

We get to Caltex and I’m like fuck it, *handbrake slide*, round the corner into Caltex.

Manged around at Caltex for a bit, then went back to nicks and slept.

So I went to my parents to drop off some stuff and along the way stopped in at Becky’s where Shelley was. They wrote this list thing of all these things to do, random as shit. Went and got a feed, got some sand (it was on the list). Seriously those chicks and liquor makes for some soul-cringingly quirky times, jeez.

Went to Becky’s friends house for a while, got assaulted by a huge labrador, then left there, did a handbrake slide in the van to turn around (also on the list), then they decided they wanna go to town so I’m like sweet whatever we’ll hook up with my flatmates.

Went back to Becky’s, she got changed and I found a crapload of books at her house about programming and linux and stuff (apparently her brothers a geek), so nabbed a few of them to read. Went to Shelley’s for her to get changed then cruised into town.

Almost got to Oblivion which is where my flatmates were but didn’t have any cash for the cover charge (must have been a band playing or something). So went to get cash then we get a call from Nick, telling us to meet him up at the uni, saw him coming down the road so we jumped in his van. Parked up at the uni, started lurking around, they were having a sook cos they didn’t wanna pay a cover change. So we manged around there for a while, then went to the domain and saw some “witches” which are actually just statues.

Then went and hung around the museum, pretty boring. I wanted to mosh dammit. Brad and Nick stayed in the van, while I went and watched the girls didn’t get raped. Gave Becky a good fright, made her scream.

Then they dropped us back at my van, and drove that back (with “Skanks on Board” written accross the back). Tried to find an open Burger King but they were all shut (at like 2am on a Saturday!?), so we just got chips and stuff instead.

Some filthy boon tried to sideswipe me and the guy in the passenger seat looked like he was doing that barking thing that Maori kids in NZ tend to do. Pack of wankers.

Then I see Nick coming up in my rear view mirror, going pretty fast so I’m like “hur-hur” and tap my brakes, but he doesn’t stop. Ends up pulling into the next lane just in time. Brad said it was so close, they actually thought they hit me because they hit a catseye at the same time hehe!

Would’ve been nuts, the girls are like singing away and shit and bang! Rear ended at 120km/h. The 2 kayaks in the back of my van decapitate us as they shoot through the windscreen. Good times.

Went back to Nick’s/Shelley’s house, pigged out and crashed. I actually wanted to go home, but I couldn’t move from the couch.

Went to my mate Nicks last night and we went to the supermarket to get some beer and I saw a girl who I used to work at BP with there. Anyway on the way back to his we can see this bonfire at the back of his farm. This huge one, it actually looked like a house or barn on fire, not a bonfire. So we get back to his place and Palethorp was there, with his V8 Hilux. They backed it into the carport under the light, and we had a look at the engine.

God damn it is clean, lexus 1UZFE transplant into it, it is so nice. No wires and crap everywhere, nice blue tubes for the intake and the radiator hoses, huge pod filter. Fucking gorgeous.

Anyways Iydden and his girlfriend Angeline turn up and said the neighbours are having a bit of a bonfire party. Then Brad turns up so we decide to go check it out. Throw all the booze in the back of Palethorps truck along with a couch/seat out of nicks van, and go down the barn to get nicks V8 hilux. Palethorps truck sounds pretty damn awesome.

Anyways we open up Nicks shed and there’s his beast sitting there ready to go, so we pull that out, its even louder than Palethorps truck cos it has a 350 chev in it! Put another couch in the back of that thing (which the tray on it wasn’t bolted on yet – just new), and they tried to make me go in there to keep it on the back. But knowing my luck it would’ve fallen off with me on it going up a hill or something. So I jump in the cab with Brad, Nick, Shelley and her friend Erin, and we take off down the farm.

I can only imagine what these kids were thinking when they hear our trucks roaring down the race and then see us go into the paddocks sliding fucking sideways all over the place, big rooster tails of mud and shit. We go into the other paddock and Palethorp makes it up the hill fine in 2 wheel drive cos he’s got big tyres on there but Nick’s racing slicks didn’t quite make it. We tried thrice, even with a big runup but we just got halfway up and it would spin. Clicked it into 4wd and it was sweet. Smashed up there, backed up to the fence near the fire, pulled off the seats and sat there by the fire drinking beer. Eventually we got sick of their dance music and hip hop shit so we cranked on the metal.

It was pretty awesome, the sound of those V8’s is wicked, some kid tried to show off the noise his rotor made, but I don’t think anyone cared after the V8’s…

So yeah, that’s how you gatecrash a bonfire party…

Then I find out its on an island similar to Lost and there are others and the robot is somehow one of the monsters on the island.

We moved to another building, lived in about the third floor and somehow we befriended the robot or else it would kill us too, and we kept trying to escape from it or plan a way to kill it but it would always know. We figured out using a computer it had options, like shrink to human size, and turn collision detection on and off (??!!).

Anyway somehow we got away from it and me and someone else where driving along a road beside the ocean, going quite fast, and someone in a white Mazda Capella sedan (Brad?) was following me. But we were going to fast for a bend and both of us shot off the road into the ocean. The person in the car with me started to get out, and all the water rushed in. I turned to my center console where my amp was sitting and picked it up and said “Goodbye my beautiful amp” and kissed it just before the water came up to chest height and sizzled it. I opened my door and swam to the top.

Dad and a whole lot of people at the beach as we swam up. Then me and whoever was in the car with me swam back, and dived down to see if we could salvage anything but there wasn’t much in the car anyway. It was only about 3 or 4 metres down and the water was crystal clear. Somehow I was able to push the car up onto the beach out of the water.

Later we were back at my parents house and we had lined this explosive everywhere to stop the others coming and attacking us, however the explosive was like silky/lacy material. Anyway they sent some people in with mini chainsaws to cut holes through our fence where we didn’t put the explosives. I snuck down into the back garden and was watching one of them cut through the fence. He finished and was walking back towards me when he noticed me. And I saw it was one the guys from my work! Upon seeing me he fled into the garden shed and started cutting through the back of the garden shed and the fence behind it, and escaped.

Then I woke up.