07.11.08
Don’t Touch the Floor
My house has temporarily been turned into a game. The rules are pretty simple: Don’t touch the floor in the kitchen or the stairs - they’ve just been lacquered. Upstairs is my room and my parents’ bedroom. Downstairs is food and drink, the toilet, and the outside. Until the lacquer dries, there’s only one way to move to and from my room (and more importantly, my computer):
I have to climb on the railing.
By most standards, this would be an inconvenience, but for some reason I find it pretty entertaining. It’s a throwback to the games we used to play as kids, where we’d chase each other around on the playground pretending that the ground was poison and touching it would kill us. Now it’s a challenge just moving through the house. I guess when it comes down to it, I’m still just 8 years old inside.
Lawrence said,
July 11, 2008 at 15:05
Heh, we used to play those games, too. Good times….
Jonas said,
July 11, 2008 at 15:38
Really? What did you call it? Because I asked Gelo, and he wasn’t familiar with the game.
Lawrence said,
July 12, 2008 at 15:52
I donno if we called it anything. I think it was just Tag and you couldn’t touch the ground.
Jonas said,
July 12, 2008 at 15:59
Heheh, makes sense!
EER said,
July 13, 2008 at 23:21
I thought you’d climb out the window and take a leap of faith (as in Assassins creed)
Jonas said,
July 14, 2008 at 00:31
Actually the roof of the living room is right outside my window, so getting down that way would be a completely reasonable way to go about it.
Nicholas Van Sickle said,
July 14, 2008 at 10:09
Yeah if I needed to get downstairs without using the stairs I’d go out my window onto the roof and jump down onto the grass.
Then I guess I’d hope I didn’t twist an ankle or something.
Also, I noticed your captcha is enabled even when I’m logged in, were you getting blog spam from users too?
Jonas said,
July 14, 2008 at 12:29
No but I had to switch to ReCaptcha because the old one was getting stuck on certain words, and ReCaptcha doesn’t have a lot of customization, so I can’t set it to go away when you’re logged in.
But with ReCaptcha you’re actually helping to digitize old books when you type in the words, so it’s all for a good cause!
Nicholas Van Sickle said,
July 14, 2008 at 12:54
How am I helping to digitize old books if it knows what it’s checking against?
Jonas said,
July 14, 2008 at 13:29
Ever noticed how it shows you TWO words?
http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html