Wireless Electricity and the Roach

Okay...so I have two things to blog about today...one real and one not so real (thank goodness!!!).

First, that which is real: So get this, scientists at MIT have figured out a way to beam electricity across a room and use it to run electronic devices without wires. They call it "WiTricity" which is a transmitter that creates an electromagnetic field, powering anything from a TV to a lightbulb as long as it's within a 7 foot range. Ummmm...so I wonder what that would to do a human being?

Second, the roach. I think I had the weirdest dream I have EVER had in my entire life. I don't remember how it started but I remember that a roach turned me in to some type of vehicle. I was racing down a highway (speeding, of course) and not very happy. I didn't want to be a vehicle. The roach, who had been watching, jumped inside me (remember I was a car of some sort) and said "I repent!" and turned me instantly back into my human form. The roach said that I had an important mission and began to give me specifics when someone ran up and stepped on him, killing him instantly. I felt rather distraught because I hadn't gotten the rest of my instructions, and he really was a good roach. I left for my home feeling that the roach was a martyr.

Once at home, which was apparently in California, my mother said that I needed to go over to the house of a known mob family. I knew this had to do with what the roach was trying to tell me, but I didn't know what it was. I asked my roommate, Emily (who is my real-life roommate) to come with me. She said she would. I said good-bye to my mom who was in the kitchen, and realized that she was using some of the red potatoes that I had bought earlier that day. I told her that I wanted to make a dessert with those later but I didn't have enough now. I was really disappointed. I then decided to just leave and I walked outside to find that it was pouring rain. I got out a bicycle and had Emily sit on the handle bars. We were soaked as I started to peddle away. I soon realized that I didn't know where I was going. I asked Emily, and to my surprize she didn't know either. I headed back to the house. I went in and asked my mom where the mob family lived. She got out the telephone book and started showing me with the city map located in the back. I had Mom tear it out so that I could use it. Mom again traced the street I was to take to the mob home and as she did so I appeared to be flying over the road. I suddenly found myself on the doorstep of my destination with Emily at my side. My father (not my real dad, but my father figure in the dream) opened the door and walked out with several of the men of the family. He pulled me aside and gave me a religous pamphlet that had big chunks of it cut out. He told me that he believed that this family understood a lot about Christianity but were not ready for the full gospel. I took a moment to look at the pamphlet and felt that it did have a lot of good stuff, but it was missing the gospel fundamentals. So, was this what the roach wanted, for me to teach this family about the church? I wondered.

Emily and I then followed the family through their vinyard (which was for their family wine business) and found ourselves at a barbecue in the backyard. I was last in line but as I approached the food, it was swept away by the caterers. Not wanting to be rude, I didn't say anything. The mob patriarch saw that I didn't have anything to eat and ordered that I be served. My father figure soothed the patriarch and told him that it was a good thing I wasn't eating because I had a rare eye disease and eating made it worse. I was confused, I had an eye disease? Just then, I realized that my left eye felt really dry and so I knew it had to be true.

We were then shown more of the vinyard...and the dream faded.

Now, if anyone could interpret that for me I will sing to them "Go, Go, Go Joseph!" Man, I wonder what I ate yesterday!!!